Should leaders deliberately mislead people?
We have a general belief from experience that political leaders use every opportunity to promote themselves and their party and also to tarnish or belittle the rival party(s) or its leaders.The standard and ethics in this regard is deteriorating day by day since the days we got Independence and had our own democratic governments. Now things have gone to such extent that politicians use untruths, concocted stories and spread falsehood and make them appear as truth and facts. The misfortune is that still there are naïve and vulnerable people who lap it up all in the blind faith on the leaders. Sometime incitements and incentives are used.
The two recent glaring incidents are:
1. Rahul Gandhi announcing that he does no have a house of his own even at the age of fifty two.
2.Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren asking people to bury money and not to deposit in banks.
I am shocked and shuddered is the most mild way I can express my feeling on reading these two matters.
A person who has declared on record in his election papers of having a few crores worth of assets and who is an MP getting remuneration and concessions and allowances of various types has the audacity to say something to influence people to appear and make them believe that he is poor and homeless. It is high time someone files a case requiring Rahul to come clean about his assets and income and how he spends or uses them. He also has very many facilities directly and indirectly as the party's important functionary and the unquestioned Nehru family scion. Or is it the ultimate very late realization dawning on him, (thanks to Modi and Indian voters) that India is not Nehru family's fiefdom?
Hemant Soren has tried to naught the tremendous ground wok and field work put in by the thousands of bank employees, government officials and NGOs making people develop banking habit and keep their idle money safe and growing by depositing in banks. The Jan Dhan scheme is so successful and purposeful in this regard, The Jharkhand CM has by his announcement gone against the previous and present governments and is trying to take our people to primitive days.
I want the opposition parties intelligentsia and general people to ask him to immediately resign.
I am afraid about what will be the state of our country when we have such political leaders who are or may be in future be leading or be part of the responsible governments! God save the nation!!
