IAC(India Against Corruption) is actually not so much against corruption as much it is against INC(Indian National Congress).Arvind Kejriwal who was running IAC has now become a politician and has launched a party naming it ‘Aam Aadmi Party’.Before this Anna Hazare,Baba Ramdev and Arvind Kejriwal were trying together to bring the present union government down in the name of fighting corruption.Then Baba Ramdev openly started supporting Narendra modi and other BJP leaders and abused congress party for all the corruption in the country.Differences among these threesome came out in the open and RSS and BJP were behind their anti-congress campaign,that also is not a secret now.
Why Arvind Kejriwal’s newly formed party’Aam Aadmi’ is not fighting elections in Gujrat,can he explain this to the common men like us?Does he think that Gujrat is a corruption free state and all the corruption of India prevails in Delhi under the chief ministership of Sheila Dixit.He has never uttered a single word against Narendra modi and Gujrat so far.In the name of attacking BJP he only targets Nitin Gadkari,who is also attacked by his own BJP colleagues Ram Jethmalani,Yashwant Sinha,Shatrughghan sinha,Jaswant singh, so, that does not prove that Arvind Kejriwal is anti-Bjp.His secular credentials are still suspect.
He has still not released the manifesto of his party.But observing him so far it becomes clear that he is least bothered about communalism prevailing in the country as potently as corruption.But in his over enthusiasm for attacking congress party he has completely ignored the communal factor.Will he be happy with a corrupton free communal India comparable to Saudi-Arab or Iran run by a dictator?Bias towards a particular religion and hate towards another religion is corrupt practice according to him or not?He will have to answer all these questions to the common men of India.
Gujrat elections are due in december 2012,so Arvind Kejriwal’s litmus test are these elections which he must fight and prove his mettle.So far what he has done is ‘hit and run’ type tactics.Every now and then he puts some allegation on some minister or some higher up and then he disappears and never pursues the same to bring it to its logical conclusion so that the guilty can be punished.Actually the record of congress party is better than him as far as punishing the guilty is concerned.
Therefore so far Arvind Kejriwal has proved himself to be a damp squib and he has yet to prove his credentials.
‘You said it’that famous cartoon of common man in daily news paper’The Times Of India’ by R.K.Laxman which has made him a living legend,i had been seeing from more than 40 years,is the work of a genius.Recently i saw a play also titled ‘The Common Man’which was based on cartoons of common man by R.K.laxman and common man was the hero of that play,which i thoroughly enjoyed.
I have read that late Bal Thackeray also had started his career as a cartoonist in a newspaper Free Press Journal in 1947 alongwith R.k.Laxman and both of them were inspired by a british cartoonist David Low and used to follow his style of drawing.Later on Thackeray started his own marathi weekly cartoon’Marmik’which could be popular only among marathi manoos.Bal Thackeray called himself a political cartoonist but actually started politicising regional centiments of local marathi people against Dangey and other communist leaders of mumbai that time.He instigated them against the trade unions which suited the industrialists,corporate houses that time and so thackeray got favour from them.Indian national congress that time faced challenges from communists in mumbai so Bal thackeray got soft corner from congress party also.Politics that time was divided between left and right,so in a way thackeray aligned himself to the right wing politics.Left parties were completely marginalised with the help of Bal Thackeray who openly became pro-rich and anti-poor in mumbai.
Bal Thackeray formed his own political party ‘Shiv Sena’ in 1966 and till 2012 he maintained that he was not a politician but a political cartoonist which proves his authoritarian nature.Nobody in India knows Bal thackeray as a cartoonist,and everybody knows him as a militant hindu politician.He openly admired Indira Gandhi when she declared emergency in 1975,against the wishes of all indians who were opposing her and her draconian emergency.He openly praised Hitler and his politics.It was part of his politics to beat muslims as anti-nationals,south indians and north indians as out siders.With this kind of divisive politics he found a natural ally in the form of Bhartiya Janta Party and together they played havoc with the nation which is now a history.After aligning with BJP he openly played politics with the public,like making all sorts of promises which could never be fulfilled.He promised all slum dwellers of mumbai to shift them in to high rise buildings once given the power.In a sindhi hindu township named Ulhasnagar,a nearby suburb of mumbai,he promised to rename it as ‘Sindhu nagar’.Lately all of them realised after giving SS-Bjp the power that his all promises were false and empty and he is not going to do anything for them.It was heard during their tenure that shiv sena goons were extorting large sums of money from buisiness people of mumbai and this was all going in to the coffins of shiv sena.Finally this fanatic combo has lost power and mumbaikars took a sigh of relief.Slowly his party members realised that his kind of divisive politics will get them nowhere,so one by one they started leaving him.Chhagan Bhujbal,Narayan rane,Sanjay nirupam and finally his nephew Raj Thackeray.It seems he did not trust anybody also otherwise how could he make his son Uddhav thackeray a political novice,heir to his throne,ignoring all those senior colleagues.So a divisive politician ended up himself as brutally divided.
