Everyone suckles on this mango called ‘Aam aadmi’

As I stop my car at the red light, this traffic policeman drops in a pamphlet which ‘educates’ people on the Supreme court’s judgment that all tints and films should be removed from car windows and failing which, the police will penalize with heavy fines.

Why are the police so over active about implementing this particular order by the Court? Because this is easy to implement, as it only targets the aam aadmi. The VIPs and the politicians, who in the current times are the habitual and worst law breakers, are privileged to blue beacons and dark tints and what not. The law abiding, tax-paying, aam aadmi can be easily forced/frightened by authorities unlike the politically connected who don’t care for the law and who can get the officers transferred.

The police would not show any interest in the orders of Supreme Court which are tough to implement because it demands true courage, real interest in peoples welfare, and more than anything else, calls for facing political consequences. An example can be the Supreme Court’s order which bans the use of funnel type speakers for religious prayers and prayer calls from Temples and Mosques. Do these police authorities overwrought over tinted cars, care a bit about such orders? Not even the toughest cop would dare take action on such issues. They do not because any action about it can raise political hackles and put them in a spot, get them transferred.

There are ministers who flout all rules and yet the police remains a silent party. Before such powerful people, the police behaves more like a postman than a policeman. The case of ministers who owe lakhs in electricity bills is well known and yet no authority dares touch them. When a poor aam aadmi cannot afford the heavy power bills, the power line is promptly disconnected, as happened in Delhi recently.

The aam aadmi of this country is easy prey for everyone and everything. From a pick pocket to the police and politician, from corruption to inflation, from potholed roads to traffic jams, the aam aadi bears it all. Yet, there is no major violence or revolution.

Isn’t the Indian Mango man more deserving of the Nobel Peace prize than the European Union?