The Main Point that must be stressed!

The media has been conducting endless debates over the evil that happened during the night of Saturday, June 4, 2011, wherein the Police committed crimes against peaceful and innocent citizens, and worst of all, they committed evil acts on women, children and elderly.

We were appalled by the lack of intelligence of the anchors and the participants of the debate. They were all meandering over questions of various hues and colors. Whether Baba Ramdev is clean or otherwise, whether the fight is becoming political, and so on.

In our opinion, none of that is germane to the issue. The ONLY point, or rather points that must be stressed now are:

1. Police committed evil during the middle of the night while the peaceful protesters including women, children, and elderly were sleeping.

2. Manmohan and his mistress are the prime culprits, and along with these two, every other who is responsible must be convicted and given exemplary punishment.

3. Kapil Sibal (he said: Jo hua, achchha hua), Janardan Dwivedi ( he said: Manmohan is the "true Sanyasi"), Digvijay Singh (he said: *#$@!). All such people must be tried as accomplices.

Mark my words! Mere resigning from the post will not do. They must be tried and convicted and given exemplary punishment. No elected leader in a democracy must ever even imagine getting away with an evil deed like this.

In our opinion, these are the main points. Anyone who after this evil act even as much believes in the leadership of Manmohan or Sonia, does not deserve the right to even contest elections.

This PM and his Mistress are Evil!

The nation saw what happened during the night of Saturday June 4, 2011. It is not merely a black day in the history of India. This is black day in the history of humanity. Attacking sleeping women, children and elderly people is something that the Islamic invaders did.

Anyone who was gullible enough to think that Manmohan was personally a clean and honest man, must be feeling guilty of a committing a crime! And his mistress? Well, words fail to describe her evil nature.

The history of this family is replete with Hindu-hating acts. In the following, we give a few examples:

1. About Jawahar - the the evil root of this family - Sitaram Goel narrates an incident in his book (please see here):


I happened to be in Delhi towards the end of 1947 or in early 1948, and went to see my journalist friend from America. As I have mentioned, he had left Calcutta for Delhi soon after India became free. As I sat down with him in the Coffee House, he said, " Sita, who does this man think.he is? Almighty God?" I asked him, " Who? What has happened?" He told me the story of some Sadhus who had sat down on an indefinite fast near Pandit Nehru's residence in New Delhi, and were seeking an assurance from him that cow slaughter would be stopped now that the beef eating British had departed. My friend said, "I had gone there to take some pictures, and gather a report. American readers love such stories from India. But what I saw was a horror for me. As I was talking to one of the Sadus who knew some English, this man rushed out of his house accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Pandit. Both of them were shouting something in Hindi. The poor Sadus were taken by surprise, and stood up. This man slapped the Sadu who had moved forward with folded hands. His sister did the same. They were saying something which sounded pretty harsh. Then both of them turned back, and disappeared as fast as they had come. The Sadus did not utter so much as a word in protest, not even after the duo had left. They had taken it all as if it was the normal thing." I observed, "But in the case of Pandit Nehru, it is the normal thing. He has been slapping and kicking people all his life." He concluded, "I do not know the norm in your country. In my country, if the President so much as shouts on a citizen, he will have to go. We take it from no bastard, no matter how big he happens to be." I kept quiet.

India conceded about one third of Kashmir because of this bastard. And of course, later in 1962, owing to Jawahar policies, India tasted a shameful defeat in the war against China.

2. Indira, the next in the line, imposed emergency for the flimsiest of reasons. Thousands were tortured in jails. Later, merely to rectify some consequences of her own political mistakes, she ordered army into the Golden temple. After she was assassinated the Congress party, along with its Muslim goons, perpetrated riots and atrocities on Sikhs in many parts of the nation, worst of all in Delhi. Her son, Rajiv, remarked: "once a mighty tree falls, it is only natural that the earth around it shakes."

3. This same Rajiv Gandhi, fooled by the old fox Junius Jayawardene, then leader of Sri Lanka, sent Indian military personnel to be killed, in the infamous peace-keeping operations in Sri Lanka. This was one of the worst botched peace-keeping operations in the history.

4. And now, on June 4, 2011, this atrocity.

We wonder if this leaves any doubts regarding the evil nature of this family, and her stooges. Such evil people and their party should not merely be defeated, they must be destroyed, and yes literally!

