The results in the Jammu and Kashmir polls was a welcome change in politics. It finally seems that the older generation is handing over the reins of politics to the younger one. In one of my earlier blogs I had mentioned about Barack Obama and the need for such a leader in India. It finally seems that India is getting such leaders.
The verdict also finally showed that the extremists and hardliners in the valley have finally been defeated. There was much hype till about a few days back that the people of Kashmir wanted an independent governance and that the hardliners would win if there were elections held. The voter turnout in Kashmir was at an all time high of about 64% which showed that the people of Kashmir wanted a chance to voice their opinion.
Omar Abdullah, the CM-to-be of Kashmir is the youngest Chief Minister in India. His first press conference was also impressive and when he said, "I have to bring governance back on track which has come to a halt after the summer turmoil and then model code of conduct. Unlike my predecessors, I would have to devote less time on security situation and would have a more comfortable cushion to focus on governance. The voters want basic stuff, like good roads, safe drinking water in taps, electricity at a decent price. My style is simple. I don’t believe in revenge, so you would not see arrests. There will be no massive transfers because I don’t expect officials to swear in the name of National Conference. I won’t be corrupt, so I can catch those who are".
Isn't that impressive for a young Chief Minister?

It sounds funny most of the times when you read about a murder by an MLA and you start to wonder as to what is the ream meaning of an MLA - is it "Men Leading Atrocities"? Probably that is what it. Add to this, the fact that stupid Chief Ministers who aspire to be the Prime Minister of India supporting them and the story is complete.
A leading newspaper reported that of all the BSP MLAs in UP, there are about 67 who have criminal records. When the newspapers know this, would it be possible that the Prime Minister aspirant would not know this. When the whole world knows this, why is it that the election commission not acting on this?
At the first place should such people with criminal records be allowed to contest elections? Our election commission says that no one can be called a criminal till such time the crime is proved. But has our judiciary ever been able to punish one such politician on any criminal offences. So when such punishments would not happen, then such criminals would contest elections and win. If your question is, how do they win, then the answer is not difficult. Just visit one such polling booths and see for yourself.
This has to change somewhere. If the judiciary cannot punish them, then the election commission should bring some changes in its rules and laws. It should not allow anybody who has a criminal complaint against him and is under investigation to contest elections. The Judiciary will also have to change. What to change is something that I will have to leave to the imagination of the legal intellects.
This time round the murderous MLA was Shekhar Tewari. He allegedly lynched a PWD engineer to death only because the engineer denied a couple of lakh rupees as contribution to for PM aspirant, Chief Minister of UP, Mayawati's birthday celebrations which has always been a gala affair. What's more, the next day the chief minister comes out with a statement defending her able MLA, saying that the murder was a result of internal enemity in the PWD. What more can you expect from a person who has earlier stooped to such low that she tried to prevent a Youth Congress leader from entering one of the colleges in UP only because she wanted to prove her supremacy.

It is not new for our politicians to cash in on any controversy. Be it Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan (who otherwise is not heard of ever) etc. are among a few who have been using this to their advantage. A few renowned personalities (never heard off, to be true) from the Left parties are always ready to pounce on any such contorversial comments that can lead them to glory.
These politicians are very smart some way at least. They would wait for some time after somebody has made a controversial statement or, remark. They wait to see the number of people for it and against it. If he number of people for it is high, they would go out with a statement favoring the group that is against it, else they would do otherwise. That ways they know that the news channels would keep flashing their names for the comments that they make and thus stay in people's minds. To say the truth, that is the only way they have to stay in people's minds because they would hardly have done something for the constituency that they were elected for.
Now take for example the idiotic comment made by the Minor Minister (I would prefer to call him so instead of the Minority Minister) Mr. Antulay. He found quite a few takers from here and there. Needless to mention here that all takers and supporters to his comments came from the category that we discussed above. Having said that, the truth still remains that Antulay is not alone. There are quite a few idiots ready to join his bandwagon.

If you ask even a kid today as to what is the height of idiocy, he would point to a politician addressing a press in the television. I wonder if sell their brains also in order to make some extra money because that is the kind of impression that they give most of the times.
Take, for example the case of our honorable Minority Affairs minister, A.R.Antulay. For no rhyme or, reason, he went on to state that the death of ATS chief Hemant Karkare, the martyr at the Mumbai terror attacks, should be investigated to find if he had fallen prey to a setup. He went on to question the reason behind Mr. Karkare going to Cama hospital and also hinted that even some of the top officials in the department could be involved. Doesn't it seem that the minority affairs minister is minority in brains.
As soon as these foolish politicians have figured out that everything is back to normalcy and people are slowing forgetting the incident, they have started coming out with such follish remarks, questioning the intergrity of the ones who were at the forefront in protecting us. Where were these idiots when the terrorists were holding the public at ransom.
Mr. Antulay, it is time to rest. Please let the ables ones rule the affairs of the country.

