By Sajay Laloo
India is shining. This time Indians have proved that their way of thinking is way above the thinking capacity of the political parties. They vote for a purpose and they have given it all. Giving absolute majority to one single group reflects the maturity of the voters while casting their votes. A stable government is one which enjoys full majority in the House. The people in India have given such verdict to BJP in the Centre then to the AAP in Delhi followed by the Grand Alliance in Bihar.
India had voted for BJP in the centre. But soon after enjoying the people’s confidence BJP has started underestimating the power of the people and instead of taking the nation to new heights and preserving its federal structure, it has been trying to demolish it and create a country of their choice, which is not accepted to the people of India. Going by the current influences of external forces on the BJP, it won’t be wrong to say that the next stops for BJP to bite the dust are West Bengal, Assam and other states which are going to polls soon.
BJP has forgotten that there has been no such country called India prior to 1947. The united India of today was created by Sardar Vallabhai Patel by merging several princely states. So, in 1947 a great nation India was born. It is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-racial nation. This unique nature of our country is respected and understood by most citizens . Every sensible person in the country would like to see that the federal structure of the country is preserved. The time for appeasement politics is over. BJP cannot follow in the Congress’s footsteps of pleasing one section of population and ignoring the rest. Every word is heard and every voice echoed when the thumb hits the button during elections. So, no matter how small or big the particular section of population is, there will always be sensible number of people to sympathise or care for them when someone tries to suppress them.
India is a perfect example of true democracy. There is the pro-Hindutva group on one hand and secular one on the other. For BJP to be able to take India to new heights, it now has to take each and every citizen into confidence. Otherwise, the remaining 4 years will simply be horse riding period for the party post honeymoon time. It has to work above party lines and care for the development of the country as a whole. PM Modi once said that, a developed India can be achieved only when all the states in India are developed. So, as a man of principles and the one who has spent most of his time in fulfilling his dreams to achieve a developed India, he should work closely with each and every state and behave like a Guru to all the Chief Ministers. Otherwise, his party which is in majority in Lok Sabha and minority in Rajya Sabha will not be able to bring any positive changes in this country. And going by the current trend of elections in the states, BJP will never gain majority in the Rajya Sabha. So, all Bills and proposals passed by Lok Sabha will be kept in cold storage when they reach Rajya Sabha. Thus, there will be a pause in development in the whole nation for another 4 years and the parliamentary sessions will simply be wastage of public money and the Houses will merely be confrontational fields for various political parties of India.
It’s a fact that, irrespective of colour, faith or food habits, the neighbours are the most important supporters and the third arm in our lives. They are not chosen but made. When one is in trouble, the first person to approach for help is always a neighbour. So, as a sensible person, I will never be a sheer spectator if my neighbour is harmed or suppressed by unwanted elements. This time it has been proved that prior to hitting their thumbs, neighbours had discussed and decided for a common cause for a better tomorrow.
Congress was greatly responsible for and contributed a lot towards the victory of BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. This time, after losses in two consecutive State Assembly elections, the picture is clear that, there was never a Modi wave or Amit Shah strategy. It was a vote for a Change and when people realized that the change which they had voted for was apparently different from the one they expected, they have subsequently rectified their mistakes.
BJP should start building its own spine to stand on its own and fight by itself to achieve every citizen’s dream of a developed India. They should not be a string pulled by religious extremists. To divert the attention from the rising price of essential commodities, it doesn’t need to play appeasement politics. With the present BJP government at the Centre, the poor man’s protein (Dal) has become an item of luxury, even more expensive than chicken or any other meat in the market today. The lower sections of the society are badly ignored, and those who are ideologically different than the BJP are directly out-casted.
Late President Prof A. P. J Abdul Kalam has rightly said that one has to wake up from sleep to make his dreams come true. So, it is high time for BJP to wake up and realize that, their think tanks and string pullers are living in the fairy world of the past which is no more in existence today. Otherwise, India will have to wait for several years after 2019 to see the NDA’s Third Episode.