Congress election slogan should be -- Jai Ho: Pub Bharo--

The survey found that nearly 44.4 per cent of Class 12 students hadconsumed alcohol in the survey period. Instead of looking at thesefacts, Sonia Gandhi and Renuka Chowdhury are planning to use theso-called Mangalore pub incident as a political weapon. They don’tseem to realise what damage they are doing to India by theirirresponsible behaviour.Congress president Sonia Gandhi is reported to have said that she willfight the upcoming national elections on two issues: One concerningthe attack on a pub in Mangalore and the other concerning thedemolition of the Babri Masjid. The best advice that one can give toher is: Don’t. On both issues, she will pay for her folly. The Muslimcommunity in India will do the greatest good to itself and to itsrelations with the majority community if it graciously concedes theRam Janmabhoomi to its Hindu claimants and not stand on prestige. Allthese years the Muslims have allowed themselves to be exploited byso-called ‘secularists’ and have needlessly alienated themselves frommainstream India, reaping no benefit whichever way. It has doneneither the Muslims nor the Hindus any good. The time has come for theMuslims to change their mindset and concede graciously to the Hindus’claimand thereby win the hearts and souls of their fellow citizens. TheMuslims will lose nothing thereby.On the other hand, they will gain the eternal gratitude of Hindus towhom the Ram Janmabhoomi has tremendous emotional significance. Onepositive step and that will strengthen Hindu-Muslim unity as neverbefore. To both Muslims and Hindus it will be a win-win situation. Byattempting to widen the gulf between the two communities Sonia Gandhiwill render immense harm to the country which she professes to serve.A word to the wise should suffice. As for the Mangalore pubcontroversy, it has been plainly overplayed for political reasons andstatements have been made by Congress leaders that call for strongcondemnation.According to Renuka Chowdhury, Women and Child Development Ministerthere has been “a complete breakdown of law and order in Karnataka”.Nothing of that sort has happened and by making such highlyprovocative remarks, the Minister has only hurt her own party’schances at the forthcoming polls. Complete breakdown of law and order?Really? What happened in Mumbai during the jehadi siege? Was it anexample of high maintenance of law and order with the blood of acouple of hundred innocent people staining the earth? Mangaloreans cando without the patronage of the likes of Renuka Chowdhury and herboss. Besides, in the matter of young people visiting pubs, is theMinister aware of what is happening right under her nose in thecapital?According to a survey conducted by an NGO, called Campaign AgainstDrunken Driving (CADD) “nearly 80 per cent of those visiting pubs andbars in the Indian capital are below the age of 25 and that of theunder-age population at Delhi’s pubs 67 per cent are below 21 years ofage”. It would seem that Delhi’s excise laws ban the sale of liquor toor by anyone below 25 years and if an underage person is caughtconsuming alcohol, or if the vendor is caught, it could mean a fine ofRs 10,000. The CADD study found the laws ineffective, as nearly 33.9per cent of those below the age of 16 easily procure alcohol fromgovernment–authorised liquor shops, bars and pubs.According to a press report, the law also prohibits any person belowthe age of 25 years to be employed at any bar or pub and the offenceis punishable with a fine of Rs 50,000 or imprisonment of three monthsto be levied on the outlet. Says a report in the Free Press Journal:(February 2) “Still nearly 55 per cent of those working as serviceattendants in bars and restaurants are young boys and girls below theage of 25. The research was conducted from December 2008 to January2009 among 1,000 youth who go to the pubs and bars. Nearly 85 per centof the youth surveyed were in the age group of 14-21, even though thelegal drinking age is 25 years”.Can one believe that youngsters between the ages of 14 and 21 visitpubs and that too, in Delhi, where the government is run by theCongress party under the leadership of Sheila Dixit? How many of the youthfulpub-patrons have ever been arrested and how many of the pubs have hadto pay a fine? And what have Renuka Chowdhury and Sonia Gandhi to sayabout these revelations? According to the survey, in Delhi, annuallyabout 2,000 youths under age 21 die from motor vehicle crashes, otherunintentional injuries, homicides and suicides that involve underagedrinking. Prince Singhal founder of CADD is quoted as saying:“Underage drinking is a prelude to drunk driving and thus it isimportant to curb it in the initial stages, so that it does not end upas a habit among young individuals”.Another startling fact revealed was that the drinking age in Delhi hasgone down from 28 to 19 years since 1990. CADD estimates that inanother five to seven years, this figure may come down to 15 years.The survey found that it is not binding for liquor serving outlets orvends to verify the age of the consumer. But the survey found thatnearly 44.4 per cent of Class 12 students had consumed alcohol in thesurvey period. Instead of looking at these facts, Sonia Gandhi andRenuka Chowdhury are planning to use the so-called Mangalore pubincident as a political weapon. They don’t seem to realise what damagethey are doing to India by their irresponsible behaviour.Should we say that there is no law and order in Delhi? Obviously thereisn’t and the police look the other way when teenagers visit pubs. Wedo not have any information on how long these visitors stay at the bar or howmuch liquor they drink. Parents obviously are either unaware of whatis going on or couldn’t care less. One might damn the Shri Ram Sena toone’s heart’s content for using violence, but at least they seem tocare enough. At this point in time we have no statistics as to how oldthe girls serving drinks are and how many teenagers have beenattending the Mangalore pub.According to the CADD survey it is not binding for liquor servingoutlets or vends to verify the age of the consumer; that can onlyencourage the youngsters to take advantage of such a situation. Thatall this is happening in Delhi and under a Congress administrationsuggests not only a weak government that does not care for people buta leadership that is engaged more in talk than in action. Beforetaking up the Mangalore pub issue as a stone to hit at the BJP, SoniaGandhi would do well to set right matters within her own politicaljurisdiction. Both Sonia Gandhi and Renuka Chowdhury surely know whatthe Bible says: Judge not, least ye be judged.

