If the
unprecedented nastiness pervading the Indian political scenario even six months
before the all important General Elections-2014 is any indication we could very
well prepare ourselves for things to follow. Desperate to win and grab power to
rule the country political parties are throwing away all decency and restraint
and are indulging in a war of calling dirty and dirtiest names to counter each
others' chances. From ‘shehzade’ (Prince—BJP Prime Ministerial candidate
Narendra Modi launching an attack on the Congress’s so-called dynastic rule to
‘fascist’, ‘Hitler’, ‘psychopath’ or ‘megalomaniac’. Leader M calls leader NM
as the most communal person of the country while utterly bitterly failing to
contain communal clashes breaking out again and again in his state. The same
leader M has his sights focused on becoming the next Prime Minister and for
that ‘noble’ purpose he marshals all minor or break-away parties into a
conventions against communalism while communal clashes resurface in his state
the same day.
Not only this,
even Indian history is no longer safe from political exploitation. Pioneering
leaders of an independent India
are being claimed as the idols of respective political parties. Charges and
counter-charges are being traded furiously in this regard totally disregarding
what the ‘subjects’ have to say about this. This trend may get more sinister as
the Elections near. The BJP may trace its glorious origins to the ancient
Indian age and may blame the Congress for all the troubles suffered in the
medieval age. The Congress may very well
refer to the unified India
or Bharata concept demonstrated in various stages of Indian history and claim
as its heritage while blaming the BJP for trying to build up regional forces by
allying with smaller kingdoms.
In various
stages of Indian history it has been observed that some monarchs invited
foreign invaders to settle scores with their internal rivals. This danger is
not farfetched in the present scenario when you identify foreign invaders as
the terrorists. We have said on many occasions that a politically divided and
polarized India
is in fact helping the terrorists to strike at will. What is more threatening
is that terrorists are being looked not as terrorists but as people belonging
to various religious or politically affiliated groups. Depending on the
credentials a terrorist is not a terrorist for a particular leader or party. On
October 27, 2013 serial bomb blasts rocked Patna,
the capital city of Bihar
when Narendra Modi was addressing a political rally in there. Now the ruling
party in Bihar, JDU, broke away from coalition
partner BJP recently, and therefore charges logically followed as the blasts
being a security compromise to deliberately harass a political rival. Well, by
the time General Elections-2014 actually gives a winner Indian history could be
entirely manipulated or changed or distorted beyond recovery. Beware!
