Scene-1 (Election)
(Song)
Election! Election!
Election! Election!
You, is that me… who will win this election?
You, is that me… who will win this election?
Election! Election!
Election! Election!
1: Frogs in the well do know me well-
Else than me will take them to the hell
2: Labeled on their stale skin- as my
Kith and kin
1: Vote! Vote for me! – For some
Rice coupons free!
2: Vote! Vote for me! – take some
Shoe polish free!
Cell phones free! Love birds free!
Nail polish free! Nail cutters free!
Marriages free! Funerals free!
Instant coffee free! Inner garments free!
But no fair and free elections!
(Varieties of illicit voting, Giving money, threatening of voters and independent candidates)
Election! Election!
Election! Election!
You, is that me… who will win this election?
You, is that me… who will win this election?
Election! Election!
Election! Election!
(Filled with music-The elections vote on the heads of candidates and the election gets over. Announcement of results- As the counting goes the candidates rise up and down and gradually one goes up on and on and is being announced as the winner)
Sequence-2
And the winner of the hearts of our countrymen is
“Hundywala Gulab Jamun”
Chorus: Jamun! Jamun! Jamun! Jamun!
Jamun: Dear the ones who voted for me and the ones who didn’t vote for me! Here I take the oath that I will respect my state and my statesmen! And will never abuse my power!
Governor: Ministers…
Ministers Chorus: Will never abuse my power
Sequence-3
(Ministers burst into laughter to celebrate the victory)
Minister1: A great return on investment
Minister 2: Yet to take the return…
Minister 3: Reserve some for the internal ward elections too.
Jamun: Promises would be kept throughout my rule. No complaints! No tantrums! You got me, ministers…?
Ministers Chorus: Yes Jamun!
Celebration song:
Now the ministries,
(Throwing the baskets to every minister)
You take the Public works! You take the Finance
You take the education! You take the law
Water is yours & Food is yours!
And the rest... Take whatever you want…
(Jumps over each other, fights and snatches for the baskets like monkeys and keep the baskets like hats on their heads)
Scene-2
Jamun: Do your best! No man would suffer nor would a woman cry. All I should hear is peace! Peace! Peace!
Minister 1: Leader! But you talk as if you are a good real chief minister!
Jamun: What do you mean lad?
Minister 2: How do you ask us to deliver the peace? For all freebies we have announced, we need money! For all the campaigns we did, we need money!
Minister 4: Lakhs and Lakhs
Minister 5: Crores and Crores
Minister 6: Then where do we get the money back?
Minister 7: Lay the roads, but don’t lay…
Minister 8: Build the bridges… but don’t build…
Minister 9: Give them some and you take the lump sum
Minister 10: Share it amongst ourselves.
Minister 11: Store it for the next election
Minister 12: It is a business!
Minister 13: Where the people are raw materials
Minister 14: where the machines are government systems
Minister 15: where the profit is handful
Minister 16: And the product is nothing!
Hahahahahahaha
Corruption! Corruption!
Corruption! Corruption!
(Song)
Scene-3
Dream Sequence 1:
Construction Company’s chief: This is the map for the new road to be laid. It runs across the shore and connects four cities and reaches the capital.
Chorus: Wow. Wow. Brilliant. Fantabulous!
Media: The government of Gulab Jamun comes up with the Asia’s biggest roadway connection and it is
World’s one of the best.
Dream Sequence 2 :
(People speak in the public places)
(People speak in the public places)
1: Wow! What an amazing achievement
2: How great about Gulab Jamun
3(Woman cries): Every vote to him now counts.
Current Sequence:
Gulab Jamun: Good job buddy! It is such a brilliant plan! How much do you charge for this?
Construction Company’s Chief: Well, it costs 5000 crores to your government.
Gulab Jamun: Finance…
Finance Minister: Yes boss…
Gulab Jamun: Do you have any questions?
Finance Minister: What is the break-up?
Construction Company’s Chief:
Hundred for labor, hundred for machines,
Hundred for things, hundred for tools
Hundred for tar, hundred for power
Finance minister: Shut up…. How much for Jamun?
Construction Company’s chief: Thousand crores…
Finance minister: For me…?
Construction Company’s chief: 800 crores
The doorstep peons: For us…?
Construction Company’s chief: 200 each…
Two getting up beneath the table: At least fifty…?
