Saturday, August 04, 2012
Bolthi Bandh
A power crisis that had more than half of India with no electricity and pun intended India genuinely has a power crisis. A crisis of power in the government with no one powerful to run the country and to make it worse the electricity power grid collapsing leaving whole of Northern India in total darkness.
The newly appointed Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, shamelessly claims he is not a technician but a Minister, so the crisis of the power grid failure is something he would get investigated. Come to think of it how ministers do we have in our country who knows the technicalities of their portfolios?
We would have a Minister for sports who would have never run an inch in his life, besides running for power in the elections. We would have an IT minister who may not know the difference between hardware, software and underwear. We have a minister for agriculture who may have spent most of his time on a cricket field and never walked on an agriculture field. That is beside the point all our Ministers walk to us to beg for votes and once they come in power, they walk over us. If they can’t get the necessary votes then would even have infiltrators from neighboring countries take shelter in our country and even give the status of Indian citizenship for their votes. The riots today faced in Assam confirm it all.
The blame game for the power failure was stupid as the stupidity of the Minister claiming the crisis was because some states overdrew power, and then claiming that when US had a power crisis they took assistance from our power grid officials. If our officials are so good don’t they have a simple mechanism to drop power to states that overuses, instead of plunging the country into darkness?
Comparing US taking four days to restore power and we doing it in a day is not a comparison. If comparing the situation to US is a benchmark then compare everything with the US of A. Let’s have an infrastructure like them to start with. Let’s have a mechanism of law where an ordinary citizen like Monica Lewinsky could drag the president of the country to court over sexual abuse. Here we have a Congress minister N.D. Tiwari who has fathered an illegitimate child, and continued enjoying power. We have scandals that have swiped of money of the exchequer equivalent to which it could fund ‘free of cost’ electricity to the country.
A simple anti-corruption bill is being snail paced with discussions for over decades. If that bill is passed it would be a power crisis for the corrupt governments that have run the country ever since our Independence. From a colonial power that looted India we have now our own looting us, with one Italian leading the pack. Today it is an Italian tomorrow it could be a Bangladeshi with the amount that has infiltrated into our country, and day after it could be a Pakistani.
It won’t be surprising for the government to now come and make a statement that the power failure was not a crisis but an initiative to conserve power and reduce carbon, an initiative to support the ‘Bathi Bandh’ movement. If the minister could have the audacity to ask why people are complaining of a power failure when it was restored in a day, the day is not far when the government would gag the common man from complaining and then it would be ‘Bolthi Bandh’.
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