Nimrat Kaur: If the leaders of yester years could have envisioned the scene in the parliament yesterday, maybe their enthusiasm for the quit India movement would have waned down a notch or two. In 1942, it was a mass movement of the country dreaming of Freedom. And leaders truly wanted to achieve Freedom because when one truly wants something, one gets it.
Nimrat Kaur: If the leaders of yester years could have envisioned the scene in the parliament yesterday, maybe their enthusiasm for the quit India movement would have waned down a notch or two. In 1942, it was a mass movement of the country dreaming of Freedom. And leaders truly wanted to achieve Freedom because when one truly wants something, one gets it.
Todays leaders do not really represent the masses. This parliament of elite is made up of millionaires. Over 74% of our elected representatives, national and state, are millionaires. According to the Income Tax Department the total number of millionaires in the country of a billion population are 47,000.
This has become a country ruled by the rich and powerful, a political debate guided by party needs not of the masses. This is country where political views and loyalties have a price tag as does the vote of the masses.
On the 75th celebration, the parliament vowed to make corruption, unemployment, poverty leave the country but this vow was taken by the parliament where 34%of the MP’s have criminal cases registered against them. 19%have serious cases like murder and rape awaiting trial and judgments.
And these people are expected to root out the social ills. The gap between the rich and the poor is fast increasing and as rightly pointed out by the outgoing Vice President Hamid Ansari, greater the gap between the people, more difficult will be the target of inclusive growth.
After coming to power, the growth in the personal assets of Amit Shah was reported to be 2-300%times but would the common man have seen such levels of growth? The target of inclusive growth, ‘Sabha Vikas’, has to be beyond the politics of religion, caste, economic strata and lastly but not least, gender.
Quit India Movement succeeded despite the disparity of thought as the goal was same. Today the goal is limited to party glorification and self development in relams of money and power.
Congress wants continue basking in the glory of the freedom fighters when BJP and RSS did not even exist. BJP wants to change the focus of the history to further its agenda and pretend that the previous 70 years did not even exist. With such self serving leaders, do we dare dream of poverty free India by 2022?
