Sunday, April 19, 2009

Building the Nation

Hello hello hello…
I am not here to give any election speech not any speech which has no logic
Time of elections and time for electing our leader. In our life time we can elect our Member of Parliaments probably 6 to 8 times (taking average age to be around 70 years). Can we miss this opportunity? Well my answer would be NO! Thanks to the initiative of Jagore.com.
Suddenly we listen the words like corruption, ramarajya (the reign of Rama, has become synonymous with a period of peace and prosperity), which were forgotten before elections by our leaders.
Would like to bring or refresh our own history which has been forgotten by us and by our leaders in form of small story..(don’t tell me yet another story !!)
Let me take you to the times of King Dileep, who is great grandfather of King Rama.
His Ministry has some of the intelligent, educated people who are always to protect their king and kingdom.
One day, King Dileep started discussions on the financial statements. And the discussion started on how/ where to use the reserves which are piling up. And the entire board room was divided into two groups. One group thinks that reserves should be spent on defense system. They feel number of soldiers should be increased and should be provided with latest weapons and state of the art training to fight against the army.
Other group was completely against the idea of spending for defense system. This group is under the believe that if reserves are spent on basic amenities , infrastructure and education. They started giving examples to the king as to how these things can make the citizens of a country into knowledgeable persons and loyal. And inturn each citizen will protect their country as their own. Their theory was based on the assumption that we should have army but at the required level to protect against the invasion not for invading others.This group feels that though if our country is poor, enemies may not dare to attack us because of fear from the people who are so loyal to their king and who are well educated.
After hearing all these, King Dileep has shown interest in the second group. Based on this, he started formulating many policies which are for the benefit of society. He ensured that education will reach at all the levels and ensured education should be in a way which imparts good attitude among all the citizens.And suddenly within 3 years, education system has started giving good results .
Poverty has came down, many industries flourished and again the money spent in all the three years has started giving the returns and broad room has seen very less criminal cases.
Due to this all the enemies of the King, started requesting for the friendship as to how a country can progress so quickly in such a less time. And hence enemies became friends and trade between countries began and increased.
Would be great if our leaders understand this and leads us to the path of development and corruption less world. Well.. I do not want to question anybody. Just want my friends to elect the leader who is good and less corrupted.( Less corrupted because it is very hard to find who is not corrupted…)

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