01:45
melted thoughts
He would not have thought this would be coming for him. He and his followers would have thought that the government will finally say a big YES for the points which Ramdev Baba had listed before the hunger strike. This belief was shattered at Sunday 06-05-11 midnight by a police force that went for a raid to the Ramlila ground where Ramdev Baba and his followers were holding hunger strike.
Adding to the surprise, police did not use words to remove baba from the place. Instead they used lathis and tear gas to remove the crowd from the Ramlila ground. To my knowledge these rude methods will be used only when there are possibilities of violence by angry mob. In the case of Baba he was not doing anything violently. He projected a list of action items in front of the government and he started his hunger strike to make the government implement those action items. Then why the police reacted in such a way and treated baba and others like a violent anti-social group?
I am reframing the above bolded sentence, He projected a list of action items in front of the government and he started his hunger strike to blackmail and make the government implement those action items.
Just imagine, if the government accepts for the all the action items which baba had projected. Will this stop at that point? Definitely the answer will be a big NO. The reason is very simple; people will start to think that hunger strike is a weapon that the government fears off. When this thought comes to people then not only these Babas, even a common man will start to use this weapon and will try to frighten the government to get their problems solved.
Let us see another perspective of this problem. Yesterday government had agreed to declare black money held by every Indian as national wealth. Is this possible? A basic question arises inside my head. My grey matter which is frequently referred as brain tells NO as the answer for that question. It does not stop by juts telling no, it also gives valid points to support that answer. The supporting points are:
- 1. Black Money is something that is hidden from the accounts that we submit to government. In this case how government can find out that black money first?
- 2. On a positive note, this is not an ordinary government. This is the government that should worry about more than 120 crore people. So, it will definitely have the ability and enough force to identify all the black money hidden inside and outside India. In this case, why hadn’t they done that before somebody like baba Ramdev becomes ready to put their life in front of this cause in the name of hunger strike?
- 3. Let us again trust the efficiency of our Indian government and shall believe that they will pass this act of declaring all the black money as India’s wealth. Will that act serve its real purpose or will be an eye wash for hunger strikes? This question arises because as you all know most politicians will be involved in the black money stuffs. A rule maker could become a rule breaker here.
These were a few questions that dropped out of my grey matter with respect to this Baba fasting. Anyways, in a democratic country the incidents that took place to baba should not be happening.
Last question from my grey matter with respect to this incident.
When somebody is protesting against you, will you do anything against them publicly?
Surely nobody will do that. The reason is, those actions which we take against the protestor publicly will make them strong and add value to their cause.
Do you think an all India political party Congress would not have known these basics that too in a situation when BJP started to support Ramdev Baba?
