Dear Mr. Suresh Kalmadi,
Namaskar!!
Welcome back to Pune. I know you have been busy out of your constituency for most time, but we can understand your commitments with the Tihar Jail.
Now, that you are back in the city and spending some leisure time thinking to decide whether or not you should contest the Lok Sabha elections or not, I would want to give a piece of ‘unwanted’ advice. Now that Congress has not given any ‘bhav’ to you and have fielded Vishwajeet Kadam from Pune instead, we are to believe that you are left with limited options – either you support Kadam or contest elections yourself or boycott election completely and live a retired life probably as a governor of Telangana or any other state. (Sheila Dixit told us being a Governor is the best retirement job these days).
My sincere advice to you would be to totally ignore first option as it would be totally unfair to Kadam who may be losing anyways, to get a perfect excuse – “I lost because of affiliation with Kalmadi.” I would also advice to dismiss the third option because I believe people should not lose the respect for the First person of the state (Governor). So, that leaves the second option – contest as an independent. I would highly recommend you to do so.
My reasons are very simple. Every time I discuss politics at the tapri with my fellow colleagues of IT company, who are from different parts of India, my head goes in shame to mention my MP is a tainted politician who has been sacked from IOA on charges of corruption. When my international clients boast about China and London Olympics, I feel embarrassed that my MP could not even ensure a clean CommonWealth Games in 2010. So much so that misuse of office party funds is jokingly called ‘Kalmadisation’ nowadays. Even during the Anna movement, when people were confronting their MPs across India to press for Lokpal, we could not even do that because you were busy sipping tea in the Tihar jail. Therefore, I now believe that in the city of Tilak and Gokhale, we cannot afford to have a Kalmadi.
And so, it would be in the earnest interest of the reputation of Punekars that you contest elections and we get a chance to repent what we did the last three times. If you feel that it is just your name that has been tainted, its not correct. Collectively it is a taint on us who sent you to parliament in the first place. So, ideally it should be us who should disown you through the medium of these elections. I wish that you contest and we thoroughly reject you. I wish you lose so badly that it be a lesson to future leaders of consequences of corruption. I wish you lose deposit in the same way our nation lost deposit of honor while hosting the games. I wish that we succeed in washing our sins of sending a tainted politician to the parliament by defeating you. I wish we regain our Pune pride by completely marginalizing and disowning you.
And I wish when you come to us this time asking for votes, we ask “Who are you?” in the same way as you claimed you suffer from dementia (memory loss) in the Commonwealth Games scam investigation.
Regards,
A common punekar
posted by Anand Walunjkar
on 22-03-2014
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