Construction Company’s chief: Granted…!
Chorus: Project granted…
Construction Company’s chief: Tenders?
Chorus: Not required…
Corruption! Corruption!
Corruption! Corruption!
(Song)
Scene-4
(A board that says “Licenses for telecom technology sold here” is kept in the middle of the stage. Three teams rush to the middle of the stage to grab the board.)
Team 1: Give us the license! Give us the license! I am ready for negotiation!
Team 2: Give us the license! Give us the license! I will pay you this much commission!
Team 3: Give us the license! Give us the license! I have list of allegations! (Threatening tone)
Team 4: Give us the license! Give us the license! We brought you to the ruling position!
Minister: Dear vendors, these are two boxes for you to pay. One is the license fee and the other is your donation for the party’s development. Be liberal to donate and raise the oldest party of the country.
Team member 1: How much is the license?
Minister: 2 crores
Chorus murmuring: Very cheap! Very cheap!
Team 1: Give me 4 licenses
Team 2: Give me 10!
Team 4: Give me 20!
Chorus: Long live minister! Long live minister!
(The teams queue up to donate their money and take away their licenses)
Corruption! Corruption!
Corruption! Corruption!
Song
Scene-5
Background newsreader: The roads have been washed away in the recent heavy downpour. The ministers reach the site tomorrow for the visit the affected people.
(Heavy downpour with thunder and lightning. With a siren sound minister arrives into the bunch of people who are crying)
1: Save us and do the honors our minister!
2: Our children could not eat nor sleep nor go to school during the day.
3: Our business is gone due to the washed away roads.
Minister: All right! All right! I understand what you say! I know you will be hungry! First, quench the hunger and we will meet up one day for the rest of the issues.
(Food packets are distributed and the people praise the minister to the glory)
Chorus: Long live minister! Long live minister!
(A youngster comes out from the crowd and shouts at the minister and the rest of them hold him)
Youngster: You, the culprit! How dare you throw the food packets to close the mouths of my folks! Aren’t you the reason for bad roads? Tell me how much did you take for yourself? You killed our lives.
People try to take him away.
Minister: Throw him away (murmurs into the ears of the security)
(The people shout and push each other to take the food packets)
Scene-6
(A boy throws a newspaper on the gang of youth who are sleeping on the roadside)
1: (reads the news paper) “Complains heap on the ruling government! The ministers should answer”
2: (Yawns) the media has nothing to do than to put down the ruling party.
3: The news is true! Are you happy with what is happening?
4: It is quite natural for any political party to corrupt when it is in power.
(5 &6 tries to hit the 4)
5: Are you then ok with bumping roads with crests and troughs all over the roads! Are those accidents natural?
6: Are you ok with raising prices and dying poor out of starvation. Are those deaths natural?
4: You can just keep complaining. You cannot do anything
2: I second what he says. They have the power and money. You can hardly question them
5: Is it ok to leave as it is?
4: No choice
2: We are powerless
6: It is your imagination that we have no choice. It is an illusion that we are powerless.
Team 1: Then what is the choice?
Team 2: Ask
Team 1: For what?
Team 2: Information
Team 1: To whom?
Team 2: Anyone in the Government
Team 1: What is the benefit?
Team 2: When they know that we know
Then they are careful.
Team 1: So what?
Song
Ask them questions! Ask them questions!
Why? When and how? Wither, where and what is that?
Ask them questions! Ask them questions!
You have the right to information!
And remember…
When they know that we know
Then they are careful…
Scene-7
Ministers: People are on roads! They ask innumerable questions! Do something!
Jamun: Who gave them the power?
Minister 1: They shout in the air asking questions and they say they have right to information
Jamun: They are right
Minister 2: We didn’t ask you if they are right or wrong
(Jamun comes to the corridor and addresses the huge bunch of people)
Chorus: Jamun! Down! Down! Jamun! Down! Down!
Jamun: I am always at your feet my folks!
(The noise settles down)
Jamun: Is it all for the roads? Those are after all due to natural disaster!
1: It is just not the roads. The prices have gone up.
2: We cannot afford for even two meals a day
3: You eat the money of tax-payers
4: Corruption in each and every department of yours
Jamun: I think you are provoked by opposition parties. You are misled.
1: I belong to none of your parties.
