I looked at the elections of the manifestos of the Congress and the BJP...both of them contained crap...nothing that would put a smile on the face of a middle class Indian. Congress promises rice at Rs.3 a kg so BJP promises it at Rs.2. Lucky for us that the Congress didn't offer it at Re.1 a kg...!
The same old stunts...Congress' politics though vote bank and primarily appeasement based, have been consistently so for the last many decades. They do not claim to represent the middle class. Actually no one claims to represent the middle class....the middle class only exists to generate the tax...
BJP on the other hand had given a brief ray of hope to the middle class; but has now completely deserted them too. Terrorism and PM bashing is the only agenda on hand. I wonder if the BJP have a magic wand that they will wave and terrorism will get wiped away! If they have such a card up their sleeve, they can consider selling it to the US! Or is it that they propose to tell us that having laws (POTA blah blah..)will deter people who kill themselves in the name of religion. Having laws doesn't even ensure that Indians stop at traffic signals!
Both the parties don't want to focus on the core issues, a list headed by population. In the 1950s Veer Savarkar had advised Pt. Nehru that we should focus on stabilizing population, But Pt. Nehru's argument was that ours is a new nation that needs many hands to build it. Pt. Nehru passed away, and others forgot that we aren't new any more and that we have too many people for any sustainable progress to be made. Sanjay Gandhi is the last person I know who spoke about the need to stabilize population, more than two decades back. All the 'solutions' to the problems that we come up with today, are only immediate solutions and shortcuts, that 'may' temporarily resolve some issues. Sometimes I feel that is India really my nation? Doesn't become so because I was born here...? Am I needed? For anything other than paying tax? My vote doesn't count and is not even sought!
More later...
The same old stunts...Congress' politics though vote bank and primarily appeasement based, have been consistently so for the last many decades. They do not claim to represent the middle class. Actually no one claims to represent the middle class....the middle class only exists to generate the tax...
BJP on the other hand had given a brief ray of hope to the middle class; but has now completely deserted them too. Terrorism and PM bashing is the only agenda on hand. I wonder if the BJP have a magic wand that they will wave and terrorism will get wiped away! If they have such a card up their sleeve, they can consider selling it to the US! Or is it that they propose to tell us that having laws (POTA blah blah..)will deter people who kill themselves in the name of religion. Having laws doesn't even ensure that Indians stop at traffic signals!
Both the parties don't want to focus on the core issues, a list headed by population. In the 1950s Veer Savarkar had advised Pt. Nehru that we should focus on stabilizing population, But Pt. Nehru's argument was that ours is a new nation that needs many hands to build it. Pt. Nehru passed away, and others forgot that we aren't new any more and that we have too many people for any sustainable progress to be made. Sanjay Gandhi is the last person I know who spoke about the need to stabilize population, more than two decades back. All the 'solutions' to the problems that we come up with today, are only immediate solutions and shortcuts, that 'may' temporarily resolve some issues. Sometimes I feel that is India really my nation? Doesn't become so because I was born here...? Am I needed? For anything other than paying tax? My vote doesn't count and is not even sought!
More later...
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