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On what's wrong with his India

On what basis, do we say India Shining? What is all the hoo-ha about August 15? How can we be happy? Yes, it is a happy day but how can we forget people living on the streets, in poverty. Still in our villages there is no water, no electricity for 18 hours, in summers they can't put on fans. They don't have this little comfort of cool breeze.

These basic things are not there and look at the political gimmicks! Look at the [recent] Uma Bharti natak. Not only Uma Bharti, but see other politicians. One, it was ridiculous that ten years later they wanted to arrest her. Even if you had to, they should have sent the police to wherever she was.

What is this that she will travel in her own way? Do you give this facility to any other common man? And then you put her in a guesthouse and say she's been arrested.

When Lalu Prasad goes to prison for few days, the walls are whitewashed, fans, ACs are put -- what is this? What kind of a bloody nation are we? It really angers, boils your blood. The law should be same for everyone.

This man Dhananjoy was hanged after 14 years! You take 14 years to decide whether to hang a man or not! Likewise there are so many people who are slogging in jail. In certain cases, after 10 years the court says -- no, no he's innocent -- what the hell do you mean innocent? You kept him for 19 years in jail!

Every year there is sukha [drought], but nothing is being done. The Opposition, whichever bloody Opposition, they don't play a positive role. If the ruling party wants to do something good, the Opposition feels insecure that they will consolidate their position. That is not the role of the Opposition, how can you put your party or yourself before the interest of the nation and the people.

It is a very sad state of affairs. People should start reacting. I am not saying violent [reaction]. You can't stop people who are violent by nature, they have been there in history, they will be there in the future. The only request to them is that they must target right people because you cannot curb their instincts, they are angry people. For example in Iraq they killed innocent Nepalese who went in search of jobs to feed their families. You have anger against America, but you are putting bombs in commonplaces, that's not terrorism.

Om Puri in AK 47

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