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CORRUPTION EMPOWERED CABALS - A REALITY OF INDIA

From time to time various estimates have been made regarding the extent of corruption loot going on in India and the figures arrived at have been simply astronomical and mind boggling. One such estimate that appeared recently "Congress' saga of scams: Rs 48,20,69,00,00,000 public money looted in 70 years" highlights  the deeds of Indian Congress and its allies. It does not mean that the others in polity is innocent as a lamb, they too had a dip in the national loot proportionate to their period of ruling, mostly in states. A fair estimation will be a 25% addition to this sum as their contribution. Most of this money goes as Black Money: A Curse For Indian Growth Story

All aspects of the Indian system be it the legislative, bureaucracy or judiciary along with their functions of law making, governance, economy, delivery of justice etc., etc. are controlled and managed by the corruption empowered cabals. Most of the decisions in purchases, adherence to rules and regulations in industry and trade, manpower selections, appointments, promotions etc are all controlled by the principles of lick my boots, scratch each other's back and grease my palm in stead of the basic criterion of merit and conforming to correctness. Given below is a list of cabals affecting the future of Indian nation.

• Political Cabals : Politicians all over the globe are considered to be an unenviable class not only by intelligentsia but by many politicians also. A few notable quotes describe the reality of politics and politicians.

  "Politics is the last resort for the scoundrels" George Bernard Shaw

      "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I        have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first".        Ronald Reagen

We are constantly witness to the ushering of various politicians regarding the fact that there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies in politics notwithstanding any ideological differences or whatsoever. The only guiding factor is the lust to be in power and a shareholder in the national loot.

• Bureaucracy Cabals : There is cabal at all levels of executive, from the lowest to the highest which controls all decisions, monetary or otherwise, recruitments, appointments, postings, transfers etc., based on philosophy of lick my shoes, you scratch my back and I will scratch yours and involving monetary considerations for a large majority of cases. In fact India of the Few- For the Few, By the Few sums up the Indian Reality, not many have the courage to talk about. 
• Corruption Cabals : Apart from polity and executive, these cabals include the land and real estate mafia, Hundi and Havala operators, terror funders and smugglers, black marketers, tax thieves and evaders and 
• Judicial Cabal : The Collegium, The Bar Council of India, The Common Law Admission Test the three main pillars of the Indian Judiciary have also been taken over by cabals and are in fact  The three most arrogant and opaque cabals in Indian legal system .
• Media Cabal : An honest, sincere and unbiased Press/Media, the fourth estate is one of the main pillars of strength in moulding the path of a nation. In India vast majority of media and press has fallen a prey to the baser elements and it is being used by unscrupulous polity through personal and business gratifications through discretionary powers and they in turn help polity to fool the masses. This fact is clear by the fact that this media cabal is on the forefront of condemning all actions of the government, be it on the legislation front or governance front that could jeopardize the identity of fake/duplicate voters, citizens, beneficiaries of government doles, subsidies and beneficial schemes. 
• Cabals in Education : In spite of the fact that there is no dearth of talent, merit and brain in the country, the nation is facing the  Indian Reality of a Rudderless education system , all courtesy the corruption cabals operating in the field of education with the backing of polity and money power. Meritocracy has given way to mediocrity is a gross understatement. More than 90% of the  pass outs from Indian education system irrespective of the stream or level are simply unemployable. This is the story of education infrastructure, facilities, faculties, students and the selections, controlled by different cabals in polity, national governing bodies, individual universities and institutes.

                              

 Why some people hate Narendra Modi so much

The government’s surprise move to demonetise high-denomination bank notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 has shocked these anti-social elements.

Sunil Gupta | New Delhi | November 17, 2016 11:31 pm

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even after the so-called honeymoon period, continues to be very popular in India as well as abroad. According to a recent survey by Pew Research Center and published by Forbes in September this year, Modi’s popularity, even more than two years after he was swept to power in 2014, is pretty high at 81 per cent. Despite his sustaining approval among the public, he has created extremely powerful and very vocal enemies too.

