Continued from:
SECOND GENERATION POLITICIANS OF
INDIA: THE DIRECT ACCESS BUT..
BSP rule is no better
than the SP governance the country has seen it. Besides, Mayawati is facing
mammoth corruption charges and like the case with Mulayam, the probe is on.
All the high hopes that
Mamata Banarjee had generated, when the people of West Bengal had chosen her
over the 35 years of the Left Front rule in the state, are decimated and
crushed. Mamata’s rule and her party workers have become ‘just the other
anarchy’ in the state. The goons of the CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist)
have been replaced by the goons of the AITC.
JD(U) and BJD are doing
good. The rule of these parties is relatively less corruption-tainted.
AIADMK is again a big
question mark when it comes to corruption. Tamil Nadu chief minister and party
chief J Jayalalitha is facing court cases on disproportionate assets charges.
We all have seen what
the Left Front parties made of West Bengal, once a driver of Indian politics,
economy and intellectual growth, into an utter chaos of lawlessness,
corruption, poverty and intellectual starvation.
So, more of the
kingmakers on the table, in case of a fragmented electoral verdict, have or
have had a poor record when it comes to the politics of probity, integrity and
reform.
They will squeeze and
extract the maximum possible mileage bending the rules and manipulating the
System to continue delaying the proceedings and diluting the charges if they
come to play the kingmakers in the national politics. And emboldened, as is the
case, the wheels of corruption shall keep on getting the lubrication unabashed.
Most of the names given
to country by the dynasty politics has a different sort of primary deficiency –
the ‘disconnect’. Though corruption has become ‘fundamental’ element of the
political culture of many of such political parties, here, the ‘disconnect’
sustains and increases the corruption.
More of the names, not
in the league of the dynasty politics, have the most menacing deficiency a poor
democracy like India can have - insensitivity loaded with neck-deep corruption
as the primary driver. Here, corruption breeds the ‘insensitivity’ that
in-turns breeds the ‘disconnect’.
So many of them, yet so
few of them!
How can they represent
India when none of them have experienced the real India – millions under
poverty line – millions struggling daily to have two square meals – millions
struggling daily to buy even the most basic of the medicines – millions just
staring at the schools but cannot cross into – millions dropping out of the
schools – millions crushed to pay bribes daily even for their absolute rights –
millions being slighted everyday by the corrupt political and bureaucratic
machinery!
How can they represent
India when they have comfortably forgotten the very cause of the democratic
India - bringing millions of Indians out of a life of misery, millions who
elect them to act on their ‘behalf’!
Instead, most of the
elected lot has become antithesis to this democratic spirit. Corruption and
political opportunism are creating breeding ‘grounds’ for class hostilities in
India in the days to come.
The man of probity India
seeks needs to act with probity and with swiftness. Time has already run out. Integrity
of the man India needs must have an impartial and independent attitude.
But the way Vadra was
given clean chits was brazen. The way Ajit Pawar was reinstated was shameless.
The way Mamata Banarjee is justifying and defending the vandalism of the AITC
in West Bengal is worrying.
These and similar other developments
could have been termed shocking but more shocking is the fact that Manmohan’s
‘aam aadmi’ is getting more and more into the ‘silently reacting and silently dissenting’
attitude on the high handedness of its political rulers who have started
behaving like kings.
Certainly an ominous development
for the Indian democracy if left unattended!