FAILING NATION ?

Lucknow,24th JAN. At the time of yet another republic day everyone is filled with lot of enthusiasm and pride about the nation. I am too feeling same but suddenly a altogether different thought came in my rotten mind(as my friends says) “why should we have pride?”.Should we have pride for suciding thousands of farmers ,for being at 98th position in literacy and pay attention it is literacy not education,for being at 55th position in 102 developing nations,for having a regional barbarianisms by some group of regional street level leaders who even did not know how to talk,for having naxalite songs spread from 3 states to 13,for unable to get any jurisdiction for any alive politician in case of corruption,for having about 1/4th population below poverty(according to U.N.,reliability is in question),for every time getting educated by an terrorist attack(according to union home ministry),for having population of 1 Bn and still searching oasis of podiums in Olympics,being largest in no. of movies maker and still on his knees(with whopping tounge out) for Oscars,for all the technological advancement but still not able to make,for being performing grand in economic front but still not able to get distribution of the benefit and there are much more such feelings and experience were,but as you know these are thoughts which arose in every one’s mind but we take things as “hum kya karein?,its govt. job not ours”.
Before discussing all these things,we should look in the foundation of this country.As we have been boasting biggest democratic nation,but interestingly the decision on the first P.M. was taken by favourism rather than democratic way.As we got independence we thought now everything is achieved,work over and everyone started to use his freedom for making and sustaining his upper hand and privileges.The british gone and the place of them taken by the “black skinned British(s)”(as Mr.Nehru in his first addressing to parliament).We clearly defined our rights and our responsibilities but cannot able to decide what will be in which category,we made a secular country without defining the secularism.By concerning one can say “wow what a great country?”.We are talking about economic growth that we have achieved a phenomenon success in that,but this success must have some benchmark,around which we should make decision,lets take case of BRIC(Brazil,Russia,China,India) countries and you find yourself at lowest,in 1950 Shanghai and Mumbai(then Bombay) are in same condition and in present there is a big gap in two cities.and we still making hoo-hoopla about our success.
When it came to education we still have those frame of British period and interestingly British educational system itself has been changed in leap and bounds.From last 59 years we are trying to increase literacy rate only,educating the citizens was nowhere in the picture since then.The case of higher education is much more pathetic.Today universities are just a place of distributing the degrees in a manner that person getting degree himself doesn’t know the importance and meaning of it.We still in the process of producing the literate Mules for clerical purposes.
Nationalism is taken as fascism in our country,votebank politics had made the situatation worse and regionalism is engulfing the nationalism and governments are busy in making and saving their chairs. Our whole politics have been concentrated around the benefits of groups formed on basis of our cheap concerns.Our constitution and legislature are impotent in dealing such issues.In india freedom means freedom in evry thing ,limit has been defined by those who himself never cares about limits.It is also a record that till now despite having numerous corruption charges no any living politician has been accused guilty(only Prime minister Rao has been accused after his death).And even some are contesting polls by being under police custody.
The treatment to the achievers in any field is being such harsh and illogical that when it comes to global competitiveness we lose our edge. The efforts of individuals at individual level has been making us proud from a long time but we never paid attention towards the impact of collective effort similar to that.
The fragile social structure is getting worsen day by day, extent of intolerance has increased how much is evident from the recent Mumbai –northindian incident. The reservation policy on cast basis has made the classism more prevalent and only widen the gap. Apart from this the social fragmentation, reservation has made wrong persons on important positions which created problems more that it solved.