Just a Small Incident ?

"Bade bade deshon mein chhoti chhoti baatein hoti rehti hai", said Shah Rukh Khan in DDLJ (need not expand it... do i?) and endeared himself to the audiences. This dialogue is still remembered by millions. But yesterday, Mr R R Patil, the home minister of Maharashtra, made me remind that very dialogue when he shamelessly said "Mumbai ek bahut bada sheher hai. Aise ek-adh haadse ho hote hi rahenge. Woh 5000 logon ko maarne aaye the, lekin us hisaab se nuksaan kam hua hai." Really??? I wonder if you would have said the same words had some of your relatives been taken hostage or killed in the attack or had your beloved 'Mantralaya' been the very site of the hostage crisis?

I beg to disagree with you Mr Patil, in your own words 'ek-adh chhota haadsa'. This really wasn't one of such kind. And your CM Vilas Rao Deshmukh saw this 'chhota haadsa' as an opportunity to promote the idea of a film with Ram Gopal Varma and his son Riteish (do hell with the way he spells his name). So its a big enough an incident to make a film on it, but not enough to take some stringent action. Isn't it, Mr Patil?

We have lost some of our top officers. All because you guys care a damn about the safety equipments. The safety equipments used by the security personnel were outdated while those used by the terrorists were at par in technology. Why??? Its because you bloody politicians are so busy proving who's Maharashtrian and who isn't.

Every Indian (including the Mumbaikars and the North-Indians) were really missing Mr Raj Thackeray and his 'brave men'. MNS (or MaNSe) men, you guys missed the action, really. Believe me, you guys would have been tagged as 'National Heroes' had you even tried to battle the fucking terrorists to save 'your beloved Mumbai'. Forget some action, Mr Raj Thackeray was so busy (read :: scared) to even give a statement to the media. It would have been a lot better had you guys raised the issue of better equipment and training facilities for the security forces. But there were some guys from the Mumbai Police, the NSG, the MARCOS (acronym for :: Marine Commandos), most of them from North India, who were playing the role of 'Marathi Manoos'. And all you guys did was put some banners and hoardings paying 'Shraddhanjali' to the slain officers, alongwith your party slogans.

And the great ruling coalition (both in Maharashtra and the Centre) says that its ministers have always taken the 'moral responsibility' and resigned. Mr Shivraj Patil, the Union Home Minister and Mr R R Patil, Home Minister of Maharashtra, both have resigned. But my dear (dirty) politicians, let me remind you that its not just 'moral' responsibility, but its the total absolute responsibility of the Home Minister to see to it that the citizens are safe. Its not a symbolic responsibility, its your very real responsibility, that is what you were supposed to do when you were given the home ministry portfolio.

Will your resigning get back those killed? The answer is 'NO'. Isn't it? It doesn't matter that you resign after so much has happened. If you can't do your work properly, you don't have the right to be there. You may have the time to change your clothes three times when there's a terrorist attack. But we don't have any patience left in us. We have been tired of showing that such incidents don't affect us, even when they do. People live in constant fear of the fact that they are not safe.

I have lived in Mumbai for quite sometime and I know what happens when the 'Maximum City' of Mumbai gets stuck in time with incidents like this. I have experienced the pain during the Train Blasts in Mumbai. Yes I am angry and outraged like most Mumbaikars, or for that matter like most Indians. I don't want to show my resilient 'spirit' once again. I don't want to pay for your security when I live in constant fear of being killed anywhere anytime. I want YOU, who were elected to take decisions for us, to actually do something rather than making political statements, mud-slinging and changing clothes.

Dear fellow Indians, its time to wake up and take the governance in our hands rather than lighting candles, wearing white. Let us all vote (for the right person obviously) and get a radical change in the system.

JAI HIND !!!