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Opinion
Right Indians
by J.
Ajithkumar
Right Indians constitute a formidable
majority in India, yet our Right parties have failed miserably in their
electoral tactics. Little do they realize the simple fact that a country
with more than 10,000 years of uninterrupted civilization can only be
Right in its thinking. Starting from the Slave Dynasty around 1000 AD
till the time the British were kicked out in 1947 AD, innumerable
efforts have been launched to break the Rightness of India during the
intervening 1000 years. It has been an international effort of
unprecedented dimensions involving almost all shades of isms from
outside of India. Their efforts have been highly successful in
plundering the material wealth of India. From a share of about 40% of
the world’s GDP the thousand-years-plunder reduced India to less than
1%. It is no exaggeration to say that more than 50% of the material
wealth in current Europe rightfully belongs to India. But the successive
onslaught of all foreign isms has failed completely in their attempts to
break the Right mind of India.
It is necessary to differentiate between Right and Left in this context.
The Right stands for tradition, values, nationalism, progressive reforms
to correct the wrongs in society and all that is now known as Hindutva
and Dharma. And the Left denotes rejection of our traditional values,
mindless internationalism, revolution and support for complete
destruction of our society structures. The perverted version of
secularism practiced in India now (which dictates equal respect for all
religions but special status for the followers of some) and several
versions of anti-national forces are nothing but tools of the Left in
its efforts to capture power. They have been successful so far in
capturing political power and altering the shades of our society in many
parts of India, but the overall character of Indian psyche remains
unpolluted. Symbols such as Kailas, Ganges, Kanya Kumari, Ramayana,
Sanskrit and Vande Mataram will still make any Indian to wake up from
his slumber.
Left Over
The latest general elections in India have not been helpful for the
Indian Right. Strange combinations of ‘secular’ forces including the
notorious EVMs’ have worked against its interests. The net result has
been uninterrupted dummy rule with an ‘unelected’ PM at the helm to keep
the seat warm. The prince of democracy is getting ready for the eventual
take over, by which time the incumbent could be duped into all the
terrible and horrible actions and thrown out as a traitor, thus making
the change look logical and in the best interest of the nation. But who
will hoodwink whom and whether the grand design will work out as per
plan remains to be seen. Much more grandiose plans have failed earlier
and many princes have failed to achieve coronation for silliest of
reasons in the past. Only time will tell us the final result.
But Left is almost over in India for the time being. When Gorbachev made
his famous speech in 1991 advising the world to learn from their
mistakes, little he would have expected his brother comrades in India to
take it seriously. No one likes to remain poor and be Communists
forever. Communist leadership in India has realized this much earlier
than their followers. Parliamentary aspirations, international
corruption, air-conditioned armchair socialism and lipstick feminism has
alienated the cherubic leadership from the dark, ugly and hungry
proletariat. The dialectic between a leadership without sweat glands and
followers who bleed sweat was getting too much. The wipe out of Left in
the last elections was nothing unexpected. Like Gorbachev the great, the
current Communist leadership must also be thanked for a bloodless burial
of Communist Leftism in India.
Right Time
The great opportunity for Indian Right lies in here. About 50% of Indian
population remains poor and they desperately need a political force to
talk for them. Genuine communists had handled this role well in the past
and the space is now lying vacant. Indian Right who had hitherto stood
more for the urban middle class and village traders must now argue more
for the unemployed, toiling labor and agricultural workers. Right
leaders who should be more rooted in our traditional values must
appreciate that ‘daridra narayans’ are the best representation
of Narayan and ‘manava seva’ is the best form of Madhavaseva.
For the right political party it will be the easiest of exercises to
pick up right candidates for leadership from among the millions of its
supporters for such a right cause. India’s own versions of trusteeship
ownership of capital and dharmic ways of handling labor to usher in a
Ram Rajya as envisaged by the nation’s father must not be difficult at
all for a leadership with vision.
Time is also ripe at the international scene for a resurgence of the
Right forces from India. Pure forms of Capitalism and Communism have
failed to alleviate human misery at all levels. What we have in many
countries are adhoc-isms which are centered on individual leaders than
around any faceless ideology. India’s Integral Humanism provides the
best option for ensuring spiritual growth of individuals along with
adequate material growth, health and happiness. The innate greed of
humans can be controlled only by states run on ideology and not by
individual or family charisma. The feeling of equality must be accepted
by each and every individual before we can ensure distribution of
minimum wealth. Such a feeling was definitely there in ancient India,
otherwise there could not have been a peaceful co-existence among
various communities. It was lost during the thousand-years-plunder
period and the Right forces can bring it back again.
It is a golden opportunity for the Right in India to re-emerge. The
current façade of stability that is projected by the ‘dy-nasty’ parties
is bound to be short lived. How can there be genuine democracy in a
country that is run by political forces with no ideology other than the
interests of a dynasty? Our nation is one of millions of families and
not the private property of a few political families. Political parties
and politicians in a genuine democracy must necessarily have alternative
political ideologies and clear-cut action plans to implement. The
elected government must implement its own declared action plan based on
its own ideology. In this regard there is no better choice for India to
put right smiles on every Indian face than the Right way.
September 19, 2009
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