Dear Justice
Markandey Katju
Your interim
report to Supreme Court (an excerpt) reads:
..In Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ there was a
character called Queen of Hearts. Whenever she sees anybody, she shouts “off
with his head”. When someone said what about first issuing a charge-sheet,
holding a trial and giving a verdict, she replied “all that can come later,
first off with his head.” I regret to say that the Supreme Court bench as well
as Lodha Committee have behaved like the Queen of Hearts. ..
When I read this I get the impression that you are certainly
one of those professionals who has a good habit of bringing practical examples
in their explanation with a touch of humour. In your illustrious career, this
nature of yours might have a helped a lot- to become more of a cogent. Many
would have acquiesced to the masterstrokes you have and have been playing, but
then that is concerned with your profession and you have full right to do so.
Sir when I google your name, I see the box on right- a man
with peppered hair and then your very unqualified sale offer of states of Union
of India. Sir I would like to confirm, was that really you! Because that remark
almost pushed me in the state of stupor. You appeared such a profligate that
even Mr. Mallya would feel shy of himself.
You said Pakistan
could get Kashmir if it was ready to take Bihar as well. If this was
humour, then let me tell you, circumstances are not so to entertain this joke
of yours. Sir there are various Stand Up comedians who have brought such
similar instances in their act. So if this was an attempt to bring some indigenous
humour it was a fail, atleast for the youth who find all this ‘just for laugh’
on YouTube on regular basis. Yes you might have impressed your 65+ cadre. Secondly,
your role in society is not to act so lame and somnolent. And certainly there
is not going to be any ‘Comedy Nights with Katju’ in near future.
Thirdly, why Bihar?
So your conscience says that the state of Bihar is of almost no value. Not only
that you tried to highlight that the state is in such a negation that when you
attach it with another even the seeker would think of having the deal. Sir it’s
not your mistake, I understand you just re-casted that sordid feeling, with
which this state has been seen, ever since independence. The same repetitive recitation
has led to credence in the mind of Bihari’s themselves that their state is
in a bad shape. And this mentality is degrading Bihar.
Sir if the idea was to offer a bad deal so that there is no
deal. Then the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh comprising Lucknow (your
birthplace) wasn’t a bad idea at all. Most of the government policies fail due
to burden of population… I hope you got the hint. Less people easy management.
If not that you could have given Punjab- an addicted state with almost
equivalent ‘gunda raj’ by politicians. Or maybe the barren state of Rajasthan
with hardly any population bordering Pakistan, ensuring easy transfer. Talking
of crime Haryana and Delhi NCR would have given a good deal. Sir if I continue
like this almost all Indian states will stand a fair chance to get into the deal
of yours, but why only Bihar.
Sir by enumerating these problems I have no intention to ask
for the substitution of state in your joke. My request is to eradicate the rancour
that settles down there in your heart towards the state of Bihar and stand with
solidarity.
In your following posts you rightly said of ‘cheer-haran’
with Bihar. The state resources has been leeched, there is a whole act of
buccaneering going on. But we Biharis are very polite and subservient, we won’t
go to UN for this. We believe in trouble shooting not trouble creating and
hence stand for nation with full integrity and fraternity.
Sir through your humour you asked for something impossible.
From morning till evening, in office to market you are surrounded by Bihar.
Ponder over it, this joke might bring laugh on the face of few but that won’t
last long either. We need you to act as one of the tutelary of this nation, not
as any other vagabond college boy!
All the best for your case with BCCI against Lodha panel.
With all this I feel Mr. Nitish Kumar will say that I am
trying to become the ‘mai baap’ of Bihar, sitting at home.
