A nation scammed!

I think the existence and continuation of the current government is an affront to the collective intelligence of the civil society. Does it really believe itself when it seeks to explain that the countless allegations of scams and scandals levied against it are false? I mean, there is a limit to being self delusional. It is one thing to believe that the world is wrong and only you are right and a completely different thing to lie brazenly through the teeth.

Baba Ramdev may be a political saint. He may even be an RSS man. How does that belittle the cause that he is championing? For all I care, the Lashkar e Toiba can choose to protest about the corruption in this scandal-infested administration and I will have nothing but admiration for their cause. What became of the victory of the Civil Society which Anna Hazare had won a few days ago? Well, it was stamped and crushed beneath the boots of the Delhi Police and their handlers! We no longer deserve to call ourselves a democratic society. We are as bad as an Azerbaijan or an Ivory Coast.

UPA is crying itself hoarse, saying that Sushma Swaraj's little song and dance show at the Rajghat has robbed the monument of its dignity. What the UPA fails to realize is that their policies have resulted in them defecating on his Gandhiji''s memory and his ideals. How relevant is the question of singing and dancing on a patriotic number when millions of our countrymen are dying of starvation and disease. And why are they dying? Because we are a poor country with no money. And why do we have no money? Because the UPA gobbled up all that was available!

Mr. Manmohan Singh, a sincere request from someone who thought your presence would make a difference to an otherwise abhorrent and ideologically dead government- There is still time before you get branded as the lame duck Prime Minister for the rest of your life. There are at least 100 million Indians who are looking up to you, not because you are the leader of the defunct, decaying and putrefying UPA, but because you are the tallest leader in this nation. Please open your eyes, lest you become the Nero who played flute while Rome burnt!