Ideology of Indian Politics: Its Obscurity, Hypocrisy and Implications in Current Scenario

We must salute our current crop of Indian politicians for their “greatness”. Their “greatness” lies in their ideologies, which is the most obscure, profound, and hypocritical in the world. What amazes me is their open dual standard. For example, Shiv Sena has recently announced that it will try to stop Australian players to take part in IPL, so that it can teach a lesson to the Australian government, which has been so far unsuccessful in preventing “racial attacks” on Indian students in Australia. Many students, who have been targeted so far, belong to “North India”. So the question is, since when did Shiv Sena start thinking about “Rest of the Indians”? They have been the first party to raise the issue of “Marathi Manoos” in Maharashtra and materialize the concept of so called “Son of Soil”. Being a regional party and talking about a national issue, it’s hard to understand that they can reestablish their vote-bank and hit hard towards MNS, of late, which has become the torchbearer of “Son of Soil” ideology. So, couple of questions comes to my mind. First, does Shiv Sena want to show Rest of the Indians that it cares for them, apart for caring about Marathi Manoos? No, because the party barely exists outside of Maharashtra, so even if they want, they won’t be able to create such an impression. The second question, is it a publicity stunt? And there you are. Yes, Shiv Sena just needs an issue to talk about despite the issue’s domain, which even does not belong to them. After losing third consecutive assembly election, of late the party is facing an “Identity Crisis”, thanks to MNS. It wants to be in news for its own revival. However, in doing so it has deviated from its original hypothesis of Son of Soil, and trying to project itself as “Saviour” of those Indians, who were brutally beaten up by its own party members in the past. What a contradiction! Hail to Shiv Sena and its ideology.

Coming to MNS, it used to be a productive branch of Shiv Sena tree. Later, as the time passed by, it realized that it will be exploited to carry out photosynthesis on regular basis, while energy generated in the form of glucose will be supplied to the “other” branch for further flourishing. The MNS branch introspected facing the problem of “Identity Crisis”. Therefore, it started to grow downward and planted itself as “Stilt root” to show its additional support to the giant tree. Upon knowing its own capability to grow as a tree, suddenly it broke away from paternal tree claiming a separate identity. A plant can’t survive by its own in the early age as it needs a supportive environment to grow and proliferate till its roots become strong enough to hold. Such supportive environment was ably provided by the Congress to MNS.

History tells us that Congress has always been the party, who believed in “Divide opponents and Rule”. After all, this ideology was inherited by them from British, and successfully implemented by their party presidents to topple various central and state governments in the past. Congress saw an opportunity in MNS to circumvent anti-incumbency factor for 2009 assembly elections, and gave muted support to MNS chief for his “regional-hatred speeches” without taking any serious steps on this issue. While, Varun Gandhi of rival party BJP was dealt with severity for allegedly making “religion based hatred speech”. A lot of coverage was given by the media at the behest of Congress during election to this issue, and all attempts were made to tarnish his image, by even calling him “Varun Zahreela Gandhi” by certain News Channels. This dual standard to deal the similar kind of issues itself exposes the hypocrisies of Congress ideologies. On the case of MNS chief, it has been said all the time, “Law will take its own course of action.” While on other case, the law was actually taking its action. If a similar kind of treatment would have been applied in the former case, it would have justified the actions on the latter. After all, a hatred speech is not acceptable in a democratic society of India, whether it is based on race, religion, region, language, caste, gender, or any other factor, which divides the countrymen and provokes or may provoke violence in any form. Such things should always be dealt with stringent actions. That is what, a middle class common person or “Aam Aadmi” hopes for. This is where our Aam Aadmi fails in keeping high expectations from our hypocrite politicians. The day, when our PM told his countrymen that the people of one specific community has the first right on the resources of the country, in my opinion he lost the right to rule the democratic country. We have been taught the law of equality in the class of Civics in our Secondary and High school. A statement contradicting the fundamental concept of democratic country was not expected from such a highly qualified and educated person sitting on the prime post. All of this was done to appease the particular minor community. So basically, he was playing the cards of vote bank politics. First question which comes to my mind, did he really mean that while making a communal statement? No, he never really meant that. The statement was just issued to collect the votes. If he really meant by that, then after ruling the country for about 50 years since independence, Congress should have been able to provide sufficient resources to that particular community to lift their status by all means. But, it has never been really happened and I don’t see its future probability. If that happens by chance, then Congress will lose its hot election issue, on which it has been used to bake its bread and melt butter for own progress. Besides this, Dalit have been their oxygen and water, essential for survival. This area is currently being supervised by "Yuvraj" of the party. While, Congress has been successfully able to retain the power in the center due to its policies, it has fuelled a new mess of regional divide in the country. Have they been able to suppress MNS, the recent crisis of Telangana would not have worsened. By allowing MNS to spread its regional-hatred propaganda, it gave TRS and Telangana students union an opportunity to ignite regional hatred in united AP without getting punished or holding responsible. Such has been the effect of Telangana violence that Congress has burnt its hand, and is now trying to fix the situation by backtracking from their announcement of forming the new state of Telangana splitting AP, and giving contradictory statements in the media every other day.

Let us talk about BJP, the most prominent party of the last decade, which like Shiv Sena is currently facing the problem of "Identity Crisis". It is evident from the results of 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha elections, that BJP is no longer a force to reckon with, in national scenario. Though, they might have still role to play in regional politics considering their present ruling in eight states. BJP has always proclaimed itself as party with the most democratic culture. Ironically, its one of the old and respected figure was fired for expressing his personal views about Jinnah in his book on the disciplinary ground, without even getting any notice and justification time from the party. The democratic culture of the party was tumbled within a day by autocratic disciplinary action. Later, when another prominent figure of the party openly criticized the current party culture and policies in the media, BJP could not take any action fearing further display of its autocratic functionality in the public. In current scenario, it seems highly unlikely to me that BJP will come close to gain the power in the center in next election. My assumption is simply based on the fact that currently it is leading by a politician under whose leadership it has just lost assembly election. The previous party president was fired for his underperformance only to be replaced by person whose credentials are questionable.