[Reader-list] Feudalism in Pakistan

[A.K. Malik]

Dear Mr Chakravartty and RakeshJi,
                                   By the way I am not a BJP Protagonist.I admired the Party because earlier it was different-party people were principled,honest,incorruptible,not power-hungry etc.Once they came to Power the party came out to be NOT different.It no longer remained admireable.With Mangalore and Kandhamal cases and internal infighting behind it, it perhaps rightly lost the elections.I agree with Rakesh's assessment that it would be a tough thing for them to be in power again in 2014 unless the UPA/Congress makes a serious blunder.
CPM also used to be a party which could be admired because of their honesty and not being power-hungry irrespective of the policies they followed but alas they have also changed and are now almost like any other party.I think it could be perhaps because of general downgrading/lowering of public morality by all classes.
Regards,
 
(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Thu, 8/6/09, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Feudalism in Pakistan
> To: "anupam chakravartty" <c.anupam at gmail.com>
> Cc: "A.K. Malik" <akmalik45 at yahoo.com>, "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 1:46 PM
> Dear Anupam jee
> 
> I would just add one more thing to your mail. You have
> stated that BJP won because it went on the plank of
> 'security, development and fight against corruption'
> in the 1998 elections. I think more than the BJP gain, it
> was the Congress which lost, and the reasons to me are clear
> somewhat in this statement of Aashish, the friend I
> constantly refer to in this forum:
> 
> 
> '40 saal tak Congress power mein thee. Unhone kya
> kiya?'. (For 40 years, the Congress was in power, as
> till 1989. What did they do?) 
> 
> The BJP and other parties asked this question, and stated
> that the answer was that Congress had done nothing. They
> staked their claim to power by stating that they will do
> something for the people. So the BJP (and others) came to
> power. But such politics also has its limitations. When the
> people send you in Delhi with the hope of getting benefits,
> and you don't provide it to them (sometimes because of
> your inability or incompetence, sometimes because of
> administrative incompetence, and sometimes because of too
> much being asked in too little time and space), they get
> impatient and fight for their rights. 
> 
> 
> The BJP has a very tough road to power even in 2014,
> according to me, simply because not only would minorities
> never vote for it (as most of the minority section is poor
> and is threatened by the VHP and the Bajrang Dal), but also
> because now that the BJP has ruled, people know that they
> are not the answer to the question they asked themselves. 
> 
> 
> And hence, Modi or no Modi, I don't see any BJP coming
> back to power, unless there is an all-India
> pogrom/riot/genocide or the Congress rules absolutely badly,
> or coalition politics ruins the Congress. (Also of course is
> the case that BJP is limited only to certain states in
> India, not the case with the Congress)
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rakesh
> 
>