Here, we are not referring to the legitimate political parties who think it is their duty to assail whatever is done by Modi and his government. The Prime Minister has antagonized certain segments such as tax evaders, real estate mafias, those who fund terror activities within India and abroad as well as those who have hoarded huge sums of unaccounted money referred to as black money in India), including the hawala operators.

WHY MODI IS THE MOST HATED PRIME MINISTER FOR THE OPPOSITION AND INTELLIGENTSIA ?

In his seventh year as prime minister of India, Modi continues to be the most popular leader among the masses. Strangely he happens to be the most hated by the opposition and intelligentsia because of his actions which are not to the liking of many sections of elite of Indian society.

In the seventy plus years of  post independence India, no doubt it was Congress party that ruled the country for about six decades. The Indian democracy did throw up a few  alternatives to Congress from time to time in the shape of many erstwhile Congress leaders. However the first to last a full term was of National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) led by  A B Vajpayee of BJP. Now India has Narendra Modi at the helm of affairs from 2014 onwards in his second term. Though BJP all by itself  enjoyed the majority in 2014  as well as in 2019, still the government is that of NDA.

The politics in independent India theoretically evolved around secularism and socialism. This is at least what has been the central idea of manifestoes of all political parties all these years. When it comes to actual politics , it boils down to plain and simple vote arithmetic manipulations through the age old maxim of Divide and Rule on the basis of religion, cast, creed, sex, age, occupation, urban/rural etc. etc.. In essence in Indian politics, there are no permanent friends, no permanent enemies as secularism and socialism are used just to create perception to woo a particular vote bank at a particular point of time. 

BJP has been labelled as a non secular party by many. The naked truth of Indian politics is that all political parties, national or regional, excepting Congress party has shared power directly  with BJP or in governments where BJP also shared power, though whenever need arose, they labelled it non secular or anti socialism. The Congress party also fell to the greed of being in power in case of Maharashtra recently in coalition with Shiv Sena, essentially a Hindu party, forgetting their being self proclaimed champions  of secularism.  As it is wooing Muslim voters, one of the largest undividable chunk of Indian vote bank has been the sole effort of all so called secular parties, many a time ignoring the basic principles of equality for all citizens even in the eyes of law. In this race aligning with Muslim League has been a glaring example of Secularism of the Congress.

The second major postulate of Indian politics i.e. Socialism has been even greater sufferer at the altar of Indian politics. Ever growing lust for all baser instincts i.e. money, power, wine and women, led to explosion of corruption and corrupt practices and urge to nurture the model of  Philosophy of Corruption Empowerment. The insensitivity of Indian polity to corruption mitigation which is so very important for the prosperity  of our millions can be gauged by the following. One prime minister who served for more than 15 years when told about growing corruption casually said that it was a global phenomenon while another prime minister in eighties was candid enough in admitting that out of 1 Re given by Indian union only 15 paise ( Or 15 % only ) reached the target. But did anything change? Were any measures adopted to cure this malaise both from the centre or any state, by any party, national or regional? The answer is an emphatic NO. 

    The Indian polity dwelled only on vote bank politics all these years in the garb of secularism and socialism through not only creation of Corruption empowered cabals but creation of fake, duplicate and multiple entries in all national lists, be it Voter's List, List of MNREGA workers, List of beneficiaries of government subsidies, List of Permanent Account Holders (PAN)  holders, List of citizens etc. etc., List of Bank Account Holders, to enable manipulations in election results and grabbing a big pie of national exchequer through theft, bribes, corruption tax evasion and generation of black money

All political parties have shared fruits of power with BJP and all political parties in their economics profess and work within 10-15% left or right of centre. It is also amply clear that the plank of BJP being non secular, anti Muslim is just a rhetoric.  All that BJP stands for is uniformity before law for all citizens in all walks of life without exception. So why is Modi hated so much by opposition and so called intelligentsia? What has he done or is going to do which makes him a political untouchable in the country?

Many politicians of the country are convinced by the fact that Corruption Mitigation and Good Governance can be Biggest Growth Engine of Indian Economy but because of political compulsions and lust for power failed in doing something meaningful in this regard. Mr. Modi , strangely enough for an Indian politician has taken it very seriously and has started hitting the Demons of Indian Economy and Governance one by one. During last six years , he has taken the following decisions which seem to have touched the juggler vein of rest of polity.  

