Today is the
2012-10-24, the culminating day of Durga Pujaa which is celebrated all
over the world by the devotees. This day is celebrated as Vijayaa Dashmi, the
day when Lord Ram slew the demoniac king of Lanka Raavan, who was the
embodiment of tyranny and oppression. On this auspicious occasion, I wish health and happiness to the readers of
my blog, Humaaraa Pyaaraa Hindustan. Due
to health and other mundane reasons I could not connect with you people who
might have been expecting something special. Anyway, I take this holy occasion
to share some of my thoughts pertaining to the situation all over the world and
particularly India i.e our lovely country. Every year we celebrate this Vijayaadashmi
with great fanfare but seldom we ponder over the deeper meanings of this
festival and the relevance it has to the modern situation. The relevance is
especially meaningful in the political context when every day the corruption
and nepotism of the Indian polity is coming to light and still no light of
remedy is seen to this deep rooted malaise which is eating into the vitality of
the Indian economy and the society. Moral values has totally lost its place in
the Indian politics as it is seen by the rigid and selfish attitude shown by
our rulers and politicians of higher calibre. At a time when the ruling
dispensation is caught in dozens of scams the accusations are no longer limited
to the ruling party but has encompassed the main opposition party as well. Regarding
the accusations at BJP President Nitin
Gadkari the RSS leadership has thrown the responsibility to the BJP leadership
saying that the matter is internal for the party to decide. But it is well
known that RSS was the main force behind the selection of Nitin Gadkari for the
top post. This shows that the BJP too is not hundred percent clean as far as
the integrity and honesty of its core leadership is concerned. May be that its
NDA led government had not been immersed in deep rooted corruption as the
ruling party, but it still has to prove its moral ground to become a viable
alternative to the ruling combine. Actually,
the fact is that democracy has not failed but the politicians have
failed to live upto the expectation of the people. This is proved by the anti
corruption movements being launched by various civil society groups. The
political parties should instead of shirking their moral responsibilities come
clean in the various accusations of scam. If they fail to do so, then they
should resign taking moral responsibility for the fingers pointing towards
them. Corruption and nepotism has been institutionalised and hence the fight
against it is going to be a long term one in which the civil society has to
play a bigger role in days to come. The politicians have failed to evolve a
system free of corruption and nepotism and hence the responsibility comes on
the civil society as a natural corollary. Let all the conscious citizens of the
country come forward to wage a non violent battle against the system which has
become outdated. The time has arrived when we as the residents of India have to
answer to certain questions of national importance. Foremost of is, has our
constitution lost its relevance in the present context or whether the
parliamentary democratic system which had been adapted from a country far more
educated and conscious in terms of political terms proved its
unsuitability till date? Can we not
learn from a small state of Sikkim or our small neighbour Bhutan which has been
able to develop a political climate most conducive for their socio-economic growth? Why even
after six decades of freedom we have not been able to solve the secessionist
problems of the North east and Kashmir? Why we have not been able to produce a
single politician of the calibre and integrity of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel,
Lal Bahadur Shastri and Gulzarilal Nanda who were symbols of value based
politics? I humbly agree with the Chairman of Press Council of India Justice
Markandey Katju that the people of this country are also to be partially blamed
for the problems we are facing today. The parents of this country have lost the
appeal of the ideal leaders and they have not encouraged their children to be
inspired by them. They have been only encouraged to earn money and properties
so that their children and grand children could enjoy the royal life whereas
the common people are compelled to live in abject poverty and ignorance. The
root of the present times has to be
sought in our educational system as well
which does not have scope of moral education. In the name of so called secular
credibility we have deprived our students of studying the great moral
scriptures Ramaayan, Mahaabhaarata and Srimad Bhagwatgeeta. The Christians and
Muslims are in a better state as far as moral education is concerned, thanks to the minority status provided to
them. But what sin the Hindus. Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs have done to deprive
them of their moral fibre? The burning of Raavan, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna would
be meaningless if we fail to answer the above questions.