A few months back when I first wrote about the cash-for-vote scam where MPs were shown holding bundles of currencies in the parliament accusing a few opposition party MPs of trying to bribe them to vote for the government in the no-confidence motion voting, I also wrote that there is nothing that is going to be done of these accused MPs.
The verdict is finally in. A panel of committee specially set-up for the investigation finally adjudged Amar Singh the main accused in the scam, not guilty. That stamped the fact that in India, no politicians can be punished.
I wonder why we spend so much money on these committees and investigations. We should rather dismiss these cases at the onset itself, so that at least we save on this money (hard earned money of ours that we pay as tax) and use that in some other better way. Here again, one would question the better way, because the better way would then be into the pockets of these politicians itself.
We need more of the peace march that we did to the Gateway of India after the Mumbai terror attacks. We need a revolution and a revolution can only happen when we, the mob wakes up.

It was good to see the Lok Sabha session today. I wonder what brought the changes - the election results or, the Gateway of India march. Whatever was the reason the change is now imminent and visible. The people wanted to get rid of the corrupt politicians. They wanted actions against the insensitive politicians who couldn't stand by their people at the time of crisis like in Mumbai and they forced the government to take action.
By going to the polls in huge numbers in the recently concluded Vidhan Sabha elections in 5 states and electing back the governments that have worked towards to the development of the respective states and pulling down the ones that did not, they exhibited the power of democracy. They showed the "Good-for-nothing" politicians that they have a choice and that they know what their rights are. They can make or, break the ones who they feel should be governing their country and protecting them. It was the power of the mass.
This brought about was a sudden shift in the stance of the opposition as well. The opposition who had always demanded resignation from the governments who were in power when anything like that of the Mumbai incident happened, now went on to say that they stand by whatever the government will do towards countering the attack of terrorism. When Mr. L.K.Advani, the leader of the opposition and the BJP candidate for the post of PM in the Lok Sabha polls ahead, was showering praises on the things that the government has done to counter terrorism and the investigations that they were doing to find the culprits at the Mumbai terror attacks, for a minute anybody would have felt - "Yes, My Minister, You can do it".

Do you remember the name Sharad Yadav? Probably you won't. Even if you do you would not remember his face. Let me remind you.
He was once the President of the Janata Dal (United) in 1998, probably. I do not even recollect the year and very few people would, except for the ones who had to learn this again and again for some competitive exams. Do you find a reason why the terrorists would attack this no more useless politician?
When this "NETA" of ours was asked if he would sacrifice his security for the security of the citizen of his country, he was at loss of words initially. Then he goes on to say, "Your question itself is baseless. How would anybody's security affect the security of the citizen?" I pray that he should have been staying in "The Taj Hotel" during the terrorist attack. He would have got his answer.
Another politician Sajjan Kumar, who is under trial for several murder charges against him has about 12 people as security personnel around him. The irony is the fact that he is not even a minister.
A look at the statistics on the security cover being provided to our politicians reveals some startling facts:
Total expenditure on security - Rs. 250 Crores per annum
Total personnel involved - more than 15,000 (Out of these about 1400 are specially trained NSG commandos)
Politicians who are not serving ministers are many amongs these who are provided this security. An excerpt from "The Times of India" -

