Monday 3 February 2014

 No political party is bad in philosophy but often bad in logic
     All political parties use to hold a good philosophy in giving good governance and a better economic stability for the nation. To woe the voters they present their manifesto. But even at this 67th year of independence no party has been able to deliver as per their promise to this biggest democracy of the World. It requires a thread bare study.
     There was a post office marked for a particular postal area. The government appointed a Postmaster in that post office.  As per the existing official procedure the post master virtually work inside the office every day. Moreover the Postmaster was not aquatinted to that area. He appointed a local lad as the postman to deliver letters in the area. By virtue of his longer years of acquaintance with the public and the locality, the postmaster has to depend on that lad to identify the concerned persons  of that area on official requirements.
      In course of rendering the service of delivering letters, people started offering him gifts and tips during delivery of letters. The postman gradually presumed that the tips were his legitimate dues. He started demanding more on the occasion of delivery of a parcel or a money order. When the tips were not up to his satisfaction, he started to commit mischief and at times he resorted to return a letter with his comment 'addressee not found’. The postmaster who was naturally not aware of the addressees was to endorse him while returning back the letter.
    Due to non-delivery of the postal consignments the local people agitated by castigating the postmaster as corrupt, and demanded his immediate transfer. He was transferred. And a new incumbent was replaced .Since the new postman was not acquainted with the area he had no alternative to continue work with that same local lad.
     Here in our story we mean the postal area as the 'state', the 'postmaster' is the periodically elected 'political masters’ and the 'local lad’ for delivering letters to public is the 'bureaucracy’. Barring few politicians who are in the politics business for long time, actually become the victim of his own ignorance by the corruptive practices of the local lad.
     In general practice, people criticise the political masters. But how much is their share of corruption in the system? Compared to the quantity of public servants, they are negligible. There are lakhs of crorepatis in the bureaucracy. It is the public servants whims which primarily affects a common man. Only on being aggrieved a common man approaches a politician, knowing little that the same politician otherwise depend on that public servant.
    There is a breed of politicians who are actually novice about the nuisance factor of the public servants. They dare to promise heaven to  the  voters. After reaching the office they fail in all aspects and get rejected by the public. The government is no doubt sovereign, but its exchequer is no charity. The economy is guided by certain principles. If you conflicts with its cardinal principles the result may be violent.
     Promising freebies may create a momentary benefit but it sow the seed of diminishing GDP. Assuring people to cut Electrical bill by 50 %.giving 20 KL of water per month free to every household, providing rice, wheat and pulses at Rs2 or 1 a kilogram, subsidizing on Kerosene are unethical and counterproductive. The political party’s offering such freebies in their election manifesto are far away from  sound logics.
    We are not absolutely against freebies. Budgetary allocation of adequate freebies must be made for absolutely incapable ones. Freebies can be sanctioned to projects which would generate earning for the common man. The politicians should appreciate that real empowerment always lies in creating an equitable society in which the people do things for themselves and for their own welfare. While giving assurance to the voters mind it, your logics should be rational.

Saturday 1 February 2014

 People with power must be clean in their heart.
      When a system ig governed by certain rules and hypothesis it is called in sanskrit as a "Nithee"or a 'rule'. Artha Nithi(Economics),Kuta nithi(Diplomacy), Raja Nthi(Politics) and the likes.In other 'nithi's when the cardinal rule is violated, a wrong result is expected. But in 'Raja nithi', every odds can be accommodated.
     Politicians often say “in politics nobody is untouchable”, “nothing is impossible”. Forming a coalition government, or to weed out incompatible elements from the system etc.,although is not within the law, it happens in politics. Now a new thing is started-'sledging’. Major political parties are appointing spokes persons who are now authorised to issue sledging comments on persons of other parties. It was first started in a big way by Digvijay Singh of congress towards Narendra Modi of BJP followed by Beni Prasad,Nitish Kumar,Kumar Biswas. Now Aravind Kejriwal has created a new trend in sledging en masse from other parties.
    Few days back Kejriwal has released a list of politicians across all political parties to whom he brands corrupt in his own wisdom and has asked AAP cadre to see those are not elected to the Parliament in the coming election. This is called 'politicking’ or to throw a stone into still water to see who comes out. It is a 'Nithi' in 'Raja Nithi'.The public should understand these tricks. At all politics is practiced by persons who are not saints. Unless you break the rule, you cannot come to the limelight.RTI activism, conduct fasting at public place, creating public agitation, Gandhi giri, practicing non-cooperation is some of the chapters in politics. But these practices are episodic. When it becomes perennial, it turns into’ politicking'.
    Anna Hazare told that, he is interested in eradication of corruption from governance, but not in politicking. But Aravind Kejriwal told 'unless one enters into the mud, how can one be able to clean that’. Logically this hypothesis is appealing, but in reality it is politicking. It is a fact that, Democracy and corruption are both sides of a coin. Where there is habitation, rodents cannot be far behind.
    A system works perfectly on a machine or on an electrical circuit. But in a system, where the ICs, capacitors, resistors and the repair tools(bureaucracy and judiciary) consists of ordinary human beings who are not above mundane greed’s, it is not expected to function as per the cardinal rules. Because what is absent in a machine is "Attitude" which a human being holds. To our wisdom, only a set of deterrent rules can only develop fear psychosis among the persons with power. In China for corruption the incumbents is generally awarded a death sentence. In USA for tertian violations the fines are so high that the person in conflict of law will just think multiple times before breaking a rule. India should follow these rules now. Cases relating to corruption and adulteration must be tried in fast-track courts.A rule must be there to create deterrence in judiciary to deliver time bound judgments.
    In India we have been enjoying excess democracy. The country now requires democracy stew garnished with little bit of anarchism by really persons with patriotic philosophy to take out the system from the fathom deep of mud. The people of the nation must now wake up to select such a system, and should not be biased with the politicking by the persons who are in this profession to earn their livelihood.