By: Dr. Mohammad Aleem ( Chief News Editor-ICN Group )
NEW DELHI: Social media is playing a very crucial role in disseminating the essential information these days. We get the latest news even much before the dedicated channels start airing and broadcasting it.
Of late, I received an audio clip on my Whatsapp. It was sent by one of my Whatsapp friends. Usually, I do ignore such audio and video clips knowing that in most of the cases it proves a rubbish one. But I played this clipping and when I heard it, I felt greatly surprised and disturbed.
It was a voice of a powerful politician from Uttar Pradesh. It was not known who he was and what power he commanded in the ruling circle. But, it showed that he was powerful and had his considerable clout in the power structure of the state.
He was scolding to one senior officer. I don’t know which department he belonged to. He was using all such slangs and rebukes freely and without any inhibition, which people usually use in India, while expressing his anger towards his arch-enemies and foes.
The matter was that he wanted to get a government contract awarded to one of his men. But the officer had dared to allot it to any other person whom he deemed fit for the job according to his own perception and wisdom. This was the reason for the anger and rebuke of the politician.
The officer had recorded the whole conversation on his smart phone and put it on the social websites and now it was making the rounds on the different social media platforms.
It made me baffled to think how our politicians have become so wild, irresponsible and ill-behaved these days. It was the days when they used to be admired as revered one. They had led the best agitations and revolutions in the country with the best public interest in mind. But, now the same flock is offering themselves as a rugged and most despicable one.
The question comes that why it happened and how could it be stopped. Are we not equally responsible in making our democracy, weak, exploited and vulnerable at the hand of these irresponsible and reckless politicians? Should we not before casting our precious votes think carefully about the credential of the politicians?
In most of the case, we see, these politicians take the people granted. They think that they can easily make people fool. They can be bought with some petty money.
I don’t say that all are the same. But, most of them these days are surely below expectations. Even, on the world level, this deterioration is on rise; take an example of Donald Trump.
If we want to make our democracy strong and much more matured, we will have to act quite prudently. If we did not do so, we would not do well with our beloved country. Our precious wealth and resources would go waste. We can’t succeed as a great nation of the world.