2: I am just a school student who would vote in another two years. I have no political connections
1&2: We know where you talk from.
2: Your ministers are corruptors
Jamun: So, what do you want now?
1: Freedom! Freedom! Freedom
(The huge mass of people joins)
Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!
Minister: You have mistaken! You are already free!
2: We meant freedom from corruption
3: Freedom from selfish politicians
4: Free from polluted government systems
Jamun: What do you expect us to do now?
1: Bring transparency in your rule.
2: Let the people know how every department is functioning.
3: Answer every question of every citizen
Minister 5: Or what?
3 &2: Get away from the rule! Get away! Get away!
Chorus: Get away! Get away! Get away!
Jamun: Listen to me! Silence! Silence! Silence!
We will sit down for a talk
Chorus: Heyyyyyyyyy! (Shouts in joy)
Scene-8
(A father, a son and a daughter are sitting in seashore.)
Son: Daddy! Where are we going tomorrow morning?
Father: We are going to sit and talk with the ministers to get a solution to corruption
Daughter: What is corruption, daddy?
Father: Good question. Now tell me, who is your class leader?
Daughter: Kiran is my class leader and am the assistant leader
Father: Good! Don’t you have powers as class leaders?
Daughter: Yes! We do have.
Son: What powers do you have?
Daughter: We help the teacher in taking the attendance, we inform the misbehaving students’ names, we are responsible for the things in the classroom, we lead the class for any competitions that happen etc…
Father: So, if you happen to misuse your powers, say, if you don’t inform a misbehaving student to your teacher, just because she is your friend, then it is corruption.
Son: Cheating….!
Daughter: Is it just not cheating, daddy…?
Father: It is! Corruption is nothing but cheating.
Son: But how is money involved in that?
Father: If your sister takes money from her friend for not informing about her misbehavior, then she is doing corruption
(Daughter gets up with a shock and anger)
Daughter: I am not a corruptor! I am a good and honest girl!
Son: I will also be honest when I become the leader!
Father: Would you like to join the meeting tomorrow with the ministers?
Daughter & Son: Yes!
Father: So what is corruption?
Daughter & Son: Cheating!
Scene-9
Song
Raise the shoulders young comrades!
Let the values win the race!
Raise the shoulders, young comrades!
Let the values win the race!
Let the sunshine light the brains!
Set the new trends!
Shoot out like fiery bud- and
Fly into the skies of glory
Like a perfect tiny bird!
Corruption is the common enemy!
Fight him with the fire in belly, fervency!
The general population sits on one side and the ministers headed by Jamun sits on the other side.
1: So, what have you decided?
Minister 1: Every transaction will be transparent
Minister 2: We will continue to run a corruption free government
2: You can never continue to run a government without your consensus on what we are going to say now.
Minister 2: A single person cannot change the history
Chorus: But the big group would create the history
Jamun (to the other minister): Keep your mouth shut! (to the people)You can start your proposals
3: Every department will announce its transactions every month in newspapers
6: In my language
7: In my language too
4: Every minister is subject to answer any question by any citizen of the state
5: I should be able to question you
6: I should be able to question you
7: And I too will question you
2: Every state should have a committee to enquire the corruption cases on ministers.
5: Every minister will be monitored by every citizen of the state
Minister 6: It will cost us more! Is that fine?
5: Would not cost more than what you corrupt every term
Minister 7: We are people’s representatives. How can you doubt us?
6: Voting is a single minute event. So, you don’t represent throughout your term.
Minister 8: There might be legal problems to bring this system in place
7: We have checked all the legalities and there are no issues
Minister 1: I am resigning my position
(Jumps like a frog and sits in front)
Minister 2: This cannot happen and am leaving
Minister 3: I will not continue to be the minister anymore
Minister 4: I will not accept to this
Minister 5: I cannot give my money
(Jumps like frogs) (Forms a structure in front of the people and as Jamun jumps into the gang, the whole frog gang jumps in a single stretch and the general public chase the frogs into the well.)
3: No more greedy frogs in this state.
4: And remember whoever wants to run the state
5: You are monitored!
6: You are answerable!
7: You are accountable!
(Raise the shoulders young comrades, song)
Son: Daddy! Is every politician bad?
Father: No my dear son, there are honest and genuine politicians too.
Daughter: I am going to become a politician
Son: Me too…
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