Sunday 18 December 2016

UNCOVERING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE INDIAN POLITICAL PARTIES.

The recent upheaval in the Indian economic system reminds of an old but still noteworthy Indian legend. No matter how much advanced we become, some old-school stories never become anachronistic and this is one of them.

A woman was very much vexed with her son who used to eat a lot of jaggeries. The conditions of his teeth had worsened and notwithstanding so much harangue he didn't abandon his habit. After becoming much fed up of the habit of her son, the mother took him to an eminent and sanguine priest of the village. She elucidated her whole problem to the priest and after taking a note of her problem the priest took a dekko over the toddler and asked the woman to come back after to him after one week. The woman was very much excited and assumed that after one week the priest would use some kind of magic wand and her son would stop eating jaggery. 

After one week, the woman gathered up all her excitement and went to the priest along with her son and reminded him of their meeting last week. The priest, on being reminded, prompted to ask the boy to come to him. He took hold of the small boy by the toddler's shoulder and said, "Don't eat many jaggeries, this might ruin your teeth and overall health." On listening to this the woman became much offended. She asked,"If you had to say the same thing that I have been telling him for years, why did you ask us to come to you after one week?" The priest laughed for a moment and replied, "How could I ask him to stop doing what I have doing, myself, for so many years?" He added, "You first have to inculcate in yourself what you want to see in others." 

The same teaching fits unequivocally in our present system and is the most quintessential advice to the government. How can the government hatch plans to sabotage the black money empire of corrupt citizens when its own representative party (along with all other political parties of the nation) are themselves safe havens for black money. 

In the year 2015, the present government said in the honourable Supreme Court of India that political parties can't come under the gamut of RTI (Right to Information Act) by saying that political parties can not be deemed as public authorities since this would disrupt their internal functioning. Such a colossal irony it is that the parties which talk about becoming public servants for five years shy away from considering themselves as public authorities. This issue was so much supported by all the political parties that this rose as one of the few issues in the history of the Indian parliament that the parties which are generally at loggerheads came exhibited exceptional unity in order to do the best they could in order to thwart any attempt to make their funding etc. come under the scope of RTI. Some even said the CIC ( Chief Information Commission) was not competent enough to look into the matters of political parties because they are not public authorities. 

If we are barred from assuming political parties to be public institutions, we must safely assume them to be "private institution". So here we have some private institutions which can't be arbitrated by anyone or accounted for anything. 

The basis of all donation to a private institution is some specious and ostensible benefit which the donor wants to incur from the parties. It's obvious that political parties are not going to open NGOs etc. in order to help needy directly, which ultimately means that the money is for the sole benefit of the party in the time of elections. And ultimately this money is used in order to win an election through wrongful methods.  In Lok Sabha elections a candidate is not supposed to spend more than Rs. 15,00,000 in one election. But who cares about the legit process? You might have yourself seen how much money was spent in the 2014 General Elections. The Chief Election Commission has written to every government in order to emend this lacuna in the system but in actually the spaces left deliberately are not replenished by those who left them and unfortunately the nation continues to believe in these parties not even knowing their actually image. The ones who promise to become public servants are actually fooling the public for so many years and the crux of the situation is that the benign people of the nation don't even know about it.


Now comes the main thing. Mr Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of the nation, talks about making the nation clean and honest at a time when his own party doesn't give any account of its donations etc. to anybody in the nation. Who can justify this action where on one hand, people around the nation are dying for getting petty amounts of money to be exchanged for the new notes and on the other hand there are political parties which can't be judged, challenged and questioned about anybody in the nation. How can Mr Modi ask the people of the nation to become "transparent" when his own party, as well as other political parties, are themselves not transparent and accountable to us all?  Let me give an advice to Mr Modi: People who live in glass house should not throw stones.


JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI

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