Your black day and my black years

Even in those testing times if a police man visits some house on the pretext of something or the other, there were whispers all around and whose homes were visited by policemen were looked down upon. It was kind of social boycott .In the present times MTV youth icons visiting CBI as if they visited mom and pop shop on the corner of your house. These were visiting under potential criminals charges for using and abusing the constitutional bodies to further their personal causes with ulterior motives. Unfortunately these are icons or MTV youth icons in this country. In contrast to what my villagers did 20 years back, today’s world accepts them as if nothing happened. As one famous personality said that, in today’s world people have very low retentitvity.The least we talk about political scams that were unearthed in recent times from high offices to low offices the better.

Political System Failure

Back home in Andhra Pradesh, on the 7th of dec 2009 every other political party given its accent to create separate state of Telangana. Every other party barring one or two promised their support to creation of Telangana and mentioned the same in their manifesto. They went back on their promise on 9th dec 2009 when Central government finally announced on the basis of consent expressed by all parties in the meeting. People felt let down by the political system and went to roads to express their anger. As usual to cover up its failure, police force came to their rescue. By using them they wanted to silence the people’s anger by framing cases against them on flimsy grounds. This amounts to gross misuse of constitutional powers.

In recent times, Telangna issue shown emptiness of our political system. When there was total loss of face for political system and Government of the day was unable to function. Central government installed an IPS officer as governor. He virtually took over the administration through proxy, when actually elected government in place, with utter disregard to contours laid out to governor in the Indian constitution.AP governors have history of breaking the contour set out by Constituion.His predecessor was sleeping around with girls of a fifth of his age in the Raj bhavan itself.

Media role

Media as they say fourth pillar of democracy. In AP, media strangely developed cold shoulder to Telangana after the central government announcement and before that same media was highlighting movement with the hope that Telangana people dream would never be realized and their TRPs could be increased. No need to mention the management of these news channels and whose interest in the vast amount of land in and around Hyderbad.15 to 20 news channels for state of 7 Cr people speaks volumes about the nature of owning news channel an easy passport to proximity to powers and thus to grab lands.. National media step motherly treatment to Telangana is deplorable and they re always ready for an incident to throw up Telangana in poor light, as they operate out of deep pockets of Andhra industrialists.

In a country where wing of the society such as political system, media, industry- abuses the constitution day in and day out. Always this question puzzle me do we need to respect the institutions even though the individuals heading them are of no integrity?

In response to one incident in Assembly, AP Media went berserk and came up with headlines like “Black day” and “Death of democracy”. One anchor on the show went to such extent to proclaim that he was not getting words to explain this shame like you(we feel more shameful to have anchor).Yes it indeed shame thing if the governor feel ashamed of doing the things that he did by trespassing the perimeter laid out to him. It is shame if the govt of the day shamefully accepts the wrong doing it did by going back on the promise they made to people of Telangana and correcting the same.To wrongs do not make it right. These are extraordinary times; you need extraordinary ways to put across point. My learned Andhra friends started saying many things like has it ever happened in assembly and the same time forgetting that no other political system in any state faltered like our own. Andhra friend’s has suffering from ages a disease called selective amnesia when it comes to Telangana issue. I admire his dexterity to take an incident out of context and twist to suit his damaged thought process.

In the course of past 50 years many things have happened like annulling the Gentlemen agreement, aboloshion of Mulki rules, on implementation of 610 Go, resignation in answers to Telangana announcement and not respecting people verdict. If you term yesterday as Black day; then should I call myself past 50 years, black age. Every day we lived (suffered rather) and going to live (suffer) by living with you in united AP should be THE BLACK day.

Courtesy – Mahesh Thipparthi, thank you for sharing.

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