Candle March & Posters - Then what?

On 3rd of December, young and old India, concerned India, awakened India, joined hands to fight terror, and collectively marched for the souls who died, saluted the braves and condemned the politics and politicians for this country. People thronged at Gateway of India (Mumbai), India Gate (Delhi) Cubbon Park (Bangalore) and other places in Hyderabad & Kolkata, in One Voice "Enough is Enough" 

It was overwhelming to see so many people, youth, old and concerned stand unitedly. One of the poster that caught my eyes said "Terrorists United Us, while Politicians Divided us" ; media was there and common people were being questioned, and they came with frustrating answers against the politician, the system and of course our neighbours. Few made sense, few were showing outflow their emotions, few were rude, and few cynical. One said, "Yes our system is a failure, our politicians are a failure, but we cannot blame only them, it is US who have elected them, so the onus is US also." I endorse it. 

I was asking to myself, good that people are out, people are aware, people are angry, but does this population make any difference to those politicians, whose vote banks are NOT Us. They may be sitting in their couch, and laughing at us.  Is 80000 people at Gateway of India, an answer to lakhs of people they have in their rallies. 80000 in a country of 1Billion is 0.08% of the population. We need much more to make things happen....

Lot of us will have similar sentiments and it was so annoying to know, where our corruptions have gone. Other day I saw a report, that low quality bullet proof jackets were supplied to armed forces, even when they failed the tollerence test!!???!! Are we so low, so cheap, so hungry for money, that we are not even ashamed to give the right kind of instruments to protect us. There may be a handful of politician at the top, who have "been there done that" and has a will to lead correctly ... but most of them below are just awaiting there chance even if it is to hold the post for a year, month or days.  Two things I can think of where we can ourselves contribute is ..

Awareness should be our 1st priority; if we need to make things happen in this country. We should form a citizen forum, take help of media, to have a detailed profile of each nominee standing for election, do background verification and then decide to vote. If our employeers can do background verification when we are selected for employments, we as employeers of these public servant we should enforce a similar rules. Educated the mass and bring the change.

Accountability, that should be our next objective. Make people accountable and start it at the grass root level. You cannot start at a PM or Home minister level, clean it at the bottom. No bribes, No chai pani, no babugiri for whatever work we need to get done at government depts. I know we are challenged for time, but our employeers should cooperate in either facilitating clean transaction or sanction leaves in a year to deal with this mess. Once the mess stops at the bottom, it shall stop at the top. 

There may be many like me who feel the same, but are directionless.  Let us join hands, let us bring change!!

Yes We Can...