Red Voilence in Lalgarh

The Communist ruled West Bengal saw one of the worst ever hits of Naxal violence this week. Lalgarh dist of the state is continues to be in Maoist seize, in spite of BSF jawans and para military forces trying their best to bring situation in control. Keeping aside the outward show off of this violence, taking an insight to the root cause reveals a fundamental truth that humanity had been learning and forgetting since its birth. Let that be French revolution against the aristocrats or the Russian upraise against the serfdom to the grand old times of people revolting to change the rulers, the hunger of stomach and a burning desire of the masses for equal justices forces the hands to hold weapons, to revolt against the existing systems, to feed their basic needs .

Human race had seen many such instances in the history, which it forgot and moved back to the same old aristocratic ways, with names changed each time. The latest name of the mad race for the past 2 centuries being capitalism, the developing countries like India paid a blind eye to the bridge between haves and have-nots. The intelligent land lords masked themselves with new name forming trusts to protect their properties. The basic needs of the masses of the country are still ignored by the governments. With one third populations still lying below poverty line as per govt. stats shows the plight of the nation. The worst show is the most stupid method used by govt. to calculate the poverty line. Govt. calls the people who can afford to 2100 calories a day in urban and 2500 calories a day in rural areas above poverty line. The unanswered question here being is it food that is all a man wants in a day? The growing gap between rich and poor, the luxury and pomp of certain sections of society, while the brothers of the same race stave for their daily needs is the main provocation for the happenings of the day.

Violence of any form needs no toleration, still it’s not the masses that are to be blamed for the happenings. Govts carry the main blame in the whole show. Though the schemes like NREGS have been enacted by governments most of the benefits reach to the party workers rather than the deserved. No government has paid a proper attention to the needs of the poor and to the right of every individual for the basic needs. The starving stomachs see no other way than violence, branding them terrorists is no solution to the underlying problem. If the rulers of the nation spare some time to figure out the reasons behind the plight of Lalgrah or Chattisgrah or any other Naxal affected area with whole hearted approach solves the problem.
The political parties of the day shall come out with a solution to end the poverty for once and all, giving equal justice to every individual in the society. At the same time it’s the time of the Maoists to reconsider their path of violence, instead try catching the attention of the society with the problems faced by the masses and unveil the lapses in the administrative system and thus help in building a better India.

Feudal Congress, against Feudal titles

The party that has been in dynastic rule for more than half century has now asked its workers to shun their feudal titles. The leadership in party feels it a moral violation in politics to gain from the family name, so raises an interesting question, will the Gandhi’s give up the later half of their name and stop calling themselves Gandhi? For the reason, they have been gaining in every election not just for themselves but even to their followers in every election since independence in the name Gandhi. I would also like to point, if she were not a Gandhi, would that be possible to Sonia to reach the dais she stands on the day. There is also another point to make, how can congress stop people from recognizing the royal born as Maharaja or with some other title they hold on even after they renounce.

India had 540 princely states during independence and abolishing and preventing people from having the feudal titles is to symbolically kill the history of the nation and to wipe the prominence of great rulers who once ruled. The feudal powers of the people bearing these titles no more exist in independent India. Yet the good work done by their families still wins them respect and love in the hearts of people. The principle in politics is not very far from that of business, people look for a brand before they buy goods in market. The brand gives people an assurance of quality, so is it in politics. When a man from well-known family contests’ the election, a section of people feel secure voting to him with a confidence in the family that brought him up to the stage. Such leaders have exceptionally failed the voters of their constuency with their words and actions.

India had been a feudal country for the centuries and de privileging its workers from their origins is a step towards establishing the supremacy over the party by Gandhis, to make the seat even more secure from some royal born gaining advantage over their future generations. It’s a step to check the charisma of many leaders in younger congress who have fair chances to out beat Mr. Rahul Gandhi through the good work carried in the estates held by their families. I shall not miss the opportunity to ask Mrs. Gandhi if it was not the family name that has won her and her Party good will in the elections. Had she just been Sonia she would not have made it to parliament so soon and with so much of ease. Isn’t that the family name of Gandhi that Rahul banked on and raised to the place he chairs today and the respect he commands from many sections of Indian society?

The way Congress has volunteered asking its workers to stop use of any feudal titles is just a political stunt in the lieu of the fact that the party leadership itself is feudal from decades.