• It all started with Demonetization and introduction of GST. Some people particularly  tax thieves and evaders, real estate mafia, terror funders, Hundi and Havala operators and the polity which benefitted from activities these started hating Modi.   

• Realising the total  potential of AADHAAR : The project of unique identification ( UID) number or Aadhaar was initiated by Manmohan Singh's goverment but they developed cold feet when the total scope was understood. In fact UID is the only Aadhaar/base for good governance in India  and opposition has been trying to block all linkages of Aadhaar on one pretext or the other.
•  Welfare schemes and measures like crop insurance, Ayushman Bharat, PM Kisan Samman Nidhi   

 Cutting down the possibilities of pilferage, graft and cuts in all government schemes through cashless direct transfers into bank accounts.

• Doing away with bogus, fake and duplicate ration cards 

• Direct transfer of government  assistance into accounts of beneficiaries, MNREGA payments into individual's accounts

• Muslim women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019
•  Dealing with Pakistan and China from a position of equals

• Fighting terrorism in J&K and Naxalite - Maoist terror in 100 odd districts of the so called red corridor with a lot of success for the first time.   

• Integration of J&K with India    

• Citizenship Amendment Act 2019
• Proposal for National Population Register (NPR) 
• Farmer related legislations namely, 1.Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) 2020,  2.Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services 2020 and 3.The Essential Commodities (Amendment) 2020.

    All these actions and legislations have 

        1. Dented the monopoly and strong hold of the opposition parties on the Muslim and extremely poor vote banks of the opposition parties.

           2.  A major shift in approach to dealing with   China and Pakistan has increased Modi's popularity considerably with the masses. 

Plus minus in the vote bank along with secularism are not the main reasons of hatred towards Mr. Modi but permanently eroding the credibility of these opposition leaders as The Messiah of protection of Muslims and hapless poor masses by his actions is definitely giving birth to this hatred.

But the major cause of this hatred emanates from the policy and governance actions which are denying them the opportunity of gobbling 85% of the government expenditure, (this fact was mentioned by one of the Indian prime ministers in mid eighties) through direct transfer into the bank account number of real living beneficiaries. During the last five years about Rs 10 lakh crores has been disbursed like this. Now through farmer related legislations, the opposition and so called intelligentsia, bureaucracy etc. etc. has been denied loot share from almost  Rs 25 lakh annually. This being the biggest blow and hence the reactions are also equally big and strong. 

In fact denying opportunities of manipulations of vote bank politics and a big share in national loot is why Modi is hated so much by the opposition and so called intelligentsia.

    

         

FARM BILL PROTESTS -- PROTESTS BY FARMERS OR CORRUPTION EMPOWERED POLITICAL CABAL

 The three legislations namely,

Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) 2020, 

Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services 2020,  

The Essential Commodities (Amendment) 2020,

concerning farm produce and its sale have been passed by the Indian parliament and have become acts after signing by the President of India. It had raised a lot of hue and cry during its passage in the parliament and even now protests against the act acts are taking place. It is worthwhile to remind here that these provisions formed a part of manifesto of Indian National Congress from 2012 onwards. The other political parties mostly regional though some of them termed as national parties technically never seem to think in terms of country as a whole.

First of all, what is the extent of protests. The involvement of citizenry is almost at the same level as that of protests in the case of Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizenship, at best a couple of thousand people at various places. Yes, the polity of all hues (except the BJP) with their touts and corruption empowered cabal they have nurtured for almost seven decades is on the streets. There are media guys who feel their wings are clipped by the present ruling dispensation have used big big qualitative adjectives like massive, the nation on the boil etc. etc. for these protests. For their information, India has about 13 crore farmers/cultivators and a few thousands at some places in the country is a miniscule representation for a class. What is their motivation?

Agriculture has been a state subject, i.e. it forms a part of state list of our constitution, which essentially means that states are supposed to address all issues related to agriculture. An entry 33 in the concurrent list was made by the present union government in Jun 2020 which limits the power of states in agriculture and empowers the Centre by stating that both the states and union government can legislate regarding production, trade, supply and distribution of a range of foodstuffs and agricultural raw materials.

