Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Darkness at Noon !



Some 70 years ago , when Italian scientist Enrico Fermi succeeded in exploding the first atom bomb ( Project Manhattan ) , the secret message sent to the President of America read ,


"  The Italian Navigator has landed  "


American government did not want its citizens to know that it has mastered the deadliest weapon ever invented


Yesterday , closer home , on the shores of India , another Italian Mariner landed


She did not want the people of India to know , how Telengana Bill got passed


So , the live telecast of Lok Sabha was " blacked out "


According to eye-witness , Dinesh Trivedi ( MP - TMC ) ,


>  Army was deployed all around Lok Sabha building


>  MPs had to park their cars outside and walk down


>  Everyone started shouting when bill got tabled


>  No MP could argue for or against the bill


>  18  Congress MPs ( from Andhra ) were suspended and prevented from
     participating


>  3 Congress Ministers ( from Andhra ) rushed into the well , shouting


>  Doors of Lok Sabha were closed shut ( - to prevent walk-out ? )


>  Live telecast was stopped




To top it all ,



>  Division did not take place using Voting Buttons on MP's seats


>  Speaker Meira Kumar suddenly turned a Maths-Wizard , and within a
     matter of seconds , counted how many of the 542 MPs stood up in favor
     of the bill - obviously many more than 272 , according to her maths !




All thru the pandemonium , Mauni Man Mohan Singhji and Madam Mariner ,
sat in stoic silence  !


Now , people of India know why , over the last 3 years , Kapil Sibal , Salman Khurshid etc kept telling Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal ,


"  Laws cannot be enacted on the streets . Lok Sabha is the proper forum "


Of course   !


If you enact the laws on the streets , how can you stop ,


>    People from watching the  " Riot of the Rotten Rats "  ?


>    People from asking you to resign  ?



Now we know why Arvind Kejriwal wanted to pass the Jan LokPal Bill in the Ram Lila Grounds - out in the open - in front of the people


Poor chap  !


He resigned because he could not pass the bill , even inside Vidhaan Sabha


No such compulsion for Man Mohan Singhji


For him , it was as easy as switching off the telecast to create ,



DARKNESS   AT   NOON 



No need to resign , Man Mohanji,


Lok Sabha elections are just around the corner


And , even if people cannot " See " , they are " Listening " !


One suggestion,


As a last straw ( on Democracy's  back  ? ) , in the next 6 days ( before Model Code of Conduct kicks in ) , get the President to sign Ordinances , covering those six , pet  anti-corruption bills of Rahulji


Although , I suspect , Pranabda will refuse to sign these  !



*   hemen   parekh  (  19  Feb  2014  /  Mumbai  )


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