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| BJP dishing the bad politics | | | Jamwal Mahadeep Singh | 3/13/2019 11:14:41 PM |
| A political party that is in power or in opposition does all things to get only for its own goal and interests. In our country, the goal and interest of political players among ruling BJP is to retain the musical chairs and that of others is to dethrone the BJP to capture power. The target for both remains always the voters and aim to create favorable vote bank, no matter in a legal way or through illegal resources like: law enforcing agencies (always by the ruling party), print and electronic media, and negative propaganda among the people, spending the millions of money for this. The BJP spent Rs714.28 crore (overhand) on the 2014 general election campaign, according to the contribution report it filed with the Election Commission of India. The underhand expenditure in no way can be arrived at. More than a third of all the BJP's poll expenditure was spent by the central unit on one item: media advertising. It is called dirty politics. Now when elections for next Lok Sabha are at the door step, 'Modi Sarkar' has started pouring showers of many projects at all the places in all the states, he is rallying for votes, who had left with counting days to face the acid test of 2019. BJP delivering the dish of its under performance in a fashioned plate of shining words and is all set to divert the attention of main plank of citizenry about achievement of its poll promises of 2014. This is also ironic because we know that the prime minister loves to advertise. So much so, that a parliamentary query revealed that the government has spent close to Rs 4,880 crore of tax payer money on advertising their 'achievements'. The successes of the Modi government's schemes most of them rebranded are debatable.
The BJP is just trying to survive the changing tides and maintain their supremacy. The entrenched scheme of political trickeries by Modi, eyeing to remain glued to power, had come up with lucrative sweet candies in the guise of many sops as booby traps at the concluding period of his power to woo the voters. Some investigation deserve at the voters level, as to why there was complete silence on 10% reservation to 'Swaran Voters' by legislation completely for 4 years and 10 months and how the phantom has come out abruptly from the bottle at the time of approaching elections? 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)? Why the arrogance that have been the DNA of ruling elite, suddenly transforming to a point of beseeching for its second tenure? When all time fancy promises and certain set agendas of exploitation of emotions on religious issues have died down, some ill-fated tragedies are being exploited to its full for political gain by the Modi-led BJP government and the statement of retired general (Lt. Gen D S Hooda) on the subject is the eye opener. The baffling statements by the ruling elite, when criticized or clarification sought by the opposing side, it becomes irritating to the ruling fraternity and askers are branded anti-national and leveled as sympathizers of enemy country. Whenever someone intervene in an instance of government failure and demand redress, the ruling party and a section of the biased media ambush them, with accusations of politicization rather than introspecting its own doing. This is the tragedy in democracy that opposing party is downgraded and deprived of its right to ask questions from the ruling party. This is most ridiculous and fundamentally undemocratic. The job of political parties is to mediate between the people and the state. If they did not do this, what use do they have? The delivery during first two years of Modi government on law and order and other fronts of concern invited a letter shot by 34 top American lawmakers including senators of US House of Representatives in Feb 2016, urging PM Mr. Modi to take immediate steps to ensure that the fundamental rights of religious minorities are protected and to control the activities of groups, such as the RSS, and instruct Indian security forces to enforce the rule of law and protect religious minority communities from religiously- motivated harassment and violence and bring the perpetrators to justice.
I like to put up here the lines of 'Suzy Kassem', an American writer, poet, philosopher, and multi-faceted artist of Egyptian origin, that appears to have been written much earlier than the situation, relevant at the present and we are facing in present set up: "Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? It is because since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned, to accept, that the direction of the herd and authority anywhere - is always right". All political parties and leaders should work among the people, win their confidence on the strength of their stated goals and build public opinion in their favor and then look for the vote. Man full of fails who cannot master his own ship, the ultimate leader teach us how to lead and behave. Our political leaders right from PM to street politician in the BJP camp and from President to down below in other parties are passing on batons of most dirty dish of downgrading each other by their filthy language and words to next player in the track and field event of mad political relay-race to influence the civilized citizenry to win the 2019. "There are two kinds of politicians on Earth: Those who expand the freedoms and those who restrict them! The second group has no chance to triumph and they will always be remembered as spooky characters from a horror movie!"? Mehmet Murat ildan
Good politics promotes logic and bad politics promotes blind faith. Good politics believes in respect for all people irrespective of their differences and bad politics believes in creating hatred among people. Good politics believes in unity whereas bad politics believes in divide and rule. Good politics always try to find out permanent solutions of the problems whereas bad politics always try to deviate attention of the people from the real problems.
Concluding, the voters are not so orientated on specific issues of public policy, not educated enough as to understand the true value of their vote, and did not realize why we should vote, hence act in a very irresponsible way during elections and are easily trapped by political con artists. I think this might have been the conceptualization by Mehmet Murat ildan, a Turkish author, to put in public domain the quotation "A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit (one who behave in an irresponsible way) society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!" Here it becomes necessary for Indian voters to introspect, whether are we not a victim of the words of this quotation? The bad dishes served, as cookery of bad politics of ruling party, are sheer number of high-value defaulters who audaciously fled the country with public sector money, the lowering of the standard of political discourse, sharp increase in cultivation of hate, 3% of Indians considering themselves thriving in 2017 compared to 14% in 2014, India ranking 64 in the list of 189 poorest countries in 2016, 100 of the 119 countries in 2016 in Global Hunger Index, 1.77 million homeless people in India in 2017, 30% of India's youth not in employment, world's most dangerous country for women in a report by Thomson Reuters Foundation in July 2018, a different interpretation of employment, i.e. selling 'pakoda, ranking at 138 of 165 countries in World Press Freedom Index 2018, in annual Global Democracy Index, India dropping at 42nd position slipping from 27 in 2014, These are some snap shots of the dishes we got in Modi's regime but in ruling fraternity, the India is still shining like that of 2004 claims. |
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