HONEST QUESTIONS
Demonetization:
Inspiring gesture by school children
Even
kids are moved by the problem of the common man and they are breaking their
piggy-banks to help the needy a little.
Do
our political leaders, the self-shouting messiahs of the poor, have no
sentiments left to get inspired by this gesture of school going children?
Why
not, for a change, get inspired and break some dinosaury-banks they
command and start counters to help their voters in these times of need?
Are
they devoid of the simple commonsense that if they advance the date of opening
their coffers at election time by a few fortnights they will not only get
additional votes in return of their act of public service but also clear the
blot of being insensitive? Another added benefit will be the satisfaction of
hitting the ruling party where it hurts most.
Why
they consider it to be their duty to simply shout loud in their lip service of
showing sympathy for suffering masses?
Why
they work hard to add to the woes of masses by instigating them to agitate
against a step they openly approve of?
Why not change this attitude that has
been in vogue for decades that on pretext of helping masses Netas spend money
on protests and rallies and public meetings and themselves and their goons?
That is the image of our Netas in the eyes of the man on
the street; and can any amount of logical sounding illogical support, from
intellectuals ensconced in high places and the partisan media, change that public
perception?
Why do they conveniently forget that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi lived and
suffered like common people of this country and never needed tons of money or
herds of goons to influence masses to gain popularity?
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