No Cleanliness

on

Janmashtami

Writes Vinod Varshney

Impressions of last night remains …fragrance of music from electronic gadgets, lights mingling cheerfully with children’s enthusiasm … Krishna Leela (Deeds of Lord) depicted in thousands of creative ways with modern plastic toys… in lanes, parks, halls and homes, thousands of playful cultural enactments though less crowd due to swine flu scare. Many markets illuminated in spite of global slow-down. After all it is the Janmashtami, birth day of Lord Krishna!

But what Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has to offer on Janmashtami ? It forces that Lord Krishna's birth day is celebrated in stinky surrounding. See the photograph top left. This is Mother Dairy Road of Vinod Nagar area of East Delhi. This photograph is not an exception, go anywhere, deeper in lanes of East Delhi colonies, you are sure to find even more shocking scenes, in hundreds.

Will MCD ever improve?
Political leadership of MCD is with Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the party which tried hard to capture power at the centre and making Lal Krishna Advani the Prime Minister . Election results, national and Delhi’s both, shocked entire BJP, but seeing BJP performance courtesy MCD in Delhi, it looks like people rightly threw their dreams like garbage in dumpsters.

When Will BJP Learn to Deliver?
BJP needs to learn that people want work, and cleanliness in their colonies is one of them. Today is the 62nd Independence Day, and while I write this blog, TV is blaring out boring speech of the Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh, as ever speaking high sounding words… reminding me that people are not getting their basic rights of clean living surroundings among many other equally important things.

If it is not possible in Delhi, a year before Commonwealth Games, within just two kilometers of the Games Village, what can be expected of poorer areas of the country !