I heard and watched the press conference of Anna Hazare and General (retd.) Sri V.K.Singh on Monday 28th Oct. 2012 wherein ,they were adamant in stressing that India needs a fresh mandate from the voters as the Government at the center is not listening to the demands from the common man.
This is a new angle added to the demand from the anti-corruption brigade. The recent incidents where the top level bureaucrats, politicians and the anti-corruption team were found to be wanting in the above board dealings. The steps that have been attempted by the ruling alliance does not really infuse positivity in the Indian minds. We may not have seen recession in the last three years or so but we have also not seen any increase in the employment generation in the country.
What we have seen in amassing of huge amount of money through corrupt practices by the ruling alliances of all shades and support from the equally generous corporates. The laws of the land have been properly "used" to fill the demand of the ever increasing greed of the powerful and the poor are left managing with the daily bread and dal.
The rich-poor gap has been taken into account by inflationary measures and the poor are kept "poore" by default. What ever increase in subsidy is targeted we find that all these subsidies have been eaten up by the increasing cost of living in many of the urban and semi-urban areas.
While the rural areas are cheaper to survive the infrastructure,etc does not support the employ-ability of the rural skills. This will not go very far.
The situations have compelled all the thinking persons in India that the democracy is being highjacked by the agents of the multinationals and the already powerful and rich persons.We need to sit up and find new ways of sustaining the more than a hundred crore of people living under poor conditions.
We do need fresh mandate and general elections seem to be the next possible solution.
More than that we need first grade transparency and fight for justice within these political parties who will contest these elections.
The election of more corrupt political persons and making of a government through horse-trading in absence of absolute majority is another peril which Indian voters have to avoid .
This is a new angle added to the demand from the anti-corruption brigade. The recent incidents where the top level bureaucrats, politicians and the anti-corruption team were found to be wanting in the above board dealings. The steps that have been attempted by the ruling alliance does not really infuse positivity in the Indian minds. We may not have seen recession in the last three years or so but we have also not seen any increase in the employment generation in the country.
What we have seen in amassing of huge amount of money through corrupt practices by the ruling alliances of all shades and support from the equally generous corporates. The laws of the land have been properly "used" to fill the demand of the ever increasing greed of the powerful and the poor are left managing with the daily bread and dal.
The rich-poor gap has been taken into account by inflationary measures and the poor are kept "poore" by default. What ever increase in subsidy is targeted we find that all these subsidies have been eaten up by the increasing cost of living in many of the urban and semi-urban areas.
While the rural areas are cheaper to survive the infrastructure,etc does not support the employ-ability of the rural skills. This will not go very far.
The situations have compelled all the thinking persons in India that the democracy is being highjacked by the agents of the multinationals and the already powerful and rich persons.We need to sit up and find new ways of sustaining the more than a hundred crore of people living under poor conditions.
We do need fresh mandate and general elections seem to be the next possible solution.
More than that we need first grade transparency and fight for justice within these political parties who will contest these elections.
The election of more corrupt political persons and making of a government through horse-trading in absence of absolute majority is another peril which Indian voters have to avoid .
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