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.

Thursday 11 April 2013

SECOND GENERATION POLITICIANS OF INDIA: THE DIRECT ACCESS BUT..

Continued from:
SECOND GENERATION POLITICIANS OF INDIA: WHERE IS WALK-THE-TALK ACT?
http://severallyalone.blogspot.in/2013/04/second-generation-politicians-of-india.html 

They have become central figures of the regional politics by virtue of being sons or daughters of the political heavyweights. They got the political chair in inheritance.  

Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh is a dynasty politics product. Taking the office with clear majority, when the Samajwadi Party won the assembly election last year, could have only one direct implication – people of the state, one of the most backward in India, needed change because they had refused another clear-majority government, of Mayawati’s, elected in the previous rule. Mayawati’s government was a miserable failure but, unfortunately, Akhilesh’s government too, is heading to the similar territory.

His one year of rule is a sorry picture of increasing lawlessness and governance failure in the state. The worrying sign is the future looks grim and there looks no roadmap to take the curative measures. Also, Akhilesh belongs to a political family with its head (Mulayam Singh Yadav) embroiled in disproportionate assets case. Also, Akhilesh belongs to a party that has become synonymous with political opportunism and political hooliganism.

M K Stalin, younger son and heir of the DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) patriarch M Karunanidhi is, too, a product of the dynasty politics. Given the history of regular government changes in Tamil Nadu, Stalin is slated to become the chief minister of the state in the future.

Stalin has been named in a flyover scam. He has been booked for land grab charges. Karunanidhi’s family is facing serious corruption allegations. There are corruption charges against Kanimozhi and M K Alagiri. Kanimozhi was arrested in the multi-billion dollar 2G spectrum scam. A Raja, the alleged central face of the 2G spectrum scam, has been and is being brazenly defended by the DMK.


Though, both, the DMK and the SP are political parties with regional presence, they play, have played and will be playing significant role in the national politics that has become coalition driven.

And it would not be big deal, if the political developments throw names of Akhilesh Yadav or M K Stalin as potential successor for the prime-ministerial chair sometime (sometimes) in the future. The country has already seen such political equations in the past when Chandra Shekhar, H D Deve Gowda and Inder Kumar Gujaral got the residential address of the 7 Race Course Road. Even if that doesn’t happen soon, they already have the larger states with millions of people to ‘rule’ over.

Sandeep Dikshit, son of the Delhi chief minister and Member of Parliament from Delhi, doesn’t stand the ‘national politics’ chance because he is in the Congress party. Yes, he has all the valid reasons to hope to become the chief minister of Delhi riding on the wave of the dynasty politics. In line with the trend, Sandeep, too, is facing corruption allegations.

H D Kumaraswamy, a former chief minister of Karnataka and son of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, and another product of the dynasty politics, has been named in disproportionate assets and land scam cases. Also, Janata Dal has seen so many splits that his party, JD(S) (Janata Dal-Secular) doesn’t stand a chance to give Kumaraswamy a chance, like his father got, to become a potential name for the prime minister’s office. But, in spite of the corruption taints, he has all the chances to make it to the chief minister’s office of the state.

In Punjab, it is all about the Badal family. The dynasty rules here. There are corruption allegations. There are charges of disproportionate assets. No one in the state is reacting seriously on the highhandedness of the police officials and the goons, especially in the second consecutive term of the ‘Badal family’ in the office.

The second generation lot, if they don’t come across chances in the national politics, they know they have larger states to rule, which they rule more like kings because they know they can easily manipulate the System by being the kingmakers in the national politics in the age of coalition politics with rise of satraps driven regional political parties. 

The other potential kingmakers in the national politics of the coalition era, apart from the SP and the DMK are the AITC (All Indian Trinamool Congress), BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party), JD(U) (Janata Dal-United), BJD (Biju Janata Dal), TDP (Telugu Desam Party) AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and the Left Front parties.

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