Indian Politicians: Big Dreams, Big Talk but Snail Walk
Politicians are unique themselves. Indian politicians are more unique, one can say confidently. From the perspective of Indian people they talk big, they promise generously, they seem to dream colourfully and finally they deliver minutely or almost nothing. From their own point of view, they talk less, there is no need to promise, they dream in all possible colours, they eat whatever rot available on this earth and finally they build large accounts oversees. If they want to fulfill what they talk, dream and promise for the people they can’t fulfill what they desire for themselves.
Nehru’s Era
We can look over generations of politicians since 1947 i.e. when India achieved so called independence. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India talked and promised in a big way to install ‘Socialistic Pattern of Society’ in India exploitative feudal and capitalist society under his leadership. Even so called communists forgot their very task of bringing socialist society and kept their full faith in Nehru. What happened? Nothing is here.
Exploitation expanded vertically as well as horizontally by multifold. So called modern temples were built to accumulate capital for capital-dearth Indian capitalists, under Nehru’s stewardship. As he couldn’t ignore the damn fact of socialist societies in China and Russia, and as he couldn’t stop the Indian masses from dreaming about Indian socialist society getting inspiration from China and Russia, he successfully kept even communists away from socialist dreams by building public sector. Public sector created a new class of dictatorial bureaucrats who accumulated billions of wealth in overseas’ banks at the cost of public money. And the colonial era continued in another form. Now Indian rulers can choose their colonial bosses at their free will as a result of Independence. It is Independence to choose the boss but not to build our own country.
Daughter takes up
Then it was Indira Gandhi who took up the leftover task of Nehru. Banks were nationalized; Coca-Cola was thrown overseas; feudalistic ‘jamindari system’ was abolished; a big promise of ‘land reforms’ was generously offered to millions of land-hungry peasants and workers of India. Ultimately land was distributed, but within the families and to their pet animals. Jamindars were compensated for undistributed lands. Land concentration remained the same. Land reforms remained on papers. Poverty, illiteracy, backwardness and draught remained with millions of toiling masses. Indira Gandhi stands unique for her infamous ‘Emergency rule’. Communists continued their unshaken faith in Indira’s family led Congress Party regarding socialist dream.
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