The world saw the way the Tunisians and Egyptians had to shed blood to get their Dictators out of office. The world is watching Yemen and the other "uprisings" for similar "Freedom".
But in India we are SUPPOSED to have a Government BY, For & Of the People – i.e. Democracy. Yet, after a Nationwide peaceful agitation to bring a Lokpal Bill that has teeth and reach, the Government of India not only opposes any reach it also wants a watered down version of its own draft proposal!
WHAT is the difference between Indian Democracy and the Arab Dictatorships? You tell me!
Given that the Congress (I) has written off beyond 2012 as one news paper said on its front page, maybe they’ve decided to make the country bleed for any largesse to be shown in the LPB – a decision that even a dictator like Hosni Mubarak spared his country.
So who cares more for the country? Hosni Mubarak or Manmohan Singh? You decide.
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