To all those who are saying 'Democracy Won' after the recent turn of events in Karnataka i.e. announcements of the results on 15th May 2018. Sorry I doubt if it has.
To the ones over glorifying Supreme Court, What did the Supreme Court do ?
Well, It played a neutral referee.
Key Takeaways:
There are pre-poll alliances out there in open where the voters asses the alliance collectively and exercise their choice while casting votes. And then there are last minute post election alliances. The later represents the sheer growing opportunism in our blood.
JDS and BSP went into this Karnataka election in alliance and spoke actively to the voters listing and highlighting the negatives in Congress and BJP and so did the Congress and BJP.
JDS, BSP and Congress joining hands is a representation of the punctured spines of our political class and the complete disregard they have to whatever they say pre poll. It is a representation of how immaterial and insignificant is the ideological and aspirational investment of a voter in a vote for her/his political leader. How vanished or non-existent are concepts like uprightness in the way we operate as a society.
Similar episodes of post poll alliance happened in J&K where BJP and Mehbooba Mufti's PDP joined hands, and also in Maharashtra where BJP and ShivSena joined hands post election ignoring every convincing exercise each of these parties did to make the voters believe how gross and unhealthy will be the arrival of the other.
Nitish Kumar and BJP did the same in Bihar. The well articulated and well stitched grand alliance of Janta Dal(United), Congress and RJD won 180 out of 243 seats in Bihar. The voters vehemently rejected BJP by they losing on almost 4/5th of the seats they contested. Yet last year Nitish conveniently ditched the collective mandate and joined hands with BJP. What puts me to wonder is, how do you do it without a wrinkle on fore head, I mean for 5 years that is from mid of year 2012 to mid of year 2017 BJP and Nitish despised each other, infact Nitish's entire campaign was curated around how hollow and fascist the BJP is.
No, Democracy doesn't win when your vote which is a cumulative investment of your trust, aspirations and ideologies is mauled mercilessly in the unadulterated pursuit to remain in power.
What we witnessed yesterday wasn't democracy's win but mere prevention of a constitutional fraud, was mere salvaging some of India's tattered democracy which the BJP President and Karnataka's governor were determined to finish it altogether.
I wish we don't bask for too long in the slight comfort reeling out from how things unfolded yesterday but feel disturbed on how effortlessly we have been pushed into making peace with 'unethical' vs 'unconstitutional'
To the BJP supporters in the Karnataka Elections, You project that you reject Congress on how corrupt they are and then you rejoice over Yeddyurappa being named as the Chief Ministerial candidate, the man who was forced to resign from his Chief Ministerial post in 2012 and sent to jail for illegal mining. There are running cases on him of his involvement in murder, extortion and land scams. You reject Congress on corruption and then you accept BJP giving 7 tickets to the famous Reddy Brothers, one of them has spent 42 months in jail for illegal iron ore mining. How do you manage to pull of such hypocrisies? The truth is you are absolutely fine with corruption. You just use the word as your cover for your English Speaking Urban Bigotry. The truth is that the indoctrinated soft hate and convenient demonization you carry in your heart for a set of people gets a channel to outflow and flourish under the saffron Umbrella. Your shallowness and hypocrisy like your political leaders kissed height when your heart was rooting for the brazen buying of the elected representatives.
I want BJP supporters to offload themselves from the cloak of anti-corruption, anti dynasty politics, come out in open and scream for your burning desire for hegemony. Stop serving the image they want to be perceived in. Their truth deserves the right to be known, to hide it is cowardly.
Well, It played a neutral referee.
Isn't that what it is supposed to do at the bare minimum level. Our overt sense of thankfulness towards an institution for just being how they are expected to be underlines the acute dearth in trust and expectations we are left with, in and from such institutions.
History stands testament to the fact that there have been innumerous cases in past where judgments coming from Supreme Court have been extremely biased. So lets be done with the overglorification. It biases your mind and clouds your vision and therefore unknowingly disempowers you to question that figure. Let the institutions pass through your critical lens every single time, case by case, in individual capacities.
Nevertheless, I firmly believe in acknowledging and will appreciate in writing that it was very gracious of SC to fix hearing at 1: 45 am on 16th of May. Deserve every bit of kudo for giving more than 3 hours from midnight to dawn. I went through the excerpts of the transcript of the hearing. It was a hearing with quotient of patience par excellence. There would be rare examples of courts making themselves available for justice during that hour of the day at such short notices. No denying, acts like these do restore a degree of faith back in guardian institutes like Supreme Court. Thank you.
Key Takeaways:
- Despite a monument built out of failed promises, despite the carnage of facts and history in his speeches Narendra Modi continues to be the most loved political leader in contemporary India.
- Congress for the first time in last 4 years has shown dynamism in resistance, a welcome change for the health of democracy
- Due acknowledgment to those MLA's who were offered bribes running into hundreds of crores, threatened by public institutions from the likes of CBI, Income Tax, whose family were under threat. Thank you for not giving up too soon.
- D K Shivkumar of Congress has emerged as a rare and remarkably astute politician. Guarding 117 MLA's from being bought for 72 hours from the likes of men as powerful and veteran as Amit Shah was no mean feat.
- There is no direct opposition to Narendra Modi in 2019's LokSabha election, there is no space for a triangular contest on the lines of a BJP, Congress and A Third Front. If there is a fight, if at all there is; it is between the BJP and United Front.
- We have come to the lowest of our political culture as a nation, Horse trading got normalised to such extent that people from both the sides alike were literally finding it exciting and not dangerous.
- Though the BJP has been shown that there are limits to your arrogance and high headedness. Their mannerism to subvert and collude every public institution has got checked but Amit-Modi duo are highly egoistic and ambitious individuals. They will not rest here, and an attempt to destabilize the upcoming coalition government will soon make inroads.
All views mentioned in this article are personal
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