An MP is caught tarfficking human beings. Well, I could not expect anything worse than this. I don't have the words to quantify the shame it brings for a democracy.
Should we think about who we elect and how our democracy works. I was not surprised when I found some months ago that a BBC report termed India as one of most flawn democracy. Ours is a real democartic country. Since the independence we never had a military goverment or dictatioship of any kind. We elected our own representative. Question is who we elected. For a long period after the independence politics was dominated by family and kinship succession. Our grand fathers elected the grand fathers of the person we elect today. The marked addition to this alreayd flawn system is the inclusion of criminals in politics. Not all poticians have criminal recored, neither all with criminal cases are criminals. However, a vast majority of them have indirect involvement in criminality like sheltering criminals, using criminal elements of our society for political aims.
It's at this link that we shoudl focus our attention. Why are criminals sheltered or patronized by political leader, what kind of poltical goal can be achieved with help of criminals? Answering this question would reveal that how voting behavior of ordinary people can be influence by the criminal elements. It is well the case in some very poor states in India. Other gain from politicians association with criminal elements is economic. The liberal and slow moving judiciary system has infact encouraged criminality in our country. It follows from the simple logic that gain from criminal activity is huge and chance of being caught and punished is low, even lower if the political shelter is avaiable. This is infact complete circle, politicians and criminals butressing each other.
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Wednesday, 23 May 2007
Rajiv assassination mystery unsolved
India is considered to be a rising force in world affairs today - in terms of its economic and technological might - and one person who will be surely missed at this crucial juncture is late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
His vision to see India as a technologically-developed nation is taking shape in contemporary times. Rajiv was killed by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) human bomb at 10.18 pm (IST) on May 21, 1991 in Sriperembudur, Tamil Nadu. The blast killed 18 people, including nine policemen, and 33 others were injured.
But even after 16 years, the perpetrators of this heinous act have not been brought to book and there is no information about who all conspired to get Rajiv killed. On the contrary, the mystery surrounding his assassination has become more confusing.
The Congress Party, to which Rajiv belonged, is running the UPA government with the help of the same parties (DMK, PMK) that are considered as sympathisers of LTTE and are blamed for his assassination.
The interim report of Justice Milap Chand Jain, looking into the conspiracy angle to the assassination, indicted the DMK for colluding with the LTTE. The report concluded that DMK provided sanctuary to the LTTE, which made it easy for the rebels to assassinate Rajiv.
The Commission report stated that the year 1989 signified "the perpetuation of the general political trend of indulging the Tamil militants on Indian soil and tolerance of their wide-ranging criminal and anti-national activities."
The report also alleged that LTTE leaders in Jaffna were in possession of sensitive coded messages exchanged between the Union government and the state government of DMK.
"There is evidence to show that, during this period, some of the most vital wireless messages were passed between the LTTE operatives based in Tamil Nadu and Jaffna. These messages, which were decoded later, are directly related to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi," the report stated.
The Congress subsequently brought down the United Front (UF) government of I K Gujral after the report was leaked in November 1998. The party also demanded the removal of DMK from the UF government, arguing that it had a hand in Rajiv's killing.
His vision to see India as a technologically-developed nation is taking shape in contemporary times. Rajiv was killed by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) human bomb at 10.18 pm (IST) on May 21, 1991 in Sriperembudur, Tamil Nadu. The blast killed 18 people, including nine policemen, and 33 others were injured.
But even after 16 years, the perpetrators of this heinous act have not been brought to book and there is no information about who all conspired to get Rajiv killed. On the contrary, the mystery surrounding his assassination has become more confusing.
The Congress Party, to which Rajiv belonged, is running the UPA government with the help of the same parties (DMK, PMK) that are considered as sympathisers of LTTE and are blamed for his assassination.
The interim report of Justice Milap Chand Jain, looking into the conspiracy angle to the assassination, indicted the DMK for colluding with the LTTE. The report concluded that DMK provided sanctuary to the LTTE, which made it easy for the rebels to assassinate Rajiv.
The Commission report stated that the year 1989 signified "the perpetuation of the general political trend of indulging the Tamil militants on Indian soil and tolerance of their wide-ranging criminal and anti-national activities."
The report also alleged that LTTE leaders in Jaffna were in possession of sensitive coded messages exchanged between the Union government and the state government of DMK.
"There is evidence to show that, during this period, some of the most vital wireless messages were passed between the LTTE operatives based in Tamil Nadu and Jaffna. These messages, which were decoded later, are directly related to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi," the report stated.
The Congress subsequently brought down the United Front (UF) government of I K Gujral after the report was leaked in November 1998. The party also demanded the removal of DMK from the UF government, arguing that it had a hand in Rajiv's killing.
Amitabh`s Jurm in UP
The Big B's campaign for his elder brother, Mulayam Singh Yadav, on less crime with Uttar Pradesh wich said "UP mein dum hai kyunki jurm yaha kam hai" did not cut much ice with the state's voters.Now there are reports that Amitabh and his family actually themselves may have been committing jurm (crime) in UP.
Amitabh Bachchan's wife, actor Jaya Bachchan, has been found guilty of not revealing details of land which she and her family owned in UP at the time of becoming a Rajya Sabha MPwich has not made d EC happy. The report wich is submitted to the UP Assembly - will now be forwarded to the Election Commission, a move which could endanger her membership to the Rajya Sabha.
so here`s wishing Amitabh all d best hoping that Mayawati doesnt screw his ass..hehe
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