The rules of the great Indian
political game were decided by Congress when India got independence. Congress being the oldest party and having ruled India for maximum number
of years penetrated the Indian system so deeply that any other political
organization attempting to enter in that 'holy' space has to face hurdles at
every step. This system allows congress to commit any blunder and go away with
it but even if a minor mistake is committed by opposition to congress, they are
admonished to such extent that they lose the political acumen needed to rule a
diverse nation like India.
Best example would be fall of BJP
state government of Delhi in 1998 just because of sky rocketing prices of onion, yes
just an onion can make you cry. High inflation rates and prices of every
commodity were going out of the reach of the people and still congress won in
2009 with better margin. So the question is why Congress wins in spite of such
things, the answer is ‘System is run by Congress’.
Congress is not just a
political party but it is a phenomenon which can fit into one ideology and that
is ‘opportunism’. In any society opportunist class has always more chances to
gather strength as this class is ready to change position at drop of a hat.
This is the reason, congress claims itself to be secular and still presides
over several riots and nobody tags their leaders as mass murderers, defies
court order and prefers to go with Islamists in place of a 80 years old
ShahBano. The same intellectual class praises Rajeev Gandhi as Vikash Purush
but writes tons of papers about Modi ‘the mass murderer’.
If you dream
of an India which should be in the league of world super powers and fire of
nationalism burns in your heart then you must defeat congress. congress is not a party but a moth that will
hollow the nation to its core.
Question that should be
answered before finding the way to defeat congress is ‘Can congress be
defeated’?
Yes it can be defeated and sent
into political oblivion but it is easy said than done. It is a party which can
get support of any political party, left, right and centre and still sustain
its vote bank. Its presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee can be supported by
Shiv Sena and still remain a secular choice, its Government can have support
from Muslim organizations known for their separatist views and still remain
secular. In summary congress can get breathing space anywhere it wants and
sustain itself politically. It is like a chameleon which can change colors
according to the needs and that is the basic reason for survival of congress
for so long in the polity of India. One Indira is assassinated another Rajiv
takes over and makes record of winning 2/3 rd majority in parliament. One Rajiv
is assassinated another Sonia can be used to revive congress.
But in present scenario Gandhi
family has become a tool which can be utilized to fool the people of India and
while they remain as the political face of congress, the coterie continues to profit. When we see Rahul Gandhi and his antics, doesn’t he seem
like a reluctant puppet that is being forced by his puppeteers to dance on
their tune? When he goes to huts of dalit families to have food purchased from
haldiram’s just for the sake of photo session, does he look natural at all?
Doing something on his own? I don’t think so.
how we
can defeat congress, Firstly we have to know the adversary and It is not Rahul
Gandhi but the congress phenomenon. It can be only defeated by offering a
different option to the people which should be based on ‘over all development
for all and appeasement for none’ policy and a feeling of pride of being
citizen of a world power.
Opportunist class has one very
basic drawback and that is mediocrity. Sibbal could never become HRD minister
with ‘zero loss’ IQ if he was in BJP or Renuka Chaudhary could never be called
even a state level leader in BJP. The reason is that congress has a lot
of mediocre space to fill up. No Manmohan Singh could become PM of India if it
was a BJP government. So mediocres get solace in congress, people who need
political support to advance in life will always prefer congress over BJP. Only
those people who are self made, earning their livelihood without any support
will think of infrastructure development or a strong army or an educated
society.
No Sagarika Ghosh would sustain
as a journalist if she would support nationalist ideology. No Ram Guha would
become renowned historian by writing books if his approach was nationalist, No
Pratibha patil would become President of India by taking care of Indira’s
Kitchen. So the point is that mediocre people in search of crèches find congress
as a right place. And please don’t try to convince these people as they know
that their priorities are different and they just pretend to be asleep when the
nation is being looted. You can never win a debate with an opportunist as his logics
don’t need to be logical. This is why, Modi needs to give figures and facts in
his speeches but Rahul can be applauded even if he says ‘India me computer kaun
laya’.
The biggest example of mediocrity in recent times can be none other than
Rahul Gandhi. Could Rahul become Youth Icon if he was in BJP or his name was
Rahul Vinci in the popular perception? The Answer is a big ‘NO’. This is what
we need to aim at..Our adversary is this mediocre but opportunist phenomenon.
Only those people are able to be part of the nationalist
phenomenon, who have guts to swim
against the current and can sacrifice pleasures of opportunism.
