Let us get real. Kiran Bedi is actually an honest person. She has taken on the establishment at various instances during her illustrious career in the Indian Police Force, and her joining BJP doesnt seem like a bad thing to me. She may or may not win; because it is in the hands of the people of Delhi to decide whom they want to elect as their Chief Minister. It is a good thing as I see it, for her to join the party in power and put out her service to the country as a part of the system, rather than from outside of it. What her inclusion in the party means to me is that the BJP has its doors open to moderate and rational minds and that it is making an effort to reach out to every constituency that exists in India, including that which fears its ideologies and does not trust it. And then tell me, who doesnt want to win? Which party except the Congress, is not doing anything it takes to win all the elections taking place across India? So then, why not BJP as well? Even the establishment of the new CBFC board does not alarm me as much as I had thought it would, and as much as many of my friends feel it has. Pahlaj Nihalani is a capable man with a long track record in the industry and other members (most of them whom I know) are not those who will act upon personal or political bias. Im not political, and as a citizen of this country who has spent years of my own life striving to achieve social change through the work that I do; as a filmmaker, producer and writer; and as head of an organisation, Asian Centre for Entertainment Education (ACEE) and as the Director of its flagship program, The Third Eye, where I lead a team which provides Free-On-Demand resource on health, legal, climate change and sustainable development issues to creative communities and leaderships of the media and entertainment industries, and which is also the bridge between creative communities and the priorities of our times; I strongly believe that we should support the government which has been elected with clear majority through a democratic process and that the endless criticism of its every move, unnecessarily creates fear and mistrust and holds back progress of the country at all levels. I was not a supporter of BJP, but I believe in democracy and wish to stand by the present system that governs us. I am secular and when I see BJP bringing secular voices to its fold, it puts me at ease. Now let us move on, look ahead and get to that place which we as a Nation believe, we should be at!
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 04:50:27 +0000
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