Sunday, 13 April 2014

Indian Democracy

2014 General Elections in India have witnessed the most ugly face of Indian politics. Political parties are indulging in unwarranted allegations and counter allegations involving personal  and frivolous issues which in no way affect the Country and the common man. In a matured democracy, issues which  affect general public should take precedence. Issues like infrastructure development, poverty alleviation, health,education,foreign policy,industrial development,agricultural development etc; should take centrestage in manifesto of political parties instead of petty politics.  Political parties have made certain basic and silly mistakes. Congress is trying to hoodwink and fool the electorate by encashing RTI, Food security bill etc; which are inadequate to hide their incumbancy, corruption, failure of governance which the public has witnessed over the last five years. Latest book published by Mr Baru, media advisor in PMO, adequately proves what people had been witnessing and talking all these years about two power centres in the govt. Mr PM had been a mere puppet in the hands of Mrs Gandhi during the last ten years and more prominently in during the second tenure of UPA. Mr Gandhi has missed the golden opportunity by late entry in to centrestage politics.In my opinion right  moment for him should have been about two years ago when Anna was agitating in Delhi. Mr Kejriwal acted smartly and grabbed the right opportunity to enter active politics. AAP's emergence as king maker in Delhi elections is a great success story mainly because of basic issues  like  incumbency,corruption , exploitation of common man by power companies, water mafia etc; during the previous regime. Mr Kejriwal failed to live up to the expectations of Aam aadmi by quitting just in 49 days.In fact his decision to step into national politics appear to be premature mainly due to short time.It appears that he was obssesed with Delhi success. Other AAP candidates like Kumar Vishwas, Yogender Yadav , Ashutosh, Rakhi Birla etc; had been very vocal, arrogant and disrespectful in their election speeches.BJP on the other hand had been banking on Mr Modi and Gujrat model of governance.No doubt that Gujrat has developed a lot as regards infrastructure, power sector,real estate, agriculture, irrigation,industry etc; but there is lot to be done.All states in India are unique in their own ways. Gujrat development template therefore will not fit in everywhere.Gujratis in fact are business minded and entreprising which is not the case everywhere.Mr Modi also should not resort to personal attacks and hitting below the belt. As regards SP and BSP they are known for hate politics.UP where these parties are in prominence is one of the most under developed states in the country. Voters in these elections are likely to ignore them.Akhilesh Yadav has let down the people of UP very badly almost in every sphere. Farmers in the state are starving as for the first time they have not been paid for their sugar cane despite Allahabad High Court order and the state govt had been a deaf and dumb spectator.Didi of TMC remains to be arrogant. She does not even have respect for Election Commission of India.She is expected to have a greater say in forming the govt at the Centre. Lalu and Nitish are not likely to outshine in Bihar because of regional factors.Besides, there are others who are effective in their own states and will have a say in forming the govt in case NDA fails to win about 275 seats.But, the most amazing thing is that the Indian voter has matured and is intelligent enough to vote the deserving party to power, so let us wait for May 16.