Headless Chickens

There was this comment of 'headless chickens' by ambassador Ronen Sen about the Indian Parliamentarians for which he was reprimanded. What is being seen now makes the comment true in letter and spirit. Not a word or act of leadership is seen in this govt.

On day one the spokesperson of the Congress calls Anna a liar and while the govt tries to backtrack on the comment.

On day one, ministers prostrate before Baba Ramdev at the airport. On day three he becomes a crook and on day four he is arrested. No explanation what so ever.

On day one Anna is a Gandhian, On day two he is a liar and on day three he is called for the meetings of the Jan Lokpal and on day ten, he is not to be respected and will be called a liar again.

And you have the (in)famous Digvijay who would connect the 'Vande Mararam' to RSS and hence proclaim that Anna has the backing of the RSS. Even if true, so what ?

Next comes the accusation that the US is behind this protest ,soon to be backtracked, yet again.

No body of substance and matter in the govt seems to speak at all.

Sibal and Chidambaram, who at other times are at their vocal best, are nowhere to be seen while the crisis has been allowed to precipitate.

And as usual, the PM does not seem to exist.

A protestor and his team, with ideological moorings that are no doubt correct, has been made a super hero and the whole nation and its governance are being held to ransom. No doubt corruption has reached its heights but let the Parliament function and pass laws. Make your MPs accept the 'Jan' Lok Pal and ask them to pass it in the Parliament.

Whether the Parliament consists of crooks or bandits, it represents the people of the country.

This very same middle class that is protesting now does not seem to vote in elections while opting to watch IPL and other tamashas.

What happens next when a 10,000 strong crowd assembles in Delhi and goes on a protest emanding independence for Kashmir or a separate country called Tamil nadu ( now that Karuna and team are jobless, they could as well team-up with the vagabonds like Thiruma and Ramadoss of PMK ) ? Would the govt (in)act thus ?

The great destroyer P.Chidambaram ( be it finance or home ) had famously said about Arundati Roy's seditious speech that even inaction was action. So is the govt following the Chidambaram Doctrine again ?

A Jayalalitha would have handled this better while the highly erudite Dr.Singh, often been accused of waiting for orders from the high command, really seems to make the above accusation true by his (in)action.

It is a pity that there are no statesmen seen in the govt while there are only some men who make statements and quickly backtrack.

Seems the chickens await the mother hen from the US!

UPA-II ( Unified Plundering Authority - Ver 2.0 )

Well, not really sure what to write about. Something like you wouldn't know from which side of the bread that you should eat first. No matter the side, the bread would taste all the same. Likewise, wherever you start from there is one uniform stench that emanates - the one of corruption and official malfeasance. Next the UPA II should be credited for one achievement of theirs - once you concentrate your energies and start collecting your thoughts on how to write about that particular 'achievement' - read malfeasance, corruption, demeaning act - then another comes about totally out of the blue and completely washes you off your feet so that you don't know as to what happened to the earlier one with the result that the perpetrators of the earlier crime - read discharge of one's 'official duty' in the service of the nation- are forgotten by the media and the people at large. We encounter the peculiar nature of the current dispensation -the declaration of motto of UPA - II. The motto is : Un-hindered Plundering at any cost. The mascot being the Prime Minister who has put his image in the line to safeguard the all round plundering that happens at the backend. When we start looking at the Spectrum achievement and start reading more on that and collect some thoughts on the same, the IPL looms into the foreground. Every high ranking minister is involved leave alone what his ministry has got to do with a pure betting exercise called IPL. The agriculture minister who doesn't have time to look into the rising prices of essential grains has got enough time at his disposal to wriggle in a betting enterprise. His cabinet colleague Praful Patel who is incharge of aviation and is not able to control Air India's woes has enough time at his disposal for IPL. Reason : National Service via IPL, you have to believe that. Farmers are committing suicides in Maharashtra due to debt woes. The agriculture minister spends his time in IPL and BCCI. Reason : National Service via IPL and BCCI, you have to believe that. Many thousands of tonnes of wheat get rotten due to lack of storage facilities. Agriculture minister negotiates import of wheat from Australia. What economics this ? Probably the economic stalwart in the Prime Minister would know ! While we linger on wheat, another wind blows over - the CWG mess. Suresh Kalmadi defends all his actions with a forged e-mail from the indian high commission from London only to accept a couple of days later that some irregularities would have happened in the CWG affairs. And the Prime Minister maintains his calm and composure as if nothing of significance has happened while the whole world laughs at India's handling of the pre-games affairs. While China had completed its preparations for last year's olympics an year earlier and Britain has completed its olympics preparations for the 2012 olympics, India still is not ready yet for the CWG that would start in October this year. Aspiring for superpower status, did you say. Time is running out for Sachin Tendulkar. His score is being bettered by Naxals everyday. The day is not far off when Naxals begin television broadcasts from their independent nation comprising of Andhra, Jharkhand and Uttaranchal. While this is the case, the union home minister talks of 'inclusive' talks, un-conditional talks and the like only to be countered by his own cabinet colleagues the next day. His only competitor in incompetence is S.M.Krishna who kept mum, looking like a doll, when the Pak minister lambasted the Indian Home Secretary. What is the PM's take on this ? -- A complete mum on the whole affair. I don't know how many more times would India need to handover dossiers to Pakistan giving credible evidence of its involvement in the 26/11 attacks. I have strong reasons to believe that there is some secret pact with the dossier making industry to make it more profitable than even Microsoft.