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Independence
INDIA SHINING was the platform of a political party that was vanquished
in 2004 electoral polls. Because though India was shining but Bharat that is
77% of the population was NOT. And in Indian system of electoral collage
with first past the post system , you cant win elections on the basis of the
“Indian” electoral college. It has to be done with the support of the weak and
fragile rural Bharat. The hi tech SMS and high octane Mass media
campaign can not garner enough support to get one past the post.
The Economic disparity in that of the so called urban and laptop trotting
yuppies and that of the country side peasants and proletariats is so wide that
one cants see or perceive each others life style or predicaments. Both of
them exist impervious of each other.
We have young BPO or KPO kids sporting their blue tooth enabled cell
phones on one side of this chasm and farmers committing suicide because of
mounting and non payable loans on other side. The unorganized workers ,
land less tillers, large 10% tribal population have little to reckon with the
9.4% growth. The trickle down effect to them is ZERO.
Providing of the basic human needs is the Primary responsibility of the state.
Health and Education are the two very basic needs and not servicing this
need is nothing short of criminal negligence of the Sovereign Democratic
State.
We have non functional schools, ill spent funds in great and novel poverty
eradication program viz., National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme
that are lost in the SARAKAARI mire(A recent newspaper report stated that
only 6% of the NREG funds reached the target beneficiaries) . All good
intended schemes are lost in the cesspool of corruption.
Casteism , Religious fundamentalism are the ultimate bane of India.
Scheming Britishers divided India into two segments and our own
politicians have divided Indians into hundred cast based and similar other
segments.
Mahatma Gandhi had said if Hinduism is to survive casteism has to be
eradicated otherwise Hinduism would be eradicated. The brahminical class
committed the sacrilege for hundreds of years to maintain their superiority,
the politicians have done it TEN times more severe for their narrow
parochial vote centric benefits.
Today the status as it stands no political party of any colour is prepared to
bell the cat and disembark from the casteist band wagon. Rather each one is
continually trying to add confusion to the chaos by dividing casts into sub
casts, pitting them each against one another , rendering sarkari benefits to
one and depriving another that makes them go at one another’s throat. We
need a total paradigm shift to enable the political parties to come out of the
morass of casteism. Nothing short of another freedom struggle to throw
away this yoke of casteism is imperative and essential..