Yesterday there was a traffic jam on all the major roads of Delhi. The jam was called by Vishwa Hindu Parishad and like all others was accompanied by violence, destruction of public property and of course disruption of traffic, inconvenience to commuters to say the least. This is a unique way of putting your point across and is by and large unique to our democracy. Frankly, i have never heard of effigies being burnt anywhere else in the world(i may be wrong) than in India and that too with amazing frequency. I am sure that some creative mind thinking out of the box would like to start a new business of making good quality effigies of important politicians and make a lot of moolah out of it.
Protests of any nature are an integral part of any democratic set-up and a democracy where the citizens cant raise their voice is no democracy at all. We as a race are very argumentative and believe in putting our point across strongly. I was wondering where this form of protest actually start and realised that the cow-milk drinker Mahatma started all this, with very noble intentions indeed. The idea probably was a peaceful protest that was completely non-violent. Burning of effigies, disruption of traffic and damage to public property never formed a part of this. I was having food at a road side joint near Jantar Mantar and thought of asking some people protesting against 'americanisation' of India what was wrong if Wallmart were to come to India, after all a guy called Ratan Tata has also acquired a company called Corus, nine of the ten guys had no clue as to why they were there. Majority of the people were either the poor who were brought by buses with the offer of a good lunch and transportation or students who wanted to please some neta ji who was a part of the protest.
The sheer agony of people waiting to go to office, the ill in urgent need to go to hospital, the sheer amount of fuel wasted while people abuse the protesters is amounting to crores. I am sure that none of the people who went through the agonizing wait a Akshardham etc would have any more to do with the Ram Setu somewhere in Tamil Nadu that I have to do with the love life of Queen Elizabeth.
The number of people who go to vote decreases with ever election, the apathy amongst the middle class of anyone who is a politician is immense and these instances just add fuel to the already burning fire. No wonder someone said recently that all politicians of our country should be thrown in the Arabian Sea with their hands and legs tied for our great nation to prosper.
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