Monday, June 6, 2011

Let sanity reign from all sides

The root of the present-and-yet-to-defuse crisis in the plains of North can't alone be blamed on the scorching heat as monsoon takes its own sweet time to reach there. It is still 24 days away and till then the respite is next to nil. The heat is enormous, the capacity to think and degenerate is more than your permissible level and here you have the govt of the day cornered from all sides being told to yield and if not then bleed. THe collection at the Famed Ground surged and this gave the Yoga Honcho to splurge.
The tacit understanding which the Yoga Honcho agreed to and later renege, as per the version given by the govt, was enough for authorities to move in and clear the space. Here one is not getting the real grasp of the enormity of the situation. Had the sant-turned-satyagrahi stayed put and let the collection surge beyond mine and your imagination, how he could have broken the stalemate. By letting him and his followers take the hospital bed and let passion reign supreme and disorder agenda beam . We should thank our stars that though authorities could have exercised little restraint, the ruckus that followed did not lead to any major untoward incident. It is a major plus, believe me. The ground was cleared and the Yoga Honcho was given all the freedom to fire missiles at the Establishment from His Yoga Dwar. At least we have been saved from pitched battles being fought on the street and the art of taking pot-shots in all shapes and sizes coming from his fiefdom as a new beat. Here the Yoga Honcho doesn't know, notwithstanding the four hour operation conducted on him and his followers, that there was no way he could break the deadlock as the face saver he was looking for evaporated the moment when in the space of one hour he agreed to having reached a deal and later disagreed.
What a shame that in this season of dharnas, agitations and assimilations, threats are being bandied out as if the governance has come to a standstill. It seems as if there is no government at work and it is civil society and civil society alone that is not willing to shirk. The civil society, which by no means is a broad representation of the entire society given five members, doesn't realise that the agitation they are spearheading can well go out of hand and lead to a civil war which they themselves would find it difficult to douse. Those opposed to the establishment including Opposition have to exercise restraint as they would unnecessarily keep fires burning and which later they themselves would find it hard to contain.
In the right spirit the agitations could make the govt work towards a logical solution but don't throttle its right to govern by staging agitation in different centres by seeking more than incremental support from different blocks. Mind you if the civil society in a way to bring pressure on the govt seeks the support of the Opposition, that very civil society would distance itself from this alignment if it feels that they alone can achieve what they are expected to do. So seeking support here and dismantling the same there is the premise the civil society is raised on and hoping against hope that in the season of discontent and disconnect the press briefings, sharing space with different set of tv anchors on debates and agitations would get them the clout to prevail. The doublespeak is very much evident from the debates they put their heart and soul in one night and the press briefings the next day where a new view is an emerging sight. Had this civil society been actual representation of the society, the first task would have been to not fan the fires but to douse them. Don't thrust on the people a movement which may not get the desired Lokpal and instead let the mayhem and distrust have a smooth ball. Let sanity reign from all sides.

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