There was an interview with Mr Arun Shourie. A journalist whose words have never let me down with my thinking. he represents very analytical mind and does not mind calling spade a spade. This has made him friends as well as enemy. He keeps his right to praise opposition across ideologies. He is in limelight due to Spectrum scam. It was thought by present law minister that if he shows Mr Arun Shaurie in poor light then the lime light from him will be shifted. He forgot that Mr Shourie is not in hiding and does not want to hide anything. He is swayam prakash or self effulgent personality due to clarity of thought and integrity. The bad move by Mr Sibal is going to land in more trouble. He thought of spitting at sky forgetting that such an action is going to make his own face dirty. so there had been some interviews in different media for getting version of Mr Shourie. Very hard hitting interview came out in IBN's Devil's advocate program.
There at two points Mr Shourie levels allegations against Hindustan Times and Mr Sibal and dares then to take to court if he is wrong. That show the strength he carries. While people try to run away from investigation he called up CBI to investigate. That shows power of conviction. To point to the wrong may be important but is a person only does that all the time there is chance of one getting in to negative mindset. One should be able to offer constructive suggestions too. And here comes the power of Mr Shourie. in his various articles he has not minced words in offering solution. I categorically remember his article in Indian express about the situation of nation. He took analogy of a tree being eaten away by pest from within. In that article he told that Pakistan does not need to put so much of effort in trying to destabilize Bharat through Kashmir. All it need is to airdrop gun in Bihar and people will do the rest. It was the time when Bihar was ruled by Lalu and family. Bihar has seen some wind of change but what Mr Shourie told also coming true. It is alleged that Pakistan is providing arms to various groups in Maoist effected areas Bharat is being destabilized by its own people. Mr Shouries Prophetic words are coming true.
Today was another day to be illumined by him. An inteview appeared again in IE. That was mainly focused on spectrum scam, going back in details of what happened but the later part was on positive note about future i would like to reproduce them here.
Shefalee Vasudev: Everything seems to be falling apart--civil society and the state. If you had to start a clean-up process, would you start with judicial reforms?
Arun Shourie: When such situations arise, think of Gandhiji’s phrase: anything, anyone, anywhere, anytime. We should not think of just judicial reforms, police reforms or qualifications for legislators. Many people are now feeling that the situation is ripe for another people’s movement. Political parties feel they don’t have the credibility at the moment, they have to find some non-political faces to start the process. You can guess the names they are gravitating towards--APJ Abul Kalam is one and three former chief justices of India. People feel the situation is ripening for a people's movement--the government is being buffeted, it will continue to flounder.
Another prophetic words coming out. Hope Bharat is listening. That is at the national level. But what a person can do. Here comes guidance for the young man in the question posed to him.
Ravish Tiwari: In the name of social expenditure, we are spending Rs 30,000 crore on NGREGS while the allocation for rural roads is only Rs 10,000 crore in the budget. Similarly, you are coming out with food security rather than creating infrastructure for storage. So how are these things going to play out for the future of the country?
Arun Shourie: Only educated people who are not going to stand for elections can oppose this. Schemes like NREGS are like throwing money out of the window. Unless delivery measures are improved, all these populist measures are going to boomerang. I opposed this at that time to the great discomfiture of the masters in BJP. Populist measures are a main cause of the current inflation. People like Yashwant Sinha, who work in their constituencies, will tell you this is nothing but centralised corruption.
In this context I remember the effort by Yashwant Sinha as Finance minister. He had tried to bring some changes but due to populist pressure every time he had to roll back his policies. In one of the budget session he told that he had laboured more than what he had put for IAS test. He rolled back so many time that he became synonyms with rollback minister. So neither was the required reform neither Government could retain power. Mr Shourie's remark shows that Mr Yashwant Sinha is one who can deliver if given some support. I think Yashwant Sinha suffers from the similar problem as Mr Manmohan Singh. Of course by winning an loksabha election he proved himself to be better than Mr Singh. Being and administrator he does not know the manuvouring of politics. That is also difficult to believe becaus ehe has been in active politics for last several years. I was expecting Him to proove his calliber as CM of Jharkhand but he could not make it shows that he lacks something for that even his party does not tryust him for that purpose.
So much for mention of Yashwant Sinha. I will come to the most important part of thsi blog that is the suggestion to people.
Mr Shourie warns that the change which we want to see cannot be brought by the political parties. It has to brought by people who don't have political aspiration. Aligning too much with a political group corrupts the intention.
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