With Netas Like Sonia, Manmohan, Why Blame Sreesanth?

We are living in an era of guilt-free, responsibility-free pursuit of wealth and pleasure. The real leader of the Indian government has no post in the government and yet is the most powerful person in the country. She has access to all the national secrets, gets to meet visiting leaders, decide on major issues, use national resources of private purposes, enrich her family members (scams are too many to mention), is as opaque as cast iron plate, has no qualification other than marrying into the right family, garners all kinds of praise from the leftist brigade for sacrifices made, running the economy into the ground (even with a so called economist at the helm, we are either running bankrupting social programs or redefining poverty) and yet gets referred to as a hero by some in the media. Despite all her faults, sins and crimes, she enjoys all the power and is not accountable to any one. No one has the balls to say that the emperor has no clothes. When face with issues, crises, scams and problems, Sonia and Rahul retreat in the background and leave the stooge PM holding the bag. OF course the PM himself is the kind of person who has signed a Faustian pact for his chair.

Our netas have committed every crime or sin there is and invented a few of their own. Worse that African dictators (our children are worse fed than some sub-Saharan countries), these guys are talking about making new laws to curb spot fixing or fraud in betting on IPL. WOW. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. Kapil Sibal who has done his part in the 2G coverup is now the law minister and is talking about tough laws to fix betting in IPL. Well, Mr. Sibal, illegal betting in IPL is not the biggest problem facing India. As far as scams go, this is way smaller than what Indian politicos are involved in. Introspection would be a good first baby step for our netas.

Think about it. Dawood Ibrahim and his cronies in India are making money by illegal betting. Cricketers are making money (in lakhs and thus chump change). Bookies, team owners, gangsters and most probably some politicians are making money. Indian viewers who are addicted to cricket and cannot think of boycotting as tool or protest will continue to watch it (we still watch Salman Khan movies even with his crimes). The only losers are the gamblers who are stupid enough to bet through these bookies. But if there is no IPL, then these losers are going to find some other way of squandering their family fortunes. At the end of the day, the Ram Chandra Bhartiya is no better or worse than before. This is why, I am aghast that there seems to be more of an outrage over Sreesanth than Sonia Gandhi. Our priorities are really really misplaced. If our netas who are supposed to be caretakers of the future of the country cannot stand up and be accountable and do the right thing, why should some guy who is playing a stupid game (no matter how entertaining) be expected to do so?