The Ugly Truth

This story was done by my Father --
(Dr. S. L. Bansal)

It is really painful to see that at this moment all the political parties are busy doling out, or, promising to dole out freebies, reservations and loan-waivers. All of them see people as prospective voters -- not as citizens of an upcoming country i.e. India. What is urgently and earnestly desired and required is being ignored blatantly.

To be minimally fair, all the decisions of a government should be based on a premise- whether the decision will benefit, and, simultaneously not harm an ordinary citizen who has no caste, creed, religion and affiliation. On the one hand you do not have enough power and on the other hand you are waiving off the bills of the defaulters if they stop pilferage now onwards. There could be no harsher punishment to those who paid their bills religiously. On the one hand you waive off the loans of the defaulter farmers and on the other hand you ignore all other debt related suicides from other professions only because farmers are a bigger vote-bank. Did you ever think of going to the bank and write off loans of all the people? After all you know that all of them are equal Indian citizens. Did you ever think that agricultural income should be taxed? A middle-level official getting some 20K per month will pay taxes and a millionaire farmer enjoys all the income.

Where do we want the country to go? We are making sure that there will remain differences for all times to come, that there cannot be harmony between any two communities and that any group worth the name can ask for reservations and hold the country to ransom. Why not make a start and try to make all citizens equal? Rather than asking for reservations, why not resolve to end the religion or caste identity in all the official documents. At one time the BJP had a good and sensible idea of common civil code but the electoral politics has swayed their ideology into thin air. Why not realize that any decision of the government in power will be scrutinized by people according to their personal needs but if you declare that the decision benefits a lay citizen (if it really does), it shows your credibility.

Even after 60 years we cannot pool the basic resources (water & electricity) of the country to equitably divide amongst all the states. We cannot implement that the whole country belongs to everybody who is an Indian citizen. A Keralite in Haryana and an Assamese in Kerala should be legally and practically comfortable. The asmita factor is a big joke- it should operate only when we deal with other countries.

At the moment every party has lot of sensible and upright leaders but all of them lack guts even to air their genuine and useful views because it does not suit the electoral temperament and therefore it displeases their not so genuine bosses. God save us.