HOW TO NAME IT…???

                                         

I am sure that the title is enough to raise one’s eyebrows. For those who know what this actually means they will fly in bliss on reading it, but for those who don’t , it’s the name of an instrumental album by maestro Ilyaraja. Though being an ardent fan of maestro this article is neither about him nor about his instrumental album. So, I request those people flying in the lovey-dovey mood on the thought of the album to come down to the reality of this article.

Our Supreme Court has once again taken the center stage after its two important and bold judgments. One, on the immediate disqualification of the convicted lawmakers and  two, on making NOTA (none of the above) or the scratch vote as a ballot option in our elections.

Immediate disqualification of convicted lawmakers though made the headlines for  different and spicy matters, let us look at one of the first victims of this law, Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, now a MP, was sentenced to five years in jail for embezzling funds in the fodder scam during his tenure in the mid 1990’s. Sad isn't it..? Laluji could have walked out with an appeal, if this law wasn't there.

Talking of the spicy matters, our parliament wanted the President of India to revert back the SC order on the convicted lawmakers, through an ordinance. An ordinance has the same force and effect as an act passed by the parliament. But the president should believe that the ordinance is important and needs attention when the parliament in not having a session. Both houses have to ratify this, else this gets nullified within six weeks from the reassembly of the parliament.

When this ordinance was submitted to the president for consideration, a young (I am sorry, we are used to calling this man young even at the age of 43) enigmatic leader at a press conference made a brazen remark that- "I'll tell you what my opinion on the ordinance is. It's complete nonsense. It should be torn up and thrown away. That is my personal opinion," we are happy that someone is voicing our concerns, but wait from where does that personal opinion come from, at the very end. If that was the personal view of the young leader it shouldn't have found its way in a press conference that would be followed by millions of people.

The young leader is none other than Rahul Gandhi, We can understand the fact that the congress is trying desperately to push him as a front-runner in the prime ministerial race ahead of other strong competitors, but this U-turn of his, has exposed the weaknesses of our inscrutable Rahulji . 

In his roar for a change he has made the people to ask a few questions, one, did he really not know about the ordinance at the party meetings or was his concerns underplayed by the other congress leaders, so he had to take the media route to showcase his views, if this was to be true then he has to ask his mother to reconsider her dream of making her son as a PM.She has to accept that, not everyone's dream is fulfilled  Two, why does he have to undermine the PMO and PM whom he later called as his political guru?  This has made the Gandhi family look weaker in the party where we all believe that they run and take decisions in the party. They should have practiced much better to pull off a high spirited political drama.

To some extent i hate our citizens, they always seem to be cynical, they never even try to believe a person who wants to be genuine, let us think this way, all the compromises that this young leader makes to see his country prosper has reached its limits. We tacitly understand that this man cannot tolerate any nonsense or compromises anymore and he wants things to start happening. He wants to lead the party, knowing that this assertive remark could cost the elections in 2014, if losing doesn't matter to him unless the party changes the way it works, he would have ample time to rebuild the party according to his goodwill after May'14. But, the time is running out for him to think about his party’s sabbatical from ruling this nation.

What do you call this, a stunt, or a step towards the so called desired change…Political veterans are totally confused on “how to name it(the heroism)…???” .

Second on the list is something which is mouth-watering for the first time voters, the NOTA option on the ballot machines are new contenders in the elections from this year. To stop our electoral democracy from being a subset of some goonda democracy where only the goondas would be the candidates, the Supreme Court has made its point clear. Our Honorable Chief Justice P.Sathasivam said that “The election is a mechanism, which ultimately represents the will of the people. Not allowing a person to vote negatively defeats freedom of expression and the right to liberty in Article 21”. Though this judgment comes with a heavy risk where a constituency can see an election repeating itself without a proper result and lead to political instability. The Intentions are loud and clear, if a party is going to support a candidate against peoples wish , they would be voting for NOTA again and again, and the parties would have no other choice other than to make a good candidate represent the party for the elections. Once again we don’t know how this is going to shape up. We have to wait and watch for the upcoming state elections in Chhattisgarh, Delhi, MP, Rajasthan, Mizoram .We are eagerly waiting to see the  new empowered youth showing the way for us.

P.S- I hope we aren't so indifferent in electing our representatives where in 272+ constituencies are won by NOTA out of the available 543 or am i wrong in understanding my fellow Indians....???