कोई भी नागरिक अपने देश का पिता यानि सृजक कैसे हो सकता है ?

आज समाचार-पत्रों में पढ़ा कि सूचना के अधिकार के अंतर्गत भारत सरकार ने स्पष्ट किया है कि वह  गांधीजी को राष्ट्रपिता की उपाधि नहीं दे सकती क्यों कि भारत का संविधान अनुच्छेद १८ ऐसे उपाधि कि अनुमति नहीं देता / अर्थात गांधीजी विधिवत राष्ट्रपिता नहीं हैं / 

मुझे यह जानकर संतोष हुआ कि क़ानूनन कम से कम गांधीजी इस देश के बाप नहीं हैं / निस्संदेह गांधीजी एक महान मनुष्य थे / ईमानदार, साहसी तथा सत्यप्रिय / लेकिन मनुष्य होने की कतिपय दुर्बलताएं भी थीं / निष्कर्ष यह कि वे  स्वतंत्र भारत के बिस्मार्क नहीं बन सके / इतिहास में कई ऐसे प्रसंग हैं जो मेरे ऐसे विचारों को पुष्ट करते हैं /

कोई भी नागरिक अपने देश का पिता यानि सृजक कैसे हो सकता है ?

Nitin Gadkari must quit party post

Nitin Gadkari the BJP president must resign to salvage the party image which claims itself to be a party with a difference.  The allegations of malpractices need to be dispelled and for a fair inquiry his resignation is a prerequisite.

 

But unlike the UPA and particularly the Congress, Gadkari has repeatedly asked for an extensive inquiry. The governmental agencies under the UPA have certainly failed to curb pseudo companies and unlawful trade practices by proxy entities. Crony capitalism is the biggest malaise today. 

Tinker Not With RTI Act 2005

The Prime Minister’s statement to constrict the scope and objective of the R.T.I Act 2005 does not auger well with the democratic notion of transparency in governance. He has also found fault with the most important provision of the Act that bars the P.I.O to question motive of the information seeker.

Recently the judiciary also has put a wide range of restrictions on the flow of information debilitating provisions of the Act. After initial success in effective implementation of the inchoate legislation under the then Chief Central Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, now after 7 years all the organs of the democracy except the Press have been trying hard to throttle the Act. 

In Bihar also the inaugural dispenses of information under Justice S.K Singh at the state commission were quite satisfactory. But with the appointment of Ashok Chaudhary at the helm, the transparency law became a liability rather causality.

We find today that all the state actors across the board; the states, the Centre or the judiciary are not very enthusiastic  to part with information as sought for by people.

The credit goes to the RTI Act that scams and scandals are being exposed every now and then and there is fear in the mind of the public authorities for doing wrong.

The need of the hour is to put the Act in the 9^th schedule of the Constitution vide Art.-31B.

GANDHI-NEHRU POLITICAL LEGACY A BURDEN IN PERSPECTIVE OF HARD INDIAN REALITIES

The Air Chief marshal of India N.A.K Brown has stated recently that Jawaharlal Nehru the then  P.M  did not permit the air force to bombard Chinese positions in 1962 war for fear of more fierce offensive by China. This fact is not new. Our country has been governed by timid (if not cowardly) leadership barring Shastri, Indira and Vajpayee. The result has been terrible for us and we lost lakhs of sq.miles of Indian territories in the north and the northeast. Now China stages intrusions almost every day into our borders. It has installed infrastructure, military equipments and immense manpower accretions in the Pak-occupied J&K. Our borders are in constant danger of being violated as no matching military facilities have yet been put in place to counter any outside aggression. The Chinese bellicose and imperious attitude continues to be a challenge with wide international ramifications for our national interests. Gandhi-Nehru legacy has bled this country profusely. The communal bifurcation of the country on the basis of so-called two-nation theory and lackadaisical, ineffective, inadequate and belated response to Pakistani invasion of J&K in 1948 is the genesis of today’s social disharmony, communalism and terrorism.

Still we adore and lionize Gandhi and Nehru as national Heroes who comprised a failed leadership.

It is high time the distorted history authored by vested interests over the years gave way to impartial accounts of historicism.

राष्ट्रपति श्री प्रणब मुख़र्जी का प्रथम बिहार आगमन

आज राष्ट्रपति श्री प्रणब मुख़र्जी का प्रथम बिहार आगमन हुआ है / आज अख़बारों में एक आमंत्रण- पत्र छपा है जो एक विज्ञप्ति के तौर पर है / राष्ट्रपति के निदेशानुसार उनके नाम एवं पद के आगे महामहिम और माननीय जैसे संबोधन नहीं लगे हैं /यह एक सुखद आश्चर्य है / वे प्रथम राष्ट्रपति हैं जिन्होंने औपनेवेशिक  पदवियों को धारण करने से इनकार कर दिया है /

उच्चत्तर न्यायपालिका के जजों को इसका अनुशरण करते हुए माई लार्ड के संबोधन को हतोत्साहित करना चाहिए / अधिवक्ता नियामक संघों के बारम्बार कहने पर भी यह संबोधन नहीं मिट रहा है / कुछ वकील समझते हैं कि सर कहने पर जज नाराज़ हो जायेंगे और वह रिलीफ नहीं मिल पायेगा जो माई लोर्ड कहने से मिलता है / ऐसी सोच पीड़ादायक है / अंग्रेजों ने इसे इसलिए अपनाया क्योंकि वे भारतीयों को ग़ुलाम और खुद को ख़ुदा समझते थे / लेकिन आज किसी इंसान को माई लोर्ड कहना अपनी आत्मा को पीड़ित और अपमानित अनुभव करना  है /

 महान अपने को तुच्छ और तुच्छ अपने को महान समझते हैं /