While we are in the midst of battling this over a year-long vicious Covid-19 raging pandemic, let us not forget to pay homage today to our very revered Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the Father of our Indian Constitution, on his 130th birth Anniversary.
We need to be reminded that Dr Ambedkar who was a symbol of knowledge must never have visualized that thick-skinned persons without integrity but with never-ending greed for power and wealth would ever be occupying very high Constitutional posts. He had so aptly said, ‘However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.’
It is anguishing and so deeply distressing that our great nation has been for some years going through political turmoil on account of which so many precious lives have and are being lost.
Dr Ambedkar and his team had burnt the midnight oil to draft our great Indian Constitution to keep our country secular and democratic for posterity. We can never forget Dr Ambedkar as well as the Great Mahatma and all that they strived to achieve. Gandhi once said, “The future depends on what you do today.”
Politics today is no longer a dedicated voyage of selflessly serving society. It has become a personal investment business venture, more self-serving than public servants. Today even at the grassroots level it has become a ruthless business paying very high monetary dividends, with morals and ethics twisted, thrown to the winds while arrogance and thuggery rule the roost.
