On the eve of the 125th Birth anniversary of Netaji Shubhash Chandra Bose, I came across this quote by George Bernard Shaw, “Politics is the last resort for the scoundrel.”
Intriguing as it seems, it is very true of the present political condition of India, especially the Hindi-speaking belt of Northern India, where even after 75 years of independence, the majority of the population is solely dependent on Agriculture and the society is extremely feudal and backward, despite the liberalisation of the Indian Economy in 1991. It is strange how these states, which form a big chunk of around 30 crores of the total population are deprived of the industrial growth and people still worship their representatives due to a lack of political awareness and a stagnant education policy. I certainly think it is a conspiracy to keep them helpless in front of the state so as to polarize them in the name of caste, religion, region, etc, for electoral benefits.
It should not come as a surprise when people from backward areas who rise up the stairs of power are often faced with charges like Murder, Rape and Dacoity and the society foolishly accepts them as saints and messiahs, rather than holding them accountable for their action.
In a locality in Ghaziabad, UP our video editor @novacanemusic97 and his sister @PLidhoo saw a few workers of the ruling BJP party campaigning. What happened when they were questioned about their responsibilities? Watch.#democracy #representative #ghaziabad #UP #accountability pic.twitter.com/OAlEnThgiX
— Youth Ki Awaaz (@YouthKiAwaaz) January 31, 2022
A simple way to observe a polarized society is to check how the learned are treated there. An intellectual being branded as an Anti-National or an Urban-Naxal just for his criticism of the government or its policies is typical of the wonderland the country has turned into. My guru once said that the people who belong to the wonderland are destined to be beaten, as they are dead minds, and so the King is.
यथा प्रजा तथा राजा।