I went to an AH anti-C meet yesterday out of curiosity,well attended over 10,000 people.One student had this to say.He said that he was told that "Democracy" was "Of the poeple,by the people and for the people",but he had now learnt that in India it meant "Off" (with you) the people,"Buy" the people-rubbing his fingers and "For" (vote for) the people!
Some slogans,"Corruption king,Man Mohan Singh"."Anna ki Jai,Man Mohan ki Jail".
The AH movement is far from perfect.The nation is ruled by the Constitution and Parliament is supreme,being the will of the people through its elected rulers.However,when the rulers fortget that they "serve" the people and have to listen to them...at their peril,we have a situ as of today,where the extra-constitutional forces are gaining huge support in the dereliction of duty by "honourable men" and women right from the top.
The UPA,rather the Congress lump of the alliance,has lost the plot and is certainly going to lose the next election.When Pranab Mukherjee,supposed to be th smartest of the aging geriatric cabinmet of MMS on AIR's news bulletin this afternoon says that "inflation has come down from 22% to 0%,still too much and we are hoping that a good monsoon and good agricultural production will bring it down further...",it revals the utter poverty of imagination inj the UPA ruling elite.If all that is needed for the country's eco welfare and ther answer to bringing down inflation is a "good monsoon",then who needs an FM?! We might as well make the Met dept. the FM!
The young Intern,green behind the years,with his Mama the Matron herself a patient in hospital,will have to accept the "alternative medicine" suggested by the village apothecary,AH,then immediately pension off the good doctor ek thum and cut off the "gangrene" in the cabinet to save the patient-the Party.This is the only way in which the Congress can salvage the situ and restore some semblance of authority.They say that the Chinese word for both crisis and opportunity is the same.If I was Rahul G,I would even join AH at Ramlila Grounds and go on fast! But does he have the vision and the guts, say of a Sanjay G?
PS:I agree with Chacko.There is no unified "Church" in India.We have apart from the Catholics-who look to the Vatican for leadership,among the Protestant churches,the two main Protestant bodies are the CNI and CSI which were created by the majority of Protestant chuches merging together after Independence like Anglicans,Presbyterian,etc.,both mired in corruption scandals ad nauseum,the Orthodox churches in Kerala and the proliferation of EJs.Add to this are the non-mainstream entities like the 7th-Day Adventists,the Pentecostals,Mormons,etc., not considered part of the mainstream global "Protestant Communion",which looks towards the Archbishop of Cantebury as a mere "constitutional head" unlike the Pope who is the supreme head of the Catholic Church.The Indian churchgoers are more worried about the massive scandals in their institutions,caused by corrupt church leaders some of whom leverage their status for political favours and gain too,than any political leaning. I remember as a child good Catholics who were Communists!
PPS:Meanwhile the Pope ,worried over falling Catholic memebsrhip in Europe in aprticular,has called for a new "Evangelism' to save the day,where "every Catholic" is to be an evangelist.
How many will respond remains to be seen and this should be discussed in the appropriate thread.
http://www.catholic.org/hf/faith/story.php?id=40083
Church Exists to Evangelize! Pope Calls every Catholic to Become a Missionary
