The UPA government just can’t catch a break. With all the scams in which its leaders and
allies have been found involved in, in this tenure, the popularity of this
government is touching a new low. Scam after scam, covering all sorts of industries,
all sorts of resources, be it coal (coalgate), spectrum (2G), or the CWG. Above
all this, our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh thinks that silence is the best
possible answer, no matter how seriously demanding is the question. New
addition from the government’s side to the list of things that are irksome to
the public has been the approval to allow up to 51% FDI in retail and a steep
hike in diesel prices.
The people with financial expertise are divided on the
implication of this decision. It means that there is no clear opinion over
what’s good and what’s not. People too are free to have any opinion. It is a
democracy after all. But the problem with Indian democracy is that the
backbone, the people, either make misinformed opinions or have opinions which
have been manipulated by the politicians. The current example is the trend of ‘bandhs’.
Showing displeasure over some issue, in a democracy, is
totally fine. But why do not people understand that disrupting the public life,
vandalism, destruction of public property is definitely not the right way. If
you put buses and buildings on fire, whose loss is it? If you disrupt the
various modes of communication, whose loss is it? If we just create all sorts
of troubles for the common man, do you think that it is going to affect the
government? I think what happened at the Ram Lila maidan and at Jantar Mantar
are sufficient to see how government responds to the plight of the people. I am
here not proposing to find a new method
of registering displeasure towards the government policies. I am just saying
that this anger should not burn your own homes.
- DementedSage
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