The onslaught of Covid-19 is continuing and hitting hard at the hopes of India’s progress and prosperity. The dream of five trillion dollars economy lies shattered. It should have been the time for the ruling dispensation to take stock of the things and seek cooperation of all and sundry, all parties, state governments and all the segments of the society. But, unfortunately, the government is in the reverse gear. It is at it again, the old game of stoking the fire of communal passions and stressing on divisive issues with a view of polarisation of votes in the states which will go to polls within the next one year.
Now the people have come to realise that the ruling party’s slogans of sab ka saath, sab ka vikas, and the additional assurance of sab ka vishwas added last year are mere sentences aimed at hoodwinking the common people.
How far people are disillusioned can be concluded from the election results of Bihar. A 31 years old young man Tejashwi Yadav had nearly defeated the powerful propaganda machine of the BJP. People are completely frustrated. How long the rhetoric of Prime Minister Modi will enrapture and ensnare people is being closely studied by students of Indian politics.
People want solid action. They know fully well that the government does not bother about their socio-economic problems. It is busy in diverting their attention towards non-issues like religious conversions and interfaith marriages. This is a very unfortunate situation that the ruling party does not have any solid programme to fight the recession which has overshadowed our economy. If the BJP pushes through the unconstitutional laws in the name of love jihad, etc., it must be ready for worldwide condemnation and an irreversible loss to our reputation. It might have threatened the judiciary but our judiciary will reassert and hit back and reject the foolish laws which endanger the very foundation of our Constitution.
The party must realise that its policy of prejudice against a particular community, and promotion of “us and them” sentiments will go irreparable damage to the social failure. It is almost akin to pushing the country into a civil war.
The ruling party can learn a lesson from farmers agitation. It can pass laws by using its brute majority in both houses. But its policy of spreading red carpet before the capitalists and digging death holes for Indian farmers is bond to miserably fail.
The time would eagerly watch how the voters of West Bengal, Assam, and Tamil Nadu would react to the anti-people policies. Soon we will be in a position to see whether pro-people policy wins or divisive tricks. The history has proved many times that you can fool some people for some time but you cannot fool all the people for all times. Especially in the present time when people know what is what and where lies their interest.