Recently, I bought a pair of shoes and at the same time, another customer bought the same design but of different size.
A shopkeeper sells the same set of shoes having different sizes to different people.
These persons use them according to their own need. One person uses them casually whereas another solely depends on it, for example, a runner. These shoes have history will have future and are relevant in present context too.
Similarly, today politics and its issuse are like a pair of shoes where the issues are nearly same
but the people attached to them are different with little changes in condition.
Like Shillong unrest, issue of Tamil Nadu are some examples.
The source of it is the “chair of power”, which gives these issues to politicians similarly like a shopkeeper gives shoes to his customers.
But there is a slight difference in the situation, we buy shoes whereas politicians borrow the issues.
This issue of caste and locally motivated politics rather than inclusive development and growth has a long past.
Earlier the Nizam of Hyderabad, established “Mulk Rule” where the jobs were given to local inhabitants only.
Thus while Hyderabad province was integrating with India, he made a promise from the Government that same would continue.
From then it is seen that Andhra Pradesh and Telangana reserve group C and D jobs only for its domicile.
Recent Shillong case also justifies the locality motivated politics where tribals have devoured demand of the whole
Shillong as the penny of their pocket only and no outsider can claim on it.
Local politicians commonly use the eviction of intruders from the locality as their promises and goal in the election campaign.
Even Tamil Nadu wants the medical seats in state premises to be filled by its students only.
Cauvery water dispute, Mahanadi water dispute and others are examples of the same kind where individual interests are entertained rather than inclusive and whole development.
Thus there is a need for collective participation for overall growth and development by leaving personal, identical and locally motivated ideologies and issues behind.