Digvijay Singh Exposes a Truth about Congress!

For once, the empty-between-the-ears, mentor-of-the-potential-tormentor (tormentor who? our very own Rahul G!), Digvijay Singh has spoken a truth and exposed the real nature of Congress. He is reported to have said:

"If the Congress was scared, Ramdev would have been put behind bars. There is no fear that is why he is out in the open and there are discussions with him ..."

So, now we know that when the Congress gets scared it puts innocent people behind bars!

This is as explosive a revelation as there can be. And no doubt this is true. History has time and again shown such inclinations amongst the despotic rulers. This also smacks of veiled threats to impose emergency!

Corruption is a BIG issue and when people vent their emotions, the ruling party can always portray it as potentially hazardous law-and-order situation and curtail fundamental rights!

It is a very shocking revelation! We exhort the people to teach such despots a hard harsh lesson.

Anna, Baba, Lokpal, and Corruption ...

Anna (Hazare) and Baba (Ramdev) add different hues to the fight against corruption. Anna wants Lokpal to become a Super-Man brandishing a magic stick. Baba strives to be realistic.

Let us consider the position: Some bureaucratic organization must have the power to prosecute the highest elected office! Does that make sense? Very difficult to concede!

Consider a slightly altered position: Some bureaucratic organization must have the power to investigate the highest elected official. Does this make sense? Very likely.

Whenever we make or institutionalize a body which would act as the watch-dog, we need to resolve the conundrum:

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

which literally means: Who will guard the guards themselves? Or in simpler form: Who watches the watchmen?

In a democratic republic (not mere democracy!) the highest power rests with the people. Thus, the highest office-bearer must be elected by the people.

Baba Ramdev has, in our view, rightly suggested that the Prime Minister must be directly elected by the people. This is a move in the right direction. We, however, support a Presidential System and we have been advocating this.

Even after we have (let's suppose) a Presidential System, we would have two options regarding Lokpal:

a. A bureaucratically designated Lokpal. Let us call such a Lokpal by the term Lokapal-B (bureaucratic lokpal).

b. A directly elected Lokpal. Let us denote this by Lokpal-E (elected Lokpal).

In our view, if we opt for Lokpal-B, president (highest office) should not be under its ambit for prosecution, though investigation should be possible. However, if we opt for Lokpal-E, we could, in principle, empower Lokpal (Lokapal-E) to even prosecute the president. However, a much better choice would be a constitutionally limited president who can then be recommended to be impeached by the Lokpal, but the impeachment must be done by another elected body, something akin to the senate in the USA.

In fact, the present situation must be used by us (the peoples of India) to draft a new Constitution. For we also need to get rid of the biggest source and cause of corruption, the elections themselves. In India, Corruption begins at Election itself!

Thus, besides mass awakening brought through mass education by the social leaders (including people like Anna and Baba) we also need systemic reforms. We have put forth some of our views earlier, see for example here.

In the past sixty odd years, as a nation, we have learnt a lot; and it is an opportune moment to incorporate what we have learnt, into a new Constitution.

Coming back to Lokpal, Anna wants a Lokpal (Lokpal-B) to have the highest powers, while Baba wants Lokpal (Lokpal-B) not to have the highest power. Here, by highest power we mean, the power to bring the highest elected person/body under the purview of Lokpal.

Thus Baba's position, in our view, is better compared to that of Anna.

However, Baba too, in his behavior, is Mohandasian. This is similar to Mohandasian stance of Anna. Recall Anna wants the Lokpal to be a Super-man, and we conjecture that, he fancies himself to be the first and founder (and therefore until his death) Lokpal.

As a nation, we need to strongly oppose such Mohandasian tendencies (see here and here).

What to do about Corruption?

In our previous post, we described the drama associated with corruption and its removal. We also mentioned that the signs are ominous. We went further and drew the picture of a likely bleak scenario in the foreseeable future. And yet, we also expressed hope that something better will happen.

We pointed out that there are fundamental flaws in our attitude (as a society) to rule of law (in general) and therefore corruption, and that we need genuine social leaders who can educate the society and transform its core. We need to point out that we have not been such a society for long. Financial corruption gained substantial momentum only post political independence, and especially after Mrs. Indira Gandhi's regime.