Since centre has come into the agriculture from Jun 2020, all the Woes of The Indian Farmer emanate from the failure of all state governments who have been looting the farmers ever since independence. In fact truth about these protests came out from one state politician from Tamil Nadu that these acts are an intrusion on the federal structure of India. Polity all over the globe and Indian polity in particular doesn't believe in powers unless a big earning opportunity  is attached to it. Incidentally about Rs 25 lakh crores worth of agriculture is produced in India and sold in the Mandis of the country. Furthermore, the ratio of what a farmer gets and what a final consumer pays for any goods at best is perhaps as low as 1:4 and in many cases it can touch 1:6 and for perishables much higher. The Rs 25 lakh crore figure is in terms of price paid to the farmer. One needs to understand that for the state government bigwigs of polity, arhatiyas, commission agents and middle men, it is a game involving Rs 50-100 lakh crores annually and more than 90% in cash only. An extremely lucrative  activity for black money earners and political funding. Farmer has nothing to lose, in fact he is going to gain only. 

That exactly is the reason of so much agony  thrust on Indian polity through these farm related legislations. If only these states ruling guys cared for the plight of farmers they would have increased the MSP in their states to the level of their liking and enacted legislations that all agricultural produce will sell only above MSP irrespective of the fact that it is bought by government or a private party. Polity of all hues has failed in not standing with the ANNADATA all these years and fooling him with hollow catchy slogans. Let us make a sincere beginning in the right direction to improve the lot of our Annadata with more and more of such measures to raise the earnings of farming community to give him a  reasonable living standard. 

    

FARMER WOES IN INDIA

 About 50% Indians depend on farming sector in India, about 13 crore farm owning families along with farm labour and those involved in farm related activities. However, the farming sector contributes about 15-17% to the national GDP. Another basic fact to be noted is that out of these 13 crore land owning families about 12.5 crore own less than 1 Hectare of land. We must understand that this chunk of 95% of farmers even with a small family of 4 persons can only live as extremely poor on the basis of the produce from his holding of about 1 Hectare. ( Say anything between Rs 50000 - 60000 ). 

Now, any measures to improve the lot of this large chunk of about 50 crore people should be fair to one and all and has to be thought of in the light of following facts. 

• Minimum Support Price ( MSP ) covers only a small fraction of farm produced commodities, some 25 odd commodities only and there also the procurement of about 5% of the total produce is bought by union government. 
• We should never ignore that no farmer can live solely on the goods produced on his farm. In fact a majority of any farmer household's kitchen, food and clothing requirements also come from the market.\
•  If 50 crore are dependent on agriculture produce, there are 120 crore consumers of this produce. This additional 70 crores comprise of all labour and workers, small vendors and businesses. Their additional earning requirements because of food price rise could result into the prices of everything spiraling upwards, thereby erasing the gains of the farming community.
• Agriculture has been a state subject, i.e. it forms a part of the state list of our Constitution, which essentially means that states are supposed to address all the issues related to agriculture. But on Jun 20, 2020 Entry 33 in the concurrent list limits the power of states in agriculture and empowers the Centre by stating that both the state and the Union government can legislate regarding production, trade, supply and distribution of a range of foodstuffs and agricultural raw materials.

A big majority number of states and the country as a whole has been at the mercy of one particular party and its allies for all but 11 years and they have failed the farmers, Dalits, other poor and minorities even because they resorted to the model of creating and empowering  Philosophy Of Corruption Empowerment - Bane Of Seven Decades Of Independent India  which resulted in the Birth and Rise Of Corruption Empowered Cabal In India and controlling these big vote banks through the weapons of Saam, Daam, Dand, Bhed and hollow slogans wielded through these cabals without caring for the plight and welfare of hapless masses.

Now that these parties are no longer in power and they themselves and the elitist as well as all levels of empowered cabals have lost out on their illegal earnings, they have started their campaign with following nonsensical suggestions. 

