I still don't feel confident about 'Modi Sarkar'. Saturday
night I watched App ki
Adalat with Narendra Modi. Of course Rajat Sharma was no Arnab Goswami and perhaps
RaGa needs another birth to match the shrewdness of Modi. The chanting of Modi
Modi in the programme and the never ending 'Ab ki baar Modi Sarkar' messages in
my phone is not enough to make me believe that Modi is becoming CEO of India
Inc.
Last one week, I have been watching Ravish
Kumar in NDTV prime time. Ravish Kumar is travelling across remote villages
in north India to feel the ground reality ‑ talking to villagers, understanding
the local issues, attending rallies.
He's understanding the pulse of the nation and finding out why this
country still votes for caste, why people worship their leaders like Gods and
why there's actually no such things like Modi wave in reality.
Ravish Kumar is confused and so am I.
I and you, people who are connected to internet live in a
different world. We are hooked to internet, busy reading this post or some
other because we want to avoid the real world conflicts that's occurring right
outside our doorstep. We don't live in villages, we don't attend rallies, we
avoid everything including politics that we feel not our cup of tea. But we do
enjoy the great Indian Tamasha, keep forwarding 'Ab ki baar Modi Sarkar' and
help growing Modi wave in media. We the people who can read and write english,
who got a Smartphone, may be having a internet connection roughly counts to
some 20 crores. The so called urban middle class that's 15% of the Indian
population. 50% of them may be voting this election, that's just 10 Crores of
people. Given 80 crore electorates of India, what about the rest 70 Crores? Do
they really feel the so called Modi wave?
Indian voters are not fools to be deceived by these new methodical
approaches of campaigning. It may work for AAP, may work in an urban land favouring
BJP but not in every nook & corner of India. People still vote for
Individuals that matter to them. They vote for a guy (or his gang) from whom
they can get their work done; can stand for them in trouble; can help bailing
out of some odd problem out of one too many they face in their everyday life.
Ravish Kumar was interacting with Yadav people in one
village of Mainpuri constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The entire village is
willing to vote none other than their own 'Yadav'caste. At one moment, It felt
like entire UP is voting for caste. In no way, there was Modi wave to be seen. They
complained that no other party people ever approached their village. May be
other parties have done their homework that in a UP Yadav village, there's no
point investing their time and energy. And unfortunately the one answer on why
they are voting to their own caste was unanimous. To get rid of police atrocities!
Period.
This applies to every corner of India.
It all boils down to delivery of justice. I feel, that's the
root cause of all the problems in India. If we compare India with other western
countries, post globalization the only difference that I could figure out is
that the speed in which our courts deliver justice. 'Sueing' is one commonly
word in western countries. The fear of getting sued/punished makes people to
become scrupulous. Law takes its own course always without showing any bias. Everything
else falls into place.
We keep saying justice delayed is justice denied. But
nothing seems to be happening. Recently a British court slammed
Indian judiciary system for its tardy pace of delivering justice. No Modi, No
Kejriwal can solve the problems of India unless justice is delivered in a
timely manner.
May be for one term, we should stop elections; instead
elect/appoint some 10000 judges, spend the money in setting up courts and for next
5 years, keep closing all the pending cases for once and all!!!
Unless a Yadav of Mainpuri can sue a policeman and get
justice, he's still going to vote for another Yadav!
Kab ki baar... ?
