DEMOCRACY WHEREIN THE PRIME MINISTER DOES NOT HAVE TO VOTE FOR HIMSELF

[Officially, the Prime Minister Dr Singh represents Assam in upper house of Indian Parliament. The northeastern State had gone for polls on April 4 and 11. By virtue of its residency, Dr Singh was supposed to come to Guwahati to vote. But he did not show up. That let even loose the firebrand opposition leader Narendra Modi to criticize Dr Singh as insensitive and insincere towards the people he represents.]

By Nava Thakuria

A girl unfurls Indian flag  during recent
election in Assam

As India is embracing the election time in five provinces, the ruling Congress Party is facing a hard time. Even the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh faces the heat and the recent attack came from the opposition leaders as well as a banned separatist organization. The soft spoken premier is alleged to have become insensitive to his State of residency, where he should have gone to cast his vote in the recently concluded polls. Moreover, the permanent residential place of Dr Singh is also being dragged into controversy.

After the general election in 2009, Indian provinces including Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry go for elections with results due in the middle of May. The incumbent Congress government hopes good results out of peace initiative card and development, while opposition parties tried to woo voters lambasting the Congress-led central government’s corruption relating to Commonwealth Games, 2G spectrum and Adarsh Society scam. At least in  Assam and Puducherry, the Congress is fighting for regaining power, where as the party is expected to increase its tally in West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Around 150 million electorates are expected to vote for their candidates in these elections, the counting of all provinces is due by May 13.

Officially, the Prime Minister Dr Singh represents Assam in upper house of Indian Parliament. The northeastern State had gone for polls on April 4 and 11. By virtue of its residency, Dr Singh was supposed to come to Guwahati to vote. But he did not show up. That let even loose the firebrand opposition leader Narendra Modi to criticize Dr Singh as insensitive and insincere towards the people he represents.

The Bharatiya Janata Party leader and the chief minister of Gujarat went on saying that he was pained to know that the premier did not go  to Assam to cast his vote in the second and final phase of elections on April 11. “Dr Singh and his wife are registered as voters in Dispur constituency of Assam. As a responsible citizen of the country he should have flown there for voting. But he did ignore the people and his duty. He only sent wrong signals to the new generation,” the Gujarat chief minister decried, while addressing a public rally in Gandhinagar recently.

The Congress however rejected the allegation and clarified that the prime minister had to leave for China and Kazakhstan on April 12 and hence he could not go to Assam the previous day. The party also stated that Dr Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur took part in the election through postal ballots. But controversy related to his residency in Assam remained as a young Assamese political leader Pradyut Bora argued that was a big lie. The intelligent BJP leader even claimed that ‘Dr. Singh Rajya Sabha membership is won on lying’ and so thus his premiership also. Days back, the banned United Liberation Front of Assam also blamed Dr Singh as a liar because of his official residential address in Guwahati. The militant outfit, which is fighting Indian Union Government for a Swadhin Asom, ( Free Assam) argued that the economist turned politician actually hails from Punjab State in North India and shows a rented house in Guwahati to contest Rajya Sabha polls from Assam.

Officially Dr Singh, who was born in Gah (Punjab of Pakistan) is a permanent resident of Assam and his address is shown in the government document as House No 3989, Nandan Nagar, Sarumotoria, Dispur, Guwahati, Assam-781006. All these arrangements were made by the then Assam Chief Minister Hiteswar Saikia in 1991 to ladder Dr Singh to reach the upper house of Indian Parliament as a Congress nominee. In the P V Narasimha Rao government, Dr Singh served as the Union Finance Minister and initiated liberal economy in Indian.

Since then the Oxford trained economist remains a Rajya Sabha member from Assam and by incident has become the prime minister instead of the Congress Party Chief Sonia Gandhi. After the general election in 2009, Dr Singh, though did not contest in the Lok Sabha election, became Prime Minister for the second term.

The ULFA hardliners called for an Assam Bandh (total shutdown) on April 2 to protest against the visit of Dr Singh to Assam for poll campaigning ahead of 126 State Legislative Assembly elections. In an e-mail statement issued by the ULFA (Paresh Barua faction) alleged that Dr Singh had made multitudes of false promises to the people of Assam. The last promise he made was ‘to discuss all core issues for political solution of Assam-India conflict’ but it did not materialize.

The 12 hours Bandh could leave harsh impact on the State, where the shut down was almost total in Brahmaputra valley and was partially effective in Barak valley of Assam also. The roads wore a deserted look as there was little traffic and also shops were closed, although the train and air services were operated normal. The armed group, which has been fighting a war against New Delhi Administration for three decades, earlier called for a day long Assam Bandh on March 28, the day Dr Singh initially planned to visit the State. Suddenly Dr Singh’s visit was postponed and the outfit too immediately withdrew their bandh call.

