saransh on headlines: Guess! Who choose your ministers?

saransh on headlines: Guess! Who choose your ministers?: "If leaked conversations between Niira Radia and others are trusted upon, then one thing is quite sure that favoritism runs much deeper than ..."

Guess! Who choose your ministers?

If leaked conversations between Niira Radia and others are trusted upon, then one thing is quite sure that favoritism runs much deeper than what we would like to accept as a normal act of crime. These conversations not only underline the ongoing in politician- media-corporate-bureaucrats nexus, but also suggest what might be going on at much larger scale. In one case, media is lobbied to throw its weight behind giving a ministerial berth to a particular minister, right from media debate to editorial stories, everything was planned that way. And even the personal repos of media persons were spin to influence the allocation of portfolio.

In another instance, who will spearhead the debate on the floor of the house, was set one night before, because it was feared that the person in question might do harm to the interest of some corporate house.

Now after all these and many more such stories, a final question comes; who really control this democracy that we so lovingly define as ‘for the people, by the people, to the people’. In a democracy, people feel empowered because of their believe that they hold the real power, that they elect the leaders and ministers; it is they who legitimize the system and its component. But what they find is just disheartening, morally discouraging and institutionally very damaging. They might vote but certainly don’t control anything else, thus they are just rubber stamp to give sanction to a bunch of people who have some other motive to follow.

Media which is supposed to be a watchdog of democracy seems to be guided from some other incentives, definitely, different from just ethics and values, whose main job is to form the questioning society is shaping the public opinion in very questionable way. And then the lobbyist who can manage anything under the sun, to protect the vested interest. They are well connected, well known and wealthy all the ingredients to get away easily from any hell of the law.

It has to be admitted that there is nothing wrong in promoting one’s interest in professional way, what is disturbing is the cartelization, the highjack of public policy and the larger rights of the people.