Congress Party headed
by The Sonia Gandhi, has been witness to a huge number of corruption scandals.
BJP leaders claimed during the recently concluded election campaign in
Karnataka that the value of corruption at 5.56lakh crores. The Karnataka voter did
not mind the value of corruption done by the UPA government and has given a
clear mandate to Congress in the state. The Congress leaders with much joy,
have invented another Gandhi in the process of celebrations, Manmohan Gandhiji.
I believe that the Governor of Karnataka after hearing the election results,
would have walked to the party headquarters and asked the leaders of the party
to form the government, and where he would have encountered an empty office.
All the people were busy in lobbying for the minister posts in Delhi and Governor would have told Sonia Gandhi to decide the matters quickly. Whether Governor
acted in the imagined manner is not clear, but Governor was more than happy in
participating in the oath taking ceremony of the Congress ministers. This can
be confirmed by his glowing face and never ending smiles during the ceremony.
The Victories of
Congress party under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, be it in Uttarakhand,
Karnataka makes everyone believe that corruption is not a issue which the
electorate worry much about. The justification given by the knowledgeable
people of the press is that all the parties are corrupt and if Congress is
removed, then the party coming to power will also indulge in corruption. There
are those who also tell about the presence of a certain group of people who
irrespective of which party exists in power will manipulate the policy
decisions of the government. This group of people is the media moguls, who
blackmail those in power or do some give and take business. The bartering
system existed in ancient India, but it has been replaced by the use of money
and everything has a fixed price in the current systems. All the business is
done in common currency, and there are many agencies that monitor the money
flows.
In such a regulated
system, there are loopholes and Congress has to keep the media moguls happy.
Thus the information and broadcasting minister has come with a plan to disburse
huge amounts of money, around Rs.1800crore; for the promotion of the works and
policies of the government, thus born out of desperate need to feed the media
is the “Bharat Nirman” ads. The government of India worries more about the
malnutrition of the journalists more than those of the rural poor. The media houses coming to know about the
welfare schemes of the government are more than happy to work for the hand that
feeds it. The so called news papers will now carry more ads at the tax payer
cost than the news of the bad deeds of the government.
The Congress party is happier
after winning the Karnataka elections and seems to be less worried about the
corruption scandals in the neighbouring state called Andhra Pradesh. The media
is silent about the entire scam, and the unlucky Yeddy was hounded by media and
Justice Hegde was made a omnipotent truth speaking angel. The Congress
government is happily doing its good works of filling the party coffers and
looting the citizens and the national media is busy talking about the IPL
fixing scam. Media people went ahead and were screaming as if nuclear explosion
has taken place in India and the country is facing the most and biggest
problems. A billion people are in danger. When media goes overboard, it is
either to protect congress or to outdo other media houses. When the media
houses do the later, the Congress is in trouble for allocating more resources
to the many media houses.
No wonder the increase
in malnutrition of media houses is due to higher number of people and any
amount of help by the government will be less because the per capita
consumption will be less due to the huge population. When the population of India was growing at a
high rate, the government implemented and advertised about family planning and
the benefits of a lower population and the ease of governance. The people have
understood and supported the government but few communities have not done so
owing to their religious and other affiliations. This is a different problem
and leaving this matter aside, the time has to come for the GOI to talk about
the media planning operations Knowing well that Cocaine is a addictive
substance, there are curbs on its usage by the common public but not for the rich
and powerful.
Like cocaine, media
can be addictive. People get addicted to certain serials; news (filth that is
given out 24x7) can cause changes in the thinking patterns and also lead to
change in behaviour patterns. With no regulations in place, and Sri Kaju is busy
doing the pardoning business, there are no controls. The media has become a
cancer destroying entire nation. There is no comprehensive study about the way
the media has affected the behavioural patterns of the society because
government has no control. The government exists because we are told so by the
media and not otherwise. Swine flu is made to buy by GOI because media created
a scare among the minds of people and if GOI did not act, it will be portrayed
as GOI being insensitive to the needs of the people.
Without doubt, it can
be concluded that “What the media is doing can be called Treason.”
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