It is always easy to blame others
rather than looking back to self which can be one big reason of self-halting.
And it is easier said than done. And there are many things that we people want
in our society to change but hardly anyone check its feasibility, that I would
called them as utopian expectation. Even without expecting to change that much
the existing one is more than enough, kicking off the White Man ideology which
is hazardous to Indian society and to the earth at aggregate.
Anyway, top down parliamentary
democracy- many political philosophers says that representative form of
government is the worst form of government but no better alternative for this.
What more than this is democracy, which comes include the representative form
of govt. or same? Representative form of govt. is down to top process while the
administration of this form of govt. is top to down and this is neutralize by
the form called democracy which includes every kind of freedom of the citizens
and the policy called Panchayati Raj Institution, the rest are because of
people who are selected but not because of the form of govt.
Rise of revolutionaries on account
of merger- it is one of the most ambiguous issue in Manipur. Everybody,
excluding the civilian people, protested against the merger. Those who are
protesting, a group of people single minded people, claiming that the merger
was not in consensus and hence not democratic. It was done at the time
democracy was not internalized to the majority of people. This is not the
issue. No one ask(ed) why this revolutionaries, who do not actually have any
basic objective of their existence shouting for separation, and no one bother
of them also. It’s good to compare the condition of Myanmar and Thailand and
many similar countries with the situation what if Manipur was an independent
country. I mean, what would be the position of the revolutionaries if we all
were in the independent Manipur. We can check it out by the trend of their
contribution so far in the soil of Manipur.
Or similarly we can ask why they want separate state while the rest of
the people do not speak anything in favor of them. It will be totally wrong if
we think that revolutionist know more of prediction of political situations
than normal people. It’s not at all a people’s movement when people do not join
it. Rather it is by a group of people for vested interest. Coup is one simple
example for their vested interest.
Same is the case of AFSPA also. It
is true that Act is alienating NE from the mainland but there had not been any
such trend of insurgency in any state in Indian history other than in NE. And
for any Govt. coercion is component to maintain internal peace. I do not agree with the act, mainly the
Section 6 which is the draconian part- “This section establishes that no legal
proceeding can be brought against any member of the armed forces acting under
the AFSPA, without the permission of the Central Government. This section
leaves the victims of the armed forces abuses without a remedy”. The act itself
is against the people, if we talk compendium to the act only. We can ask to the
group of people who are protesting against it that what is their intention is
to remove the Act and lead a peaceful state? If this is the answer why there
had been a quantum increase of lethally violence in the Imphal area where this
act was removed to check the validity of the claim from the group of people who
are protesting. Mere protesting against the act is of no sense without making
any commitment what they can do for the social stability in Manipur. The act is
imposed by State govt. even though it is a central act. State govt. can remove
it at any time. And it is on the basic humanitarian ground to put this act in
Manipur rather than pushing the Manipur to the faith of Mizoram that happened
couple of decades back. These all are to maintain internal peace. Yes, in
context of Manipur we can blame the state as it is all because of lack of state
force, we can blame why state can’t maintain its security. And it is because of this reason state govt.
put this act instead. And state do not have much money to empower the state
force to tackle the mass of insurgency, which even Center took long time and
spent millions of Rupees. Still it is because of the insurgency state can
divert money to other development projects like Education as maximum
non-planned money goes to security sector. There many false within the states
itself also that take help of this AFSPA.
Liberal economic system- there is
no any such system/program that fulfills all sort of problem or demand of
people. This freedom of economy does make grow the economy who contributes at
the national economy. And classical economists didn’t have the idea of
inclusion of Indian poor who will be seriously affected as this very concept is
for aggregate policy and this for global arena, but not for individual units.
This is the concept of Capital approach of development. And what now emerged is
that of Amartya Sen called as Capability Approach that is to create enabling
factors among the people to let the people grow themselves, e.g. govt. is
trying at its best to improve the health conditions and education, empowering
women, Dalits, and many identities and so on. This is called as Development,
which very different from Economic growth. Development includes everything, or
it is another term of inclusive growth. So, we cannot say that India is not
applying this new Capability approach/ inclusive growth policy. We cannot say
the policy of inclusive growth and democracy, and newly decentralized form of
Panchayats raj institutions are not empowering people with liberty to take
decision themselves. I am not saying Govt. is doing the best, yes they are
doing the best but the not accounted. Even the money is directly sent to
Pradhan all of the money is diverted to his pocket. This is to some extent
similar to form of Panchayats in which money was not sent direct to Pradhan, as
the money is not spent on the people that mean to use for.
There are many programs in which
there is no interference of dirty politics that taken up by many civil
societies. And it is very hard to say people should not have politics in their
mind, as politics is something comes inbuilt in human mind. We cannot change
the system all at once as you have experienced about the Lokpal and RTI.
Anyway, RTI has made the system transparent to a great extent than before. Yes,
there are many elements in the system which itself corrupt, called as
non-collusive which are very hard to detect. And another type is collusive, in
which there is mutual benefit. Both these are being curbed by RTI slowly and
another coming is Lokpal. So, we cannot bluntly say that we need to change the
system all together, which is not possible at all in the population of 1.2
billion.
Autonomy is a broad term. There is both advantage and disadvantage for
autonomy both at micro-level and macro-level as in the case of Liberal Economic
Policy, as India is equity starve country. To make it easier let me take it in
context of Manipur. How much autonomy we need to run a state smoothly. Does
Manipur need more autonomy than we are getting now, as special status? Yes, it
is of the general perception that Center is in such a stand to make NE depends
on them so that they can claim the importance of Center for NE. It may be true
but there is no evidence to prove this because we are in special status.
Specials status means maximum autonomy that no other state get in which we can
grow in our own. We are in such a freedom that we can build our own satellite
if we can like California does. All NE states are under the supervisor and
management by NE Council, not center. We are getting money directly from IMF
unlike other states. Because of these autonomous policies vested for NE Center
do not need to pay special attention to NE. And we do not have our own
resources also to attract special attention of Center also. Although we are
getting money more that we can use. It is the lack within us, not the Center at
all. There had not been any such incident that questioned how the central money
is using by the state, other than the one recently happened in which Prime
minister’s team questioned to IBOBI about the development of Manipur. It is because of the autonomy
given to us. Meaning, we are given to grow in our own. We had chosen this at
the time we signed in the process of merging with Indian Union. Why Manipur do
not grow is not because we do not get enough autonomy, nor we do not get enough
attention from the Center but because of gross mismanagement within the state.
In order to go ahead it is always
good to look back within ourselves once before complaining. We are making the
need but not the solution for what we need.
