We don’t have any dearth of political parties in our
country. If someone throws a query regarding the number of political parties
and names of the leaders of each political party, to be very frank, my reply
will be : “Sorry sir, I don’t have any exact numbers” and for that matter, the
names of the leaders of each political party. While being aware of the number
of political parties in USA, we are very much sure about the exact numbers as
also the names of each political party. While the greatest democracy do have
only two parties, the Republican party and Democratic party. Why in the largest
democracy, India, parties are mushrooming so also leaders.
On being enquired about the reason for forming a
party each leader does have a stock reply. That by forming a new party what he
intended was it would enable him to serve the poor better and with more
dedication. Often such leaders who form new parties give birth to parties
either due to ego clashes with the leaders of parent parties or over trivial
issues. The reasons often they list out are ideological differences, actually
on deeper investigation the media can very reach a conclusion that the main
reasons are selfish motives or some other ulterior motives. Under the pretext
of serving the political parties their intentions are serving their own
interests. To be more obvious, by becoming a leader of a splinter party he
naturally aims to be always in the lime-light and before and after elections the
shrewd and wily politician prefers to sit on the fence and by choosing that
line he can very well make use of the opportunity to enter into a bargain with the
single largest party or parties and thus extract maximum benefits like money or
power. A section of the poor who are enomoured of his fire-brand speeches often
reposes their faith in his ability to deliver goods and as their beloved leader
he would ultimately find solutions to the innumerable problems they confront in
every sphere of life. The more illiterate the poor, the easier for their leader
to trap them. Unlike a nation like US where the citizens across the States are
literate and politically conscious it is quite impossible for the leaders to
entrap and deceive them as each citizen does have a clear political outlook. Our
nation’s perennial bane is illiteracy, especially political illiteracy by which
it often becomes easy for the political leaders to lure these poor into their
fold by promising to create heaven on earth if they are elected to power. Taking
their words for granted those in the lower strata of the society, incidentally,
the illiterate poor constitute majority of our population are deceived and by
the time they are aware of their folly it will be too late. The so-called
political leader – the so-called savior of the downtrodden and neglected often
succeeds in ensuring his and his progenies’ life safe, comfortable and pompous.
Given one more chance to be installed in the chair he is certain to utilize the
opportunity to amass huge amounts, lakhs or crores for his coming generations
also.
India’s bane is these types of political leaders – a
peculiar species they are (barring exceptions who constitute a minority) they are
actually the main exploiters, than the industrial barons and business tycoons. After
all, in our country politics has already evolved into a lucrative industry for
which there is no need of capital investment.
We need not conduct an extensive research across our
nation why our nation’s 75 percent of population are poor whose poverty,
unemployment, malnutrition, illiteracy, homelessness – sorry, the list is
endless, still continue to be a hot topic of discussion among a few educated
Indians who keep away from plunging into the quagmire of dirty politics
plaguing our country.
If and when an enlightenment dawns on the sincere
and patriotic leaders of our country to bring in a legislation restricting the
number of political parties mushrooming on a daily basis and make it into a law
then only our nation could dream about the growth and prosperity of the nation
in the true sense of those terms.
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