TIME FOR CHANGE:

After one week of public out cry on the Delhi girl rape on 16 Dec Mr. Singh the chief executive of our great nation could make up his “mann” and break his “maun” by reading meekly a written statement by someone which he always does, that the anger of the protesters is legitimate but violence is not; forgetting that anger if not doused on the out set would turn into violence making it legitimate. Violence is the expression of pent up anger. After so much of hue and cry it was expected that the PM or HM would come out to meet the protesters personally and give a sympathetic hearing. That would have assuaged their anger; but no. And see the TV coverage and decide who was violent, the police or the protesters? The young and old ladies were beaten and water cannoned on the coldest day and night of December so far; a DIG stamping the neck of a young boy; policemen hitting girls and all. This only displays apathy towards public concerns and confused mind of our “rulers” though they are supposed to be Janta Ke Sevak. The weaker gender of any and every age is being raped every day in Delhi, NCR and all over the country for years and years. The menace has not stopped even during last one week’s turmoil. The government have not taken strong steps to stop that and allowed this stage to come when the public is out on streets. The high ups do not care because they, their daughters and families live under top security; they do not travel in buses and some if not many with charges of rape and murders are sitting in Parliament instead of jail. Fear is to be created in the mind of the criminal. Let us hope that the law is amended to give capital punishment to the rapist and award of justice is not delayed.

Crumbling law and order situation, corruption from top to bottom, scams after scams of lakhs of crores, swindling the national wealth and stashing black money outside unconcerned with the safety and security of the country and its citizens, turning blind eye to population explosion and illegal influx from neighboring countries; we all under our corrupt leadership are living in a failing democracy. Time has come to elect honest representatives and change the present rotten political-bureaucratic governance to save our democracy. Aam Aadmi Party is the only hope. Read their ideology/manifesto on their website and decide for yourself. Meanwhile God bless the nation.

Wing Commander Vishnu Singh (Veteran)