Indian politics: Non-Congress and non-BJP alliance needed to save and serve India
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Corruption and communalism continue to haunt India and its system. While corruption is national phenomenon as every party competes to loot the resources, making India a top corrupt nation, BJP represents open Hindutva communalism for Hindu votes and hate politics targeting Muslims that makes the world hate India.
So, the Congress and BJP are the dangerous political outfits that the people must fight. For this, all right thinking people and parties must join hands to forge a national alliance for genuine democratic change.
While the Congress party is a dying party the BJP is growing fast capturing Indian states one by one.
Led now by PM Modi the right wing Hindu communal party BJP has been finding new states amenable to its ideas and agenda while many o fits traditional zones continue to crumble. In fact, such has been the routine development of BJP in India.
BJP that came out of erstwhile Janata Party that ruled for a while India as the new non-Congress experiment first ruled Delhi state with indirect node from the Congress party that ruled India and many states and used BJP ( Jana Sangh) as the most powerful tool to threaten Muslims in the country. The BJP wonderfully used the opportunity provided by the ruling Congress party with which it was connected through RSS. Earlier, BJP did not throw any threat to Congress and so Congress party could use it and media lords against Muslims.
However, later when BJP and RSS surged ahead in states and federal system they used the Hindu fanatics put in important places by the congress governments to their own advantages. The mythological TV serials Ramayana and Mahabharata gave the Hindutva communal party the needed national exposure from its northern prolife and they started representing Hinduism and Hindus in a wholesale manner. BJP came to be equated with Hinduism just like Indira Gandhi had equated herself with India. So, Indira is India and BJP is India and Hinduism.
As BJP gained strength by aligning with regional parties, Congress began losing its seats and importance, By taking away Hindu vote banks across India, BJP has removed Congress government in many states though suitable strategies and became the ruling party of India. Interestingly, though BJP contested the 2014 general poll in an alliance with likeminded parties, it secured comfortable majority in the parliament on its own.
While, earlier, BJP used the states across Arabian Sea that geopolitically faces Pakistan, like Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, etc, now it targets North eastern states with which China and Bangladesh alternatively share borders. BJP raised issues with Bangladesh and China to find political access to the states and form the party units and increase its vote banks. The then ruling party Congress promoted the hate politics of BJP, perhaps not realizing that one day the BJP would replace its and ruled reign as well,
The election results of three of the north Eastern states announced on March 03 has made the BJP the boss of the region. Not only the Congress but also the communist CPM lost power to let the BJP claim governments.
There some leaders still left in the country that want ot fight both Congress and bJP and save the nation.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) on Saturday said an alternative to both BJP and Congress would emerge soon to bring qualitative change in the Indian politics. He told reporters that the talks in this regard had already started and it would soon take some shape.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) President claimed that people want change as the present political system had miserably failed and said he was ready to play an active role in bringing that change.
KCR, as Rao is popularly known, believes that the once the process for change begins, it will spread like wildfire. “The country has to move in new direction. People should think about it otherwise we will remain the same. How long we will hear stories of the progress in the US and China,” he asked. “Change should come in the people. The tools for this change could be coalition, front, or anything,” he said.
Stating that there is no difference between the BJP and Congress, he said these two parties were in power for almost the entire period since independence but even after 70 years there is no qualitative change. “No qualitative change could be seen by people even after 70 years of democratic exercise. This is unfortunate. People are vexed now,” he said.
The TRS chief did not attach any significance to Saturday`s results in three northeastern states, where BJP has done well. “You will have different results in different states,” he said. He said BJP could bring no changes. He criticized it for not doing anything for farmers. “If tomorrow Congress comes to power, nothing will change. Only the names of the schemes will change,” he said. “Qualitative change is not taking place in both the regimes. What has happened so far is unsatisfactory. Why there are Naxalites in this country. Why there is so much unrest. Why there are social fights everywhere. Why Dalits and tribals are fighting,” he asked.
KCR also did not rule out joining hands with Telugu Desam Party (TDP), a partner in BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. TDP, the ruling party in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, has threatened to walk out of the alliance over the BJP not fulfilling the commitments made to the state.
Recalling that he was the first Chief Minister to support demonetisation, KCR said he thought it will yield dividends and curb black money. Similarly, he supported Goods and Services Tax (GST) as he thought the move would improve taxation.
KCR said he had nothing personally against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and described him as his best friend. “I have nothing against Modi or BJP. I am against the slow progress of the country. The slow pace of progress is not digestible,” he said.
The Chief Minister denied making comment in his recent speech in Karimnagar to insult PM Modi, saying he had respect for him. KCR, however, found fault with the BJP leaders who are targeting him for criticizing Modi. “This is the democracy. When there is a situation, we can criticize the prime minister,” he said. The TRS president said that he doesn’t recognize BJP as a political party in Telangana. He termed as the joke the statements of some BJP leaders that BJP will come to power in the state in the next elections.
Obviously there could mere such leaders like West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee seeking to cleanup Indian system.
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