THE FLAGRANT/SCANDALOUS LIFE STYLES OF
THUMPING/THUNDERING POLITICIANS
By S.P. Attri (USA)
May 5,1999
1. In the Western world, the BJP is referred to as the party of
the Hindu Nationalists, and the Hindus supporting this BJP are
commonly referred to as the Hindu Communalists. To be a Hindu is
implicitly regarded as a terrible thing, a horror of horrors of
sorts. Rare indeed it is to find a Western journalist who does not
go in for the use of these choice epithets to distinguish and
describe the Hindus.
However, one Hindu that has escaped this ignoble distinction and
has actually impressed the West and has made her mark in the
Western circles is a fat lady from South India. She has been
entered into the Western Hall Of Fame. They have conferred on
Fatty (Jayalalitha) the "Statsman of the Year" award of
the American Friendship Society and they did this just days before
she toppled Vajpayee-led govt. Obviously, the West is thoroughly
relishing the antics of this Fatty and is quite impressed with her
performance.
2. Who is this Fatty? This lady goes by the name of Jayalalitha
Jayaram, a former movie actress who leads a party in Tamil Nadu
and who reduced the BJP Governmnet in to a minority when she
withdrew her support. Jayalalitha, who is known here only by her
first name, is desperate to avoid a conviction on numerous
corruption charges, but now has no guarantee of a friendly
government in New Delhi anytime real soon.
Some in India optimistically hold the view that the biggest loser
in the recent political fiasco is Ms.Jayalalitha and that she is
going to be a pariah in Indian politics from now on. This is
because Congress would opt for TMC in Tamilnadu rather than hook
up with corruption-ridden nuisance that is Jayalalitha. Hence they
conclude that Fatty has successfully self-destructed. But has she?
Think again!
3. Let us look at the fabulous and fantastic life-style of Fatty,
this darling of the West, a life-style that is nothing short of
"eye-opening." In just two words, her life-style is a
style of Costly Comfort. Whether it comes to the deciding the
fates of governments or just the attending of tea parties in
Delhi, Jayalalitha conducts politics from the most lavish
five-star setting. The hotel staff have begun to recognize the
assemblage that accompanies her. For the last couple of days, they
have been there in the morning with a bag full of money. The
transaction is quick -- Rs 42,000 for "Madam's" suite
and Rs 7,200 each for the five rooms reserved for the
"minions". The Rs 78,000 bill having been paid and the
receipts taken, the madam's staff is informed upstairs. Everything
is accomplished with fine-fingered efficiency. Madam herself is
busy with things more important. The empress, after all, is
playing king. She is sitting in Chandragupta suite at Delhi's
Maurya Sheraton and that is where Jayalalitha is holding court --
with the Laloo Yadavs and the Amar Singhs. Besides calling on
Sonia Gandhi and Mulayam Singh, paying hotel bills is the least of
her worries. Her wish is the AIADMK's command. Pay in cash and let
the party pay -- the orders are being dutifully followed.
4. The Rs 42,000-a-day suite where Fatty stays is considered PLUSH
by any standard of computation. Many times, the hotel suite and
the rooms are booked ahead and the entire amount paid in advance.
After all, what's Rs 7.02 lakh when the mission involves breaking
and making governments. And so what if her MPs too have to be
accommodated, even though they have official residences in Delhi.
Eighteen is an important number in Parliament. It made her the
largest among the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government's coalition
partners. They are all there in attendance, at her beck and call.
It's soon picnic time over there, when they all get into
Ambassador cars and head for Tamil Nadu Bhavan.
5. For Amma (another name by which Fatty goes), of course, it's a
different story. Depending on her mood, the food is ordered
through room service -- mostly Chinese, for which she has a
weakness. Her friend Sasikala Natarajan, is always around to see
that Jayalalitha is comfortable. The hotel staff hasn't heard her
voice. It's Sasikala who does the talking. Be it for room service
or when the bell boy has to be summoned -- just in case the lift
needs to be brought up to the 16th floor and kept ready for Amma
to walk right in. Indeed, the last time she was in Delhi for
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy's famous tea party, it was
the faulty lift at Ashok Hotel that made her switch to the Maurya.
