“If it’s true, it’s shame for the Indian Army”, said one senior politician. “It’s highly disturbing to even know that things like this exist at all in this institution”, lamented another politician.
All these statements referred to Lt Col Purohit’s arrest in connection with the Malegaon blast and the growing religious tendencies of Indian Army.
But I wonder why and what this brouhaha is all about? Is it something which happened out of the blue? I thought this is what our politicians wanted for a long time! They should be congratulated on having been able to penetrate in to the last bastion of true secularism of this country which so far thrived on the spirit of co-existence!!
The politicians cutting across the party lines fed the religious sentiments of common men so much so that today it has turned in to a monster, ready to gobble up anything and everything which comes in the way.
Our ‘respected’ leaders could not do away with reservation even after sixty years of Independence so that their vote bank does not migrate to the opposition camp. They couldn’t bring the single law system for all the citizens of India lest one or the other vote bank loses it’s faith in the party and thus causing the harm to the prospect of the party to come in to the power. They always tried to play safe and in the process divided the country socially if not geographically!
No, I wasn’t surprised at all at the turn of the events! It was something which was waiting to happen for a long time, thanks to our politicians and thanks to us who chose them!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Petty Politics
There has been a lot going around in the media and the political circles of north India and Maharashtra, courtesy Raj Thackeray and his brand of politics. There have been stories of a Bihari thrown out from the bus, A Bhaiyya lynched to death, a police encounter of a youth from Bihar who tried to hijack the bus. So on and so forth.
Yes, there is Raj Thackeray who has been ever bellicose, taking this ‘Non- Maharashtrian’ issue to a new abyss of Indian politics in an effort to garner political advantage. People from rural North India or should I say people of underdeveloped states, particularly from Bihar and UP are being seen as a threat by MNS(Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena) and are being targeted viciously.
This was a reason, good enough to make a person wonder about the concept called India where people of Indian nationality are free to go in any state and seek employment but what was even more surprising was the fact that it brought almost all the leaders of Bihar together to condemn the wrongs done to Biharis and UPites ,which even a national calamity like Kosi flood failed to do. It’s apropos to mention here that many of the flood victims are still living in makeshift tents.
The leaders were trying to over smart each other while expressing concern for the Biharis who had gone to Maharashtra in search of job and better life .Laluji talked big who ruled Bihar for about fifteen years, Nitish too wasn’t far behind with Ramvilas Paswan in tow.
It’s definitely a crime not to let people of other states come to a state which have more job opportunity in a country but is it any less a crime to rule a state for more than a decade and then leave it in a situation where people hardly find any job. There has been virtually nil development, be it in infrastructure, education, industries or employment.
Today Laluji boasts of his railway achievements but why didn’t he do something to uplift the life of Biharis when he was the Chief Minister of Bihar. Why he couldn’t create enough jobs for them? Before talking about their welfare in other states he should think what the reasons are and why people are leaving their own abode in search of better life and in some cases simply LIFE?
May be he didn’t have the time as he was busy in formulating the caste and religion equation in order to win the Assembly elections!
Raj is to be blamed for the present condition of Biharis but are the leaders of those states to be blamed any less? Give it a thought.
Yes, there is Raj Thackeray who has been ever bellicose, taking this ‘Non- Maharashtrian’ issue to a new abyss of Indian politics in an effort to garner political advantage. People from rural North India or should I say people of underdeveloped states, particularly from Bihar and UP are being seen as a threat by MNS(Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena) and are being targeted viciously.
This was a reason, good enough to make a person wonder about the concept called India where people of Indian nationality are free to go in any state and seek employment but what was even more surprising was the fact that it brought almost all the leaders of Bihar together to condemn the wrongs done to Biharis and UPites ,which even a national calamity like Kosi flood failed to do. It’s apropos to mention here that many of the flood victims are still living in makeshift tents.
The leaders were trying to over smart each other while expressing concern for the Biharis who had gone to Maharashtra in search of job and better life .Laluji talked big who ruled Bihar for about fifteen years, Nitish too wasn’t far behind with Ramvilas Paswan in tow.
It’s definitely a crime not to let people of other states come to a state which have more job opportunity in a country but is it any less a crime to rule a state for more than a decade and then leave it in a situation where people hardly find any job. There has been virtually nil development, be it in infrastructure, education, industries or employment.
Today Laluji boasts of his railway achievements but why didn’t he do something to uplift the life of Biharis when he was the Chief Minister of Bihar. Why he couldn’t create enough jobs for them? Before talking about their welfare in other states he should think what the reasons are and why people are leaving their own abode in search of better life and in some cases simply LIFE?
May be he didn’t have the time as he was busy in formulating the caste and religion equation in order to win the Assembly elections!
Raj is to be blamed for the present condition of Biharis but are the leaders of those states to be blamed any less? Give it a thought.
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