The terrible sense of inadequacy and inferiority complex, coupled with raging anger, vis-a-vis the affluent, the powerful, the influential, the globe-trotting leaders of both right and left alike, the Leftists’clout with the rich media personalities, the importance and mileage given to the children of the poerful in politics and, in particular, the Leftist leaders who live and rule from the cosy comforts of AC living quarters and offices without ever facing the ire or lathis of the police or torture in custody, all go to ignite an unending fire of revenge in this class called by the Leftists as “lumpen class” (until these people join the Left parties, of course).

The pathos underlying the delinquent politicians must necessarily be assessed from the angle of the marginalized, the deprived, the belittled, the ignored-for their inability to meet the requirements of high standards of sophistication, characteristic of the ruling elite, including the Communists participating in the democratic process-with the sole purpose of capturing political power, and not even remotely for improving the living of the marginalized and (as in Bengal) the “below”-BPL people.!

It is necessary that the English-educated, privileged class at least views these people from this angle before becoming judgemental and passing comments.

So, in this background, it is unethical and certainly inequitable to single out Ramesh Bagwe as a defaulter and an accused in the eyes of archetypal legal system. One can be sure that this Hon’ble person does not come from a rich and powerful family as even the communist leaders do with barristers, civil servants, military generals, media barons, etc. and had to come up through bitter fights in political life. As was the case of another leader in Bihar who was caught in the numerous scams that rocked the very base of Indian polity not very long ago. For him also the scams were nothing but by way of his natural reaction to age-old inferiority complex of having been born in a poor family and of the years of deprivation which he started avenging right from the day he took over the reigns of political power in the state. A most natural reaction.

I hope the writer and Bidup both accept these home truths about the fundamental and never changing characteristics of the Indian socio-economic framework. The great Indian truth.

Then, who does not know that hundreds of our civil servants from top to bottom, particularly those entrusted with the jobs of enforcing and administering various laws, and their family members have duplicate and bogus passports and keep visiting abroad every now and then and maintain foreign bank accounts? And this huge number includes lower functionaries working in Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Delhi…., etc. And not that this is not within the knowledge of the officers of the departments concerned-the only prerequisite is that the cess/levy for these services have been paid and the periodical charges are paid regularly.

Ours is a country with a long history and tradition of corruption in all spheres of our life. Even in our Mythological epics we find recorded evidence of this and our converted secular brothers from the protected minority segments are no exception. And, that is precisely why, in India, there is fast and widespread and an amazingly equitable distribution of hunger, poverty, homelessnes, malnutrition—all as against equitable distribution of wealth and incomes! Our religious potentates want their pound of the flesh, meaning ‘power’ and authority-at the cost of greater needs of the poor and the steadily increasing number of the deprived, fashionably called ‘the marginalised’, who are politically and intellectually referred to as the BPL-masses.

Hence, the religious leaders have no responsibility to their weaker fellow-humans and building temples is their priority, but NOT building a at least a huge hospital for the poor and common people of all religions in the disputed lands, in the very name of one who is called the greatest of the great men! No, they have no duty whatsoever toward the poor and the hungry and the ailing. That will be taken care of, as usual, by the Missionaries who naturally and reasonably take the opportunity to induce the sufferers convert to their faith by incurring the wrath of the religious mafia of the majority who are never seen to spend money on opening schools, colleges, hospitals, dispensaries, libraries, night shelters for the street dwellers, soup kitchens (even with cattle-grade food, as is the Indian culture), etc. They have no time or priority for organising relief camps during natural calamities. They are not at all interested in ensuring assistance and support to and helping deserving students from the weaker sections pursue higher studies. The poor, poverty, hunger, healthcare, slum-clearing, community service, and the other burning human issues do not matter as long as they can hold the life of the common citizens to ransom with impunity, And, in the shadow of this colossal disregard for the socio-economis ills, the anti-national forces are sowing the seeds of unrest and subversion while rampant corruption and exploitation fan these fires.

Si, the junior Maharashtra Minister is a mere name in the list of lakhs of such people enjoying and wielding their power over the honest and upright civil servants-and, therefore, the corrupt system. With impunity, since every political, bureaucratic and religious potentate is doing the same thing for ages, under the protective and indulgent umbrella of their leaders and/or bosses (in politics or from the underworld or from the administrative set up).

And, the public have lost their right to protest, by acquiescing in this gradual decline in values in our national life. The anti-national, subversive, terrorists thus find very vociferous support from the intellectuals and secularists whose main abode is abroad, but condescending down to live in India for activism! Religious leaders indulge in crime in the name of protecting their faith. All this coexist with increasing poverty and deprivation and, of course, conversion and criminalisation of politics. And with the active participation in this massive plunder of the traditionally corrupt and criminal civil servants, including air hostesses, and sophisticated spies enjoying the privileges of Article 311 of the Constitution !!!