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.
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.
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