Monday, November 3, 2008

New Age Politics

Recent incidents in political circles have brought into view, a new form of politics that is developing in India.It may be called that this is the latest "avtaar" of the already popular "vote-bank" politics in India.



Earlier the country was divided on the basis of religion but now the new line of division emerging is that of "region"-South Indians/North Indians vs West Indians(and may be other matches would be soon in action,too). Bal Thackeray and nephew Raj Thackeray are blaming Amitabh Bachchan and other North Indians(specially from U.P. and Bihar) for settling in Mumbai(and Maharashtra) and taking up all the jobs and creating unemployment problems for the Maharashtrians. The Thackerays, in the meanwhile, forgot about lacs of NRM(Non-Resident Maharashtrians) living outside the state for years and may be for generations(who knows they might be creating problems for the natives there!!)


This kind of politics is absolutely wrong. It is anti-national, divisive and destructive in nature.

Mamta Banerjee was successful in driving out Tata's Nano factory out of Bengal but she did that at the cost of the development and industrialisation of the whole of West Bengal. Her actions and her success has raised questions and may affect the Chinese investors who are looking forward to investing in India. The young engineers of Bengal and other neighbouring states had a nice opportunity but it was all sacrificed on the altar of "vote-bank politics".

Political parties like MNS, Shiv Sena, Trinamool Congress, and other such parties which have control over the local people of a state, don't want to lose their "vote-banks" and thus work according to such ideologies. They need to be reminded that they are responsible for managing a region and in turn a country so they ought not to use such measures which hampers the country's progress- industrially, economically, and nationalistically.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good

No comments as am also agree with this.

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