• Firstly these parties want 100% of farm produce to be procured by union government from the present 5% being procured. Great idea but why did it not strike them when they were enjoying the power. Because either they did not know that value of 17% of GDP i.e. Rs 27 lakh crores exceeds the annual budget of India. And supposingly Indian government procures it, then who sells it to the market. Or perhaps they just want to  criticize the government of India to justify their salaries and perks.
• Secondly these parties want that total produce should be sold by farmers in Mandis at Minimum Support Price. Since they are ruling in majority of states and the state governments can formulate such policies as per constitution , why are they leaving such a welfare measure to Modi to take credit and win future elections?????????

In the light of all this, what is the real answer to the farmer woes in India? First and foremost any subdivision of individual holding below one Hectare is catastrophe for a farming family. This clearly implies that the country has to not only put a control on population but also wean away a few tens of millions from these farming households to industry, services and other professions to maintain present parity.

    Secondly, the country has to find solutions to losses of farmers by natural calamities like floods, hailstorms, famines, as also man made problems of rotting of grains and perishable items because of lack of infrastrucure such as normal storage, cold storage, quick movement of produce from areas of abundance to areas of shortage, development of adequate food processing and losses because of rodents, pests, disease etc.

    Thirdly, saving the farmer from the clutches of inspectors, Aahrtiyas, middlemen, commission agents, wholesalers, retailers etc. In short, a system has to be evolved where the ratio of the price which a farmer gets and the price which a consumer pays is not less than 0.5.

India And Coronavirus Catastrophe

Two months have passed after the lock down as a result of Corona Virus (Covid 19). On one hand the political agenda has given birth to a debate on whether India should have gone ahead with lock down or not? On the other hand questions are being raised on the timing and preparedness required before putting the nation under lock down. Both these questions have a common answer in the fact that catastrophes and calamities are not planned activities and hence the response actions and planning will go hand in glove with each other and is in essence a trade-off between economy, loss of life, preparedness in both logistics and medical facilities and the speed of onset of the calamity in all kind of likely scenarios emanating from the nation’s understanding and response to the problem.

        All analysis of the problem, be it by Polity and Political analysts, Economists, Journalists, Industrialists and Intelligentsia has been done keeping in view one’s own self interest, hidden agenda and selfish motivations and fails to give a rational and unbiased assessment to a normal citizen.

       It is a well known that corona virus infected patients grow rapidly and exponentially. In the light of unfortunate fact that neither a cure nor a vaccine is available to mankind at this juncture, the only plausible solution at this is to slow down the growth chain and break it if possible, much like a nuclear reaction is controlled in an atomic power plant by removing/absorbing a large a large number of neutrons from the chain fission reaction, thus avoiding the catastrophe of a nuclear bomb explosion.This controlling/ breaking down the chain required an imposition of a complete lock down on all kind of activity along with building up an infrastructure to help fight and control Corona virus on a war footing. The results of any delay and let up would have been as catastrophic as that of a nuclear explosion. While the nuclear explosion limits itself to a maximum radius of 100 Kms or so, Corona misfortune would have been on the national scale.
       The trade off available was very simple. A maximum of Rs. 15 to 20 lakh crore of GDP loss coupled with a lot of misery and sufferings to the poor masses or accepting  a potential of a couple of lakh deaths and a couple of million covid-19 patients with the level of infrastructure created today so painstakingly in the last 2 months and barely enough for maximum 2 lakh patients. The war would have neither been won nor finished after this. But I can venture out to say if there was no lock down from March, the exponential growth of corona virus patients and its collateral damage effects on industry, commerce and services because of randomly falling sick of key workers, closing and sanitizing of premises, its demoralizing effect on business and workforce would have definitely led to an even greater exodus of workers ( Unplanned equally if not more ). And a completely haywire and directionless nation would have suffered many many times more.In case the nation went in for a lock down after giving a fortnight of preparation time as many have been professing, a sudden explosion of corona virus cases would have been simply unmanageable as has been seen in many advanced, educated, law abiding and prosperous nations. 

       Needless to emphasize that the social distancing, use of masks, soap and sanitizer, quarantine etc. are all containment efforts aiming at minimizing the loss and certainly not means of finding an end to the corona virus. The  finding out of a vaccine and achieving herd immunity can give a lot of respite and comfort to the global citizenry but in true sense the war shall be deemed to have won only after the humanity finds a cure to the disease..