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Blindly supporting a Political party or a Political Leader seems multiple levels dumber than Film star fandom.
In the past few years whenever I see support for some party as if it is elixir I have several questions.
Economic Development:
From china to numerous other south asian countries have had tremendous economic development in the past few decades. You know what that means there are lot more people with jobs/salary/better health care/education than they were before. Why did India not get to the level China got?
How is this not a relevant issue in election?
Is it because you and I still get our roti, kapda aur makan that economic development that could benefit so many others looks like greed to you? How is this not a issue congress had to address - the failure of growing India to the capacity its 1.25 billion population deserves?
dynasty based caste based(potato/Potatah - dynasty/caste same thing) Rahul Gandhi has assured some amount of money to every poor person in the country. As if he is king who is giving away some amount from his coffer to poor as a charity act. Except this is a democracy, so it isnt a largese you are donating, it is at the end of the day people's money you as a voted official are distributing. And if the country has developed similar lines like China did in these past 3 decades they wouldnt need these sort of dole out.
Corruption:
Scam after Scam is the only constant factor in Congress led governments. I mean they even had one 5 year period of governance without Gandhi government but never without corruption scandal. From bofors to 2G to all other numerous other unreported scams. I am pretty sure there are quite a few corruption scandal that never made it to Media. 2G happened during first UPA regime and came to limelight only in the second.
Yet none of the congress leaders from Sonia to Rahul to P Chidambram ( cough cough) to Sam "middle class shall pay" Pitroda even had to address a single question on corruption. It is not an election issue they had to fight or face. why?
Religious based issues:
Kamalnath with his glorious role in 1984 Sikh massacre riots is currently the CM of MP. What does Rahul Gandhi's apologies for 1984 on twitter mean when Kamalnath is the CM?
Second issue, Congress's track record when it comes to rights which get affected by the garb of religion. Shahbano had got a fair verdict from the court and Rajeev Gandhi rushed to ensure no muslim women ever gets her fair maintenance. Then there was Triple talaq, congress would never have touched it a barge pole.
Imagine how much women would suffer if Sati, Child marriage and numerous other religious evils werent made illegal. Even after law, there is a still long road ahead towards an actual Societal change. Atleast it is a first step.
Third, just a reminder Satanic verses was actually banned in India.
Indirect casteism is still casteism:
Any government in India can now come to power only with the help of regional parties. The regional parties
1. are typically casteist - from yadav to ramdoss that is what politics works at regional level these days.
2. Gundagiri: Mamatha is the first example that might come to your mind, truth is this is quite true for all regional parties too. Levels of this might vary based on how despotic the leader at the top is.
Congress have always formed always alliances with these parties, so the blame comes on them too.
The counter to all the above cant be the other party can be blamed on the same issues too. Every party that stands for elections needs to face the issues not get a free pass which I feel congress has got it this time.
As citizens there is only one opportunity in 5 years to take the parties to task and that has been wasted.
It doesnt matter what the election results are at this point.
In the past few years whenever I see support for some party as if it is elixir I have several questions.
Economic Development:
From china to numerous other south asian countries have had tremendous economic development in the past few decades. You know what that means there are lot more people with jobs/salary/better health care/education than they were before. Why did India not get to the level China got?
How is this not a relevant issue in election?
Is it because you and I still get our roti, kapda aur makan that economic development that could benefit so many others looks like greed to you? How is this not a issue congress had to address - the failure of growing India to the capacity its 1.25 billion population deserves?
Corruption:
Scam after Scam is the only constant factor in Congress led governments. I mean they even had one 5 year period of governance without Gandhi government but never without corruption scandal. From bofors to 2G to all other numerous other unreported scams. I am pretty sure there are quite a few corruption scandal that never made it to Media. 2G happened during first UPA regime and came to limelight only in the second.
Yet none of the congress leaders from Sonia to Rahul to P Chidambram ( cough cough) to Sam "middle class shall pay" Pitroda even had to address a single question on corruption. It is not an election issue they had to fight or face. why?
Religious based issues:
Kamalnath with his glorious role in 1984 Sikh massacre riots is currently the CM of MP. What does Rahul Gandhi's apologies for 1984 on twitter mean when Kamalnath is the CM?
Second issue, Congress's track record when it comes to rights which get affected by the garb of religion. Shahbano had got a fair verdict from the court and Rajeev Gandhi rushed to ensure no muslim women ever gets her fair maintenance. Then there was Triple talaq, congress would never have touched it a barge pole.
Imagine how much women would suffer if Sati, Child marriage and numerous other religious evils werent made illegal. Even after law, there is a still long road ahead towards an actual Societal change. Atleast it is a first step.
Third, just a reminder Satanic verses was actually banned in India.
Indirect casteism is still casteism:
Any government in India can now come to power only with the help of regional parties. The regional parties
1. are typically casteist - from yadav to ramdoss that is what politics works at regional level these days.
2. Gundagiri: Mamatha is the first example that might come to your mind, truth is this is quite true for all regional parties too. Levels of this might vary based on how despotic the leader at the top is.
Congress have always formed always alliances with these parties, so the blame comes on them too.
The counter to all the above cant be the other party can be blamed on the same issues too. Every party that stands for elections needs to face the issues not get a free pass which I feel congress has got it this time.
As citizens there is only one opportunity in 5 years to take the parties to task and that has been wasted.
It doesnt matter what the election results are at this point.