Brazen leaders: will they ever learn lesson?

After Karnataka now legislatures of Uttar Pradesh are going on foreign tour on taxpayer’s money

 

Azam Khan

Once again another foreign tour is being organized on taxpayer’s hard earned money on the name of study tour. A team of 11 legislatures from Uttar Pradesh under the stewardship of controversial Muslim face of Akhilesh Yadav government is going Turkey. Apart from 6 legislatures this team also consists of 5 Minister from the state. While legislatures from Karnataka have still continued their fun trip despite the lot of critics from across the nation, UP legislatures are going on tour when their own people are suffering cold and hunger in victims camps of Muzzafernager.

Dance in  SAIFAI Festival

First it was first Yadav family of Uttar Pradesh who celebrated the Saifai festival with great enthusiasm by spending crores of rupees on the expense of tax payers. Now it is another lot of legislatures who is being obliged by the state government. On the name of study they will make fun trip to Turkey, Netherlands, United Kingdom and UEA. In between UK and UEA they will also stop in a city which is famous for its picturesque sites.

Shameless UP leaders still seem to have not learned any lesson from Delhi assembly election result. They still don’t believe on the blowing air of change which has swept the whole of Delhi and seems to engulf the other parts of country.

Believers of feudal and age old traditional politics don’t find any reasons to take pain in understanding the changing air. They think electorates as fool who have given them license to make money and fun by making mockery of system. Combination of Caste and religion will give another chance to them to enter assembly and because of this they don’t worry about their image. This surety of winning again makes them arrogant and brazen. Conscious of these people have either worn out or died out for ever.

Their double speak behavior some time frustrate common man of streets who find himself in great difficulty to fend their family in this high food inflation age. He could not be able to save money to save tax and his hard earned money goes to coffer which in turn would be plundered by his representative who proudly thinks himself above the masses.

Indeed to visit foreign or inland countryside for entertainment and other leisure activities is a right for every man. It is legally right as far as it goes on the fund of individual. But if it comes from government which has collected from common man on the name of development of country then it is wrong. Not only wrong but a financial and moral theft also. Being a legislature does not give license to indulge in loot of public money.

Ironically this all is happening in a state which was claimed to be free from shackles of misrule and clutches of Mayawati who used more money to decorate statues and memorial parks than in building road, hospitals and other infrastructure facilities in whole of state. Certainly these leaders are cheats and criminals who do not hesitate in showing their greed.

Akhilesh Yadav

Akhilesh had made tall claims of probity and sacredness in public and political life before assembly election of state. All his big assurance of good governance has gone in vain after formation of government. This all is sending a wrong signal particularly in youths and upright middle class before the coming general election. Example of Delhi has shown a way to electorate to settle score with the politician who ignored feelings of commoners after getting elected to house.

The time has come when we identify those leaders who publicly showed disrespect to voters and to make sure not to send again in any legislative house in future.