Lok Sabha ya Goonda Sabha

After what happened yesterday in Parliament (LS), I am feeling hurt whenever any body calls it Lok Sabha. Lok means people and sabha means assembly, and that means the parliament is the assembly of people. This is wrong. It is not the assembly of people but assembly of goondas. If one says that these are people's representatives then again I don't agree. They can only be called representatives of goondas. They never represent people but only goondas, rather as Railway minister shouted they themselves are goondas.

If there was a law to recall them I would have initiated action under that law. But atleast I can disown them. From now onwards these goondas are not my representative in Goonda Sabha.

Why free land to hospitals and schools?

Hospitals and schools are carrying out business like any other business. Government does not give free land or land at highly concessional rate to any other business. Why then it should give free land to hospitals and schools. It will be absurd to say that nowdays hospitals and schools are carrying out any charitable work. Health care and providing education are nothing but any other business.

Media is daily reporting cases where hospitals and schools have not complied to term and conditions of free allotment of land. In some cases the trust concerned have sold out the building and land to others at very high market rates. Hospitals and schools have become dens of corruption these days. They have no concern for patients and students. They only look at them as source of money. In hospitals, the poor people are always neglected or attended to in a very casual manner. In schools, poor children either don't get admission or, if forced to admit, not cared for.

I feel hurt on wastage of such huge public money on these corrupt instutuitions. This practice of giving free land to hospitals and schools should stop.

Now it is SC's turn to kill RTI Act!

After right sense prevailed and UPA govt dropped the idea (for how long is uncertain) to kill RTI Act, it is now the turn of SC to try to kill the act by seeking cover from giving information to people. SC has suggested three amendments to this law which if enacted by parliament, will strike at the root of the most important safeguard contained in the act. All public authorities including courts are subject to the jurisdiction of an independent appellate body. SC says that this appellate body in case of courts should not be Central Information Commission but its own registrar general. Why, SC should be given such special treatment?

The proposal of SC is totally unethical and against the principles of natural justice. Are the people not disstaisfied with courts' working? Are courts delivering right justice in right time? Are people not forced to agitate to get justice from courts? Courts in India are like any other public authority which has failed the people. It should be subjected to a common law and no special treatment should be given to it for with-holding information from people.

First politicians, then babus and now courts want that they should be above the law. If country's highest judicial body has such negative mindset then who will deliver justice to the people? I am really hurt by this wrong and unethical move of SC.

Dark days ahead for India and Indian democracy!

A little hope was there. But a 15 minutes meeting between PM and Presdident has dashed that hope. President has signed the unethical and immoral office-of-profit bill. With this new law, all corrupt MPs and MLAs have been saved from disqualification. It has now provided constitutional sanction to corruption by MPs and MLAs.

The parliament has now become a den of corrupt politicians. The patronage to this naked corruption is provided by PM, Speaker and the President. These corrupt people make laws for the country but keep themselves above these laws. These people, elected by people, are expected to create standards of ideal behaviour but they create standards of unethical and immoral behaviour.

Leaders have become criminals. Dark days are ahead for India and Indian democracy.

'To compromise' is an exception, not a rule

Some people say, life is a compromise. I don't agree with them. Compromise affects self-esteem.One may feel that he or she has achieved something by making a compromise where there was no possibility of any achievement, but it lowers one's own rating in one's own eyes. At the most, compromise can be treated as an exception, meaning once in a blue moon one makes a compromise to keep the game going. I feel hurt as in current political scenerio, exception has become a rule. Everyday the government is making some or the other compromise to remain in power and all it is done at the cost of public interest.

It is a fact that there is a coalition govt at the centre, but Congress party wrongly thinks that it is dependent on the support of its coalition partners to remain in office. It is dependent on the support of Indian people and no body else. Its coalition partners are all there for serving their own vested interests and would never like to destabilise the govt. Even if it is destabilized then people will again elect congress to govern. But for that congress has to win the confidence of the people.

Congress should have confidence in the people of India. They want better governance irrespective of the party. Now, when congress is runnubg the govt people want it to deliver and deliver right in right time. People are pained every time the govt compromises with the demands of vested interests. Congress should remember that making compromises is an exception and not a rule. But, unfortunately it has made it a rule and keep on compromising with unjust and anti-people demands of the cailition partners. This is making people angry. If comgress does not stop compromising then people will sure punish it at the next election.