Congress Fascism, the midnight of 4th June

The early hours of the June 5^th 2011 would have surely reminisced Indians of “The Jallianwala Bagh massacre” and the “1975 emergency” when the silent and non-violent protests by Baba Ramdev and his followers against Black Money at the Ramlila Maidan New Delhi, were quashed by the Delhi police in a manner which was profoundly ‘Undemocratic’. Article 19b of the Indian constitution states that: “It is the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT of every Indian to assemble peaceably and without arms”. Clearly there was no violation of law and order in any terms at Baba Ramdev’s satyagrah . Then what made the Delhi police to undertake such a bizarre, sudden and barbaric action? The orders to the Delhi police are controlled by the government at the centre, presently the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

With the exposure of Scams and growth of corruption in the regime of UPA, serious questions have been rising regarding the incompetence of the government to act against corruption and just as many of them could be framed out from this draconian act. The silhouette of this entire drama gives the intimation of a ‘plot’ against the Baba’s protest. It was very well know before to the entire country that Baba Ramdev would go onto an indefinite fast against stashing of Black Money till his demand (i.e declaring it as a public asset) was fulfilled by the government. Even before June 4, when he reached New Delhi he was received by the 4 biggest leaders of the congress party at the airport, a welcome that not even US president Barak Obama had been eligible to receive. The government appeared to be in abject capitulation to almost all the demands of the Baba. Even after Baba Ramdev repeatedly announcing a gathering of lakhs of people in the satyagrah it allowed the swami to “assemble” and undergo a peaceful fast. But as the day advanced towards the midnight, the night of the 4^th turned out to be the protestor’s worst nightmare. Allegations on the Delhi police are that it manhandled the woman supporters of Baba Ramdev and the men, women (old and young) and the children were “lathi charged” by 5000 policemen and were reined by tear gas. Drunken policemen pulled out women from the toilets and literally “undressed” them and stood them “naked”. Why did the government have to support such a savage act? The justifications of the police – which are that the ground was getting overcrowded and intelligence reports  said that Baba Ramdev’s life was at jeopardy- utterly seem to be contradictory and give a clear indication the complicity of the government in stashing the money in tax havens.

Not being remiss about the justification of the governments supremo, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the ‘honorable’ Prime Minister of “INDEPENDENT” India, believes that THE ACT WAS UNFORTNATE BUT WE (GOVERNMENT) HAD NO OPTION. Decrypting the statement a little we understand that the Prime minister wants to say that “it was necessary the  women be RAPED, their clothes be torn”, “the old, whose legs no more work, had to be broken because they are useless now” “The young Indians had to break their limbs and have the fists and boots of the policemen even before they could get up from their sleep” and all this just because people in the Ramlila Maidan were over pouring!! . On this note Dr. Manmohan Singh, a man of such honor, credibility and recognition, must receive a ‘standing ovation’ from the country for selling himself so CHEAP. If the government adopts a policy “We have a right to indulge corruption and anybody who comes in the way will be crushed”, then these stirring events in the past few months and in the forthcoming months will force the government to look at itself, because the tears of the people are need to noticed. These events have surely bought a blot onto the name the government and the intensity of this blot would be visible in the 2014 elections. 

British Raj, the other side of the coin

Ask an Indian today “If you were to briefly describe the British rule in India how would you do it?”  He would say “It was an act that quashed the reason for the very existence of India and exploited its children to the extent that even the strongest amongst us did not have the chutzpah to fight against them. But thanks to the Indian super heroes who sacrificed their life’s to oust the English and made a dent in the fight for Indian Independence.”  Almost all would agree to it.

Now ask him another question “In the contemporary what do you feel is the importance of science, law, politics, automobiles, newspapers etc.” Obviously, these things would be intrinsic and incumbent tools for designing state policies that have earned India a significant position in the global market. An answer which would again be unanimous.

Science and technology in India is reaching astronomical heights and India is making limitless progress in almost every field. But in this errand achieving “limitless progress” what we have been remiss about is, ‘from where did we accomplish these necessaries? ’. The answer to it lies back in time when we were colonized by the English. These were attributes that we inherited from the English and use them so extensively as ‘parts of our life’ that without which we would be like a fish without water. We do rightly condemn them for the carnage in the 200 years that they ruled, but is that all they had done? When the British left us, they left us with the blue print of the today’s ‘Modern India’. They thought us to speak in English, the language of trade today. The seeds of railways, that today carries approximately 25million people per day, was sown in by them. Printing press, their study of oriental languages, which gained importance in Europe and other countries, educational institutes, the high court’s, the supreme courts, structuring of law and order find their origin in this period of their regime.

Albert Einstein said “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made “.But do we Indians owe to the English, without whom ‘Modern Science’ would have not flourished here in India? Prior to the British arrival, India had been a host to pellets of ruthless foreign invasions and the British invasion was the ‘Last’ among all of them. It was in this period that led, to the establishment of missionaries and churches, to the enhancement of science and law, to the removal of many egregious religious practices, to the construction of a present structure of courts and education system, to, “the fight for independence”. Had we not encountered the British colonialism, our great leaders would never have got a chance to study them and never would have been able to inculcate the felling of freedom in us and never could have our constitution taken shape.

There is no special predilection for the British among us, but at least the animosity towards them can be thwarted. The invasion of British has definitely brought a blot on their names but the blot must be abated and their contributions can atleast be considered as a quid pro quo for the carnage.