I am sure that most of us get frustrated if we do not have access to the social networking sites for a few days and I guess a majority of them would be women. “We lived in farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're gonna live on the internet!” I am sure you are aware of this quote however, I am not sure whether we have realized the implications of this. I believe if we address the second point (somehow) we can easily address the first one quite easily. What would happen if a person from one party gets elected as a PM and another party gets majority? Would he be heading the government, while the ministers would be from other parties? That would be chaotic. However good he may be, he would not be in a position to act independently. However in the current scenario you can have a dummy person as a PM. The PM would then be directly answerable to the public when it comes to important issues. If people elect the Prime minister directly, he would have more power and authority. It would be foolish to expect the government (any ruling party for that matter including BJP and congress in particular) to act on this as they would be directly affected by this.
I believe, if you note the parties which criticize Baba and trace the amount of black money stashed by the members such political parties, 80% of such black money can be brought back to India. DMK which has been a part of the congress ministry has also criticized Baba. The issue of graft has been haunting congress for quite some time now. No wonder 4 of the senior ministers went to the airport (or at least they were planning to) to convince Baba either to drop the demand or to convince him. I am sure that most of the money would belong to the congress ministers / party members. Congress has been in power for the past 60 years. It is easier said than done to bring back all the black money stashed abroad. However two major demands raised by him appeal to meġ) Bringing back the black money stashed abroad in tax heavens and
Though many points raised by him are valid, it’s not practical to implement it. Instead of evicting Ramdev, I feel, congress could have genuinely considered some of the demands of Baba. I hope you would be glad that if I mention that this post is not exactly about that incident. There is no doubt that the move by congress to use force on peaceful protestors was atrocious. We have read a lot about the Baba Ramdev and the related stories.