We start our discussion on politics of india from the start of modern
era, in 1818 the last of the rulers of india the peshwa were annexed and
india was under the rule of british east india company for all
practical purposes, it was now a colony of the british.
After the
1857 uprising which had major implications on who was who in the post
maratha supremacy period, unsurprisingly many relatively foreign forces
supported the brits. eg. the nizam, supported the brits, and captured
phadke etc. Some mercenaries supported the pro-indian team for money,
eg. the rohillas.
Now, fast forward to 1948 year of independence ,
the british knew the split between the muslims and predominant hindu
population of india, and thus, they designed this religion based
electorates which paved way for partition of india, done by Radcliff ,
the partition finally happened, there are many known sources of the
violence that happened in pakistan and was reciprocated by jats in
india.
Now, since the rule of british, India was basically split
into two groups, one of them were highly influential group of people
like motilal nehru who basically wanted to do what british did, and had
moderate views about nation in general. These people were more
interested in advancing their aims then caring for the nation or any
other thing.These were the guys that worshipped money ..
Religiously
they had no particular orientation,and hence their stance was mediocre ,
one which pleased everyone. Some people in this list are : Motilal
nehru, javaharlala nehru etc.
Indira and her sons were a bit of deviations ,esp her elder son. Else all are the same.
Another
group was that of people who valued the ancient indian ways, who wanted
india to be what it was before -a golden india, these group had
complete disdain for people who they considered responsible for looting
indian wealth , ie. the mughals and their decendants,the british ,and
earlier islamic marauders . They loathed them, from the bottom of their
hearts.Money had nothing to do with it. They purely wanted to restore
india to its prosperous position.
The people in this group came to be
known as extremists. Some people in this list are Bal gangadhar tilak,
Lala lajpat rai, Vallabh "iron" Patel(whooped razakars),Subhash Chandra
bose,and so on.
A third group was inspired by communism and
people like bhagat singh etc were from this group. This group is
survived by the communist parties in india,although they explicitly only
state their inspirations from lenin or marx or other communist writers.
These are probably the most decent people in indian politics, although I
do not know if communism is what india will benifit from.
Now
fast forward today the 2010th century, Indian political scene is
basically dominated by two major parties,and one rather ofbeat party:
-
the somewhat central party of Indian national Congress, who basically
are in for the business and money more than the betterment of state
-resulting into a rather please-everyone attitude, which the minorities
find interesting.
- the right parties led by Bhartiya Janata Party
,who basically are in for making india what it was, they enormously
value the ancient indian culture, these people essentially believe that
india was once a great nation,and strive to make it so. Much patriotic
than the level headed congress, and somewhat discriminating against
minorities becuase they historically abused india and its resources and
culture.
- The left parties I think they are led by CPI, this
is the true common man's party, although they are pretty much against
anything that has capitalist motives , hence will inherently cause less
development.
Who you vote is entirely based on your
own choice, each party comes with its own disadvantages and advantages,
eg. congress will basically cause development(benifiting itself and
its team more than nation in general) but this will cause rich getting
richer, poor getting more poor, and also, will increase the corruption.
This is how they work, no matter what they promise. Similarly, BJP will
try to equalize , in other words remove incentives placed by Congress
(do not make a mistake, congress does this for its own benifit, its not
for the people), also bjp will try to remove corruption more than
congress, because it inherently wants a better india,some capitalists
may find this annoying :D.The poor will become poor ,rich richer, and
probably the minorities will be more poorer(cause they relied on the
incentives of congress,not bjp's fault as such). Lastly, the commies
they will probably curb the freedom of capitalists and the gap betn the
rich and poor will reduce, ie. the nation will stabalize, but its
overall development will reduce.
So thats pretty much it. If
we evaluate these three parties based on national-objectives,
developmental-objectives, people development. then, congress prioritizes
as development,nation,people BJP will be nation,development,people ,
and CPI people,nation,development.
The criteria are kind of
overlapping in general, like development of a certian individual will
cause development of nation fractionally, same with people and so on.
Till next time...
