By cracking down on Baba Ramdev, Manmohan Singh has proved that he can wield his iron fist. Good for you Mr. Namesake Prime Minister but let me ask you this: what was this iron fist of yours busy with when the Gurjars held the country and its capital to a ransom? The Gurjars took over one of the busiest rail routes towards Delhi for almost two months and Mr. Namesake Prime Minister didn’t so much raise an eyebrow, leave alone bringing out that fist in open! And I am not even debating the merit (or demerit) of the causes for which these two agitations were being held; because if we do choose to debate that, I think there won’t be any shade of doubt in anybody’s mind as to which one was the real blackmail! To my mind the difference between the two was very elementary though a stark one: one was about taking this country back and other was about initiating a way forward for this country and its governance to clean up its act.
This government is not only corrupt; it keeps coming out with policies, each one more divisive than the previous one, with the sole intent of gaining political mileage and to hang on to the seat of power at any cost. Congress, in its umpteen years at the helm of power has made the social fabric of this country more disruptive and backward looking than ever before. Take two recent bills/acts in case: one seeks to include more communities in the list of OBC communities towards reservation in higher education and jobs. Now, I am all for social development and inclusive growth, but what way is this of ensuring that? By yet again increasing this list you are slapping yourself in the face in that you are openly accepting that all those welfare schemes and thousands of crores of taxpayer’s money spent on them, has had no beneficial effect on the marginalized communities. If anything, a progressive government should look to gradually curtail such lists by ensuring that more and more people are coming out of backwardness and poverty.
Second one is the Prevention of Communal Violence Bill. Without going into the details of it, one of the fatal and manipulative implications of it is that a victim of communal violence, according to this bill, can only be from minority community. So a person belonging to a majority community cannot claim any intervention under this act. If this is not divisive, what is??? Congress, for long has built up the bogey of ‘minority persecution’ – especially with the Muslim community- and continues to shamelessly play such divisive politics over it. Let’s put certain things in perspective here: when we talk of minorities, why do we always have to picture Muslims only? What about other communities? Second, in a country where one of the most successful captains of its cricket team was a Muslim (Azharudin); where the leading superstars of its film industry are ‘Khans’; where one of its leading space scientists turned adorable Presidents was a Muslim, where is the question of Muslim persecution? It is just a terrifying legacy of partition which the congress party has kept alive and continues to furtively nurture. In fact, talking in absolute numbers, one cannot help but think that it is a fallacy to categorize a population of about 175 million as a ‘minority’. It’s high time that the Muslims of this country stop playing into the hands of congress, and stake their rightful claim as well as their make their contribution as equal partners in India’s march towards a progressive, developed and just society.
For the uninitiated, INC stands for Indian National Congress (full name of the Congress party), but it is only apt to call it Indian National Cancer, considering what it has done to this nation. Actually, it is not very apt after all. Cancer has now found a few treatments that can stop from making it life threatening, however I cannot say the same for the INC!
I bring this discussion to end by paying my ‘disregards’ to two biggest ‘agents’ of congress (I am using the word agent here, specifically as an English equivalent of the Hindi word ‘dalla’ or ‘dalal’). One of them openly espouses the divisive policies of INC, by habitually shooting his acidic mouth off; and another does that in a very subtle and covert manner by firing missives from his sweet mouth contained in his handsome face. I am talking about Digvijay Singh and SRK respectively. This is what I have to say to them: “Oh man, you loudmouths, you love doing that, don’t you?”