DEMOCRACY REQUIRES TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY The Supreme Court frustrated with dealing with 10 parties in Bihar polls not updating their criminal anticedents nor legislature taking any action lamented that parties will not act against criminalization of politics! The recent cabinet expansion by the PM with 77 ministers has 42% with declared criminal anticedents. Parties swear by "winnable" candidates. We now have Parliament in session and the Pegasus snoopgate where the government will not admit to survellience on political rivals, reporters, anyone crticizing/impediment to government despite competent foreign forensic and local circumstantial evidence. Similarly denying in Parliament that there were any deaths due to oxygen shortages on procedural and technical grounds! This they cannot get away with because there are deaths and people involved seen worldwide live on Television and democracy is all about people who will not tolerate this blatant denial by the Centre and the States who simply cannot tell the truth because they say India is growing fabulously under the decisive leadership of the PM, and everyone is jealous wanting to tarnish India's image. So no need to see how demonitization achieved its aim and at what costs, lockdown with 4 hrs notice before midnight caused migrant exodus ,trauma and avoidable deaths also due badly handled second Covid wave, Delhi riots, farmers agitation etc all of which government claims to have no specific records! The statements in Parliament are there now for all to see and for the nation to act to be worthy of democracy! Farmers are still agitating against an arrogant and stubborn governemnt who is oblivious of the trauma and pain of families involved just really for demonstrating its strength and ego. It is such a simple procedural matter for a buldozing majority government who pay lip service to the plight and sufferings of the powerless and poor! The petrol hikes and soaring high prices of essentials pauperizing the suffering people during these Covid and monsoon days with resultant deaths and terrible roads, crumbling infrastructure etc is unforgivable and must have consequences!
