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Amid all that euphoria of the
massive election victory of the BJP, when the whole world was impatiently
watching the steps of its would be Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, what captured
the attention of the media was a bizarre
thanks giving meeting organised by it.
Several senior leaders of the BJP
who won the recent election assembled to felicitate Baba Ramdev, who was conspicuously
absent from the meet and media glare, who helped them win the election by his blessings, which were more mundane than divine.
However the party can neither acknowledge
nor felicitate the sources of the massive funds behind its campaign so openly,
though someday somehow favours will have to be returned. For now, one Indian,
who set out to expose and prevent corruption in India is languishing in the Tiharjail.
Arvind Kejeriwal and his AAP were
broke even before he found he had no money to bail himself out. He had
acknowledged long time back that his party had no funds to take on the NDA and
the UPA in the parliamentary election, a political reality glaring at him he
refused to see before setting out on his mission.
Not far behind Arvind Kejeriwal
is Rahul Gandhi and his Congress party, with its almost empty coffers, which
actually is the reason behind many of the organisational failure he is being
hauled in for and can’t defend publicly. One give away though is Rahul Gandhi’s
plain Kurthas he is often seen in compared to the impeccably and Kingly attired
Narendra Modi, whose party is plush with money.
Tamil Nadu lady Jaya and Bengal
tigress Mamta and Karnataka’s Yeddyurappa and Andhra’s Jagan Reddy between
them, with various charges of corruption against them, have got massive mandate
of millions of voters, while the anti corruption AAP has just managed to win four
seats, despite fielding candidates to all seats of the parliament.
Despite the decade long ruckus in
and out of parliament against corruption by the BJP, by aligning their party with tainted Paswan and Yeddyurappa and Reddy
brothers, Rajnath Singh and Narendra Modi have clearly shown that corruption, after all, is not great shakes to
bother about and is here to stay.
In fact in the aftermath of the
election, when uncertainty filled the political space, the BJP had declared
that it will accept support of anyone willing, corrupt or clean.
The rejection of the AAP by the
Indian electorate and the massive re-election of tainted parties and characters
all over India show majority of Indians don’t bother about corruption, in
politics at least.
Did Sonia Gandhi and the UPA give up too easily
and too soon for the sake of a clean image the Indians really give too hoots
for and the anti corruption ideal they merely give lip service for?
It looks like the clean image of
Dr Manmohan Singh, which the Indian public which condone corruption where it
suits them insisted should be that of his government’s too, was too much of a
price to pay.
Perhaps, the party should have
been more defensive and vociferous with, starting from the petty sweat equity scandal against Sashi Tharoor
though every allegation it faced, instead of ethically and
politely establishing the truth,
for example like the re auctioning of the 2G spectrum.
When hardly anyone In India hasn’t
benefitted from its real estate boom, which is the final absorption of billions
of foreign money which has flown in to India, If Robert Wadra made some money
like everyone else, it should have been defended as such.
There was indeed no reason why
the UPA did not address the question of funds for fighting the oncoming
election instead of counting on the loyalty of the millions of poor it helped
out by its schemes, even if it meant being blamed to pamper any of the super
rich of India.
The bottom line is what really
matters in winning elections is the
bottom line of the parties.
For a country which take great
pride in Imitating the United States, India should now adopt what the supreme
court of the USA has deemed fit for its democracy, by lifting the cap on
Individual political donations.
Campaign funding, despite
government grants for each party, with the restrictions in place had found
several indirect routes to reach the candidates, mainly through purposely
created PACs, in the past elections.
In the aftermath of this
important ruling by the supreme court, President Obama has cancelled further
government grant and allocated the residual money for cancer research.
The action of the supreme court,
appointed by the republican party, is in fact first of its successful measures
to win the next round, by making sure the party will have all the money it
needs.
"I'm concerned about what it
means for our democracy. Our founders, they sacrificed their lives, their
liberty, their sacred honor for a democracy: a government of the many, not a
government of the money," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California
Democrat, said during an appearance at the Reuters Health Summit in Washington.
Despite such democratic
sentiments, the US supreme court’s view that limitless private funding of
political parties is in line with what most Indians feel about corruption
despite what they say, should be a way forward for the Indian democracy.
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Hmm.. to start with.. this is a beautiful theme sir. Im planning to redo my own in a few weeks. Great! Other than that, I'm not entirely convinced by the article. However I do take the point about AAP, which also goes to show that clean image can win you elections (like it happened in the Delhi state elections) , but to bad for India that Kejriwal lost the plot.
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