Our
nation India has been loved world over because of its diverse culture,
religious tolerance and broad based liberty. Democracy and secularism is its
very base of existence which strengthens the bonding of country’s integrity.
The forefathers of our country who fought for the freedom have laid the
foundation for the nation’s unity in diversity.
But, the prevailing destructive
condition of our country is the concern of every peace loving citizen of our
nation. People are living in a very fearful and insecure conditions because of
widespread communal terror. Our history of co-existence and religious harmony
is shattered because of the ongoing hate and murders in the name of religion
and culture. The tentacles of communal designs have spread over to every grass
root which are now curbing the fundamental rights of freedom, rights to eat-
speech and even to think.
Unending incidents of killing and
burning alive of Dalits and Adivasis in the name of caste and untouchability,
killings of Muslims in the name of religion and culture, killings of
progressive thinkers in the name of intolerance, killings of RTI activists,
attacks on churches, attacks and violence in the name of holy cow, imposing
false cases on NGOs, false propaganda of love jihad - forceful conversion -
population growth, violent hate speeches, etc. have created an insecure
atmosphere in the minds of every citizen in the country. Lynching of Muhammad
Akhlaq in Dadri, burning alive of two Dalit children in Haryana and burning of
an elderly Dalit in UP, killing of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Rao Pansare, MM
Kalburgi, lynching of Shahabuddin in Dimapur, Nagaland are a few of the
examples apart from numerous communal riots reported in various parts of the
country.
The very terrible aspect of this
destruction is invisible protection by the rightist governments to the
perpetrators and defending affirmations from the rightist elected
representatives. Even when the international community is expressing shock over
the prevailing anarchy and insecurity, the Prime Minister of our country is
maintaining his studied and calculated silence. Present Indian Prime Minister
has the unusual crave of floating dialogue for every matter, but, has never
spoken against fascist communal terror. The Prime Minister’s so called ‘good
days ahead’ proves to be good day for the rightist agenda. Hence, the
self-proclaimed ‘dharma rakshaks’ are creating havoc in the country without the
fear of law and order.
A systematic planning of saffronizing
the country’s educational system and Indian history are going on as part of the
‘communalization of our country’, hatched by ‘Sangh’. Hate and intolerance are
precisely and sensibly inducted in the syllabuses. History of kings and their
monuments are treacherously portrayed as anti-Hindu. Imposing so called
‘Sanathan Culture’ in educational institutions are posing a threat to the
process of nation building.
Price hike, farmers’ suicides,
anti-farmer land acquisition bill, stringent unfavorable labor laws, liberal
imperialist FDI policies, unholy economic and military alliance with Israel,
uncontrolled mining policies and destruction of Adivasi habitats, etc. are
heading the nation towards a great misery. This all blatantly shows that the
government at Center is interested in safeguarding the comforts of only
rightist designs and corporate agenda.
It is the time now to all peace loving
Indian citizens to unite and protect the nation from the clutches of the
fascist forces and their communal agenda. Keeping silent and kneeling down in
front the destructive elements really helps the perpetrators to continue
further with broad impunity. Our nation needs strong resistance against such
anti-national elements and we all should unite to fight against this
anti-people rule to build our nation on the foundation of peace and love.
BJP’s Bihar Rout
Recent Bihar assembly election is
memorable not because of the victory of ‘grand alliance’ but for the
humiliating defeat of BJP. Out of total 243 seats, ‘Maha Gathbandhan’, an
alliance of JDU, BJD, INC bagged 178 seats and NDA, the alliance of BJP,RLSP,
LJP and Manjhi’s HAM diminished to just 58 seats. BJP had a high ambition to
form a government in Bihar with a scheme of grabbing Non BJP states one by one
into its parlor. It had worked out many tricks to gain caste based votes in
Bihar. Clasping Dalit backed parties like HAM LJP and RLSP did not fetch votes
to NDA. Prime Minister NarendraModi
himself rallied many times in Bihar wherein he announced a special package of whopping
Rs.1.25 lakh crores. BJP leaders used diverging cards like ‘Holy cow’ and
‘Pakistan’. Like in Loksabha, this time too, NDA had used the media profusely
to impress the voters. In spite of playing all types of tricks, gimmicks and
caste politics this assembly elections witnessed the destruction of BJP and its
allies in Bihar. ‘Modi Wave’ proved to be a ludicrous myth.
