India's problems are complex. And unfortunately these are compounded by vote-bank politics. Instead of uniting the different sections of society, many politicians divide it to keep their vote banks intact. If people are united, politicians won't be able to get votes through divisive politics. In such a situation, the only way for them to win votes would be through good performance.
The above is paragraph from shri shri ravi shankar's write up for cnn ibn. He has precisely stated our politics. Our politics runs on divisive policies. Whether it is dalit,brahman equation or hindu-muslim equation or maharathi-bihari equation and lastly the great rich-poor equation.
Indian politics is based on we v/s they concept.
When right wing parties say safe guard hindu rights , secular parties say muslims are not given justice. Right wing parties play on fear of terrorism , jihad and ashmita of hindus where as secular parties play on muslims getting eradicated by majority hindu. Here fear is primary focus , primary emotion used as tool for exploiting and getting vote bank.
Then comes caste funda. Since centuries lower caste people were exploited by upper caste and now this caste concept is used to exploit both upper caste and lower caste for vote.
Regionalization is another factor which is used for vote bank. Amachi mumbai , kick out bhaiya slogans...
Then come great equation which did use to effect Indians psychic and it still does to some extent. Rich are exploiting poor concept . Now it is not so that rich dont exploit , they do to some extent but its also truth that people like tata , birla , godrej work for 18 hours a day. They work hard , take risk and earn lot of money. It good to be rich and you can be as human as any and be rich at same time.
But rich-poor equation too is used to divide society. So indian politics is based of we v/s they and it needs to be matured now.
Education , Medical , Employment , Economy , National Security , Terrorism should be issues and not dalit , brahmin , maharathi , muslim , hindu.
2009 can be most significant year for all of us. Lets vote against division and lets vote for development.
