The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Sunday 23 September 2012

INDIAN POLITY AND THE VALUELESS POLITICOS - THE POLITICAL JAMBOREE CALLED INDIA (III)

Continued from:
INDIAN POLITY AND THE VALUELESS POLITICOS - THE POLITICAL JAMBOREE CALLED INDIA (II)

MULAYAM GETS MULAYAM (SOFT) ONLY TO THROW YET ANOTHER SALVO – NEED TO READ IN-BETWEEN THE LINES

On September 21, Mulayam Singh Yadav, on the expected line, announced his continued support to the UPA-2 government shielding him behind the ‘secular politics’ veil. Though, the populist sentiment compelled him to attach a rider that he would continue with his opposition of the retail FDI.

He might have got the UP package deal. He might have been threatened of the CBI hunter as Mayawati was ready to extend support.

Anyway, he has got some deal, positive or negative. The way, he spoke on September 22 of bringing a Parliamentary Resolution to oppose the retail FDI, tells us more of a CBI hunter threat, that what might have been his compulsion behind continuing his UPA support. Also, Manmohan’s insistence on ‘reforms’ and UPA’s need to fill its treasury for a populist pre-election budget rules out Akhilesh Yadav’s demands of over $20 Billion relief package.

But, then committing to a move that is politically so unpopular that it can be classified as a communal pariah, is like giving your submission to someone who as an axe to grind. And so, the announcement of the Parliamentary Resolution might be nothing but yet another cacophony, telling his voter that he is opposed to the retail FDI in-principle but cannot let his Muslim voters down by allowing the BJP to exploit the situation in case the Congress party led government falls.  

Also, there can’t be read much into his meeting with the SAD leader and Punjab Deputy CM, Sukhbir Singh Badal. It was projected that he was rooting for common ground among old friends (extending his yet another statement that Third Front would be a post-election arrangement), keeping the 2014 elections in mind. Anyway, Mulayam’s party is not going to perform well to the extent that he could become the next prime-ministerial candidate.

It’s a bi-edged sword for Mulayam this time – he cannot bring down the UPA government for the reasons we saw in the previous lines – at the same time, he cannot be seen supporting the recent FDI policy move, diesel price hike and LPG subsidy cap of the UPA government.

In all this, whatever deal that Mamata has got, she has been let-off lightly. The vote of sympathy, of being humiliated by the Congress, of being pro-people, would be her added planks in the next election.

But this episode, at least, clears one doubt – of the conspiracy theories doing rounds around the Mulayam-Mamata duo during the presidential polls. Now it is clear that it was Mulayam who had turned away leaving Mamata to bite the bullet after announcing together their opposition to Sonia’s choice of the presidential candidate.

But are their chances that it might make yet another U-turn of Mulayam Singh Yadav. Yes, very well.

Even if Mulayam does bring the Resolution, he would do so only if he sees a chance that it goes to the extent of voting and the UPA government is going to be defeated.

Till then, it’s about empty words of high crescendo of the Opposition, of the Opposition within the government and of the government. Heard more empty cannons on Manmohan Singh in last two days?

It’s not about reforms.
It’s not about retail FDI.
It’s not about fuel subsidies.

Every economic move and policy is as good as the priorities attached in its implementation.

To continue..

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/