Keeping Quiet – Is This The New Trend Of The Indian Parliamentarians?

There have been so many prime ministers for the nation, the 14^th and 15^th being Dr. MMS. There is one question that is still there in my mind. Most of the prime ministers before Rajeev Gandhi had their strength in the speech that they made and these speeches eventually made them house in the hearts of the people so long and it did all that they want. They talked and moved the mass. But after that, all the talking and misappropriations are being made by the media, for the people in the democratic setup. No one can actually deny the fact that Dr. MMS is criticized extremely for not opening his mouth in the parliament and yet he is the prime minister. One good thing about Lok Sabha TV is that, it will let us know who actually talks for the people or who at least talk. When you search online for clips that show the prime ministers talking, it is really surprising that there is nothing much to show under that category. What really baffled me is that, there are people like Sushma Swaraj who have made historical and wonderful speeches in the parliament in favour of the party and for the people (in case of the speech against Pranab Mukherjee on FDI policy of the UPA, the points put down by Sushma are really amazing and true indeed. Has talking lost all its need in the politics? Should not the politicians explain themselves and represent their people should not they answer all the questions? Is keeping dumb the new rule? Well most of the parliamentarians either seem to keep quiet or doze off in the parliament. Some are even better, for they are seldom at the house but they keep to their personal home and enjoy their lives at the expense of the tax payers. Why do we even elect them when they cannot even talk? Well there are some people in the parliament who are there to shout and scream all the time and make every important thing a drama. There are even politicians who have to be elected to the parliament for at least one thing – the fun factor and in that category, the male award winner is Lalu Prasad Yadav and the female would obviously be Mamata Banerjee. But if you wanted a race between them, then the best person would be Lalu yadav as he also delivers some useful comments or retaliations that are sarcastic, to his opponents whereas what Mamata seems to do is to scream whenever possible. “Hamare man mai bhi Prime Minister bannae ka ichcha hai. Par Lalu Yadav ko PM kaun banne dethaa hai? Kaun Lalu ko PM banne chaahthaa hai?” the epic speech of yadav ji!

So here it is… when you cannot speak the language at all (Hindi or English properly), when you are not an Indian at all, is it not shameful that you sit in the parliament? For in most of the speeches made in Hindi, Sonia (Maino) seems to ask the translation of the matter only when the others around her laugh or thump hard and when she sits there simply stupid. My question is; why are people actually electing her into the house? Why should people like her be in the Indian house at all? It is a shame on all of us. It is true that India needs an autocratic leadership of a strong individual. But it is also necessary that the autocracy be vested in a true Indian and not an illiterate who illegally owns the citizenship of Italy while she is an MP and drives the ruling party at the center. One can pardon if you speak wrong English because you were educated in Hindi all the time or if you do not know English at all for most of your life and only if you make serious attempt to speak in the house, for some good cause. Though she wears a saree, she is not an Indian. There is one statement that President APJ made once to the children who met him for a Republic day TV show when he was serving his 4^th year: “One cannot change an Indian who is within the genes by adorning foreign dress, looks and lifestyle, including the acquisition of a certain accent in the speech”. Well, then Sonia Maino cannot be an Indian how much ever she tries to be. It is shocking to see that the expenditure of Sonia Maino and family alone is more than the expenditures of the British queen. When I was introduced to this fact, I recalled a recent article about the hike of the Queen’s salary in Britain while the economy is doing very badly. If you get time, you must read that article online and you would really be taken aback by the quantum of money that is shown as expenditure. Just because she flew economy class once, it does not mean that she is really a conscious spender of the taxpayer’s money.

Coming back to the actual question that I had intended to ask at the beginning of this narration: Why should you vote for people who would take your money and sleep in the parliament, not voicing out for you, when you have to go to office every single day and work for about 12 hours on an average to make money and to pay about 20% of it as tax? Why should we be silent, like those who are presently seated at the parliament? Has not the name Gandhi made a lot of damage to us already, including the Mahatma himself? Well, that is a different issue altogether.