As an interesting aside, recall that the BJP's mahatma Mr. A B Vajpeyee called Mrs. Gandhi Durga after India won the 1971 war. While we won the war because of the sacrifice and bravery of our soldiers, the credit was given to Mrs. Gandhi! Don't you notice any corruption here?

Anyways, the point to be made here is that it is in the nineteen sixties and seventies that corruption got firmly established and institutionalized in our nation. Before that corruption was there, but it was at least looked down upon. In the new era, corruption came to be accepted and worse still came to be even respected. What mattered was wealth, and how you got it didn't matter! And this got extended to all spheres of life.

Please observe how it permeates all spheres of life. From casting-couch in the film industry, to billionaire god-men, to terrorism inciting mullahs, to multi-bullionaire politicians. Now they do not even need to be shameless, for society doesn't shame them, rather it respects them and follows them! Do we see the gravity of the situation?

However, since the problem is not age old, hopefully we will be able to solve it sooner than later, provided we begin with a firm resolve and persevere. And societal transformation through education is of paramount importance in the long run. This will go a long way in ensuring that we regain our senses and resolve, to remain a free and responsible society.

However, irrespective of what we achieve in societal attitudes, if certain systemic flaws remain then these flaws will engender tendencies towards corruption in the members. Thus, besides societal transformation, there are certain systemic reforms which are needed. We propose our suggestions here. There will be many such suggestions, many of them orthogonal to each other, and we, as a society, need to introspect and debate, to come to a reasonable and widely accepted solutions. We did mention our suggestions earlier too. Now we can try to understand some of the points. One of the important aspects in correcting anything is the facility to identify and fix responsibility. For example, if a crime is committed then we would like all those who are responsible and none who are not responsible to be punished.

Parliamentary democracy claims to function with the principle of collective responsibility. Now, consider the present situation: For the CWG and 2-G scam, if we apply the principle of collective responsibility, Mr. Manmohan Singh and his whole cabinet must also be held responsible. For, we do not know who took the decisions. We are told that Mr. Kalmadi and Mr. Raja are responsible, but how do we know the truth of the matter?

It becomes clearer now that fixing the responsibility is easier when individuals take decisions. The individual can have as many advisors as he pleases, but he and is decides and is held responsible. So we do not get into a situation that Ms. Soniya Gandhi decides but is never held answerable, or that Mr. Manmohan Singh and his cabinet are involved but they can get away by making a Raja or a Kalmadi a scapegoat.

Imagine a scenario, if Mr. Manmohan Singh was elected to be the head of the nation directly by the people, he will have no coalition compulsion! He could defy DMK, he could defy Ms Gandhi, he could do what he wanted and he would be helfd responsible!

So now we copy-paste the relevant part of what we recommended earlier:

1. We need a new constitution.

2. We need a presidential form of government.

3. We need to be republic. And we need to restrict the powers of the elected representatives.

we had also mentioned

4. We need to restrict franchise.

5. We need have debates rather than mere political speeches!

And many more to be added ...

We hope to get opportunities to argue in favor of these recommendations in future. However, the importance of point number 5 can hardly be overemphasized. As a nation of individuals we need to apply our minds diligently and our emotions wisely in appropriate contexts. For most part, we as a nation have been emotional fools. There is nothing wrong in being emotional. And it is natural to make mistakes. But we must diligently and vigilantly learn and not be endlessly exploited due to our emotional foolishness.

Often people ask: Where is the choice? Whom do we vote? All are so bad!

We answer: Exactly! You are absolutely right. But then ... this is your opportunity! To paraphrase what we said earlier:

O people of this country, realize that most politicians are corrupt. No political party is interested in saving you. So you need to choose and send politicians from among yourselves. Make new politicians, make new political parties. Encourage upright people with spine amongst yourselves to become your representatives. Fix their responsibilities and judge them by their actions and not words. Otherwise you will be led by a bunch of Raja and Kalmadi clones. And surely they will lead you to your doom!

So we need to encourage good people amongst ourselves to join politics and take interest in the governance of this nation. If a politician tries to bribe you to vote for him then accept his bribe and then do not vote for him. He is out there to cheat you so do not get cheated and if possible cheat him instead!

We also need to become brave. If politicians threaten us we must be in a position to retaliate. Thus we also recommend that the New Constitution enshrine freedom to carry firearms as a suitable right. We must recall that we have been a very very brave nation for ages. These new breed of politicians and leaders have emaciated us, to meet their own ends. We need to understand their bluff.