Wind of Change!!!!!

When the Winds of Change Blow, Some people build Walls -While Others Build Windmills…. Remember We cannot change the direction of the Wind,  But we can always adjust our sails….

CHANGE is the most anticipated and most pilloried word from the dictionary. Everybody wants CHANGE, and they want it overnight, but nobody wants to work for it. Jan LokPal in 2011 set the stage for a movement which would have rocked the very foundations of the Indian Democracy if allowed to succeed. Alas!!! It was not to be the case. The movement was smothered, the people leading the movement pilloried and the people who wanted the change ridden roughshod over by those very people who were voted in power by the people demanding the change.

Our so called leaders, the doyens protecting our democracy, those wolves in the garb of sheep threw down the gauntlet, you want a change, you want a better India, get yourselves elected and work for it coz., we the elected representatives of this country don't care and don't give a damn what the people of this country want. We are here to enrich our coffers and play sycophants to those in position of power (namely the party high command). Thus the challenge was laid down and the man everybody thought would rise to the occasion faltered under the multi-pronged, united attack by almost all political parties in India. When things looked bleak and the movement, the people power so aptly demonstrated looked like just a fizzed out firecracker, a group of people emerged from the shadows, Arvind Kejriwal (AK), Prashant Bhushan, Manish Sisodia and many others formed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). 

They were ridiculed, called many names, named traitors to the people's cause by daring to join dirty politics. Personal attacks and conspiracy campaigns became the game of the day. But the group persevered. They understood the simple, unchanging and resolute fact that change comes from within. A system invested in itself, will be resistant to all changes that will not suit it. To change the system you have to be a part of the system.

Today the AAP has tasted its first electoral victory in the Delhi state elections. A party that was written off as "Chillar Party", demeaned by almost all the political parties worth their salt, came 2nd in the elections without have any "Star Attractions" campaigning for it. The campaign was run on mostly 1 agenda, "Corruption". People in India are frustrated by it. The social divide between the rich and poor is almost obscene. The country home to billions of people has seen people dying of hunger and malnutrition and more than 65% of the country lives in poverty or a state of near poverty. 

With the burgeoning middle class almost neglected by the vote seeking parties but taxed for almost everything from the water they drink to the coffin they are buried in is chaffing under yoke of this inequality. The time is ripe for revolution in India, but the problem is there is no viable candidate to trust on. All the major political parties in India have the same taint of corruption, crony-capitalism and power broking associated with it. Nobody in their right mind thinks about getting into politics. In this bleak spectrum of things AAP comes as a whiff of change.

With the electorate having given them a chance to prove their mettle, this is but the first hurdle that the party will face in the scheme of things to come. But the winds of change have begun to flow.... lets see which way it takes us.