Sau me nabbe baiman fir bhi mera Bharat Mahan

The Marxist interpretation of the history tell us history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce but in the fist act of so-called sampoorna kranti (total revolution) led by Jaiprakash Narayan in seventies itself culminated in the tragedy of emergency and led us to the farce called Janata government.

So we will have to wait and watch, where this second act of revolution (media adjective) launched by Anna Hazare and orchestrated by the likes of Arvind Kejriwal and company leads us to? However I rather hope it leads us to farce and not tragedy.

But more than whether cause is justified, whether means are justified, whether Anna’s act is sheer blackmailing, does it challenge the authority of elected government or not?, Time has come for us in middle class who are disgusted or at least pretend to be disgusted by the corruption to ask some honest hard hitting questions to ourselves and introspect.

Some might find questions I want to pose to my fellow middle class people as too simplistic or comparing chalk and cheese but I think if we answer the questions honestly, we will get answers to problem of corruption about which we express our disgust and helplessness at the same time?

How many of us stop at red light even if there is no traffic policeman in the sight?

If we are caught by policeman for jumping the signal or violating the No Entry, how many of us try to get away by paying some bribe or by flaunting our connections, instead of paying fine?

How many of my fellow professionals from middle class like doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects or even well-off traders, businessmen, industrialists etc. declare their correct income and pay right amount of income tax, service tax, VAT or any other tax which is due to the state from us?.

And majority of us who are salaried have no choice but pay the tax and if we also had the choice, we would have also done the same thing. So no point in making virtue out of compulsion.

And I can answer without blinking a eyelid that answer is emphatic no. So as they say people get the government they deserve, we get the politicians we deserve. They are not some ETs came from distant galaxy to rule us and while all of us remain morally bankrupt, they are some kind of paragon virtues.

And nothing can’t be more naive than to believe that so called Jan Lokpal who is going to perform the roles of investigator, prosecutor and judge at the same time and is not going to be susceptible to pressures, allurements and temptations to which our elected representatives are, to whom we the people of India elect through ballet or more than often elect them by not casting our votes.