To find ways to make the
nationalist forces victorious, we need people who don’t see politics as a
ladder for personal agendas but they find happiness when India grows, those people whose eyes get wet hearing the national anthem of
India, whose heart cry when a soldier dies on the border, those who are not ashamed
of Indian history and try to revive the lost glory, The people who are ready to
sacrifice for the nation and the people who get agitated when a bomb blast
occurs. These are people who want nationalist ideas to become main stream.
People who dream of India as a nation with equal rights for all and appeasement
of none.
What should be the path so that
nationalism gets over opportunism?
It happened last in 1999 when AB
Vajpayee defeated the congress and created
several bench marks, India became a nuclear power, we sustained growth rate of
8 percent and crossed the Rubicon of third world to first world by presenting
ourselves as a rising super power. BJP was convinced to get reelected and was
so confident that held the elections earlier than scheduled and unexpectedly
lost it to Congress.
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The ‘Shining India’ campaign was
countered by congress as a waste of money by having bigger budget for B&W
‘aam aadmi ko kya mila’ campaign and congress successfully created the
perception of no growth for ‘Aam Aadmi’.
Reason of Congress victory is a
vote bank and skill to present itself as a party for poors in spite of its
leaders spending hundreds of crores on Holiday trips and number of scams rising
day by day.
Till now no political party has
been able to challenge Congress for a long period and it has won elections
after elections by using the same formula of rhetoric over proven facts.
But one party or we can say
ideological group that has kept congress out of power are communists and the
places are West Bengal and Tripura. Even if Communism failed as an ideology, few
lessons can always be learnt from the Communists in West Bengal. What are the
reasons communists kept congress away from power for 37 long years in spite of no
change in the condition of life of common man? The answer is organization. The
communist party has been so well organized that it is not the individual upon
whom their power rests but it lies in the cadre base. The cadre base which is
deep rooted and every polling booth is well represented. These cadres are no
fan of political faces of party but they get directions from the organization.
Polit bureau with many unelected but ideological leaders take decisions and
even chief Ministers have to follow their diktats. Nobody is treated as a
demigod and every cadre knows his importance.
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The same thing if you look for in
BJP, it is missing, in spite of having a mother organization with a cadre
base in hundreds of thousands and a pool of thinkers and ideologically devoted
pracharaks, BJP loses opportunities so often. In spite of Vajpayee being so
charismatic and having a galaxy of leaders, BJP was unable to win again and is
unable to grab and sustain power. Even if it wins, it is unable to handle the
power. The simple reason is over dependence on personalities.BS yedurappa
brings party to power but fallacy of a single man and personal corruption allegations put the future of BJP in
Karnataka at stake.
One vasundhara raje is annoyed
and BJP loses whole Rajasthan. One Kalyan Singh is sulking and Gangotri of BJP
rise UP is lost. One Babulal Marandi is
ousted and Jharkhand which used to be a BJP stronghold needs to be ruled in
coalition. The point is simple. Over dependence upon individuals creates
situations where cadres are neglected and individual worship gets stronger.
There is dependence on such
individuals for whom their self ego is more important than party’s future. BJP
is unable to rusticate them. In such situation, all the cadres who work
tirelessly at ground level are forced to lose their morale when their hard work
goes futile. The reason is ignorance of cadres’ morale. If Ground level work is
done, BJP will be strong enough to challenge and defeat the Congress
phenomenon. The leadership should grow from the bottom, cadre base should
penetrate the society in such way that every house has a cadre who ensures that
nobody of his/her family misses to vote, and knows about the development
happening in BJP run states.
A cadre is not a fan boy who will
vote for his hero and the moment the hero is out of scene, he will lose
interest. A cadre is someone who will hold the fort in any adverse situation;
Cadre is the person who will bring the ideas to every home,
so that people don’t get facts distorted by Media. A disciplined cadre can
sacrifice for his ideology and would be happy to go to remote areas and create
new bastions of BJP. For whom Tripura would be more important than Gujarat.
A cadre should be selfless and
his reasons to be part of the organization should not include government
tenders which are alotted to congress supporters so that they remain loyal to
congress. His soul reason should be fire inside the cadre to revive the lost
glory of India. If BJP is able to make such cadres in every house, then only
they can be certain to defeat congress and its opportunist class.
