Policies are mere written
documents until put into effect methodically and honestly. Almost of the
policies are well planned. The problem lies in their implementation. And the
chronic levels of corruption in every aspect of Indian society – in its political
systems – in its social structures – in the wings of governance – has left
millions to live and die in conditions of abject poverty and no dignity.
This convoluted implementation of
policies is the central reason behind insurgencies in many parts of India including
the Naxal affected areas as well as the in the North-East states when some
ideologically aligned people organized armed groups to demand their rights, especially
in poor rural and tribal areas and in remote and geographically difficult
terrains, where not even the 10 paise of a Rupee spent reached to the intended
beneficiaries. These insurgencies are decades old now.
And like most of the insurgencies,
unable to take on the might of the state to bring the change they intended for,
they end up being the criminal elements and extortionists, because, by the time
they realize they cannot win the ill-conceived armed rebellion they began with
in the land of the Mahatma, they have become too used to of living a life of no
restrictions where they are the government, where they are the executioners.
Some of them who rightly understand
the ‘realizations’, surrender to the government while others who by now have
become like the hardened criminals with a distorted ideology of disowning the
System, decide to run amok and live the life of outlaws.
That is the story of the most of
the armed rebellions in the independent India. They began with ideologies to
correct the anomalies in the System but the System changes them and the time squeezes
the vestiges of the ideology out of them.
And the people, for whom the
ideologies took up the arms, are still there, in fact, in more miserable
circumstances. They are now being crushed from both sides.
The state, with all its good
intent, is still struggling with the ‘implementation’ problem leaving millions
still in hopeless situations.
And the
armed-rebels-turned-militants are targeting them as well as the subjects of their
ruthless regimes where arbitrary brutal executions have become so common, where
they adduct and extort, where they smuggle and steal, where the use the people
for their carnal pleasures, where they use the people as their shield in
shootouts with the security forces.
Yes, some of the ideologues with
honest intent are still left, but the armed rebellions could never have been
the answers to the problems of democracy in the land of Mahatma Gandhi that is
also the world’s largest functional democracy.
That sums up the armed insurgencies
in the independent India.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com
