Anarchy causes mayhem, so does political mafioso.
A disingenuous portrayal of India’s most intense issues are condoned unambiguously by mafia style politics vis-á-vis a lascivious centralisation of authority in India.
Photo : Reuters | Communal pogrom erupted in Delhi in February.
The Reserve bank of India, the Indian Supreme Court, notions of cooperative federalism, three-tier governance, institutions and organisations for scientific and socio-political research have been mired by consistent harassment backed by a choked bureaucracy and policing system. The constitution of India has reached its verge and the republic can only do so much. The Ministry of Home Affairs, The Ministry of Finance, The Ministry of Information & Technology, The Ministry of External Affairs and National Human Rights Commission have lacerated the motivation of the world’s largest democracy. The recent fulminations against the Government of India by its citizens have endorsed the intolerance for such an egregious harassment and pulverised the motivations of a democracy besotted with Mussolini’s fascism. An authoritarian government is as good as a coffee with fascism on a Sunday morning, it is as bad as that too.
Photo : The Indian Express | Nobel Laureate in Economics, Abhijeet Banerjee (left) has criticised the government of India on economic measures and how there is a consumer demand problem in the Indian economy.
The political derangement by the Government of India has pervaded the central bank in recent years. Characterised by a lack of sight and fallible condescension, the Government has been criticised by past governors Raghuram Rajan and Urjit Patel. Amid high profile resignations, the country’s economy renounced growth and big shot Non-banking finance companies, IL&FS and Rural banks went on a ventilator, they did not make it. However, the government and the vermin Prime Minister continues to traverse political debauchery rather than rely on hard economics. Ex-Chief Economic Advisor or the CEA, Arvind Subramaniam has talked openly about this and the relentless disregard for discussions before taking some of the biggest economic decisions in the republic vis-á-vis Demonetisation, Goods & Services tax, blatant refusal to optimise lending to autonomous states via making necessary changes to Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 during the coronavirus pandemic, capitalist bullying of the labour class and an absolute ignorance of agriculturalists and Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee has left a exuberant economy in the lurch. There is a way out. Few of the finest economists on the planet, Abhijeet Banerjee (Nobel Laureate,2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize) and Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate,1998 Sveriges Riksbank Prize) have stressed on escalating consumer demand, so has Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund. The Ministry of Finance headed by Nirmala Sitharaman (Finance Minister, Republic of India) has consistently rejected this, despite the fact that the economy doesn’t seem to be doing so well.
Photo : The Times of India | A child mourns the death of his father. The police has been accused of being a facilitator of violence in February. Few clips that went viral on Twitter establishing this have been dismissed as propaganda by the government. The political polarisation has left many questions unanswered in the state.
Amidst the economic impasse, the secular country has promiscuously given up to intolerance and Hindu nationalism has ravaged Northern and Central India. Political chasms have given way to a convalescence of hate and gunslinging is an everyday affair. Delhi witnessed the worst riots since 1984 on February 24th, 2020, even as the President of United States, Donald Trump was on a high profile diplomatic and political stay in the country. A nonstop violence and communal farrago that lasted nearly forty-eight hours devastated the religious tolerance in North-East Delhi, with the police acting as an active pugilist in the fascist conflagrations, rather than facilitating an end to the debacle and acting as the guardian of law & order. That didn’t stop here. The Ministry of Home Affairs, headed by the ‘Pablo Picasso’ of hypernationalism and Hindu conservatism, Amit Shah has not even assured the citizens of Delhi of an unbiased legal scrutiny of political instigators that were involved in it. Infact, the consistent silence on such heinous homicides are reminiscent of Narendra Modi’s ignoramus attitude when ideological mob-lynchings meandered by Fake News and religious wordplay were riveting all over the country. A constitutionally established but powerless NHRC gave a frenetic response to these circumstances and has failed to reflect upon its reservations in the Supreme Court. This nebulous dogma that was in the air during protests against Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 which gave controversial citizenship rights to Non-Muslims from neighbouring countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh was averred by politicians, even at the cost of the same people that they were supposed to protect and set an example of a well-represented political leadership. With the massive lockdown necessitated to prevent the coronavirus pandemic from becoming any more worse, the Bhartiya Janta Party has covertly pushed in its political propaganda and the judiciary has malfunctioned. The Supreme Court of India has no other option but to adjudicate on sensitive cases in recent months via video conferences where the facts are either twisted or the much needed legal fecundity is off the charts. This was witnessed unambiguously when petitions against the movement of migrant workers from their workplaces towards their native states was unheeded by the central government, failure of health exigencies and Indian Council of Medical Research was rendered rather impugned. The Solicitor General of India, Tushar Mehta, in response to the petitions concerning the distress in migrant labourers’ lives blamed it on Fake News and rather asked the top court to issue guidelines for journalistic reporting during the pandemic.
Photo : Foreign Policy | Protesters in India burn a photograph of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two countries have been engaged in the worst military conflagration since 1965.
Meanwhile, relations with India’s most influential neighbour, People’s Republic of China hit an embarrassing low when a Rambo style altercation between the Indian Army and People’s Liberation Army or The PLA on June 15th, 2020 in Galwan Valley and Pangong Tso along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh left 20 Indian soldiers martyred. The number of casualties on the Chinese side remains ambiguous. But what’s interesting is the cover up of what exactly happened in the two month stand off by the Ministry of External Affairs. In a much awaited meeting that included members of Indian parliament from various political parties, Narendra Modi piqued that there were no incursions in to the country’s border by the Chinese and the national security of the country is intact. Well, this statement had a Himalayan diplomatic and political fallout. Xi and his highly controlled Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ top gun diplomats Wang Yi and Zhao Lijian issued press statements dismissing India’s assertion over the disputed area and have laid claims to the territory. Nevertheless, this compendium of kitsch is here to stay and India’s flirt with nationalism has fired back.
Political enervation in India’s diplomacy has risen with Nepal testing the tough waters. The country, backed by a hypernationalist government under K.P. Sharma Oli has asserted claims to Kala Pani, a disputed territory between her and India. Infact, Oli in a ‘Wild Wild West’ episode of sheer unilateralism and subliminal mendacity has updated Kathmandu’s map and included the disputed site in it. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs has rejected these claims as political opportunism, but it’s clear that the Ministry is helpless and effete diplomatic conversations has flattened the power curve. Statements by Indian military organisations that Nepal has done so at China’s behest has inadvertently complicated the situation.
Hollow political odyssey may work at home, but not across the borders. The fundamentalist government of India needs a diploma in communications real quick. Mafia style politics just doesn’t work, does it?