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WHAT DESPERATELY NEEDED IS 'REGIME CHANGE' AT THE EARLIEST

[The military there is of the people, by the nation and for the country. They did not merely sit back and watch like the de-linked and detached cowards, sitting on the fence, like our own who “proudly” salute a worthless foreign import of Bofors, the most corrupt prime minister of India, but acted.]

 By Kuru

The permanent solution to ailing India's political invalidity, social disability and disharmony is regime change just as they achieved in Egypt where the autocratic ruler and his sons are now in jail facing charges of corruption and illegal orders to fire on demonstrators.

The military there is of the people, by the nation and for the country. They did not merely sit back and watch like the de-linked and detached cowards, sitting on the fence, like our own who “proudly” salute a worthless foreign import of Bofors, the most corrupt prime minister of India, but acted.

Right now the world is also making sure that there is regime change in Libya where the NATO bombers and American drones, carrying missiles, are blasting Col Gaddafi's defences to support people's uprising. The brave indigenous fighters, with faith in victory, did not merely protest by going on "fast unto death" but stood up united, in order to fight. They insist on regime change and have full backing and active support of the Western powers (EU and US) .

The question arises:

"Why is there no popular movement for regime change in our "Broken Bharat" (partitioned India) that has suffered the most under dictatorial corrupt dynastic rule for decades with trillions of rupees taken out of the country and deposited in foreign banks by the corrupt rulers, and where it is common for the ruling (& fooling) dynasty to further humiliate the masses by importing brides from foreign countries who are not Indians and who have neither brain nor beauty?

There are two main reasons for our continuous collapse since partition in 1947 : 

(a) the long crushed masses, and;
(b) the cowardly leaders. 

They make a perfect match. That reminds us of another perfect match: grab and “tyaag” (surrender) but not 'grab and go' for the people. There  are some  whose uncontrollable avarice to grab land and girls is perfectly matched by these cowardly leaders' alacrity to surrender both without disgust, protest or fight.

But we do hear every day that some separatists want the rest of Kashmir, too, cleansed of people of other religious beliefs , and that they will  take 'physical actions' against the boy who does not convert after marrying a local girl of another fold.

Given such servile, ignorant and timid masses and lackluster, dull and sheepish leaders our India is bound to remain a slave colony under the jackboot of dynasty, congress  and those apparently in 'minority' for a very long time.

"Delivery" (Liberation) will only come when a leader like Shiva, Netaji, Guru Gobind Singhji or even Napoleon Bonaparte appears in the unfortunate country that has the longest record in slavery, and the worst leaders on earth who have been unable for centuries to mobilize the masses for regime change.

Please contribute to the debate on: "What will happen if the corrupt anti-people system, including the anti national constitution that does not mention "Akhand Bharat", the Bharatiyas, nor the unconditional surrender of five provinces to the enemy, is not wiped out or thrown in the cesspit of history?"

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TWO OPTIONS FOR MJF-NEPAL : TRANSFORMATION OR COLLAPSE

[The party began turning weak and bleak when  influential leaders like, Sharat Singh Bhandari, Vijaya Gachhadhar, Amar Yadav, Kishor Biswas, Bhagyanath Prasad Gupta and others quit it. This should not have happened by any means. The party president accepts to have failed to block such wave of quitting. He could not transform the current  form of an NGO- party into a real political party. He lacked vision and guts. The lust for power,  post and position also happened to be another terrible  reason behind the party split into two or so.]

Katmandu:  The Madheshi Janadhikar Forum - MJF - which was initially founded as an NGO -  non-governmental organization – seems to have reached the edge of its total collapse. It is now moving towards destruction, dust and debris for sure.

                          

Some of the ranking leaders fell in discord with the party president, Upendra Yadav himself. Now there is some kind of wave of abandonment and desertion going on in the party. Leaders are abandoning one after another. The leadership is uninterested in blocking it. As the result, the party is gradually lacking luster and  is now in the stage of collapse.

The party began turning weak and bleak when  influential leaders like, Sharat Singh Bhandari, Vijaya Gachhadhar, Amar Yadav, Kishor Biswas, Bhagyanath Prasad Gupta and others quit it. This should not have happened by any means. The party president accepts to have failed to block such wave of quitting. He could not transform the current  form of an NGO- party into a real political party. He lacked vision and guts. The lust for power,  post and position also happened to be another terrible  reason behind the party split into two or so.

Although, MJF-Nepal  has an impressive standing as the 'fourth largest party' in the Constituent Assembly in Kathmandu, it has now begun to shed vitality, vigour and all its shine also. It is declining every passing day and the party president is to be blamed for it.

Apart from Upendra Yadav, Renu Yadav is also said to have equal share in the decline of the party. People tell Renu Yadav was also responsible for the recent Birgunj incident in which disgruntled party cadres hurled stones that smashed president Yadav's motor car.

Should the party continue paying no heed to the legitimate demands of the party cadres as well as the concerned people; it will eventually reach the edge of virtual collapse soon. So the party leaders as well as the cadres now need to be aware of this bitter truth.

@ The Voice of  Madhesh