Suddenly we have got a new weapon to register our protest thanks to Iraqi journalist who invented it by throwing at Bush and then clue taken from there by another journalist an Indian (who happened to be Sardar as well and they say around 12 o’clock noon he threw his shoes at home minister. What can you say…Karan Johar has warned several times to stay away from Sardars at 12 o’clock.). Jarnail Singh, whom hardly anyone knew in his own mohallah suddenly became Bhagat Singh of all the Sardars around the world. Akalis announced even cash prize for him. Perhaps for the same sort of result a retired school teacher throws his shoe at Navin Jindal. Navin ducks it…and the old man gets even no cash prize…how bad!!!
However, this latest weapon seems to be working fine. Tytler and Sajjan Kumar lost their congress ticket immediately. And I am told that Navin Jindal is advised to choose someone else’s constituency for election rallies. The best thing about this mode of expression is that it hardly takes any time and rarely invites any punishment…specially in election time. Politicians are ready to take anything for votes at these time. And Shoe is something they know that they deserve the most…so never very insulting its considered in their biradari.
But this whole drama of shoe and after makes a common man like me think. Is it the right way of expression in democracy? Today it was done by a journalist and teacher, who guarantees that tomorrow hooligans won’t use it for their political purposes? And in stead of condemning it in one voice, almost all the parties including congress go on to reward it. Tytler and Sajjan Kumar loses their tickets the very next day only. Now congress is saying that they are sensitive to the emotions of Sikh. Why does it take a shoe at face to make political parties sensitive to issues? Why were Jagdish and Sajjan given tickets at first place? And why nobody had raised this issue when Tytler was given clean chit by CBI first time at the time of NDA? Why does it take 25 years to declare someone guilty or clean? Isn’t it ridiculous when prime minister of country does not know about something so big which also effects his party primarily till it becomes public and specially when the investigating agency suppose to be acting under him? Isn’t it the insult of court that someone gets punished at the whim of mob? And if decision of someone’s guiltiness has to be taken by mob then why waste time and wealth of court? How different we remain from Taliban after this? I can only say SHAME…shame on you coward politicians…shame.
Secondly, what makes people to forget all their ethical and professional responsibility? Why someone has to throw a shoe to be listened? Why is our judiciary always sleeping? Why can not we have speedy delivery of judgments? Why can not we make judiciary also answerable to public? Today, almost all our major problems right from naxalism, curruption to terrorism start with the ineffectiveness of judiciary. Why none of the political party is talking about improving our judicial system? Why have we almost stopped to construct new courts? And when was the last time we recruited new judges?
In fact, Judiciary should be the main agenda this election. But quite surprisingly none of the parties have even mentioned it in their manifesto. Unless we take our courts to villages and mohallas, we can never dream of peaceful and prosperous India. Politicians want to keep the judiciary acting defunct for their personal benefits. Most of them have some cases running against them. The day judiciary start pacing up, 90% of politicians will find themselves behind the bar. Therefore, They will try to keep it as useless as possible. But we, the common people suffer…and we, the common people need to raise voice for our own benefit…to strengthen our democracy and society…and put an end to delayed justice…after all justice delayed is justice denied.
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