RIP…Bal Thackeray saheb,my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and duped shiv sainiks,may god give them courage and peace to the departed soul….
Today is the polling day for the election of president of united states of America.The incumbent president is Barack obama,the first black president in the history of America,who is contesting for the second term as president.I whole heartedly supported him during his campaign for his first term in 2008 and challenged my friends that he will win the election cent percent although they had doubts that americans having killed Martin luther king an earlier black leader,can never elect a black leader.I was damn sure about Obama because i knew that americans were disgusted with the foreign affairs of George Bush,the earlier president,specially his blunders and vindictive actions in Iraq.George bush destroyed Iraq and Saddam hussain because of personal vendetta.United nations also were not convinced by republican president George bush’s actions on Iraq,in fact the entire world was not convinced with what George bush junior was doing that time.So democrats and Barack obama seized the opportunity with the help of Clintons and defeated George bush convincingly.Initially Obama’s own party Democrat’s ally Ms Hillary Clinton posed a challenge to him but later she was convinced that Obama was the better candidate.
This time Barack obama’s main campaigners are Clintons,specially Bill Clinton two time president elect democrat whose views are not like George bush about middle east and Afganistan. Republican policies during George bush were disturbing the world peace and America being the world leader in this unipolar world after soviet disintegration,could not afford to continue them.Mitt Romney is republican party candidate who is contesting against Barack Obama and surely at a disadvantage because of his party line.Americans will never like to see those days again when George bush was the president.Barack obama also has an edge over Romney because of his efforts to help the victims of superstorm Sandy.
Therefore Barack Hussein Obama seems to be all set to become the president of United States of America second time and i wish him best of luck for that.Pollsters also are showing him having slight edge over his republican contestent.I wish politics in India also improves taking clues from american elections,since both are democratic republics,but India has to improve on many counts specially on communalism and corruption to become at par with America.
He is the current president of Bhartiya Janta Party and is surrounded by so many controversies lately.Firstly a girl was found dead in his premises and the relatives of the dead girl are insisting to police authorities that gadkari be made co-accused for the murder of their daughter.Then it was alleged that there were many irregularities in his buisiness dealings like several investers of his companies are fake,his drivers and astrologers are made directors of his companies,so on and so forth.Now we have heard him saying that swami vivekanand’s IQ was same as of Dawood Ibrahim.This last one is the biggest shocker for all of us Indians.And he said that he is speaking on the basis of science.There is a proverb in sanskrit’Vinash Kaley vipreet Buddhee’which we can apply for nitin gadkari as well as Bjp.
Since he has referred to the science,so we should first of all elaborate on IQ as to what it is and where from it came.IQ is an abbreviated form of Intelligence Quotient which is calculated by dividing one’s intellectual age by chronological age and multiplied by 100.This is a german concept and one’s intellectual age is calculated by various parametres like education,professional conduct,general knowledge etc but there are no scientific methods to measure spiritual content of a prophet or a saint,this fact west also recognizes.Therfore western countries calculate the IQ of presidents or other professionals but they never measure their saints by their IQ because there is something beyond these calculations where only saints like swami vivekanand can reach,that is higher plane of super-consciousness.Swami vivekanand’s greatness was well recognized by western countries but our own indian and that too the president of a political party which is famous as a party of saints and peers has compared one of the greatest saints of india with a smuggler and on top of it the other Bjp leaders are shamelessly supporting gadkari.Nitin gadkari should have compared his own IQ with that of Dawood ibrahim,then there would not have been any issue but now he will have to either apologise from all indians,which quality Bjp politicians dont possess,or he should be ready for some serious backlash.
Coincidentally the other militant leader of Bjp,Narendra modi nowadays is doing sadbhavna yatras displaying swami vivekanand’s hoardings alongwith his own equally sized hoardings as if comparing himself with swami ji.One fanatic is comparing swami vivekanand with Dawood ibrahim,another fanatic is comparing swami ji with himself.What is this going on?Where are the conscience keepers of the great nation India?Are we really going to be a banana republic?