India a historic land has seen
many great kingdoms and many great kings, wise emperors and abundant great
warriors. This piece of land gave birth to many brave men who guarded their
followers by being armor around them. India has since then buried them all deep
in its crust. We love them all and we still remember their sacrifices, their
brave stories. Young India gets nourished in the schools with their stories and
many grand parents still believe them to be the best bedtime stories for their
grand children.
If all that seem to be going well,
how our present day leaders who get guarded by the brave
policemen and the army men, doesn’t anymore care for us? Are they weren’t born here? Or
they never read these stories in schools? Or they never heard their grand
parents narrating the stories of the brave Indian legends? There should be some lag
or else why would our leaders feel to be ashamed to be born here while they are
being guarded, while they are being elected to represent us and while the
innocent Indians respect them. Why do they forget that, A leader cannot call him a leader if he cannot
guard his followers. Now, I am curious to know how a politician feels when he
visits a terrorist blast site in a Z+ security cover?
Most young Indians would have
never heard or seen a politician becoming a victim of the terrorist attack. Even I, can only remotely remember my kindergarten days when such news use to flash in the
morning papers. But now we only hear and see the innocent country men and women being the targets of the terrorist attacks; be it Mumbai, be it Delhi or be
it Hyderabad, sufferers are the same poor innocent people who only know how to
meet their daily needs who knows no other malice and who can never harm the others. Terrorist outfits have found a soft target in the form of the commoners, as the
vip’s got insured with x, y, z and the z pluses. India now provides 'Right to live' only for the VIP’s, its time that even the constitution is amended to make it a law.
When we are so successfully guarding our politicians and the vips against all
the odds, why cant we provide same security, same sense of guaranteed cover to
the common man?
We the innocent Indians ask for
nothing, does that mean we are not even provided a life to live? Knowing well
that we have become the soft targets for the terrorism still the leaders of this
nation drool in the bullet proof, blast proof, mine proof, signal jammed cars and
closely guarding intelligence while the commuters on the road are stopped to a standstill,
oh our work is not that important you see. Why cant we stop terrorism at the borders
and donot allow it to pass our borders, is that a big ask? Seems so since we
have deployed our best man in and around our VIP’s, who cares about our borders
as long as our politicians are well guarded? If you are an Indian and if you live
here, frisking at every entry point of the malls and the cinema halls would be
very common day to day activity and we see no more doors but only the metal
detectors everywhere; when I compare this to the US, I found frisking and all
the checking points at the public places to be completely non-existent. But
then how come they are able to avoid any other attack post 9/11? Answer lies at
their ports and the borders, if you ever passed through the checking at a US
airport you would know how concerned the Homeland security is, they know no VIP,
they know no politician. All that they know is to secure their land from any
terrorist infiltration. Why can’t we similarly kill the terrorism at the
borders itself?
We don’t, instead every time there
is a terrorist activity we upgrade our x,y,z and the z pluses for the dearest
vvip’s and leave the commoners to the fate of the terrorists. Yes, we love
sloganeering like zero tolerance towards terrorism but now we know in which context it is. Please don’t
be afraid my dear politicians as long as our brave police and army men are
around you, they are really zero tolerant towards anything that would cause harm to
you. Rest assured you can have a sound sleep on your velvety mattress without any fear
engulfing you while the commoner thanks the god for keeping him alive for yet another
day. After the huge anti corruption movement, the government extended security
cover to Anna, grouping him to be one among them who craves for the security
cover but Anna rightly rejected it. Government here forgot that it was a
people’s movement but sadly they remember Anna but not the people who are
the drivers of the movement who are as important and may be more important than the Anna but why will the government care about us? But we are happy that we are
still alive!
Why such a treatment towards the
commoners? Do we punish him for paying his taxes judiciously? Or do we punish
him since he is a law bided citizen? Or do we punish him for not having a swizz
account? Why this country only values the lives of important and the prominent men?
My sincere suggestion to the politicians, please guard your citizens, if not
them whom else you would loot? Who else you would rule if not them, the
mortals? Donot forget in their existence lies yours existence!
- Harish Bheemarthi
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