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Quick Bytes: Why Indians Need To Look Beyond Politics For Development

A protester holds a placard during a demonstration against India's new citizenship law in Mumbai on December 27, 2019. - Mobile internet was cut on December 27 in parts of India's most populous state and thousands of riot police were deployed as authorities readied for fresh protests over a citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP) (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images)

Politics is only meant to be the process of making people strong and independent. It never says about giving someone or a group of some people immense and uncontrollable power, but it is all about how to use most appropriately the collective power of people of a country to provide them sufficient opportunities to earn what they need according to their abilities.

It is another matter that it is also the responsibility of the team in power to enhance people’s skills and abilities. But we are passing through a very serious phase of politics where all the political personalities of all different groups seem to be so voluble about others’ drawbacks and flaws. They don’t seem to be thinking rationally about the responsibilities on their shoulders and the people on the farm or the footpath.

As we can understand the process of development is not only a matter of comparison but it also involves the best possible uses of the resources available. Here, in this very rich underground and prosperous farmlands of the country, the political powers have seldom thought about the real model of development. They have been working for making self-sufficient farmers, day-laborers. For this reason, agricultural activities are limited to the farmers’ conventional training from their fathers and forefathers which can give them grains, enough for their families, and grass, enough for their cattle.

Officially, we are doing well in our agricultural progress but practically, we have a little number of agricultural personnel working on the grass-root level. Innocent, honest, and illiterate farmers are still aloof and secluded from the mainstream of politics. So, we don’t need any movement by the farmers, but we need a movement by the central and state governments for the farmers at every level of the administration. Kindly formulate policies for how to strengthen the farmlands instead of directly making farmers rich. We don’t need to do this because farmers are the voters and they have their political inclinations.  farmlands are not, they will judge our efforts beyond any political inclinations neutrally.

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