ONE LETTER TO ANNA

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An Open letter to Anna - Be the Politician you want to see

Respected Anna,

Jeramji ki,

It is heartening to note that you have decided to break fast.  I appeal you not to fast again and again, fasting is a Brahmastra in Non Violent social movements and such vital weapon should be used sparsely. There are several other reasons also. Ours is a nation which believes in forgetting all good, bad and ugly events, is selfish & have let go attitude, where thousands die daily due to carelessness, has been cheated by its own politicians who are tyrants. When we sum it all up, one can easily conclude that this nation needs you badly for at least 10 more years in robust health. God forbid but if you die fasting the nation is not going to remember you for very long. Half of the people does not even know full name of Father of our Nation. Forget Gandhiji, most of us don’t even know our own great grand father’s name. Any supreme sacrifice stirs the soul of this nation only momentarily. Kasab is more popular than the Policeman Mr. Tukaram Ombale who sacrificed his life while catching him alive. Government has spent several times more money on security of Kasab compared to rehabilitation of affected people and police personnel’s families. Kargil war widows’ tears were not even dried when our Prime Minister was having a lavish five course meal with Pervez Musharraf, chief conspirator of Kargil war who visited Agra within 2 years of war for an unsuccessful peace summit.

Your first fast has stirred the soul of the nation. Everyone recognized and chanted “Vande Mataram, Bande me Hai Dum” and that was enough. There is a famous law in Economics which is knows as “Law of Diminishing Returns” which tells that repetitively use of same thing gives reducing returns from each extra unit and excessive use may even result in negative returns. You must remember that this government is full of Economists. They may not know anything else about Economics (otherwise our Economy would have been a lot better!) but they definitely know this elementary law, because the same law is going to haunt them in next elections. Third time same government, difficult to digest! So it is far easy to throw them out in the next elections partly due to application of this immortal law of Economics and largely with proper strategies in place.

One more important lesson we must learn from our two most important wars and respective strategies adopted to win those wars.

In Mahabharata, Lord Krishna advised Pandva’s to go for war because he knew that they are fighting tyrant, corrupt and insensitive rulers. Any non violent movement of Pandva’s would have been a cause of celebration for Kaurvas.

In fight against the British, Mahatma Gandhi, a devotee of Lord Krishna, adopted “Non Violence” strategy because earlier armed coups against Brits have failed miserably. But the Brits were far more sensitive, ethical, disciplined and rational people compared to present political class in India so the strategy of  “Non Violence” paid off.

Violence of Mahabharata and non violence of Mahatma Gandhi both are not going to work beyond a point in the present set up. Maoists do not enjoy any sympathy however noble be the cause they are fighting for and frequent fasts of you and your team can’t shake up the tyrants. Neither can it be fought on streets alone as the laws are made in Parliament. This is the fight against our own insensitive political establishment. However bad they are, fortunately, they believe in democracy.  Therefore, adopt the VOTE route, which is the most feared weapon by our politicians. Don’t ever forget 1977 debacle of congress. It took less than 6 months and no money to create Janta Party. Top of that, Communists and BJP, diehard enemies of each other, were parts of it! It is different that the same Janta Party kept on breeding parties after parties for years. In that historic election Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi were the prominent losers.

This weapon of VOTE is a great humbler and has crushed all our larger than life political personalities such as Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Atal Behari Vajpayee etc at least once in their life time. Rahul Gandhi is still wondering why he lost face in UP despite having tasteless food and sleepless nights with poor in their huts. So the current crop of rootless and ruthless politicians is nothing great and you have enough time to finish them in next elections.

You need to invest your energy in creating a viable political alternative; the whole nation is willing to rally behind you but only if it is convinced.

Remember Nitish Kumar is product of JP movement so is Laloo, but people have now developed the ability to differentiate between performer and non performer. Therefore, there is no need to be hopeless about the future of this great nation. Your movement has potential to produce more Kumars and less Laloos.

As a part of your strategy prepare a list of at least 100 MOST UNWANTED MPs in next Loksabha. MPs having political & intellectual arrogance, criminal and corrupt back ground should be made part of this list. The list with full details should be prominently displayed in all your media activity, website and social networking sites to create atmosphere against them in next election. Find out alternative for them and start working on ground to defeat these people. Believe me, more than 50% of them will be denied tickets from there respective parties due to negative publicity and resultant fear of loss and remaining will lose elections due to your efforts.

We have seen in recent past that even parties with single digit strength in Loksabha are able to create enormous pressure. Hence your 25 people too can do miracle.

Be the change agent for the change you want, don’t expect changes in the present political class only time will change them.

 

One poor voter