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| Election sops started drizzling from BJP | | | Dr. Pragya KhannaJamwal Mahadeep Singh | 1/18/2019 10:00:15 PM |
| The entrenched scheme of political parties who ever remain in power and keep eye to remain glued to it, come up with lucrative sweet candies in the guise of many sops as booby traps at the concluding period of their power to woo the voters. 'Modi Sarkar' has started pouring such showers, who had left with counting days to face the acid test of 2019 lok sabha elections. The 2019 elections are not soft elections like that of 2014, that Modi won like a sweet cake smeared by many fake commitments and promises that have completely lost sanctity owing to their 'Hawa Hawai' in nature. In 2014 elections, Modi jee had complete space for critiquing the UPA for his miss governance and a period of scams and also facing anti incumbency. But now in 2019, he has to defend his governance and least to speak against its adversaries. The trends that remained in Lok Sabha by-elections and in state assembly elections after Modi government came into power in 2014, losing maximum number of seats and recent bolt from blue in the shape of losing its governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and dashing of hopes in Telangana and Mizoram, and above all Ram Mandir issue have jolted the Modi Sarkar and sleepless nights had compelled it to shower some soft schemes as election trend. The government has recently announced a series of measures to try to win over farmers, small business owners and the less well-off after the BJP suffered setbacks in state elections and with general elections at the door step. Obvious slippage of Hindu voters from its baggage because of broken commitment of construction of Ram Temple has been attempted to be kept intact in the shape of 10% percent reservation to 'Swaran Voters' by legislation. Parliament passed a landmark bill reserving 10 per cent of government jobs for people outside high income brackets. The people with an annual income of less than 8 lacs and owning less than five acres of land would be eligible. Feeling heat of the middle rung business community grounded because of unplanned GST has been given relief by doubling the GST exemption to Rs 40 lakh limit. We are expecting many more showers of panacea as some monthly relief to unemployed, some relief in farmers' coffers and may be more beyond imagination coming out from the Pandora box of coming budget. Here we must appreciate every bit of relief that trickles for the betterment of a common man and as such let us thank the Modi government for the initiative to make space for 10 per cent reservation for 'Swaran castes' along with similar word of thanks to one and all political parties that favored the reservation bill, "Der Aaye Lekin Duroost Aaye".
But at the same time we must be honest to say that, Modi jee, we are not a part of sheep's crowd that is carried away by the misleading drizzles. We very honestly understand that one cannot make all people fool all the time, although one can make all the people fool for some time and some of the people all the time. The lucrative showers can be well defined as 'giving Vitamin B complex for survival after blocking the life line for complete period of almost five years. As an aware citizen of the country and as a balloter, quarry is solicited:
1. Why there was complete silence on reservation issue for complete 4 years and 9 months and the phantom has come out from the bottle at the time of approaching elections?
2. Why so much concern have detonated abruptly for poor Hindu fellow after losing power in three states and after warning signals from many Hindu organizations (on Ram Mandir)?
3. Why the arrogance that have been the DNA of BJP suddenly transforming to a point of beseeching for its second tenure?
The report card of Modi-led NDA government for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is well within the public domain to judge its performance. The sheer number of high-value defaulters who audaciously fled the country with public sector money, the almost cruel increases in oil and LPG prices, the lowering of the standard of political discourse etc.; having failed on every one of its stated objectives of demonetization (combating terror funding, fake notes and black money) while having wiped out jobs. There has been a sharp increase in cultivation of hate because of targeted attacks and BJP garlanding the perpetrators of the crime. They are defiantly communal and abusive. Almost as if they have official sanction. These are just some of the several missteps this government will have to answer for. Indians took a few steps down on the life ladder under popular Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to a recent Gallup survey, which finds that Indians' ratings of their current lives nationwide are the worst in recent record that declined in the percentage of Indians who rate their lives positively enough to rate it as "thriving" since Modi assumed office. Only 3% of Indians consider themselves thriving in 2017 compared to 14% in 2014. India had 30% of its population living below poverty line. India stands at number 64 in the list of 189 poorest countries in 2016. India ranked 100 of the 119 countries in 2016 in Global Hunger Index. There are 1.77 million homeless people in India in 2017. On employment front more than 30% of India's youth not in employment, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report 2017. India has over 4 lakh beggars that include 2.2 lakh males and 1.91 lakh females. Registration of 38,947 cases of rape in 2016, and highest incidents of sexual violence, lack of access to justice in rape cases, child marriage, female feticide and human trafficking placed India as world's most dangerous country for women in a report by Thomson Reuters Foundation in July 2018. More so getting a letter from eight U.S. Senators and 26 members of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016, raising grave concerns about the increasing intolerance and violence. Much trumpeted setting up of Lokpal, despite the passage of four years and nine months, the promised Lokpal is so artfully forgotten that an irate Supreme Court has to direct action, yet the Modi government has not appointed Lokpal. The issue stand sidelined. The promise of two crore jobs for unemployed has culminated with a different interpretation of employment, both PM Modi and Amit Shah have reiterated that even selling 'pakodas' is also employment. It is better to sell 'pakodas' or be a laborer than to be unemployed, they maintain. The BJP manifesto mentioned that its government would ensure shelter equipped with electricity, water, toilets and access to everybody. However, this is far from the reality in most parts of the country. On Ujawala Yojna, Comptroller and Auditor General's report speaks the number of cylinders used on average had come down to 5.6 and it badly expose the scheme as to its unplanned launching. Consumers of LPG cylinders under this scheme are declining day-to-day after first cylinder exhausts. While the number of LPG connections across India has increased by an impressive 16.26% since the scheme was launched, the use of gas cylinders increased by only 9.83. The manifesto was committed to 33 per cent reservation in parliamentary and state assemblies through a constitutional amendment for women. The Women's Reservation Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha in March 2010 when the Congress-led UPA government was in power. The Bill is pending in the Lok Sabha. Despite enjoying a majority in the Lok Sabha, the Modi government has not brought the Bill for passage in the lower house. Talking of 'Greater attention to border areas', the manifesto promised to ensure "return of Kashmiri Pandits to Jammu Kashmir, establishing good governance in Jammu and Kashmir while abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution". But neither the Kashmiri pandits have returned to the Valley nor Article 370 has been abrogated despite the BJP ruling the state for the first time in alliance with the PDP. The Modi government exhibited poorly thought out engagement policies towards Kashmir unrest. The extremely inept handling of Kashmir deserves a study unto itself. |
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