For more than 7-8 years now I have been airing this thought to my acquaintances. Why can't BJP and Congress join hands and create a coalition? First and foremost, it will be free of the smaller and often disruptive elements. Secondly it would mean the end of secular/pseudosecular debate which has no meaning and no substance. No party in this nation is secular or communal. Each party has a different brand of communalism or secularism. Each party champions the cause of this or that religion in the name of secularism, each party plays vote-bank politics in the name of secularism and each party succeeds in stoking the fires of hatred and strengthening the hands of religious dons whose interest is in keeping the populace backwards so that their business continues unabated. What we need is a coalition that realizes that the true probelms to be addressed are economic in nature. The BJP has always had a liberal outlook as far as economy is concerned and Mr. Manmohan Singh and a few others in Congress have shown their mettle already in this area. In fact, Manmohan Singh has been the progenitor of the entire reforms process.
The effects of such a combination would be:
1. Cooling down of communal fires.
2. Faster economic development.
3. Stabler governments.
4. The persistently coughing communist comrades will be kept out and will not be able to hold the entire nation to ransom.
5. In the long term the nation may even be able to get out of the stranglehold of the Gandhi family.
There will be one bad effect of such a combination:
Life will become rather boring for us passionate political arguers. Currently, it is such a hot and worthy and steamy way of passing time, getting excited, calling others by bad names and feeling great about it. All that would vane and we would be very sad indeed by its passing.
So, what do you think?
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well... i dont know about cooling down of communal fires.. thats one thing that is never ever going to happen in our country.. call me cynical or pessimistic or whatever else u want to call me but i know that wars in the name of religion will always be fought
I am a hardboiled optimist Tanushree. I believe some day this too will come to pass. However, realism is not too far for my mind either. It will happen much ahead in future.
Very well thought and written, and of course,optimistic too.. But i really dont think that the the two parties, coming along together, would be of any help... The motives of members of both the parties have hardly anything to do with all that is mentioned, otherwise the situations like that of communal riots would be handle very well and their frequency of occurrence would have also been a bit less..... Very few of the members of both the parties, are rational enough to think that far and thatzz what makes it a distant dream...
But thatzz true that if the two parties join hands, we wont have some really good topics to debate on:)
And I don't think that you are being a pessimist or a cynic tanushree ma'am because its right that these wars in the name of religion have been taking place since so many years, and inspite of the other enormous developments that have taken place in our country, this one thing still continues the same, and its really hard to imagine that these communal riots will ever stop.. At least considering the current scenario, its hard to believe that peace will take over...
You are both right and wrong Rajlakshmi. You are right that these communal wars have been taking place for a long time. You are wrong that they won't stop. In the past when they happened, they happened for a political reason. Then religion was a very close associate of politics and most wars were religious. Religious conversion then was a way of increasing ones power. Today too these wars take place only to gain political supremacy. But when two biggest parties come together, engineering these wars against each other becomes a complete no because there is no political advantage in these remaining. Smaller parties on the fringes cannot stoke the communal fires to this great an extent. So, when the political advantage disappears, the biggest cause for communal fires disappears.
And yes, to reiterate, I am indeed a hardboiled optimist. The rationale behind my optimism? Well go back and look into ancient and modern history - more unthinkable things have happened with such ease when the time for them has come.
i agree with sir. all these communal wars n discrimination is brought up primarily by our own politicians. do we ever think of what the caste of the person sitting next to us is? its just the stupid government which tries to create disparity by means of reservation n seats n quota.
we are friends with everybody...not knowing or even bothering to know as to what religion or caste our friend belongs to. who cares anyways! the youth today is very forward in this regard, very open minded, free!
so we can definitely dream of a truly secular India in the future...but yes, it will take time.
well, at least one agrees with me. However, the essence of anything and the pleasure of everything, as Socrates said long back, is debate.
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