India still remains to be a developing country. This is perhaps the only place where you see people for struggling for bread and leaders ending up behind bars for allegedly looting public money. Just pass through certain colonies in and around Hyderabad, the number of people who seek alms will make you really think-are we living in such a poverty. On one side we see luxurious cars zooming in and out! The gap between have and have not s has always been there. If we put this aside, what's the main astonishing thing is leaders-who promise to life up the lives of these have nots-are feeling proud to declare their assets, which is in crores of rupees and obviously all such leaders fall in haves category.
How did these leaders, who fall in filthy rich category are getting money from? From the companies they established? If yes, then who all invested in these companies and why they have invested? These questions not only engaged common people but even the Central Bureau of Investigation (the premier investigation authority in the country) after it took up the most infamous disproportionate assets/illegal assets case.
The prime accused in illegal assets case, Jaganmohan Reddy was once a man with just assets worth lakhs. By the time his father expired, he become a millionaire? How can that be possible? When CBI dug up the facts, it apparently came out with astonishing facts, which it labelled as quid pro quo, meaning you giving something and I give something else in return. But that something else that's being given in return was not from his pocket but from the pockets of the public! Is it not the case of high level looting? Can we see a leader like Bapuji/Mahatma Gandhi who walk in streets expecting nothing but public welfare? We don't want someone to be as good as Gandhi but one should not become like a Hitler and eat away public money as if it's his birth right! Ultimately when people realize the way their money has been systematically channelized to get benefits not for public but to build palaces and stay like kings, the corruption rajas would face the wrath of the public! And that day will not be so far...Dear public, the vote is in your hands...Arise, awake from the hypnotism of weakness, as rightly said by Swami Vivekananda.
(Note: issued in the interest of the public)
(AW Phani)
