Some 70 years ago , when Italian scientist Enrico Fermi
succeeded in exploding the first atom bomb ( Project Manhattan ) , the secret
message sent to the President of America read ,
" The
Italian Navigator has landed "
American government did not want its citizens to know
that it has mastered the deadliest weapon ever invented
Yesterday , closer home , on the shores of India ,
another Italian Mariner landed
She did not want the people of India to know , how
Telengana Bill got passed
So , the live telecast of Lok Sabha was " blacked
out "
According to eye-witness , Dinesh Trivedi ( MP - TMC )
,
> Army was
deployed all around Lok Sabha building
> MPs had to
park their cars outside and walk down
> Everyone
started shouting when bill got tabled
> No MP could
argue for or against the bill
> 18 Congress MPs ( from Andhra ) were suspended
and prevented from
participating
> 3 Congress
Ministers ( from Andhra ) rushed into the well , shouting
> Doors of
Lok Sabha were closed shut ( - to prevent walk-out ? )
> Live
telecast was stopped
To top it all ,
> Division
did not take place using Voting Buttons on MP's seats
> Speaker
Meira Kumar suddenly turned a Maths-Wizard , and within a
matter of
seconds , counted how many of the 542 MPs stood up in favor
of the bill
- obviously many more than 272 , according to her maths !
All thru the pandemonium , Mauni Man Mohan Singhji and
Madam Mariner ,
sat in stoic silence
!
Now , people of India know why , over the last 3 years
, Kapil Sibal , Salman Khurshid etc kept telling Anna Hazare and Arvind
Kejriwal ,
" Laws
cannot be enacted on the streets . Lok Sabha is the proper forum "
Of course !
If you enact the laws on the streets , how can you stop
,
> People from watching the " Riot of the Rotten Rats " ?
> People
from asking you to resign ?
Now we know why Arvind Kejriwal wanted to pass the Jan
LokPal Bill in the Ram Lila Grounds - out in the open - in front of the people
Poor chap !
He resigned because he could not pass the bill , even
inside Vidhaan Sabha
No such compulsion for Man Mohan Singhji
For him , it was as easy as switching off the telecast to
create ,
DARKNESS AT NOON
No need to resign , Man Mohanji,
Lok Sabha elections are just around the corner
And , even if people cannot " See " , they
are " Listening " !
One suggestion,
As a last straw ( on Democracy's back ?
) , in the next 6 days ( before Model Code of Conduct kicks in ) , get the
President to sign Ordinances , covering those six , pet anti-corruption bills of Rahulji
Although , I suspect , Pranabda will refuse to sign
these !
* hemen parekh
( 19 Feb
2014 / Mumbai
)
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