The much awaited US elections were finally over with many anticipating that the crisis and global meltdown situation will be brought under control. A lot of happiness and optimism is seen not only in the US but also across the globe. Almost everyone in the US is celebrating over this historic win of a black walking to The White House. Barack Obama, the new President of US, had shown that it takes determination and sincerity to make it to the top. It is said that Obama has worked at the grassroots level and had not political backing. The highly qualified, charismatic Obama had only work to show with his integrity. A very composed man and an excellent orator has triumphed bringing together people of the United States across diverse colours, regions, and religions. He spoke of only one single aim, whether he will be able to achieve it, is to be seen, but for now the aspirations and the expectations are high. The much required change is about to happen, it seems.
India too, celebrated Obama’s success, school kids kissing Obama cut-outs in New Delhi, while many others rejoiced with beer and coffee mugs over the democrat’s victory. But is that alone enough? Wouldn’t we want to have our own Obama or at least someone closely resembling him in terms of philosophies and ideologies? I read in some article, few days back, now that a black has been elected to the White House, we, the world’s largest democracy too can look at a dalit Prime Minister. Why not? Sure, we can. However, the comparison or the analogy doesn’t end there. He is a black American, yes. However, he also has credentials of being a person who is honest, truthful, working with people at all levels, and above all a qualified rationale brain, unlike the leaders of our country. A dalit, on the other hand, of our nation, Behenji, has just a tag of backward, suppressed class and nothing more. I have really developed a phobia of Mayawati becoming our Prime Minister; I would terribly feel sorry for myself and my country’s populace.
With our general elections drawing close, I am feeling jittery about who is going to take the ruins (oops, I meant reins) of our country into their hand. None of the hands that I see around are clean, not only about the Prime Ministerial candidates, but political leaders in general. A Lalu, a Mayawati, the Advani, the Thackeray, the Modi, and many of the South Indian breed as well – all are the same. Lalu did well to the railways but there is a chara ghotala too, Mayawati doesn’t understand what nuclear deal is about yet announces that it is against the Muslims, Advani might tomorrow run a bulldozer and an excavator over Taj Mahal stating it’s a tomb of some Muslim, Modi and Thackeray would continue instigating people for their own interests, resorting to Jayalalitha, Naidu, Reddy, Karunanidhi and their likes is like trying to find a strong foundation a marshy land – not sure when they would rip off the ground beneath your feet, the congress is now tainted with bribing the MPs during trust votes, and the Left has been left back long ago.
What next? We don’t have an Obama. Not a single person – trustworthy, visionary, charismatic who can change the face of our nation, a long due process. Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi were magnetic and visionary, Gujral carried a good personality, Manmohan Singh has a vision, however, we still don’t find a trustworthy name today, forget even finding someone like Gandhiji – idealistic.
“We can have thousands of Obamas”, says Rahul Gandhi. We sure can have, but no one is ready to enter this politics, which few experts say belongs to only 200 families in India. No one like Obama, with zero political backing or no political dynasty, can make it to the Parliament, in India. The leaders today, lack integrity, selfless nature, etiquettes, and just thrive on blasphemy, hate slogans, vice methods – in direct contrast to what Obama is. Obama has collected people rich-poor, old-young, white-black, and so on, however, here in India our leaders are keen on dividing the people. Obama said, “Change we need”, and he announced it to entire America, not just the blacks. In India though, we seldom find any leader talking about India, it is always about Mumbai, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat etc. We need to elect leader from candidates who have criminal cases pending, who are illiterates, who cannot rationalise right or wrong, good or bad, who have crossed 60-70-80 years of age, who are still buying votes for few hundreds of rupees. How long? - one of my friend says forever, because it is all our fault. He further adds Einstein’s statement to explain everything in one line – “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,but because of those who look on and do nothing”.
This needs to change. And it is this change that we need – not being subjected, tortured, and taken for granted by these selfish politicians. We need to unite, and it is the young India that needs to come together, if we want to see a successful transition from this ugly face into a much pretty image. It is difficult, but there has to be a beginning, and a change can happen – Barack Obama showed us it can.
India too, celebrated Obama’s success, school kids kissing Obama cut-outs in New Delhi, while many others rejoiced with beer and coffee mugs over the democrat’s victory. But is that alone enough? Wouldn’t we want to have our own Obama or at least someone closely resembling him in terms of philosophies and ideologies? I read in some article, few days back, now that a black has been elected to the White House, we, the world’s largest democracy too can look at a dalit Prime Minister. Why not? Sure, we can. However, the comparison or the analogy doesn’t end there. He is a black American, yes. However, he also has credentials of being a person who is honest, truthful, working with people at all levels, and above all a qualified rationale brain, unlike the leaders of our country. A dalit, on the other hand, of our nation, Behenji, has just a tag of backward, suppressed class and nothing more. I have really developed a phobia of Mayawati becoming our Prime Minister; I would terribly feel sorry for myself and my country’s populace.
With our general elections drawing close, I am feeling jittery about who is going to take the ruins (oops, I meant reins) of our country into their hand. None of the hands that I see around are clean, not only about the Prime Ministerial candidates, but political leaders in general. A Lalu, a Mayawati, the Advani, the Thackeray, the Modi, and many of the South Indian breed as well – all are the same. Lalu did well to the railways but there is a chara ghotala too, Mayawati doesn’t understand what nuclear deal is about yet announces that it is against the Muslims, Advani might tomorrow run a bulldozer and an excavator over Taj Mahal stating it’s a tomb of some Muslim, Modi and Thackeray would continue instigating people for their own interests, resorting to Jayalalitha, Naidu, Reddy, Karunanidhi and their likes is like trying to find a strong foundation a marshy land – not sure when they would rip off the ground beneath your feet, the congress is now tainted with bribing the MPs during trust votes, and the Left has been left back long ago.
What next? We don’t have an Obama. Not a single person – trustworthy, visionary, charismatic who can change the face of our nation, a long due process. Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi were magnetic and visionary, Gujral carried a good personality, Manmohan Singh has a vision, however, we still don’t find a trustworthy name today, forget even finding someone like Gandhiji – idealistic.
“We can have thousands of Obamas”, says Rahul Gandhi. We sure can have, but no one is ready to enter this politics, which few experts say belongs to only 200 families in India. No one like Obama, with zero political backing or no political dynasty, can make it to the Parliament, in India. The leaders today, lack integrity, selfless nature, etiquettes, and just thrive on blasphemy, hate slogans, vice methods – in direct contrast to what Obama is. Obama has collected people rich-poor, old-young, white-black, and so on, however, here in India our leaders are keen on dividing the people. Obama said, “Change we need”, and he announced it to entire America, not just the blacks. In India though, we seldom find any leader talking about India, it is always about Mumbai, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat etc. We need to elect leader from candidates who have criminal cases pending, who are illiterates, who cannot rationalise right or wrong, good or bad, who have crossed 60-70-80 years of age, who are still buying votes for few hundreds of rupees. How long? - one of my friend says forever, because it is all our fault. He further adds Einstein’s statement to explain everything in one line – “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,but because of those who look on and do nothing”.
This needs to change. And it is this change that we need – not being subjected, tortured, and taken for granted by these selfish politicians. We need to unite, and it is the young India that needs to come together, if we want to see a successful transition from this ugly face into a much pretty image. It is difficult, but there has to be a beginning, and a change can happen – Barack Obama showed us it can.
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