It is almost election time in India and with barely months left for the common man to exercise his suffrage, political parties have begun to play a dirty game. It’s a game of fear and identity politics. The only aim of these power hungry representatives of the people seems to be to make the best use of the situation in the country and squeeze out the blood stained votes from innocent civilians.
While we keep blaming our neighbouring countries for sparking up communal and terrorist activities we need to understand that most of the troubles that our country is facing today are home grown. Criminals have been nurtured by the so called representatives of the people and are not identified as killers and rapists but on the basis of their religious identity (Hindu, Muslim or Christian) or on their ethnic backgrounds (tribals).
The bomb blasts that have off late rocked the various cities of the country including the national capital were not planted by terrorists but by Muslims. This is the only identification that a terrorist has in our country today. If he is a Muslim he has to be a terrorist. How can a few anti social elements irrespective of their religion and their ethnic background be representative of an entire communit? If that is the case then why hasn’t the government branded right wing extremists like the Bajrang Dal and the VHP as terrorists? What they have been doing in Orissa is nothing less than acts of terrorism. Is raping a nun the way to promote anti conversion? Such inhuman acts are no less than planting bombs that kill innocent civilians.
But who is behind all this? Who gains the maximum out of the all the chaos that is being created in different parts of the country, be it Orissa, Jammu & Kashmir, Assam or any state for that matter. Certainly not the ‘Common Man’. With double digit inflation and global meltdown he already has a lot of problems to worry about. It is the government who has to take care that his security is not put at stake. After all that’s why we elect them and pay taxes. Isn’t it? But may be they have gotten too used to all the power that they have in their hands. And that is why they are repeating what the British tried to do with our country, Divide and Rule. It is just a matter of who divides better and rules with more tact.
Time and again politicians have ripped open the heart of the nation to merely soak their hands in blood and wipe them off when they are satisfied. It becomes news for sometime and each party takes a stance – a stance that would be most beneficial to them and get them the maximum votes. After their needs are met no one even bothers asking a question until and unless it has some political impact. In the recent scenario for example just to make his Muslim vote bank in Uttar Pradesh happy, Amar Singh wanted a probe into the Jamia Nagar incident. Does that mean the police were totally clueless and opened fire blindly at the slain IM terrorists? Instead of requesting for an impartial investigation Mr. Singh believes that kicking some mud would raise his status in the eyes of his Muslim vote bank, something he badly needs to counter Mayawati. The BJP on the other hand wants to make the word ‘terror’ synonymous with the word ‘Muslim’ so as to become the messiah of the Hindu electorate. The Congress too is perplexed and doesn’t know which side to take. Sections of the party want to go against Mr. Singh while another section wants the Orissa government to resign for its failure to maintain law and order. If that is the case then even the congress government in Assam should step down for its absolute indifference to the illegal migrants problem.
All this is happening merely in the quest of power. They have no problem if people keep getting slaughtered in a limited and controllable number in a given period. This keeps alive the so called ‘Agenda’. At the end of the day it is only some unknown faces from the masses that get wiped out and a few families turn homeless. That’s not much collateral damage. Not one party has addressed or even tried to hint at addressing the basic security issue of the common man. Why should they? They have a flashing red light Ambassador to protect them from the woes and troubles of being a common man. At the end of the day it is only about Power and that’s about it!!!
the term ‘terrorism’ is as problematic as canonized it is. Apt to go directly at the root as to who gets to brand a particular group, activists, or even an entire community as terrorists. As rightly projected, why arent Bajrang Dal activists termed as terrorists? Its time the India respected its democratic set up without portraying a very communal (un-secular) and as a soft state. successive governments should look beyond petty politics based on communal vote banks.