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(This is another letter sent to a newspaper that never got published. AN
OPINION DELAYED IS AN OPINION DENIED)
As expected India's politicians are disturbed over the latest Supreme Court
directions for distribution of food grain to the poor. A couple of days ago the
Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar said that the grain cannot be given
free because the government pays a heavy price to procure the food grain. In a
country ridden with hunger and acute malnutrition, the wastage of food grain
by allowing it to rot in the open but not distributing it to the hungry is
worse than the genocide in Gujarat. Has the government recovered their costs of
the tonnes of food grain which has rotted and the remaining which is unfit for
human consumption? Politicians appear more concerned about protecting their
power turf from the encroachment by the juidiciary.
The protests by political parties against the price rise is all hypocritical.
The politicians seem to enjoy the starvation of the poor and the criminal
wastage of food that takes place in this country. It is actually the judiciary
that is preventing a full blown civil war in this country by giving some sort
of hope to the oppressed and exploited that there still exists scope for
getting justice through democratic avenues. What do our heartless politicians
want, angry mobs to descend on FCI godowns and snatch the food grain?
-Soter D'souza