Surprisingly BJP is slowly losing its
base in Gujarat and MP as well. In the Panchayat election held in Gujarat in
the month of November 2015, it has lost its 21 district Panchayat out of 31
districts and Congress gained majority of seats. In BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh
too, the party has been losing its grip to Congress. Out of 8 Municipal Committee election BJP
lost in 5 local bodies. The bye election held in Ratlam Parliamentary
constituency in Madhya Pradesh in December, BJP lost its seat.
By assuming power at the Center with
an unprecedented majority, BJP with its RSS ideology has vested all its efforts
to design BJP rule in all states in the country. Bihar election result is a very clear
indication that the people in the country have absolutely disappointed by the
communal and corporate rule by the BJP. Bihar assembly election result proves
that the communal politics will perish if the secular parties unite. However,
the result is not an indication of popular governance by the JDU, RJD and INC,
but it was peoples’ united decision to vote them in the absence of a strong
alternative, to defeat communal BJP. Bihar election
strategy will be likely to become a key strategy for these parties. BJP’s
defeat has also devastated the sensation of ‘superman’ which was built around
Modi. Yet, the
‘grand alliance’ model in Bihar has inspired all secular parties to unite and
to stay on to anti-BJP alliance movement throughout the country.
The secular parties like Congress,
JDU, JDS, RJD, NCP and CPM though their ideologies are based on secularism and
socialism, have miserably failed to act upon it in their rule. There are
several instances wherein some of these pseudo-secular parties established ties
with communal parties for the sake of power. They do not follow what they
preach. Dalits, Minorities, backward communities have faced series of agony
during their regime. Present backwardness, poverty, hunger, fear, etc. are the
result of the partisan and pro-capitalist rule by these so called secular
parties. Hence, alternative secular parties like SDPI should be grown up in the
country to get the share in power.
Mandir Politics to lure Voters
It was ‘Ram Janma bhoomi Issue’ which was polarized the Hindu votes in
favor of BJP to gain power at the Center. As a result BJP won and increased its
number of Parliament seats in the 1989, 1991 and 1996 Loksabha elections
whereas in 1984 election it got only 2 seats. The self-proclaimed ‘Ram Janma
bhoomi’ issue created a sentiment of religious fervor in Hindu community to support
BJP for the construction of ‘Ram Mandir’ at the site of Babri Masjid.
Rathyathra, shilayathra, etc. were militant, masculine and anti-Muslim in
nature. Demolition of Babri Masjid was a ghastly
incident and a black dot in the history of democratic secular India. This
conspiracy and barbaric act triggered waves of violence between Hindus and
Muslims erupted all over the country, killing over 2,000 people and created a
clear division between the two communities.
Now, Vishwa Hindu Parshad
(VHP) is raking up the same issue of ‘Ram Mandir’. It has been stacking stones
and doing pujas in the vicinity of Babri Masjid site. Fresh lots of stones
meant for construction of ‘Ram Temple’ arrived at the office of the VHP in
Ayodhya and ‘Shila Pujan’ (prayer of the stones) has been performed. Meanwhile
Mahant Nritya Gopal Das said that there was a “Signal” from the Modi Government
that the temple will be built “now”. The other VHP & RSS leaders are trying
to keep the issue live in the minds of people by issuing statements and making
propaganda of the subject of building Ram Mandir.
The “Babri Masjid – Ram
Janma Bhoomi” case is still pending in the Supreme Court and there is a
prevailing order of maintaining status quo. However, in the context of assembly
election of Uttar Pradesh scheduled in 2017, VHP under the protection cover
from Modi led BJP government at the Centre is igniting religious sentiments in
Hindu community through such mischievous acts.
We should be very cautious
in expressing our concern in this matter because an immediate outburst will
accelerate the publicity and motif of BJP and Sangh nexus. It is the very idea
of BJP/VHP to infuriate the Muslims in this matter and to enrage them to come
to the streets paving way for the communal outfit to orchestrate riots aimed at
polarization of votes. BJP is in a desperate move to capture power in UP
assembly through any sort of venomous political game and gimmicks.