{Over Rs 250 crore is spent on VIP protection — including VIPs like Deve Gowda, Amar Singh, Ram Vilas Paswan, Sajjan Kumar, B L Joshi, R L Bhatia, Sharad Yadav, Rameshwar Thakur, E Ahmad, Murli Manohar Joshi, Brij Bhushan Sharan and Pramod Tiwari. Most of these worthies are said to be facing little real risk. It's also questionable whether lakhs of rupees should be spent on the protection of some others, like Sajjan Kumar, who have murder cases against them.
The explosion of VIP security has led to a ridiculous situation in which commandos meant for anti-terror operations have been diverted to protect politicians. The NSG, set up in 1984 for anti-hijack and anti-terror operations, has two wings--the Special Action Group (SAG), comprising army personnel on deputation, and the Special Rangers Group (SRG), comprising personnel from the ITBP, CISF, CRPF, BSF and SSB. More than half of SRG has been diverted to VIP security.
This is in addition to the Special Protection Group (SPG) that is exclusively meant for providing security to the PM, former PMs and members of the Gandhi family. Interestingly, the SPG budget for 2008-09 is Rs 180 crore, up from Rs 117 crore the previous year, while the 2008-09 budget for NSG, which is meant to protect over a billion people from terror, is Rs 158 crore, down from Rs 159 crore crore the previous year.
It's not only the SPG and NSG that protect our netas. In addition to them, every state diverts a sizeable number of policemen for VIP security. In Delhi, where the number of self-important politicians is highest, as many as 14,200 policemen have been deployed on round-the-clock VIP security duty.
VIP security is broken up into five levels — SPG for those at the top of the heap, followed by the Z-plus, Z, Y and X categories. Z-plus security is provided by NSG `black cats' consisting of six personal security officers, two head constables, 12 constables, one escort and one pilot vehicle. Thirty politicians like L K Advani, Mayawati, Narendra Modi, Jayalalithaa, Murli Manohar Joshi, Amar Singh and Paswan are provided this cover.
The pyramid gets wider at the lower level of security — 68 VIPs get Z category protection, 243 get Y category and 81 X category. Of course, all of them get to flash red lights on their cars and flaunt their status, generally viewed as a nuisance by the aam admi . So intrusive is their security that the Delhi high court was recently provoked into saying, ``Politicians are not national assets that need to be protected.''}

When a few of these honorable politicians were asked if they were willing to sacrifice a few of their security men for the security of the citizens, they refused. That is the kind of concern they have their citizens who vote for them and elect them as ministers. Also notable is the fact that all that money that is spent on these rogues is funded by common men like you and me.

When all hell was let loose on the politicians for their spineless behavior during the Mumbai terror attacks, they reacted. They reacted without keeping in mind the fact that they are there just because of us-the common man. They have started assuming themselves as being demi-gods. Like the colossus they feel today. But beware! Oh, netas! It would not take minutes before you would be down on the earth. All that it requires is a determination from the Janta.
These were the reactions of some of our "Netas" -

This honorable minister Muktar Abbas Naqvi did not think twice before he said, “Some women wearing lipstick and powder have taken to the streets in Mumbai and are abusing politicians, thus spreading dissatisfaction against democracy”.
I wish to ask Mr. Naqvi, "Is it that this dissatisfaction developed in just those 60 hrs"? Mr. Naqvi, when you were somewhere in the comforts of your home, it is these 'women wearing lipsticks', that bore the brunt. It is they who lived in terror for more than 60 hrs. You would never realize what terror is when you have 20 guards to protect you.

The Dy.CM of Maharashtra, Mr.R.R.Patil was one step ahead, he went on to say, "“Itne bade shahar me ekadha hadsa ho jaata hai” meaning that, "it is common for a few such instances to happen in a City so huge". Mr.Patil should have been sent into the Taj Hotel when the security forces were in a combat with the terrorists. he should have asked to negotiate with the terrorists and he would have realized the gravity of the "hadsa". Mr.Patil, if the death of more than 200 people and about 300 others getting injured is a "Normal hadsa" for you, you don't even deserve the grave. Shame of you!

Finally the COWARD as he is Raj Thackeray proved it. He sent his wife out to speak on his behalf. Shame on this entire family. Mrs. Sharmila Thackeray is indeed a true wife. She stands by her husband at all times. She went on to send text messages saying, "All those who had lost their lives while saving this city are Marathis. MNS workers are busy donating blood, helping police for rescue operations and lifting bodies". How foolish can somebody be? Mrs.Thackeray should get her facts right. Better go and check the records to find how many Marathis lost their lives in saving your Mumbai. If I am to go by what she says, I will have to believe that the NSG and such other forces recruits only Marathis and that Major. Sandeep Unnikrishnan was also a Marathi. But Raj Thackeray indeed proved that he is a proud marathi by attending the funeral for the martyr Hemant Karkar, though he shouldn't even have been allowed to go near. How idiotic can this family be?

The Kerala Chief Minister proved that he is the worst human being that you would ever see. First of all he did not even visit the house of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan in Bangalore, who incidentally is a Malayalee initially, probably because that was the last thing in his agenda. Then when he did visit, he was driven away by the grieving father of the Major. And to this the honorable chief minister reacts saying, "If it had not been (Major) Sandeep’s house, not even a dog would have glanced that way". Worst that he was not even apologetic about it until he was forced to apologize. A man with a dark heart in a white dress. Mr. Achutananthan, you are no more than a devil - a stupid devil.

For god's sake, I would requrst all our dear Netas to leave the country on its own and go and shove their faces into some dark corners of the world.