Rajni to clean city drains?

The BMC seems to have discussed asking Rajni Kant to help them in getting the City drains cleaned ( report appeared in Mumbai Mirror, 22nd April).

Well, Rajani could perhaps try his hand at everything, and produce results too. But perhaps to make some miracles, like rescuing the government or the BMC etc, he would need to don the enthiran (Robot) attire. One could imagine how much money was spent in making the movie, and perhaps a good part of the money would have gone to the technology part of it, the machine being able to perform a variety of operations, making it appear so simple, but at the same time successful, including the feelings created for the robot. Hence, the BMC should also think of the money to be spent, if Rajni is to help them out.

The BMC seems to have discussed plans for cleaning the drains in the city well ahead of the monsoon. And, they seem to have lost all ideas. Now that corruption has become the burning topic, their usual practices of awarding of contracts for the cleaning of drains may be riddled with fear of the public eye on their moves. The fact that they have run out of ideas could very well be imagined by the twenty minute joke session they had during the discussion on this topic. Perhaps they were under the impression that it is not money that they were spending, which could be traced to see if there is corruption, but It is only the time that they were spending, and who cares perhaps as to how they spend their time.

With the economy in mind, the joke session may in all reality be a measure of austerity. How the corporators could otherwise enjoy and entertain themselves?

The BMC idea is perhaps good . The people in Tamil Nadu not only see Rajni as a super star but also as a super power, perhaps more so after his exploits in the Robot movie. He also has lots of supporters wanting him to enter politics and clean up the system, since he is also known to be a clean person.

The recent chiding of the Government by the SC: 'what are they doing, are they sleeping? in tracking black money is one more example of Government being inactive, fatigued and run down and run out of ideas as to how to govern. Once the party comes to power, they are not worried about actions and promises to people. They are in a sleep mode, in terms of major actions. But the SC now seems to have administered them a 'wake up' pill, to bring them out of slumber. And suddenly the PM has assured that the LOK PAL bill would be brought before parliament in the coming monsoon session, the UN convention in graft would be ratified, and public governance system will be improved through reforms.

Will all this happen? Would this sudden waking up ( that too through the SC admonition) for action have come about without the fast until death resorted to by Anna Hazare? Does not all this show that we need more activists to join the civil society movement to make the government work and deliver? And, there should be continuous association of civil society when it comes to tackling major issues. Good ideas and action points should always be welcomed by government, irrespective of who provides them and how they get produced. This does not mean that fasts should always be resorted to for anything to be got done by the government.