It is to be noted that the
BJP and Sangh nexus has steered hundreds of communal clashes in UP during these
3 years of Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party government through fabricated and
flimsy reasons. Creating insecurity in the minds of Hinds, igniting religious
sentiments and creating image of savior of Hindu Sanathan Dharma is the
malicious strategy of these right wing nexus to win upcoming assembly election
of UP in 2017.
Corruption
with ‘Clean’ Certificate
Delhi CM Arvind Kejrival and BJP MP former cricketer Kirti Azad have
made strong allegation of corruption on the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
in connection with DDCA (Delhi District Cricket Association) scam. There is a
lot of melodrama in this connection as the CBI raid on CM Arvind Kejriwal’s
office without any notice or genuine reason really raised the eyebrows of the
opposition parties. Arvind accuses that CBI is playing buffoons at the hands of
PM Narendra Modi. His allegation on CBI and PM, that the raid was nothing but
to trace some documents in connection with the DDCA scam. The raid without any
authenticity ridiculed the dignity of a high office of democratically elected
body which compelled CM Arvind to call PM Narendra Modi as a ‘psychopath’.
In spite of BJP’s own MP’s allegation with proof and appointment of an
enquiry commission by the Delhi Government to enquire in to the DDCA scam and
role of Jaitley in it, PM Narendra Modi instead of ousting him, has declared
Arun Jaitly as a clean man like L.K. Advani. This partisan policy of PM and BJP
is mockery of the democracy. Tainted
ArunJaitly is still continuing in his portfolio shamelessly whereas BJP MP
Kirti Azad is continuing to make strong allegations on him with confidence. BJP
ideologue Ram Jethmalani’s outburst and support towards Kirti Azad also really
symptomatic.
In another incident, the criminal complaint lodged by BJP leader
Subramaniyan Swamy led to summon Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice
President Rahul Gandhi to a local court against allegation of cheating and
misappropriation of funds in acquiring ownership of now defunct daily National
Herald. Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, AICC treasurer Moti Lal Vohra, Gen. Sec Oscar
Fernandes, Suman Dubey and Sam Pitroda the other directors of Young Indian
Ltd(YI), a company incorporated in 2010 which took over the ‘debt’ of
Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), the publisher of National Herald. The allegation
on them was that they have conspired to cheat and misappropriated funds by just
paying Rs.50 lakh by which Young Indian obtained the right to recover Rs. 90.25
crore which the AJL had owed to the Congress Party.
Sonia Gandhi and Congress leaders were playing lot of sentimental drama
and alleging on Central BJP government that this is nothing but political
vengeance. Sonia Gandhi’s assertion ‘I don’t fear’ really echoes in the ears of
common people in the country as why should she fear as she is encircled by
political power and capability. Congress Party’s statement saying Sonia Gandhi
is innocent is really ridiculous. During Congress regime thousands of youths
belonging to Muslim, Dalit communities and Adivasi were pushed into jails under
the draconian law UAPA for no crime committed by them and hundreds of riots
were reported across the country making lives of thousands miserable. Now the
congress leaders are shedding tears for the fate of their leaders. One can
imagine how many thousands of parents and family members of those innocents
would shedding tears for their jailed innocent sons.
Juvenile
Justice Act
Juvenile Justice (Care
and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 is a proposed Act of the Parliament
of India. It aims to replace
existing Indian juvenile delinquency law, Juvenile Justice (Care and
Protection of Children) Act, 2000, so that juveniles in conflict with Law in the age group of 16–18,
involved in Heinous Offences, can be tried as adults.It was passed on 7 May
2015 by the Lok Sabha amid intense protest by several Members of Parliament.
It was passed on 22 December 2015 by the Rajya Sabha as well.
There was a hue and cry across the country against letting free of a
gang rape accused due to existing JJ Act. It was the concern over the age of
the perpetrator accused in the horrible gang rape case in Delhi in December
2012 in which one of the perpetrator was 6 months short for age of 18 when the
offence happened. In this case, a maximum punishment can be given for a
juvenile is 3 years confinement in a juvenile home.