6. When she's pleased, she smiles. Like she did when she entered
the plush Chandragupta suite. Before she arrives, her personal
staff puts things in place. Fax machines are flown in from Chennai
along with her favorite bedsheets and towels. Pictures of gods and
goddesses are hung on the walls and cell phones recharged. Twelve
suitcases full of Madam's belongings are then unpacked and
arranged long before their leader arrives. Placed just as she
likes them -- the saris with matching purses and shoes. Her staff
is quite familiar with the nays, -- no laundry and no phone calls.
This is a rule that she herself follows, for reasons quite
different. Hotel phones she doesn't quite consider safe and
clothes, well, why else the 12 suitcases. Or why her own linen?
Even the hotel staff is wondering. For, if Chandragupta's sheets
were good enough for Hillary Clinton and Sheikh Hasina why not for
the lady from Chennai? Why indeed?
7. It is absolutely shameful to see the manner by which the
'leaders' of our people carry themselves, spending money like
water to support their extravagantly lavish life-style. Is the
electorate that dumb? How in Gods name can such people be allowed
to carry on? They ought to hang their head in shame.
Also, is she the only politician who is trying to fish in
corruption waters and maintain a lavish life-style? Not by a long
shot! Indian political pitch has been vandalized for
decades...legacy of Nehru era and the Congress Rule of decades. It
is the politicians of the Congress party who introduced and
perfected the present system to gain political ascendancy. Because
of their desire to capture power at any cost, any attempt to stem
the tide of this system of corruption, has only tended to widen
the chasm of the system.
After having boasted that she caused an earthquake at the Mad
Hatters Tea Party the Madam from Chenai (Fatty) now says she is
not the one responsible for the resulting upheaval...symptoms of
selective amnesia! Human society has a strange way of passing the
buck.A friend of mine has a dog and it bites people - and his
excuse is that the dog is doing its duty. So Fatty wriggles free,
as does the dog.
8. Corruption is not unique to India nor is India the only country
that is trying to tackle the calamity of corruption faced by its
nation. The country of NaPakistan, next door also has a damaged
political pitch. The Accountability Bureau of Pakistan has said
that it has unearthed Rs.235.71 million worth of assets belonging
to Benazir Bhutto and Rs.5021 million belonging to Asif Zardari,
her husband. The couple had apparently paid an incredibly low tax
equivalent to $680. The present P.M’s (Nawaz Shariff) Shariff
industrial group is reported by the Pakistani press to have grown
from a paltry $5.4 million when he first took office in 1991 to
$217 million to day. Nawaz is not all that Sharif, that he is made
out to be. The dumb Pakis also know how to make hay while the sun
shines, even though their country is facing dire economic
consequences.
9. But just because the corruption kingdom of Napakistan is bigger
than ours, does not help us nor does it lessen the burden of our
corruption problem nor its multifarous consequences. We need to be
aware that the worst enemies of India have always come from
within. The Mughals and the British could never have subjugated
the land without the support of hundreds of traitors and
corruption-ridden politicians. Even today, the loudest voices
against India framing sensible economic policies or creating a
minimum credible deterrent come from within.
In the Jawaharlal Nehru University, for example, the joke is that
there are professors to spout the Chinese, the German or the
American line, but none who support the Indian one. The trouble is
that this is no joke. As the fawning supplication before White
Trash Sonia Gandhi (and by implication her backers) has shown, we
have a long way to go before being free.
10. It is true that Fatty's life-style is Fabulous and
arrangements gargantuan, but her personal problems are not small,
either in degree or size, in fact they are of the size of
hippopotamus and chances are equally big that she will be circle
sailing and facing the music in courts of law one of these days.
Though no longer working in the movies, Fatty is still acting out
the scenes of her dream factory in real life. Fortune has given
her the power and she is using it ...to the maximum advantage.
Consequently, she is feeling her oats along with her political
importance and is beginning to believe that she is King Kong on
top of the Empire State Building. But the day of her reckoning is
fast approaching (on the beat of muffled drums). Every villain
gets caught for sure in the end and gets his punishment. A fitting
way for her part would be to have her punishment administered the
way they do it in the movies:
I would like to see her foot get caught in a rail-road track, and
all the angry Hindu Nationalists loaded in a train, driven by Bal
Thackeray.
Awaken Bharat!
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