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India Towards Good Destiny or Destruction
An NRI's view on the current political, social unrest in India
There are lot of happenings in the political arena recently. When one clearly look into the roots of these political and social problems with a neutral vision, he/she should wonder how it differs greatly from our political leaders thinking and vision.
First let us take the Telengana Issue. There is a movement by the so called Telengana politicians for a independant state. Telangana Rashtriya Samithi leader K.Chandrasekhara Rao started a indefinite hunger strike two days ago but he ended it on 24th. Nobody knows why he suddenly understood the importance of the Telangana issue after enjoying 2 years of cabinet berth, charged the congress with negligence on Telangana issue, started a hunger strike and quit the strike in just 2 days time.
It is clearly evident that political and social tolerance rate have come down drastically in India. When Chandrababu was ruling Andhra Pradesh this same guy enjoyed everything as a Minister until he quit and formed TRS in 2001 August. I just wonder what he has contributed to the Telanga region till 2001 in the capacity as a minister. During the Chandrababu rule of Andhra Pradesh, their coalition partner BJP opposed the formation of Telangana but now they encourage Chandrasekhara Rao just to gain political advantage.
The states of Jharkhand, Uttaranjal were also formed purely for cheap political reasons and this has flamed the cause for Telangana, a Tamilnadu split movement by Pattali Makkal Katchi Ramadoss. These so far dormant forces have gained control due to the instability in the central government in the past 10 years due to minority or coalition governments. The Tamil Ealam supporting leaders in Tamilnadu are also gaining control due to the present power changes in Tamilnadu. The big question is whether these political leaders really reflect the wish of the people? Nobody is bothered about "What do the majority of the masses think about these issues". When big countries like East and West Germany integrated into one country, North and South Korea are discussing about Unification, the separatist movements are gaining control in India and if allowed may result in atleast 50 states in the next couple of decades.
There may not be a different opinion that if the majority of the people favour a cause, that needs to be considered in a democracy like India. But there is more visibility to few leaders than the actual opinions of the public. Before taking any strategic decisions the people's mandate should be taken into account like how the European Countries conduct a mandate where the public are allowed to vote. That way we usually come to know what majority of the people support rather listening to these cheap politicians.
If people start thinking that they can't live together because of cultural or linquistic differences, this will lead to more disintegration and will hamper growth since all the states in India depend on each other for their better living. Even with the current system of states established several decades ago, there are water issues existing between Tamilnadu and Karanata, Karnataka and AndhraPradesh and everywhere else. There were bitter agitations by the nationalistic forces in the past over these water issues and I sometimes felt that whether Tamilnadu and Karnataka are federal states inside a democracy or they are two rival countries. If the Telengana politicians can't tolerate within the current state of AndhraPradesh and they split, these water and resource problems will arise between the newly forming state and Andhra Pradesh.
The Central Government is also to blame since it has not evenly contributed to the growth of the country as a whole. Over the past 61 years after independance most of the resources and funds were diverted to only few states and were dominated by politicians mainly from the north. This is one big criticism by the souther politicians for most of the agitations. Though we boast about a Federal Democracy, there is more power concentrated at the centre. Whenever the states are ruled by opposition parties other than that ruling at the centre, those states were mostly rejected by the central government and this fuels the regional public's anger.
Some few ways to be considered by the parliament and our leaders.
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