It’s usual for Politicians with criminal cases to declare that they should be ultimately be judged by the People’s Court calked the Elections. This game helps them pretend that they are thump sucking innocents and above any Law of the Land. And no Judiciary can slap their judgement on politicians as people’s court is superior as per their narrative. An average person can’t grasp that the Constitution and Laws are Superior to any democratic exercise. So politicians trust in the gullibility of people and in their own ability to fool people without accountability.
Politicians are clever species who learnt the art of dividing people, uniting divisive forces, put up appealing arguments and pretend that they are your well wishers. Having spent enormous time with Politicians, I have understood that successful politicians possess that grave skill to impress you during a chat. Any simple man will fall for them by their suave manners. The talent to remove anyone’s underwear without removing their clothes, without they ever knowing it. This has been the case in India since British arrived in India and later when their friends, the Congress took over India. Gandhi foresaw what was coming and hence demanded disbandment of Congress even before Independence arrived.
Politicians play on sentiments and use inspiring rhetory but people have remained victims for decades. People numbed by centuries of foreign rule and Congress simply carried on with the Colonial games for their survival. The Congress of pre independence and that of post independence were opposite poles. So heritage , roots, culture and traditions of the land were mocked as backward and superstitious and the only surviving civilisation of the planet was put on the choppers block because any sense of pride in the past would be detrimental to the survival of politicians and their retention of power. Caste became a powerful armoury and like the weather, everyone complained about it but did nothing to it. Infact, caste till today remains a dividing force and paradoxically glued by the avarice of politicians.
Poor, impoverished, unemployed, illiterate were often not intelligent judges of politicians and hence the most corrupt and inefficient were elected again and again. Racism, admiration for white skin, outdated socialism, hate against free enterprise, nepotism ,etc remained commonplace. Media business was a propaganda tool and historians wrote to please the powers that ruled. Reservation policy instead of nourishing the minds made them weak and dependent. The talented and hard working were punished to bring in an egalitarian society, whatever it was meant to be. Merit was oppressed in the name of reservations. All poor needed promised was hope, of removal of poverty and some freebies including bribes during elections. They were content to survive and those rare with ambitions left the nation to make it great in the west.
Infact it was impossible even to disagree with ruling governments for fear of being targeted or victimised, just five years ago. Today, anyone can mock the PM to their hearts’ contents. Democracy has indeed flourished. With increase in living standards, literacy, social media awareness, people are far more informed, far more biased but still indulge in rickshawallah arguments without content. Some of them are hailed as opinion makers without any benchmarks especially by billionaire celebrity media guys.
Now that PM Modi has come back, what I ask for is respect for the protection of the traditions of the land. Protection for Hindus from conversions, maintenance of ancient Hindu temples, support to divine Sanskrit and Tamil studded with great spiritual literature, prevention of abuse of Hindu sentiments by Atheists and Nehruvian modernists and an effort by Acharyas to unite Hindus beyond castes. India has a history of thousands of years and the contemporary historians have mocked India’s past as if they were Zero and have surgically removed her past achievements. People do not know the past.
Modi will set up standards of accountability and benchmarks in governance. But, India looks forward to protection of the native cultures and hundreds of languages rooted to the soil. It is by a renaissance of culture that India can remain India as she marches towards being a Superpower.
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