The internet in India is not yet mature to make any political or social movement but one social networking site is making some political uproar . The twitter controversy on the name of austerity created by loyal congressman who do not miss a single chance to prove their loyalty to high-command. One sentence written by Minister twitter is having two objectionable thing for Congress ..first one is cattle-class and second is holy cow. Every congressman seems to have an objection on cattle class but sycophant congressman have a bigger question how we got somebody in congress to dare the "holy cow".
First aspect itself is non-issue. I agree that cattle-class is derogatory to say for economy class but was the part of original tweet which has asked the question to Tharoor, "whether he will travel to Kerala in cattle-class" and Tharoor replied wittingly without knowing the upcoming problems from his own party man.
I believe the Second keyword "holy cow" means someone whom nobody can dare to oppose .This is actual worrying all the congressmen who always sing praise song for madam and somebody who recently joined party and does some nonsense twitting is showing his unwillingness to madam's wish.
I want to say something on this wish , which Tharoor can not say publicly for some obvious reasons. The way Government and congress party acted on this wish is utter nonsense. Congress shamelessly named this wish to “austerity drive”. Everybody wants these netas to use public money wisely but to name it "austerity drive” and intend to do it for a while is cheap publicity and mere tokenism not more than.
Intention of Sonia Gandhi may be good to insure the austerity in the party and government, but not actually working. In order to establish this so-called austerity practice, Gandhi family is leading from the front and making fool of themselves. They are flying in economy class and traveling in trains making discomfort to common man. Sonia Gandhi traveling in an aircraft with common man reprieved 10-12 seats from choice less common man and adding other discomfort to fellow common passengers. Rahul Gandhi’s travel plan blocked the station gates for common people for some hours. How much money government will save and how much more it will invest in security arrangements to make sure Rahul Gandhi travels in train safely, it needs to rethink. Revisit to the whole idea is needed not to do it for publicity and votes than actual saving from this.
And actually the original idea is good but needs better planning and more better implementation. India is a poor country where public servants need to follow principals and rules in spending public money without any direction from any high-command or special situation like draught. Government needs to insure the good practice guidelines which can save the public money not only for these ministers, MPs but also bureaucrats who also misuse the public money.
The bigger question is remained answered from where the whole thing started, the draught situation. Government needs to tackle the drought , insuring the drought relief fund should reach to every affected man ,taking steps to stop scams in draught fund , making preempt steps to stop future farmers suicide in the country. If government does all these then we may not need the money saved from this mere publicity.
At the end, we need austere in behavior of politicians like our great leaders Mahatma Gandhi , Lal Bahadur Shastri. Recent example of austerity is leaders like Chidambaram who does not need any security and travel with one or two guys all over the country. We cant force this austerity on any of our politicians. If we will , that would be temporary. If these leaders are not like the way we want then it’s the fault of all of us “the electorate“.
