Dear Mr. Sibal,
Like many of my fellow countrymen, I had known little about
you till you surfaced on the political scene as a minister. Most of us had an initial impression of you
as a learned man with a cheerful disposition and felt happy that people like
you could make it to politics. I
searched out your bio-data on the internet using Google and the bio-data, as
provided by you or whoever, seemed to confirm the initial impression. However this image gets a severe blow as one
scrolls down to the end and reads the angry comments by visitors on your recent
move to censor social media on the internet.
It seems that what is exercising the collective public
consciousness and hogging the eyeballs today is not your impressive
bio-data. Instead it is the collection
of vakeel-like tricks that you have been trying out, albeit unsuccessfully, to confound
the 2G case, then to browbeat Baba Ramdev, subsequently to infiltrate the Anna
Movement and tarnish it jointly with another outspoken colleague from your
profession. I have deliberately used the
hindi word vakeel as like neta it is used in a not-so-flattering sense and no
longer commands the respect that it may have initially done.
It is sad indeed that you remain undeterred by your failures
and are now trying the same dirty tricks to force censorship on the social
media on the internet. You cannot be fool
enough to believe that you will succeed in this matter that is so close to the
hearts of public at large. And you must also
know that you are making yourself look like the villain of the piece. And if you still persist in the matter, it
must be on account of a conviction that the electorate is powerless against you
and your class. Perhaps this is why you
and other of your ilk keep on challenging Anna and other crusaders to contest
the elections. And this is why the
politicians are even more afraid of demands for changes in the electoral system
than the fight against corruption.
Well this state of affairs will not last forever and your
own actions will provoke the public to force changes down the collective neta
throat that keeps gulping nation’s resources shamelessly. But till it happens, enjoy your antics.
Yours musingly
JANATA
