INDIA or should I suggest
that you use the connotation Hindustan or simply go by the word Bharat, a word
which has come to denote the most fictional aspect of our constitution –
Secularism!! Indira Gandhi surely possessed a shrewd strategy to make people
believe that she was indeed a secular and “highly” democratic leader, not that
she wasn’t but it cannot be denied that her efforts to consummate the masses in
one single identity were half hearted and perhaps never on her agendas
catalogue. Most modern Indians believe that religion has no role to play today;
they also wrongly perceive that region and religion are two different concepts.
Yes, dictionarising can be fatal in Indian context, for if they have even
visited the villages of Indian states, still living under the brooding sky of
petty communal politics and land love (or region love) they wouldn’t believe
so. “Angrez Bharat chodd Gaye aur Antonio Ko dahej Mei de gaye…..” most people
aversive to Sonia Gandhi seem to echo this today, but the buck only starts
here.
BJP, at presently and rather
ironically being considered a possible alternative and not “the alternative” to
congress has long been indicted of playing communal politics and this has
played in favor of congress for people consider it to be only corrupt but not
communal. But, it is an accepted fact in Indian political intelligentsia that
politics without religion and now region is futile. People in India will always
be motivated to vote through religion and region, not other pressing factors
like development and heralding the new era of change and bringing in TITAN
LEADERS AND NOT PYGMIES FOR LEADERS.
Thus, one can safely conclude
that congress is as much communal as other parties because it is as much
ambitious as others are, and to win the dirty game, it has to play dirty. One
has to praise congress for playing so stealthily and cautiously. Introducing
communal quotas, passing drafts of bills and not the bills themselves,
controlling media, appointing a “Sikh” candidate on the highest post, getting a
true statesman like Pranab Mukherjee out of the way by appointing him the
President, reshuffling the cabinet to appoint Chidambaram the Finance minister
to put him once again the in charge of fiscal embezzlement department, not to
forget that he is a Karalee, keeping mum on anti peace comments of Raj
Thackeray, not even raising a finger when movies like My Name Is Khan are
banned, or more so giving out impotent judgments where instead of converting a
disputed religious land into a charitable ground or workplace, orders it to be
unfairly divided among the contesting parties. The buck has just come half the
way.
The issue of growing naxalism
is now something a part of the Indian society for youngsters…..SHAMEFULLY
indeed! The ruling government (congress) has managed to astray all sense by
converting it into a matter of regional politics, swaying the minds to think
that the ruling parties in the disturbed areas are responsible. It is however
partially true. The basic issue remains that of unemployment and dire abject
poverty, the goonda Raj of the police, because obviously the government doesn’t
care, the three tax system the poor people have to follow i.e. paying the
government, the naxals to protect and the police to keep their daughters from
being raped, the problem is not of the region or the religion, it is of
bringing development and peace for everyone and not just few privileged
classes…it is as simple as that and as difficult as it can be made.
The moment “akalis or
akhileshs” win, the congress is quick to react. The manifestos defame the rival
parties; make hollow promises and developmental projects only show their
honorable selves in the fourth or third years. The aam aadmi’s intellect to
choose a good leader is played with by instantly reducing the prices of
commodities just 6 to 5 months prior to elections, not to mention that
elections n India are a complete show of money, mafia and muscle. So where does
the hairy root of all these problems lie????
It lies in us!! Yes, not so
difficult to comprehend, and no, I don’t refer to your indispensable support to
Anna Hazare. We the youngsters, the very soul of the nation, have to rise up
against the evil. We have to look up from our Black Berry’s screens and look
deeply in the present scenario and segregate fact from fiction. Rise above
politics aiming to divide us into pro reservation and anti reservation (another
congress gambit), my state your state, my Gujarat (read dharma) and your Assam
(read Bangladesh), we have to come together as Indians, any other identity will
have to be forfeited to love for mankind which Gandhi spoke of and lived and
died for. Else, we are doomed. Change is knocking, desperately pushing on the
doors of freedom where the head can be held high indeed, where there is no fear
because I know that if a policeman keeps a wrong eye on my girl my community
will support me, even if I voted for a congress or bjpian leader, that if today
an IAS officer decides to stand against corruption, our support to him will not
be limited to facebook shares and updates but will be an active one ….a true
picture of shakti pradarshan. Let the dogs beware…the tigers (read Lala Lajpat
Rai) and the lions (read Bhagat Singh) are back in the jungle!!!
Jai Bharat, jai hind!!