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If AB vajyapee who
could mesmerize audiences through his wit and poetry failed to win again, any
other leader cannot claim to be confident enough to defeat the nationwide
congress phenomenon. Even if we take example of Gujarat, It has been a strong
hold of BJP much before Narendra Modi became CM of Gujarat. He got a stable government
without any compulsion of coalition parties. A state which has potential to
grow and as it needed a good administrator, Narendra Modi proved himself to be
an excellent administrator. But reality of Gujarat is not similar to Reality of
India. The level of expectations of the fans of Modi is so high that he will
have to really create a miracle to repeat the magic of Gujarat. Even if BJP
comes in power, it won't be a single party Government and If BJP decides to put
Modi on PM chair, he will have to learn to concede at many fronts to let the
govt continue and will have to learn to handle the pressures and tantrums of
Allies.
The arrogance of some BJP
supporters that no Nitish is needed is just because they don't do grass root
permutations and combinations. If Nitish leaves NDA just because of Modi, he
will get the whole chunk of Muslim vote and when combined with his OBC votes,
Nitish won't need BJP urban voters to win in 40 seats of Bihar but his 30+
seats will completely turn the situation and make BJP redundant In Bihar as it
happened in UP. Nitish is just an example, BJP has gradually lost in several
states, be it Orissa, UP, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and may be in Bihar in future due
to over dependence upon their state level allies,.
This trend can be stopped
only by one thing and that is making the nationalist ideology as the supreme
source of inspiration and not allow any individual overshadow the organization.
Organization should remain supreme and the core group like a polit bureau
should decide the Face of organization. Face need not be a mass leader; don't
forget that Indian mass can defeat excellent leaders like Ram Naik for film
actor Govinda
So electoral face can be anybody,
anybody who has a good image, fits in the social engineering but the control
should always remain in the hands of the core group which is invisible for the
masses but source of inspiration for the cadres. Cadres should connect and feel
comfortable with the core group
Take a hypothetical situation of
Karnataka, if Yedurappa won't have fallen in the trap of power, he could be a
national level leader who brought BJP in power. How perfect would be the
situation if BJP would have put someone with no cadre support but proven
administration skills in CM chair. The face of the party can be changed and
organization would remain unscathed. But alas we lost a very strong leader BS
yedurappa who brought BJP in power just because of unproved allegations of
corruption of few crores. As it is said, Power corrupts and absolute power
corrupts absolutely, so the core ideological group should remain away from vote
based politics and only work among cadres, their objective should be to make ideologically
strong cadres and votes can be garnered even if you project a Sachin Tendulkar
but organization should take the decisions.
Once we stop falling into the
trap of electoral politics and we don’t judge the leader’s strength by his
wining ability, we will have a strong organization, and a cohesive force to
challenge the corrupt system and change it. Till now India has not had a single Dalit PM, why don't we find a dalit
face as PM candidate and mobilize the whole down trodden section in the favor
of BJP. Narendra modi can get votes of BJP minded people who will vote for BJP even
if candidate is Kalam or a dalit or an adivasi leader but Narendra modi won't
get support of that section which doesn't vote on issue of development but
identity. No dalit of UP will vote for BJP till mayawati is there, No Muslim
will vote for BJP till opportunist media pumps them with the fear psychosis of
anti Muslim stand of BJP. Organization can always be run by core group which
should have clear ideological aims. Who doesn't need to sacrifice with ideology
for sake of position? Advani won't have lost respect of many cadres if he had
not dropped the demand of Ram temple for accommodating the allies and to increase
his acceptance among masses.
I fear the same thing will happen if Modi has to
compromise on certain values just to remain in power and this is a dangerous
situation when the cadre loses the confidence. If masses lose confidence on
face of the party, he can be replaced. Congress is doing the same, MMS can be
used and thrown whenever the need. Congress uses the ‘CHEHRA’ to loot the nation
and we should use the ‘CHEHRA’ to push our goal of nation's development but development
along with revival of our lost values.
The leaders who have sacrificed official
posts have always got more respect in our society. I don’t mean any disrespect
to any leader by putting these leaders in same paragraph but Mahatma Gandhi,
Jaiprakash Narayan, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara have one thing in common. They never accepted any official post and it
definitely played a very important role how world perceives them. No Mumbai
would have stopped at his funeral if Bal Thakrey would have become CM of Maharastra.
Leaders like Narendra Modi who energizes
the cadres and power is not corrupting them, such leaders should take the back
seat and play the role of puppeteer. They should play the role of auditors of
the development work done by the faces of the party. A leader who gets out of
electoral politics and enters the core group should take it as an honor. This
is the way we can keep BJP clean of opportunists and get closer to our goal.
VANDE MATARAM.
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