Three Babus— Sitaram Yechury is one for all practical purposes;Amartya Sen and Pranab Mukherjee—spoke God’s own wisdom today.

The FinMin said ‘India will need to take new policy initiatives’ to tackle inflation. ‘India needed practical solutions…, such as building political consensus to open up sectors to foreign investment,.’

The FDI in Retail policy initiative, we all know, was stalled at the Parliament by the political parties a few days ago.

Yechury , commenting on Anna and the Jana Lokpal bill, said, ‘the right to make laws lies with the parliament’.

A big hand for the two big C-men. Very seminal thoughts ,you see!

Yechury, like Amartya Sen a few hours before him, was interpreting Parliamentary Democracy for the laity. Dean Sen did not think that flogging a drunkard at a village and jailing a minister for disproportionate assets have some common denominator. Mass perception of law and parliamentary legislation were very different things. Yechury was saying the same thing, or so he thought. Once people via the constitutional provisions GAVE the parliament the right to make decisions and laws, they… THE PEOPLE… had nothing more to do than to comply… or stuff it !! Till 5 years later, by which time inflation, economic slow-down, graft, petrol prices, unemployment, crime, internal strife and political chicanery will have displayed their VishwaRupa. The parliament meanwhile could go on enacting laws which have no bearing on issues crucial to the well-being of the people, and all the members of the House could notch up points for themselves in aid of the next election.

Pranab da was saying, see how the FDI in retail policy was stalled and the US Dollar hit the Indian rupee for a six! Had WalMart and others been permitted to invest dollars in Indian retail markets even 2 weeks ago, the rupee wouldn’t have touched that horrifying exchange mark of 54 plus!

The substance of the matter is that lay people like Anna and us shouldn’t be interefering with policy making. When graft becomes a menace the parliament will know what to do. It will do ‘bhatebher is phossibhul’ in reasonable time. After all LN Mishra’s death at Samastipur in 1973 has been in court only 37 years and the Babri Masjid issue has been there only 60 years or so! Poverty, unemployment, illegal money, money –laundering have been there only that long, too!

Samajh gaye na! All in good time friends and Indians. ‘bhy dhis kholabheri, kholabheri dhi’?!