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The
founding fathers of most democratic countries
wanted a strong and just national government.
This is needed to protect individual rights and
freedoms and also to prevent the government from
abusing its power. In order to make this happen
most democratic countries including the US, UK
and India have three separate branches of the
government: the executive, the legislative and
the judicial.
The key to a just and strong government is that
there should be a balance of powers between the
three arms of the government. Each arm of the
government must keep a check on the other arm to
make sure that it's delivering justice, peace,
prosperity and security to the citizens and not
using it's position of power to exploit the
people instead. After all, the government is for
the happiness and well being of the people and
not for their exploitation.
In India this fundamental principle has been
turned upside down by the emergence of the
Bahubali politicians. How do we define these
Bahubalis? According to my own definition these
are the legislative, judicial, and executive
branches all rolled into one with a generous
immersion of criminal mindset.
For any country this combination is too much to
handle! The Bahubalis are elected to the
parliament/assembly by the people (legislative
branch), are made ministers by the political
parties (executive branch) and by way of their
money and muscle power control the police and
judiciary (judicial power). Consistent with
their names they wield multiple weapons to bring
down any adversary. Nothing can stand against
them because they are powers of all arms of the
government rolled into a single package. They
are the zenith of the worst kind of criminals,
anti-socials and absolute power.
Historically, Bahubalis have come from the
so-called upper castes but because of social
empowerment, now Bahubalis have come up amongst
the backwards, SC/STs and minorities too.
Bahubalis are the most caste-conscious
politicians of the lot and their caste awareness
is secondary only to their criminal mindset.
They fool the people by calling themselves
either the messiah or the defenders of the caste
they belong to but in reality they are the
enemies of all the civilized people. Look at the
last names of the MLAs (cutting across party
lines) defending Anand Mohan Singh. Look at the
last names of MLAs defending Pappu Yadav,
Shahabuddin and Sunil Pandey. The caste system
based segmentation of Indian society (instead of
bonding based on honesty, love for justice and
ethics) provides the most fertile manure for the
growth of these anti-socials.
The Bahubalis are a danger to our nation and
it's people. They need to be urgently put in
check and nipped in the bud before they achieve
their full criminal potential. Putting down the
worst kind of anti-socials (Bahubalis) should
send a strong signal to everyone. Seeing even
the Bahubalis go down, the smaller criminals
will think twice before committing crimes and
will forget about getting away with it. Common
citizens will develop a sense of security and
well-being and will trust and love the Indian
nation. To start with, the people need to make
sure that they never elect these Bahubalis in
the first place. Doesn't matter what caste,
region or religion these Bahubalis claim to
belong to. Moreover, the political parties (with
their so called sophisticated and slightly more
civilized leaders) need to stop giving them
election tickets. Lastly, the judiciary needs to
control their greed and stop itself from being
swayed by the bribe money offered by the
Bahubalis. The police need to be brave and
honest and not be influenced by the Bahubalis
power and money.
Stop the Bahubalis now before they stop our
toddler nation from realizing it's full
potential and make India a banana republic!
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I am grieved to see people like
Sunil Pandey going scot-free after
creating an ugly and horrible scene
at Maurya Lok Hotel.
I feel so frustrated for not having
any influencing power to bring these
goons to the justice table so that
they at least say "sorry" and vow
not to repeat that in future.
Instead of feeling guilty and
apologizing about the whole episode
, the person has audacity to make
statements in full media glare about
how would he have handled the SSP if
the latter had come to apprehend
him. For the un-initiated, this
person when reacting to Anand Mohan
- SSP squabble, had said he would
have shot the SSP. I am often aghast
and wonder how do they get the
confidence that nothing will happen
to them by making such comments. Do
they think the "democracy" is in
their clutches and all they have to
worry about is respond to a
"show-cause" notice? Yes, they are
the real Bahubalis who have no
respect for "rule of the land" or
the constitution what-so-ever and have
no apprehensions with regard to
legal implications. They would do
anything to maintain their status
quo, be it by igniting the
communal/caste flame or by secretly
supporting the Naxalites. How much
ever rustic they might appear in
their behavior, they are intelligent
enough to understand that they will
garner enough support even among the
educated class who would find some
egoistic or emotional reason to
connect with them.
