somnath wrote:
Simply because if that "someone" is not presenting anything useful as a narrative, being a general nuisance and providing enough excuses to the govt to wriggle out of tough questions that others are posing, then I can only conclude that the "someone" is interested not in the issue, but in the politics..In which case, I would like him to answer the questions that we would ask of any politician, on both the form and the substance of the message..
My apologies for saying this, but that sounds like a very
narrow, subjective, and highly biased, personal opinion given that 1) he commands a massive following, 2) got GoI to agree to 90% of this demands, 3) got GoI's chaddis tied up in a knot, 4) managed to get the main opposition party to organize protest all over India. And all this without breaking ANY law and completely peacefully.
Dhiman wrote:Isn't he already doing a great job of forcing the governments hands on corruption
Not at all..He is only giving the govt many more excuses to sidestep the real questions on the drift that seems to be enveoping the country, including on critical policymaking...As well as on corruption - have you heard anyone asking the govt any questions in the last 7 days on Dayanidhi Maran?
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At worst his "nuisance factor" is a reminder to the government that if they don't get their act straight Baba Ramdev and others such as himself will keep on appearing. Surely, you don't think that Ramdev is the only one in line? At best he has surely bought the issue of black money into public limelight got got GoI to agree to "90% of his demands". Just these two factors alone are major achievements by most standards.
Social peace is not about agnosticism...But civic disturbance is aboslutely linked to prosperity, or the lack of it...Take WB, the prime reason why industry fled was because the city iused to be shut down half the time, or the roads blocked all the time!
LOL, how many bands have been organized in this country by mainstream political parties. How many times have entire citi blocks, commercial destricts, businesses, hospitals, schools, airports, etc have been shutdown because of VVIP movement or mainstream political parties organize their own public rallies. I am surprised that an as an Indian you are complaining about these.
Again, whatever Ramdev has done has been in best tradition of Indian politics as set by mainstream ruling political parties, so worrying about Ramdev doing the same seems like a bit "abnormal" to me.