Jai Hind

Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan

It was in 70’s when Indira imposed an emergency over the nation, the days when democracy of the country was jailed, the youth of the country awakened against the rising evil. Those were the days a new leadership emerged from the educated India. The first ever winds of change were seen all across. None other than Lok Nayak Jaya Prakash Narayan, a freedom fighter and a close aide of Mahathma was driving force behind these winds of change, which shook the very base of Congress leading to the defeat of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay in the election that followed.

11th October 1902 was the day when mother India has seen the birth of a son another son who made her proud of. It was the day when an eminent freedom fighter and a renowned politician of Indian politics, Mr Jaya Prakash Narayan was born in Saran dist of Bihar. After Graduating from Patna University, he left abroad for further studies. On his return from US in 1929 he was an active participant in Indian freedom struggle, and was jailed several times. Narayan gained fame in 1942 during quit India movement, when all the senior leaders of congress were jailed for leading the agitations. He was known for setting up a left wing in Congress, Congress Socialist Party, also served secretary for the wing till Independence, which later on formed into Praja Socialist Party.

Narayan kept away from active politics after the Indian independence. He worked with Vinoba Bhave in Sarvodaya movement. It was then; he broke up with Praja Socialist Party and started pursuing Lokneethi. An ideal he believed in; the polity of People stands higher than Polity of state. He returned to the National Politics in late 60’s when election of Indira Gandhi was declared void by court of law. He called for Indira to resign, for which the reply came as an emergency culling the democracy of the nation. He led the student movement in Bihar in which he declared his wish for Sampoorna Kranthi, a complete revolution. It was this student revolution, that built up the generation next of Indian politics with new leaders like Chandrasekar, Murarjee Desai, A B Vajpayee, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar seeing a rise. His struggle against emergency imposed, and the Lokneethi he pursued got him the Title Lok Nayak. He was the main inspiration behind the early tides of change against the dynastic rule in Congress to touch the shores of Indian politics. The mesmerizing speeches of Mr. Narayan reaped in the elections with the defeat of Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi, bringing the Barathiya Jana Sang led coalition to power in centre. Despite his heroic struggle to restore democracy in India, he never fought an election, nor did he assume any post in any govt. Narayan expired in October 1979.For his selfless service to the nation he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 1998.

The Front Factor in Election

A five week long marathon to elect the government of the world’s largest democracy has finally come to an end, with a verdict that showed unpredicted as ever. Despite several alliances that tried to influence the mind set of aam admi, the voters of India still preferred to be loyal to Congress. The fronts formed on no common ideological grounds certainly failed to mislead the democracy of the country into a hung. From the outcome of the polls it’s quite evident that the citizens of the nations are more concerned of a stable central government than having a handy number of petty fools gambling the national benefits in their own interest.

Left certainly carries the main blame in the whole game, trying to project America as a demon waiting to cripple the nation with pacts signed against national security. To an average Indian citizen US was certainly a land of dreams and the middle class of the country still sees it a pride having a NRI in family. The panic created by Left parties in lieu of the Indo US nuke deal backfired in the election.

The double standards of development followed by left in regard with development from West Bengal to rest of India has created an impression against Left in the mindsets of the intellectual society of the nation. Left had at been at its best in implementing the capitalist ways in Bengal, deviating from its basic ideology, on a contrary it hindered the basic development activities led by various state governments. Left was definitely with the UPA during all the price hikes, still tried to baffle people by the protests each time the prices went high. All these factors with the ideological non compliance of the so formed new fronts have proved negative impression in the mindset of middle class voters.

The third front on a whole was a set of opportunists trying to play a blackmail role in centre to fulfill their own needs with the numbers they gain in parliament. Not at least being able to project a leader to lead the nation ahead in 15th Loksabha, the newly formed fronts were bound to fail. The lack of a common manifesto, with no lack of highly opportunist politicians, it is no surprise in loosing election. The common man of the country was certainly aware of the communal politics played by a chief minster with the claim for the post of prime minister. And the anti English campaign led by the opposition leader of the same state paid then back with no favoring Congress in the highly decisive state of the country ruling out the chances of a Front lead.

The terror attacks seem to be less influential in the recent polls with recession creating more terror in the minds of middle class Indian citizens, the win of Manmohan a finance expert was obvious. Also the personal attack on a clean man of the current day’s politics created a wave of sympathy among the neutral voters turning the dice away from BJP.
The cheap ways employed by BJP to project the weak anti terror policies of existing government have shown a negative effect on minds of people.
Left and BJP deserved the defeat for their irresponsible behavior during the times of national crisis. Its time that they learn lessons from the experiences of this election and play a more constructive opposition in 15th Sabha.