There is so much to be understood about Anna's movement against corruption. A remarkably chequered movement it has been but has attained a great end so far in terms of the Parliament passing a unanimous resolution in favour of the demands.
One of the common though highly simplistic understanding as voiced by the actor Om Puri but commonly found amongst professionals in India is that all politicians are able to buy votes through notes and liquor. The actor in a demeaning way ever termed the politicians as 'ganwar;. There are clear loop holes in the way our law and order has not been able to subvert such realities but to say that thats how political leaders capture the imagination of people in the country is naive to say the least.
Winning elections in this country is a really really tough mental game and few really capture the complexity of what it takes to jump into this foray.
Sharad Yadav one of the leaders who has risen from student level politics gave a befitting response to this perspective when he said
“Without the wisdom of Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi,” he said, people like him would not have been allowed to bring even their cattle to graze in Delhi. “This House,” he said, “is the only place, where you can see the face of the entire nation”, where Dalits can be seen as equals and where names like “Ghurau Ram, Garib Ram and Pakaodi Lal” walk around as MPs. It is only thanks to Gandhi and his freedom movement that today a Pakaodi Lal can come here, he said. A Pakaodi Lal in your Lok Sabha? Does that answer Om Puri’s description of a place filled with ganwaars? And if so, does that make you feel embarrassed? Mahatma Gandhi would have only been proud.
One can image that if such a versatile actor who has attained national fame can carry such views and feel it fine to vocalize it as if its a shooting which is going on, what can we infer about the views of people at large. The other funny part is that a politician will not want to talk about technicalities of acting but an acting would be 100% sure about the technicalities of what politics is!!! At times its a funny arrogance with which we tend to interpret our worlds.
Politics is very less understood as its formal study generally ends with a a 100 page book read last time in grade 10th. Rest it left for media to teach since there are few who really tend to venture into it profesionally. Time for Anna like movement to serve wake up calls for educated and uneducated alike. Indian democracy has a lot to attain. We all need to grow up.
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I heard quite a lot of what Om Puri said that day. And each sentence he spoke made me more and more angry. :-) He just proved that he should better be given a script to read which is what he does in movies. :-)
I think nobody with some intellect would agree with what he proposed or suggested.
Thats what Ankur. A stellar actor with such shallow view points!
Politicians are taking their frustration out by hitting at pity matter instead of focusing on taking good decisions and surprisingly media also backing them. Earlier Politician were crying to hell that “ Dus Din mai bill pass nahi hota hai aur sansad ko vichar karana hai”( they need to do debate before passing lokpal bill). Just day after fast broke, all political parties are busy in attacking on pity matter rather than discussing and passing the bill.
Where we are heading?
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