REPUBLIC DAY

Dear Rathin,

Probably I am not wrong to understand what you actually want to convey. If that is true that can be correct. BUT perhaps you have not interpreted properly what Joydeep has stated in his last sentence. He has stated, "What we honour creates value and becomes apparent when you open up."

From the totality of his post, with reference to my posts, you can well understand, he honors only what is on paper, not in favor of seeing what is in practice. If to honor what is on paper and not in practice, I am quite sure that does not create any value, but devalues a thing.

So, if you also intends to convey the same message , as he thinks about, then sorry to point out to you that you may need to review your post.

Dar Shiuli,

You are quite right in your analysis. Even otherwise also, Chief Ministers of the States are thrust on the States by Party High Commands, not selected by the majority of the peoples representatives, which is clearly against the constitutionally provided Fundamental Rights in a sovereign state. Elections are won by force by Baahu Balies and criminals against the wishes of the common man. Persons in power swindle public money by corrupt practices. Rules are manipulated in favor of the powerfuls, not to benefit the common man. Right to equality is still in paper, there is no will to implement that. Instead of adopting practical welfare measures to enable the economically weaker people reservations are preferred in posts, which normally go to the effluent classes. Other communities also force their way to get reservations in the name of caste and creed, irrespective of whether a lot of them may belong to the effluent classes. UPSC recruits direct Class-I Officers to post them on the higher positions by putting age restriction for those who might have not been able to acquire necessary qualification by that age due to their non-affordability of getting proper education by that age and would have acquired the education later while in service on lower posts, or even unemployed. People in service at lower posts, with whatsoever higher qualification and having got plenty of administrative experience, but are over-age are not provided any opportunity to compete the UPSC examinations to enhance their careers. Thus the career development of the capable persons are banned even by the Governmental organizations. So, where is the right to equality. In other words, we are still slaves to the people in power and affluence even after 63 years of independence. People of (Sovereign) India can't remove the corrupt people from power at their own. CVC & CBI don't get moved until they get nod from above. Vigilance Units of the Government departments move in the direction they get from the top and manipulate the things against the subordinates to save the higher authorities. CVC acts as a catalyst, rather than an analyst and puts its stamp on 100% cases, without proper analysis, to take disciplinary action against those recommended by the Heads of the Government Organization with their touts being nominated as witnesses. In fact, the non-corrupts get labeled as corrupts, while corrupts get spared due to the cases not being analysed properly by the CVC. There are plenty of such anti-sovereign examples being practised in India. That clearly means sovereignty is on paper only.

I see the debate heating up. Just to know from the learned, few things.

Sovereign means having sole, independent authority over a geographic area. In hindi its called “Varchaswa” . In India’s constitution we have laid down India’s geographical territory as a Sovereign Republic. Now the question is, does any State govt’ or for that matter Central govt, exercise the right of Sovereignty to run its respective state? “Here I am questioning “Purna Varchaswa”  Coz India functions in a mixed republic manner, meaning Indian republics can classified in to two sub-types ie Unitary and Federal republics, Unitary where the governmental authority is vested with the Centre, and by Federal for it’s respective states. So where does Sovereignty fit ?

Are we the number one nation? In terms of economy/technology/market reach, military might, influence / control on other nation. The answer is NO. Do we stand second, third fourth, the answer is NO.

We are a sovereign state. We are not the number ONE.

We are subjugated as we don’t stand straight, our traditional, social cultural; religious beliefs upbringing makes us look stooped in front of the developed world. We have no common language. English is not our language, are we English men?

We have huge pool of human resource and natural resources, as the distribution and allocation hasn’t happened as planned resulting to further subjugation.

It’s we who are responsible for our miseries not the west or the then British colonial power.

The state we are in today even CHINA can overpower and rule us for a Millennium.

If we can’t speak out what we want, how to fulfil that want, we will be subjugated though being independent and sovereign.

Mr Murlidharan, it’s good that at the end of your conversation, you have disclosed the source of information, this is an American standard practice.

Thanks Shiuli,

I am indebted to know that, unlike one or two others, there are people like you, who are firm in their stand and accept my views.

Also, well said Saibal Ray, our onion prices are controlled by Pakistan (our Agriculture Minister don't have any control)

ON PAPER ONLY

Lack of self discipline, lack of honesty, lack of ethical leadership, lack of boldness, etc., make us paper tigers only. We are a sovereign nation on paper, but not in reality.

We don't have power to remove the corrupt politician from power. We can't fight terrorism. We are afraid of taking any action against the terror creating nation with the fear that USA may not become unhappy with us. We can't ourselves declare a terror creating nation as a terrorist state, but look forward towards USA to declare that as a terrorist state.

So, where the question arises of sovereignty?

Thanks Heena for supporting my views.

Mr. Anantha has also indirectly supported my views when he says, "India is trying-hard-to-be-a-sovereign-nation." In other words, he agrees that in spite of the fact India was declared sovereign 61 years back, but still not been able to become sovereign during all these 61 years. My contention that it is "in paper only" is proved beyond doubt.

Let us see when India becomes sovereign in reality.