Prof M L Raina
The process of the recent Parliamentary elections was marked by unwholesome hiccups. The campaigning component of this process was, unusually, the bitterest and the most venomous one, never witnessed before in the history of independent India. Nastiest words and phrases, unrestrained abusive language and outrageous personal attacks were all outside the bounds of civilized behaviour. The facade of decency, concealing the dross beneath, floundered, bringing to the fore the brutish element lurking inside.
No need to dialate on this unpleasant subject, because all that happened is common knowledge. What is of utmost importance is why it happened and what was the driving force behind this electoral madness. The reason is not far to seek. Utter despondency and helplessness, born of the fear of losing power, the chief source of amassing wealth through immoral means, gripped the aspirants. The prospects of powerlessness sent shivers down their spines.
As thick as thieves, the unfeeling and insensitively callous politicians in the fray joined their hands and hearts together for hatching a conspiracy to come to power and loot, as before, the nations wealth, lock, stock and barrel. Thus they hit upon a plan of maligning Modi who, they feared, would descend like a colossus on the gloomiest political landscape, and bring back sunshine to drive the darkness of hopelessness out.
The sustained virulent attack against Modi by the evil comrades in arms’, left no trick untried, in their panic, to keep Modi out from the arena of the poll battle. All of them, especially the ruling congress party, apprehended that if Modi happened to occupy the Central State of the country’s polity, lots of skeltons would tumble out of their cupboards and spell disaster for them, for their sins, present and past. That is why all the ‘stalwarts’ in the states and more importantly at the centre, with the metaphoric albatrosses round their necks made every effort to decry Modi on the most frivolous and ludicrous grounds. Setting aside all norms of political probity, they stooped so low as to call him Halaku, Hitler, fascist and what not.
It is aptly said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In the uncouth Congress regime, absolute power centred in one person, bred many ills in the country. Corrupt practices in different department were not looked into, thus encouraging frauds, scams and sleaze. With the blessing of the only power centre, the authorities at the lower rungs and also the ministers, wore blinkers, walked straight, without caring to looks sideways to see how the masses suffered. Their focus was only on their ultimate goal of looting money, right and left, with impunity. Their lust for power benumbed them completely and their power of feeling for the poor people of their country was lost.
Once power is tasted it holds a person in its unrelenting grip, like an intoxicating drug does. Like a drug addict, politicians, noble exceptions apart, remain immersed blissfully in a pool of delight. If this power of joy is snatched away from a person, he develops withdrawal symptoms. He thirsts for the lost power-drug. He loses his balance of mind and writhes, with helplessness empowering him painfully. He spits venom at those who have robbed his drug of power. All the Modi bashing leaders envisaged these withdrawal symptoms and thus left no stone unturned to upset his apple – cart.
The Congress party leaders, steeped in arrogance, were dead sure that no power on the earth could ever dislodge them. Moreover, they laboured under an illusion that they had the divine right to rule and perpetuate dynasty rule. The sycophants and there was no dearth of them, played the ‘second fiddle to the party-boss who believed that family rule, rather dynasty rule was there to stay. This idea of dynasty rule for the perpetuation of one party and one family system, had its resonance in other states where the chiefs of the parties plunged their wards, sons and daughters, life partners cousins and others of their clan into the fray. This trend was fraught with dangerous consequences.
At the centre, for some years past, this trend of dynasty rule, and a single power centre pointed unmistakebly to the most abhorrently undermocratic idea of one person’s rule, rather absolute rule where, as the bard. says, “the will of one, Is law for all.”
The agony and profound resentment in the public mind increased by the day against the apathy shown by the authorities. All the protests fell flat. Snowballing of the public rage was secretly taking peace inwardly.
There is a belief that God sees the truth but waits. When the forces of evil in any part of the word are unleashed, and reach their climax, Divine intervention happens, to eradicate these forces of evil and cause goodness to prevail. It dispenses justice to the helpless people, denied for a long time At the same time what we call Divine Justice (punishment to the sinners) takes place.
The Divine willed and sent an angel in human shape on the unsavoury scene of the country’s political spectrum, to root out the rot and cleanse all the clogged channels of progress and prosperity. At times what is not expected in the wildest of dreams happens. It is not given to man to know anything about the divine dynamics.
This tme, the most unexpected phenomenon has happened. The Congress party, so deeply entrenched in the Indian political system for decades, has been routed neck and crop despite its painting Modi black and using its choicest loose cannons in disinformation and far fetched and rigmarolish diatribes, sans pith and substance.
Now a colossal and dramatic change for the better has swept the country. The people especially the youth have heaved a sigh of relief. During the time of campaigning, Modi’s inspiring lectures caught the imagination of the youth and his sincere assurances of a bright future for them filled them with hope and they followed him like mad, their pent up rage and suffocation found an expression in their vociferous slogans, like ‘aab ki baar Modi sarkar”. They regarded him as the country’s saviour. All this frenzy for change was in line with the Divine scheme of things, aiming at cleaning the morass of Indian politics, which had hindered progress, and caused all round resentment against anti-people policies.
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