A New Politics And A New Hope

People in our country had lost hopes from politics. In a silent way we had accepted that nothing is going to change. The system has got corrupted so deeply that now nothing can cure it. We had started living with this fact that corruption has become an inevitable part of the system and we will have to deal with it in our own ways. We have seen many elections where criminals get tickets and win as well. We have witnessed alcohol and money being distributed on the previous nights of elections. MPs & MLAs being bought and sold for millions and billions of rupees. We had accepted that without giving bribes, no file will move in government offices. Whoever comes in power, whatever they say in their election rallies, the system will remain same. Recent scams like Coalgate, 2G spectrum and CWG, again made our thought processes stronger that we are helpless and we cannot do anything to change our country.

Then one old man suddenly started raising his voice against corruption. He sat on fast against the corrupt system. And soon thousands and lakhs of people, the common people, those who were depressed, suddenly found voice. This voice became stronger and stronger and reached in the premises of Parliament. The place where few chosen one had started thinking that they are supreme. No one can challenge them, no one can question them and no one can stand in front of them. The revolution started by Shri Anna Hazare and the team did shake the thrones of those sitting in power but finally nothing happened. In fact they said or even challenged the common man to fight elections, make their own government and make whatever laws they want to make. Such an arrogance from those who used to fold hands in front of us before being elected was painful. I personally wanted Anna ji to give us a political alternative which he had hinted as well. 

Then a guy, Arving Kejriwal, who came into limelight during this revolution decided to take on this challenge. 

The two political parties made fun of the new party which strategically named itself as AamAadmi  Party and somehow got connected to the feelings of the common man. The two big parties Congress and BJP were not able to sense the anger which was brewing inside the common man. They were unable to see that slowly slowly the whole nation and even Indians who are staying abroad also started joining this new party or I must say a new political revolution. 

The time when these two big parties were busy taking unknown funds of thousands of crores of rupees, this new party requested the people of the country to donate as much as they can and started putting all the details on their website. From here itself the journey towards a clean system had begun. Now the question was, who will contest elections from this new party? From where they will get candidates with a clean image? Soon AAp had 70 candidates whom the people of Delhi only had chosen. Still the two big parties thought that these are insects of rain and will die soon. On one side, where the big politicians of the two national parties were busy in doing rallies across Delhi, the AAP candidates were going door to door to understand the problems of each household. Again the two big parties failed to understand what people actually want. AAP made manifestos for each constituency and yes, this was something unheard in the history of Indian politics.

By now at least BJP had smelled the rat. They copied this strategy of AAP and announced to make 70 manifestos for each constituency. Hilariously they made just three. Now the TV channels had also started realising that AAP has actually made ground in Delhi and is going to give tough competition to the established parties. 

Finally what happened, everybody knows. A spectacular show by a one year old party shook both the national parties from their roots. Interestingly they started appraising the new party and even said that they need to learn from AAP. 

Now, my point over here is that this new party has actually changed the dynamics of Indian politics. They have been successful in at least making these arrogant MPs & MLAs realise that they exist because of the common man, the common man does not exist because of them. I don't know what AAP will do in future, but one thing is sure that it has made all the political parties to start considering common man in their agenda. 

I hope that now onwards if not whole but a substantial part of politics will change.

And in my opinion the biggest change which has happened because of this new party AAP, is that the people and especially the youth of this country has once again started taking interest in politics. No they don't want to join it but they want to participate in its functioning. They are ready to keep a check on government and are ready to keep the government on its toes for every decision making they will do.

This is a positive change and this will change the way politics used to happen in India.

IPL : A game of cricket or a way to make illegal money????????

 So finally its clear and out.....Rs 40,000 crore bet on this IPL.   Whose money is this? Who all are involved? Where does this money go? And most importantly where this money is used? Many questions but no answers, only guesses. Delhi police arrested three players of Rajasthan Royals in connection with betting on IPL matches. But is it the whole case or just the tip of an iceberg? News channels said that these players were given around Rs 60 lac each for fixing one over of there overs. And bookies made around Rs 20 crore from each over which were fixed. Imagine the amount of money involved in a full match.

Big business houses own these teams. They have invested millions and billions of money on these teams. For them it is a part of investment and every business men invest only to get profit out of it. For us it is another form of cricket but for them it is another opportunity to make money. 

Apart from it, if you observe the whole ambit of IPL, you will find more of glamour than cricket. Everybody is talking about the cheerleaders, after match parties, involvement of famous celebrities more than about the game of cricket. Even players are more in news for things other than their performances in the ground.

Money, stardom, parties,etc. have become heavier than the core game of cricket.

Most of the players who have never seen such things in their entire career are getting so much of this together that it has become difficult for them to handle all of this.

Police said that three games of IPL 6 were fixed. But the type of cricket played in many of the matches made us think otherwise. I was amazed to see few of the catches dropped in some matches. It seems that the whole event is not about the game but only about making money.

Now if you say that only these three players namely Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan of Rjasthan Royals were involved and rest of the game is clean, than I doubt. police itself is claiming that underworld's involvement cannot be ignored. 

The irony is that underworld puts money on such events and makes money out of it and then uses the same for terrorist activities in our country.

Yesterday only i heard the news in Aaj Tak channel that it seems that the final of IPL will be played between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indian will win this event.

So if everything is fixed then what is the use of holding tournaments.Why are you playing with the emotions of people for whom cricket is like a religion.

I think if police or BCCI or Govt., is not capable of stopping this racket of match fixing then this event should be banned. anyways what is the use of watching games where results are already fixed.