APPRAISAL TIME (Part 2)

Reading my earlier article, many readers termed it (and me, off course these were my views) as Pro-govt.  Some even called me that you are not supporting the ANNA way of protest, so you are against Anna and if you are against anna, it means you are against noble cause of  fighting corruption and you are like corrupt politicians.  I am unable to comprehend people’s (Anna supporters)  thinking,  amn’t  I also excercising  the right of freedom of expression which is same as anna’s philosophy. So what if they aren’t exactly matching with other’s point of view .

Anyways following are my vievs in elaborative way. Read these as background and then read above article:-

1.     Regarding my pro-govt views:- On 16th & 17Th aug , media and opposition attacked congress directly (they started playing politics out of this noble cause). Anna ji’s views are different from what were being projected. So some section of large supporters have misguided from the main topic of fighting against system and not congress, as people in emotional state of mind can believe whatever which has some closeness to topic and then by drifting inch by inch from main topic. This is property of Mob, they tend to make their own theories and views ( partition of india could be the result of this property of Mob)
Personally I like Anna jis cause but I didn’t like the deadlock which happened on 16th & 17th Aug.
I had apprehensions that if anna ji negotiations mein aise hi Zidd pe ade rahe to ultimately there will be more political pressure from opposition and coalition parties which can lead to dissolution of govt and we would have faced election again. (because media was using the word “Kranti kranti” again & again , and generally we think toppling of present inefficient autocratic govt. as victory in kranti). Result of election would be the same (whether Congress or BJP wins) but with additional cost of elections which is not good for debt ridden country. By this, we could have drifted from actual cause of CHANGING SYSTEM and LAWS. But it was projected as CHANGING GOVT, which is not viable option as of now as this is SOMEWHAT better than BJP (See I am pro-govt in this sense).

2.     Regarding Corruption & LOkPAL BILL:- I think corruption and other such vices are in our INDIAN DNA. Its just that top people got chance to exercise this vice and others don’t. I doubt common man, who are burning candles, will behave like harishchandra, when given power. So its deep rooted psychological problem, its difficult to cure this virus by force in one perfect bill. This is a process.
I think this LOKPAL BILL is an effort to start the PROCESS of changing PRESENT SYSTEM which is used for 64 years and proved to be failure (Still we are not sure about success of LOKPAL BILL, but there’s no harm in experimenting the theory , which seems good on paper). For this, full credit goes to Anna ji for his braveness in initiating this process. But I think he is too adamant in negotiating, he is asking to first draft the PERFECT BILL that HE thinks is right (Its same as famous story that, one person want all lights in the city to be green before starting his journey from home). Instead he should press govt to start discussion in parliament as soon as possible (so that not to get taarikh pe tariikh)  atleast on Govt Bill. In discussion opposition party can put JAN LOKPAL BILL as “Private members BILL”, as proposed by Varun Gandhi yesterday. In any case , whether Anna get JAN LOKPAL BILL presented through govt or Varun Gandhi puts it in alternative way, Majority of MPs should agree on points of Jan LOKPAL BILL to make it law. To make the discussions fair, Anna should press for broadcasting of that session.
Simple summary of my views is to get it started kyunki “Baat karne se hi Baat banati hai”. And now after so many efforts of Anna ji, govt is ready to discuss, don’t let it spoiled by being adamant.

APPRAISAL TIME

                                         On this independence day, there is talk about reforms in system to root out corruption. There is negativity about UPA govt. and  India’s future.  Opposition parties are aiming their guns , with bullets of  negativity, towards Govt. and shoot whenever they got chance. It seems that present govt. is good for nothing, it is failure in every area of governance. But I remember, there was air of positivity about this two times elected Govt.  Also we have critics about “Team India”. People are talking about capability of players Team India after their recent loss in test series. Is loss of one test series the reason enough for having doubt in the capability of same team who won us World Cup few months back and many such achievements before ?  Are Manmohan Singh and M.S  Dhoni failed in their appraisals and are not good employee anymore ?

                                         Above facts draws my attention towards our personal lives as we also feel so positive about ourselves at times and negative at other time. Being a engineering student, I believe there is relation between individual personal (read atoms) phenomenon and society (material) at large.  We can understand whole material properties better by studying at atomic level, have you just said Nanotechnology ? Lets try to relate these two:

                                      Whenever we had some failures like bad presentation, failure in interview, failure in exam etc, sometimes we get so negative that we overlook our positives.  We concentrate on our negatives rather than our positives despite the fact that those positives are result of lifelong efforts.

Similarly, aren’t we concentrating too much on failure of govt.  on morality front (read corruption).  Aren’t we overlooking the intellectual capability and leadership of this govt. over other available alternatives, this capability is reflected in the fact that people of india elected it , over others, for maximum no of times in the life of free democratic independent  india. There are many other problems like rising inflation etc which demands govt. focus. Let’s give govt. some air to use their strength and concentrate on other important issues as well. This doesn’t mean to be negligent towards corruption and have a “Chalta hai” attitude. A successful person never run away from his deficiencies, but in a bad phase he can park his deficiencies for some time and then later work on these deficiencies by positive energy of success obtained due to his strengths. It is called spillover effect. Lets be positive and upbeat about india and of course Team India ,for whatever we have achieved so far,  and then find ways and ideas for tackling corruption and other deficiencies/failures.  Ideas generated from positive, collaborative and rational  mindset are much more effective than ideas generated from negative,defiant, emotional and biased mindset. Lets help both govt. and Team India in working out their problems. But this also needs openness from govt. and Team India for accepting and discussing new ideas for improvement. Isn’t the way our progressive youth works in competitive MNCs today ? Do today’s young employee (analogous to Govt. or Captain) considers himself as failure if his boss (We, the people) fails him in his appraisal based on employee’s  failure in one of the many MOPs (Measure of performance) assigned to him ?