Just the past one week's reports in the press have plenty happening - Maya Kodnani & the gang gets sentenced (RSS fumes - "Why Narendrabhai has not 'defended' them", apparently they are foxed!)
Tulsiram Encounter - Call records show that the top cops were in constant touch with the CM's office (
of course NaMo could have been out of town & claim ignorance). I am stunned at these exposures still happenning since 2002 - YES.
NaMo's so called efficiency, has tried to cover up all his tracks (using coercion, force, intimidation, transfers of people to remote or lacklustre destinations, even encounter killings) ............ BUT FOR HOW LONG ?
US Sate Department's report on "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2012" condems the 2002 riots & the failure of NaMo's government to protect it's people.
Jagdish Tytler - back in the docks as courts tell CBI to reopen 1984 riots case.
Justice & the Courts are an extremely slow & long-drawn out process in India - but things are slowly shaping up, if we examine whats been happening in the last two years. All those who are/were powerful and mighty and thought themselves to be above the LAW are slowly beginning to get nightmares, as old cases are reopened and the Law is (at last) catching up on their disgusting past.
I certainly believe that one day, Justice & the Law of our Nations Courts will triumph - then where will NaMo run ?
I include all those corrupt politicians irrespective of their parties. They all need to pay a price for what they have converted India into - a land where greed & corruption rots the very foundations of our existence, their insane self-belief that "they are the law" needs to be trounced by all those who believe in Justice and Fairness.
I have never given up my hope of fighting for Truth and Justice and stand by my daughter's generation too (she is just 11 years young) - but needs to fight against all these forces, and not just politicians, but also common people like you and me who time and again want to "turn our backs and not face the harsh truths". Their future and our country's future rests in our own hands.
Much of our frustration today at who to vote for stems for the fact that the present incumbent government has already had 2 terms. Our lives have not gotten better than what it was 10 years ago. Meanwhile all over the world - everything has changed (from what it was at the turn of the millennium). Suffice it to say - things are no better in most other countries or continents of our world. We are right now looking at a "quick-fix solution" and without looking at things holistically, could fall into the trap of - "Who is speaking or convincing us the best!"
I have already defended what (just one person out of many - Praful Bidwai wrote) and debunked as - the "Gujarat Model of Development". Credible statistics were provided, and yet ........ there is SILENCE AT TE ?
If NaMo is chosen as a PM candidate and if he ever wins
(trust me - he will be the most suave Politician this time to use ALL of Media's available skills - to hoodwink ever the most naive amongst us), then that would be the saddest day of my life and in the history of my land, and the world at large. What would I then do ? How will I then move on ?
I will move on, God-willingly - because he can never brainwash my soul or my conscience.
To conclude todays debate - I really was touched by what @
kippu shared in the shortest possible space -
( i have highlighted all that is so very, very true .... & added my comments in italics)
bjp and their subsidaries are the only ones that i actually feel physically threatened by in my own country , i just feel scared when i see the orange flags come up and they are going in a procession (this scenario can chill anyones bones as lumpen elements go rampaging thier ways - I have witnessed it umpteen times), probably because i came a bit face to face in the coimbatore riots and my wifes stories of what happened in gujarat when she was there. Then you hear the reports of their moral policing in their states and its just enough of turn me away whenever i think of them as an alternative
Yes my friends - this is the scary truth. These are no tales of fiction.
We can chose denial, ignorance, defiance or some claustrophobic sense of "secularism" & "development" ( that we alone have defined for our convenience) in making our choice of "Whom should I Vote?"