Demonetization – Let us endure the labor pain to free our India from black money and corruption

In the political rat race, how to outscore, how to achieve political mileage and how to play effectively the vote bank politics has become far more important to some political parties in our country than pledge their solidarity to make our country free from black money and corruption. Most of the political parties have started to shed tears for the poor man for their sufferings due to demonetization of the currency Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000.

Corruption in both public and private life has become the language and blood line in our country. The white money earning tax payers have become a mute witness towards the ugly face of all pervasive corruption in our country. From cradle to graveyard… even to collect the body of our dear and near from mortuary…. without paying bribe, oh sorry, it should be called as tips, we cannot achieve anything. Even to get some of our legitimate job done in Government office, tips are essential than the required documents or papers.

None of the tax payers in India are ever happy to pay tax because all most all Governments since independence have juiced only the tax payers to meet the revenue deficit and have not moved even the little finger to catch the big fish which is born corrupt, does not pay tax and has slashed huge black money. Like the old saying “Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught”, our law is also efficient to catch only the tax payer for any defaults and not the ‘Sir Mallyas’.

When some political leaders express their heart felt sadness and shed tears for the poor people for the definite sufferings they endure due to cash crunch, why the same leaders are so blind at the everyday hardships of the poor people in many big Government hospitals, hospitals that does not even have beds to admit the patients, Government offices, long waiting of people who are mobilized in the venue for our political leaders meeting at the cost of Rs.500 or less have never shed tears? Why the same leaders never seems to have felt sorry for people who have to wade through heaps of garbage in Delhi, large number of Dengue sufferers etc. Why some of our leaders conveniently kept a blind eye at the middle class people in metro cities who wage great Mahabarath war every day to get inside the train to reach office and to back home? Why suddenly our political leaders have woken up and started to shed blood and tears for poor people against the much needed effort of the Government to weed out black money and corruption?

The bungalows and farmlands of many of our political leaders are built with currency than brick and cement. The decision of the Government to demonetize the currency values Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 has crushed and crumbled many such bungalows and made many leaders to suddenly invent / discover their inner voice i.e. they live for poor people.

People of this country are wise and matured. No doubt, many are undergoing great sufferings. But most of them are treating such sufferings only as small sacrifice on their part to clean our nation and gain freedom from corruption and black money.

We need a great Yagna to root out corruption and black money in our country.

The freedom we seek today is the freedom from parallel economy, black money, corruption and money laundering. Corruption is killing our nation. It has touched all time high and almost has reached the metastasis stage in our country. Only through some harsh means, we can save our country. Every Indian has a role and responsibility to take part in this new freedom fight. Some are in the battle field and the rest must create awareness about the great initiative of our Government.

In most of the Government establishments, the people have to pay bribe not for the illegal job but for even to get the legitimate job done like obtaining marriage certificate, legal heir certificate, land document registration, marriage registration etc.

Our beloved Modiji has taken a great initiative to clean up our corrupt system. Let us not doubt whether our country can ever be made free of corruption and black money. The need of the hour is that we must unite and stand with our beloved Prime Minister. Such solidarity of the people of this country only will strengthen the will of our Government to annihilate black and bribe money in our country.

It is ‘quit black money and quit corruption movement’. It is for all of us and for our posterity therefore we must support the mission wholeheartedly. When we get tempted by the western style of life and luxury, we must also realize that we too can make our country a wonderful place to live and make the world to envy at us.

Dr S Ranganathan