What one would do to stay in power! That is the exclamation that citizens who are concerned with the political process in India will be asking. The withdrawal of the Left parties from the Congress coalition over the Indo-US Nuclear deal has led to the same situations that have made politics a gutter by majority of civilians.
Even if I agree for the sake of arguement that power should be held at all costs, it does not shun or hide the monetary costs to save power. A value of 25 crore rupees (approximately 9 million dollars) is being spent for each MP to vote against the ruling coaltion. The current drive to register MP's against the congress coalition is due to the floor test in the Lok Sabha, which has come about because of the loss of majority in the house.
A representation based on money power only. When its said that money is the root cause of most evil, this case stands right on top. The source for me in this blog for this post comes from a professional newsman blog on ibnlive.com. His tone was one of disgust, and I as a common citizen share the same feeling.
The whole thing, if looked at from a common man's perspective and through the media, looked like a circus. The jostling for positions in this chaos would inadvertently lead to this kind of situation. However, I wanna know what the Citizen is doing in this case.
On the one hand, I see hunger and images of lack of treatement for children in one part of Madhya Pradesh, while I see political parties dish out 25 crore rupees for just sticking on to power. One fraction of those 25 crore rupees can give healthcare to thousands in the remotest parts of the country. The fraction of those 25 crores can help improve infrastructure to bearable levels. These politicians are lucky, because the citizenry is again bearing them all and moving on with life.
The case of two Indias is being seen clearly here. On the one hand, politicians waste money in trying to remain on the seat, while some parts of India languish in hunger and darkness. The citizenry must awake, otherwise the anger, once spilt over on the streets, may usher in anarchy seen never before in the country. The gutter economics has gone on for a long time, and in this age, it is about time that India makes an identity for itself as one of enlightenment and egalitarianism, rather than a corrupt and fragmented country.
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