I had great hopes from Nitish Kumar
that he would try and keep these
goons under check. But he is
behaving like any other ordinary
chief minister when it comes to
dealing with these issues. Couple of
times that I have seen him speaking
to the media on these issues, he
seemed to have no seriousness about
the issues and kept smiling, as if
to suggest " you got me there". This
might be his style of functioning
and let us hope it is effective. I
think he is honest and has taken
some initiative to create some buzz
but aren't they still only a buzz? I
have not visited Patna since he took
over. Is there any noticeable
development in Patna, let alone
Bihar as a whole, that we can sit up
and take notice and feel proud
about. He has already been at helm
for almost 3 quarters now. We, sure,
would like to give him the benefit
of doubt as he has to scrap a lot of
rust to begin with but the last
thing I would like him to do is try
and save his government by pleasing
the coalition partners or dissidents
as that will be a recipe for
disaster. That might be a pragmatic
approach but will serve Bihar no
good.
On a positive note, it is a welcome
sign that people like Shahabuddin
and Anand Mohan are behind bars.
Punishment, as they say, should
serve a notice to other criminals
that their criminal activities would
not go un-noticed and they will end
up being behind the bars or will be
hanged. We want such sort of
precedence to be set so that people
think twice before indulging into
criminal activity. Crimes would
still continue to happen but it is
reducing the intensity and frequency
that we should be aiming at.
Media has been playing generally a
good role in highlighting the
highhandedness of the criminals and
it has indeed created some fear
among them. Some of the sting
operations they have conducted in
the past may be controversial and
politically motivated but on a whole
they are doing an "ok" job on this
front. What I would want them to do
"less -of" is over blowing the
issues involving Raakhi Sawant or
for that matter the Mutuk Nath
Chowdhary episode. A casual mention
is fine as I understand they have to
provide some spice for commercial
considerations but running 30 min
capsules on these just dilutes their
effectiveness on a whole. -
Ravindra Shahi - July 22, 2006
Somji you have made a great point.
The list of Bahubalis is long. The
worst of the lot are Raghuraj Pratap
Singh or Raja Bhaiyya , Rajan
Tiwari, Munna Shukla, Anant Singh,
Taslimuddin, Shahabuddin, Pappu
Yadav, Anand Mohan, Sunil Pandey,
Babloo Srivastava, Abu Azmi and so
on and so forth. But because of
their false caste based ego people
choose to ignore and trivialise or
in the worst case support these
criminals. - Rajesh Sahu,
Manchester, UK - July 23, 2006
Thank you Mr. Vishwakarma for a
nicely written article. You hit the
nail on its head when you say that
these bahubalis are almost turning
Bihar into a banana republic.
However, the bottom-line is that its
a reality whether we like it or not.
How did all this came to such a
situation ? Who is responsible for
it and more importantly how are we
going to improve these situations ?
The perpetual question still remains
who is going to bell the cat. One of
the solutions I could think of is
that all citizens of Bihar should
make sure to vote whenever possible.
If PatnaDaily conducts a poll asking
how many of us have voted in the
last few elections, I would not be
surprised if I find that very few of
us would have voted. I mean these
goons are stomping the political
canvas of Bihar like a a raging
bull, a mad elephant but they derive
all their power through democratic
processes only. I think being
ordinary citizens we can make sure
to vote so that such candidates do
not get a democratic validity of
their practice of might-is-right
policy. It is incumbent upon us, the
common citizens that we vote and
vote right rising above all the bias
and prejudices. Unless we vote, I
guess we would keep on whining about
this and that situation of Bihar
sitting on our comfy chairs in our
own la-la land in US, UK or wherever
the safest place we could find far
and far away from Bihar. I mean we
can just wish away this problem that
such and such bahubalis wont trouble
our society any more. We have got to
be active and vote. Its not only our
right but we also owe it to our
future generations. - Ravindra
Kumar - July 26, 2006 |
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