Sunday, 2 July 2017

Indian Politics through the spectacles of caste and religion

The largest democracy of the world is going through the biggest transition it has ever experienced. The country of 1.25 billion people is governed by a party which is backed up a right wing organisation and this is considered as a revolution because for more than 6 decades congress has ruled the country. However, in between Atal ji got the honor to lead the nation but neither he was that much influenced by sangh nor he had such a great mandate. But, the current government has both the advantages, our honorable PM was an active member of RSS and he has a great support not only inside the parliament but outside too. There is a part of our population which strongly believed that right wing is never going to make their way to power (so called secular), but the election results of 2014 came as a nightmare for them. So, soon after the results things like Insecurity and feelings of being unsafe emerged as the talk of the hour. However, there was a part of the population whose voice was always suppressed by the previous governments (so called nationalists) came with full power and the topics of ghar-wapsi, goraksha and love-jihad came into limelight. The two part of the population is backed up by high political as well as economical giants. Even for the first time in the history of independent India, the media can be seen in two parts. The social media is full of hatred and shameful comments against each other by these two ideologies. There is no end to the ongoing debates but the sad part is that these debates and discussions have become violent. There are topics like kashmir, triple talaq, go-raksha which needs to be discussed, but in the parliament, in the news rooms, on the chowks and chaurahas of villages, in the universities but not in the streets with lathis and guns. Our country has preached the world with the principles of non-violence and is known for its spiritual importance all over the globe. But nowadays we seem to be divided into two which is meaningless, we need to put religion aside and put India first, then only this broad gap between these two so called nationalists and secular can be narrowed.