THE REAL 'AAM AADMI'

There is a political party in New Delhi, which use to portray themselves as the crusaders of the poor people in short ‘Messiah of Aam Aadmi’, the party is – Aam Aadmi Party. I simply call them as ‘Dharna Party.’ Their specialty – nothing, just to abuse few politicians and corporate and their motif is to create anarchy. However, why, the hell I am talking about them? I need to talk about the real voice of ‘Aam Aadmi.’ I would not discuss some people who always shame the common person and live a two faced life by the name of ‘common man.’

R. K. Laxman the famous cartoonist is no more among us. He inhaled his last breath on 26 January 2015 in Pune, Maharashtra, India. He was 94 years old, and a person who has contributed so much for the freedom of expression by his cartoons. He was associated with The Times of India since 1951, and his cartoons were the daily part of everyone’s life. He criticized many famous people of India, including former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by his cartoons. He was the voice of ‘common man’ in the India and always raised the issues that had social concerns. He struggled for the liberty of media and freedom of speech; at the time of emergency, and then he disapproved the ideology and policies of Indira Gandhi. There are very few people, who raised the voice for the poor people and stood with the right thing - R. K. Laxman was one of them.

I made a rough character sketch between the real ‘Aam Aadmi’ and some people who try to be the ‘crusaders’ of poor and common people. I feel hurt that Mr. Laxman is no more- a voice is now silent. The tone that showed Government the real meaning of democracy and aware them with the problems of poor people. May he rest in peace! I hope the so-called political party of New Delhi could learn the real meaning of ‘common man’ from his cartoons and stop creating chaos in New Delhi. Thanks for reading it.