'Belly' is an important part of our anatomy. It can give us energy to fight for what is right. It can also starve us to death. It can also remain a power house of our greed. Having said this, I do have to say however that it seldom energies the aam aadmi enough to fight for what is right. Also an aam aadmi's 'belly' becoming his powerhouse of greed is an absolute myth. For an aam aadmi, more than often his belly becomes the cause of his death due to starvation...... The following immortal lines from the verse of one of the most significant poet of modern Hindi poet late "Suryakant Tirpathi Nirala" very aptly describes the fate of aam aadmi's belly...... .
"पेट पीठ दोनों मिलकर हैं एक,चल रहा लकुटिया टेक,मुट्ठी भर दाने को-- भूख मिटाने को मुँह फटी पुरानी झोली का फैलाता--दो टूक कलेजे के करता पछताता पथ पर आता। भूख से सूख ओठ जब जाते दाता-भाग्य विधाता से क्या पाते?--घूँट आँसुओं के पीकर रह जाते। चाट रहे जूठी पत्तल वे सभी सड़क पर खड़े हुए, और झपट लेने को उनसे कुत्ते भी हैं अड़े हुए!". Thanks to our elected parliament, the "aam aadmi" is living a dog's life with a "tale" that remains his plight for his very existence.
Post independence, the crop of politicians that we have in this country carry a 'Belly' that is a sheer power house of "GREED".The magnitude of their greed always remains in direct proportion to the political and social opportunities that they are able to nurse, manipulate and harness. For these politicians "patriotism" has never created any "fire in belly", neither has it ever energized them to fight for what is right....
Today in the name of political leadership we have nothing but an army of 'political hypocrites'. They individually and collectively continue to devalue, defame and derail the institute of democracy. 'Lokayukta' & 'Lokpal' can perhaps become an enabler to monitor politician's greed but if we aspire to truly become world's indispensable economy we need to quickly act to hound out ways to purge the "Belly" of our politicians"....
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