“The problem is not with the people or
churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far
in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a
religious movement”
--John C danforth
As
a citizen of India, I am sad, as I read the accounts of scams, riots, murders,
etc. Isn’t it our sectarian politics, the reason for this situation? To see our
how a nation gets destroyed, just have a look at India. In the recent years, we
have fallen behind everywhere- quality education, scientific R&D,
industries and agriculture. Our political parties seek to divide people on the
basis of caste, creed, region or language, which seem to destroy ‘the unity in
diversity’ of our country.
Our
right of democratic protest has degenerated to a level of destroying public
properties and disturbing public life. Our country is blessed with leaders who don’t
think beyond their own states/community/their children. Our political parties
had failed to provide the national leaderships that were expected from them.
The
major issues before us are, anti national/social attitude of some people,
political/bureaucratic corruption, regional criminal politicians. From Kashmir
to Kanyakumari, the govt. is mismanaging the economy and the public fund is
diverted to their benefit and advantage. Instead of moving the country ahead,
it is controlled by a group of uneducated and narrow minded peoples.
The
fact is that, after independence pseudo secularism is destroying India culturally,
socially and politically. Real secularism implies that there should be no
discrimination by the state against a person or a society on the basis of
religion. Today every political party is misusing secularism for their petty
political ends so much that telling the truth for the good of the nation is
often considered as anti-secular.
When
the elected representatives fail to work for the good of the society, it falls
on the ordinary citizenry to protest and force the reversal of the current
destructive practices of the local political feudal lords. We can remain quiet
and disinterested only at our peril.
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