Gopal Kanda: Blame BJP but also blame the people
"one can’t just blame the BJP for this political filth. Let’s also blame the insensitivity and insanity which prompted the people to vote for him"
Two suicides, mother-daughter, two suicide letters blaming Gopal Kanda, after spending a year in the jail the man not only walks free but is now an elected representative from Sirsa in Haryana. The same man was arranged a special chartered plane by BJP to ferry him to Delhi. Most probably he is due to become a minister in the incoming Haryana cabinet. If this is not a mockery of our system then god knows what is?
Either BJP has sold its soul in the quest to achieve power across country or Gopal Kanda is just one innocent man who was falsely accused of rape by an airhostess who of course later committed suicide just to strengthen her ‘false’ charges. Her determination to frame Gopal Kanda somehow even caught up with her mother. She committed suicide too, days later. So much to trap one innocent man!
It’s pointless to lecture a party which has turned blind in lust of power. But has RSS turned its eyes away too? The same RSS which claims to abide by the principals of Ram? If certain power hungry people in the party have stooped to such levels, why isn’t the RSS stepping in? Has the organisation been rendered powerless by these men with lust for power? The RSS must remember that no Ram Mandir would ever wash away the sins of trading with a ‘Ravana’.
But one can’t just blame the BJP for this political filth. Let’s also blame the insensitivity and insanity which prompted the people to vote for him. And let’s also blame the system which allows a man with such serious charges upon him to contest elections. The obvious mindset of BJP at the moment is ‘if the people have accepted him who are we to reject?’.
What kind of precedent are we setting by electing people like Kanda to power? Is politics the new Ganga of atonement? Parties today vouch on short-lived memories of the people. They know we won’t remember this for long. And who would care to remind us? The media which crawls at the sight of hunter?
If this country needs any kind of revolution it’s the one which purifies the gutter politics is fast turning into. If your favourite party is committing a blunder of the scale of Kanda, you should be the first to question. It’s the job of every party-loyalist to ensure their party never compromises on values which are the foundation on which a civilised society works. We need to evolve out of the mindset which inhibits us from caring about anything that hasn’t happened to us. Some more of this ignorance and the evil we are allowing to grow would one day engulf us too.
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