The new Juvenile Just Bill 2015 will allows the judiciary to try the
accused of heinous crimes aged from 16 to 18 under Indian Penal Code. The
matters should be presented to the Juvenile Justice Board on a case by case
basis, which will decide then based on an assessment of the mental state of the
child as whether the crime was committed with or without an understanding of
its consequences. Based on this
assessment, the juvenile offenders will be treated under either IPC or the JJ
Act.
There is strong resistance from several organizations and activists
saying that the decision taken to amend the act was emotional, irrational and
unscientific. They won’t find any justification in reducing the age of juvenile
from 18 to 16 for sending them to jail. They stress to understand the
psychology of the youngster, their hormonal changes and their emotional upheavals
during the age of growth when he is neither a child nor an adult. Those who are
opposing the JJ Act argue that the adolescent need therapeutic treatment and on
the contrary imprisonment would make close proximity with criminals which may
lead to treat them as their role models.
There is also a concern about the atmosphere where the child is living
is the factor behind creating mental status and character. Poverty,
exploitation, crime, lawlessness, obscenity, lack of education, family factor,
media influence, etc. are the factors of influence on the minds and character
of the child. The opinion is that the government has to rethink its policies
and schemes as instead of toughening the juvenile law it should enact to
protect the child and its mental growth.
Global
Warming
Global Warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature
due to effect of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emissions from
burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat that would
otherwise escape from Earth. This is a type of greenhouse effect. Too much of
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is acts as a blanket, trapping heat and
warming the planet. Burning fossils fuels like coal, oil and natural gas for
energy or cut down and burn forests to create pastures and plantations, carbon
dioxide accumulates and overloads our atmosphere.
Climate change is the greatest
environmental threat of our time, endangering our health, economy and national security.
Extreme weather, sea
level rise, imbalance in ecological system, increased cyclonic activity, and changes in
ambient temperature and precipitation patterns, have affected or are projected
to affect the subcontinent.
Impacts of global warming on climate of India
The effect of global warming on the climate of India has
led to climate
disasters as per some experts. India is a disaster prone
area, with the statistics of 27 out of 35 states being disaster prone, with
foods being the most frequent disasters. The process of global warming has led
to an increase in the frequency and intensity of these climatic disasters.
According to surveys, in the year 2007-2008, India ranked the third highest in
the world regarding the number of significant disasters, with 18 such events in
one year, resulting in the death of 1103 people due to these catastrophes. The
anticipated increase in precipitation, the melting of glaciers and expanding
seas have the power to influence the Indian climate negatively, with an
increase in incidence of floods, hurricanes and storms. Global warming may also
pose a significant threat to the food security situation in India.
According to the The Indira Gandhi Institute of
Development Research, if the process of global warming continues to increase,
resulting climatic disasters would cause a decrease in India’s GDP to decline
by about 9%, with a decrease by 40% of the production of the major crops. A
temperature increase of 2° C in India is projected to displace seven million
people, with a submersion of the major cities of India like Mumbai and Chennai.
Floods in India
India is the most flood distressed state in the world
after Bangladesh, accounting for 1/ 5th of the global deaths every year with 30
million people displaced from their homes yearly. Approximately 40 million
hectares of the land is vulnerable to floods, with 8 million hectares affected
by it. Unprecedented floods take place every year at one place or the other,
with the most vulnerable states of India being Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam,
West Bengal, Gujarat, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir. The climatic history of India is studded with a
very large number of floods, which have wreaked havoc on the country’s economy.
Other climatic disasters in India - Droughts: Of the total
agricultural land in India, about 68% is prone to drought of which 33% is
chronically drought prone, receiving rainfall of less than 750mm per year. This
is particularly the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Karnataka,
Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. The World Record for Drought was in 2000 in Rajasthan,
India.
According to researches, unabated global warming will
lead to exacerbation of the droughts, cutting down the water
availability in the plains of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. India’s
initial National
Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC)
on Climate
Change projects
that Luni; the west flowing rivers of Kutchh and Saurashtra are likely to experience
acute physical water scarcity. The river basins of Mahi,
Pennar, Sabarmati and Tapi are also likely to experience constant water
scarcities and shortages.
