STOP TACTICS, THEATRICS AND BLACKMAILS! PLEASE! GOVERMENT & ALSO HAZARE TEAM! INDIAN CONSTITUION & DEMOCRACY ARE AT STAKE!

STOP TACTICS, THEATRICS AND BLACKMAILS! PLEASE! GOVERMENT & ALSO HAZARE TEAM! INDIAN CONSTITUION & DEMOCRACY ARE AT STAKE! by Sridhar Patel on Friday, August 26, 2011 at 3:10pm Mr Hazare: What next? Want to 'gherao' parliament? If your condition is to pass a bill that ONLY YOUR bill be passed, NEED NOT NECESSARILY THE BEST OMBUDSMEN BILL, then why do we need a parliament? Why do we need to discuss? Why do we need any other pillar of democracy? We will make life simpler... If we need a solution for anything, we will go on an 'indefinite fast' (Mind you: It is not a 'fast unto death'. Not sure of the choice of words by the team B of jokers). We will get a law without a discussion, and get santri to CJI under its ambit, blackmail, instigate, provoke people at the same time say 'I am peace loving'. If a 'Gandhian' says 'gherao parliament, MP's, 7 RCR, then poor old Gandhi must be turning in his grave now that his last name hijacked and mistaken for another family and now if his idealism too is hijacked. Did anyone who blidnly get carried away by this wave know the meaning of an 'Ombudsman' (English for 'Lok pal') mean? Merriam Webster defines an Ombudsman as: 1: a government official (as in Sweden or New Zealand) appointed to receive and investigate complaints made by individuals against abuses or capricious acts of public officials 2: one that investigates, reports on, and helps settle complaints It DOES NOT say get Judiciary. It is not a way to get judiciary under a Lok pal. If say one doctor was reported a quack in a newspaper, does that mean that the next time you visit a doctor, you ask him to prove he is a doctor? Yes, judges too can be corrupt. But you cannot get them under an ombudsman. Get judicial reforms for that. Nothing else. Even if you drop this, it still does not give you a right to subvert the Constitution of India and Democratic System of India. Those are supreme. Politicians have let the country down and do not forget, We, Indians have let the country down (by making corruption a way of life and 'chaltaa hai', 'jugaad' as part of our life). It is not the other way round. If you say ALL politicians are corrupt, then why on earth did you elect them? Or is it that you didn't even vote? Do not even attempt to hijack the parliament. A lady tried doing it in the mid 70's and left an indelible mark on the face of India called Emergency. Next thing is to get this Lokpal to cover all the states. Remember Indian constitution says that (and I quote the preamble) India is a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic, Republic. It is a an amalgamation of Federal and Union structure. How can Centre force states to go for Lokayuktas? That is a state subject for God's sake! Go to the states and fight it over there. Please start it with the North East. That is the most alienated part of the country. Can you? Would you? And Mr. Kejriwal, stop your arrogance and SHUT UP. It is not as much that the governments inaction that is hurting the health of Hazare but your arrogant ways. Whenever I see you talking, I am reminded of the climax scene of a Hindi movie 'Guide' where Raju is forced to go on a fast for rains without his will and wish and then, not let to eat until it rains. By the time it starts raining, people forget that there is someone fasting until death and he is forgotten, and the poor guy dies in a bid to become immortal. Please do not let this old guy die like that for your aspirations. Indian rural society needs more and more of people like Hazare to improve their standard of living - irrigation, grain banks, strengthening grass roots democracy and much more. Lastly, surprise from the most unlikeliest of quarters. Yes, why not make the ombudsman a constitutional body? Prince Gandhi might have had a great media manager and a political advisor who have planted this thought, or he himself might have gotten a 'Eureka' moment, but, I care the least where it came from. But, if the Election Commission is spotless, if the Lokayukata has been spotless, if the CAT (Central Administrative Tribunal) is spotless, if CVC is spotless (Thomas had to quit, and that is because of the checks and balances in the Law and not because he wanted to quit or not because the government wanted him to go), why not have a constitutional body of Lok pal? Think! Act sensibly! Please! India deserves nothing but the best. Let it get it out of discussions, and brainstorming, but not with blackmails.