The Indian economy is considered as one of the fastest
growing major economies. However, the country is plagued by climatic disasters
that continue to wreak havoc on its economy. As a result, majority of the
people of India continue to live in poverty, with malnutrition and diseases
corroding the society. In this light, a comprehensive mitigation and adaptation
plan needs to be drafted and implemented for better preparation and response to
such climate disasters that are generated as a result of global warming.
India should act to control the global warming
coping with International measures.
While taking steps to control emissions, the government should protect
welfare of the people as the measures should not affect the economic growth,
alleviation of poverty, industrial production, etc.
CONCLUSION
The people of our country is struggling in the hands of communal BJP
government. Instead of giving good governance for the welfare of all people of
the country irrespective of cast creed color, it has the essence only in
establishing saffron interests and corporate welfare. It’s proud and prodigy
lies especially in the promotion of the Vedic and Brahminical ideology. At one
side the BJP leaders speaks about development of all and on the other side they
spew venom on minorities and Dalits.
Learning tough lessons from the election result of Bihar, the BJP may
embrace new tactics to garner votes in the coming elections in the country.
Obviously, inspiring from the success of Muslim Rasthriya Manch (MRM) floated
by RSS, it is now preparing to form Isai Manch (IM) to deceive and exploit
Christian community as well. SDPI is reaching out to the people to create
awareness and unite them against these communal forces and their evil design of
divisive politics.
The age old pseudo-secular parties like Congress, RJD, JDS, SP, BSP,
JDU, etc. have miserably failed to fight against communal forces and communal
parties. Their mild voice and even sometime silence encouraged the communal
parties to grow to such an extent. These so called secular parties including
CPM have done nothing to the welfare of poor people, farmers, labors and rural
folk during their rule. Corruption, nepotism and hooliganism are the work force
to these parties. Dynastic politics and upper cast hegemony are the controlling
powers in these so called secular parties which is a mockery of democracy.
Party with Unique
Features – Solution to the Problems of India
Our country is respected the world over because of its diverse culture,
religious tolerance and for its democratic traditions. The illustrious leaders
of our country who fought for the freedom have laid the foundation for the
nation’s unity in diversity. The country exists because its people believe in
peaceful coexistence. But, at present, fear and suspicion have started to
spread like a dark fog all over the nation. Communal terror is threatening
peaceful co-existence and religious harmony.
Screams of anarchy and insecurity has been increasingly heard in the
country. While the citizen are protesting against the wave of intolerance, the
ruling parties just showing insensitivity.
Efforts to destruct secular values in educational system, killings of
Dalits in the name of cast, lynching of Muslims in the name of beef, killings
of progressive persons for questioning and criticizing the cultural shibboleths
and beliefs, attacks on Christians in the name of conversion, killings of RTI
activists, false cases on social and rights activists, nerve-wracking price
hikes, farmers suicides, anti-farmer land acquisition bill, anti-labour laws,
rampant corruption, etc. are widespread in the country. The ruling parties are
not taking these issues as serious and just indulged in cast based politics and
thus insulting our constitution and democracy.
After the demolition
of Babri Masjid, Muslims and Dalits maintained distance from powerful political
parties and started identifying and voting the regional secular parties like
SP, BSP, RJD, JDU, NCP, JDS, etc. However, these regional parties instead of
empowering the poor and the downtrodden communities, they exploited them for
their selfish benefits.
SDPI is the alternative for all these
political parties, whenever any sort of anti-constitutional and anti-people
moves are adopted by the governments or by the opposition parties, be them in
states or at the Centre. It is committed to protect the welfare of every
citizen irrespective of his/her caste, creed and color. We have been inspired
by the support of the people all over the country. As a political party we
stand on our feet and through Campaigns across the country we are geared up to
thwart out the communal forces in our county with the support of Masses. SDPI is committed to change the country as a welfare
nation and believes that people’s welfare itself is nation’s welfare. Let’s
struggle till Dalit atrocities, Caste Discrimination and Attacks on the Weak
come to an End in our beloved Country.
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