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America’s statement that India is losing democracy to BJP's Hindu Theo-Corporatocracy angered many. Who else to say it than the oldest democracy?
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
Many individuals, corporate entities, specifically-Hindu religious organizations, and many newspapers, television and online media in India are very angry and upset that America and Germany are unfoundedly worrying India is losing its democracy under the BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu Theo-Corporate rule. Disappointed at the BJP not being able to justify and explain this change in Indian democracy in terms of political statesmanship, because they have nothing else to say, they write instead that America and Germany stooped before India.
Germany, which was cut into two after the Second World War, has at least shown the decency to unite again as a single nation, and has transformed itself from the dominance and tyranny of the Fascist Aryan Nazis who were even more dreadful than the BJP in conquering countries after countries into a democracy. On the other hand isn't India under the BJP still grappling with that piece of India that was already cut off, and going from democracy to theocracy and corporate fascism like that other piece Pakistan went from democracy to religious theocracy, dictatorship and military fascism? What is the difference between the two except that there Muslim fundamentalists like Jama'at e Islami were at work and here Hindu fundamentalists like Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtreeya Svayam Sevak Samgh are?
Even in the last week of March 2024, Modi, who is just a corporate slave, rejected the estimates of the Union Ministry of Mines and the Ministry of Environment that coal is readily available here in plenty, instead of keeping it as a reserve for future generations and emergency use said that if the coal were not dug immediately, India will fall apart. How many thousand crores of rupees’ bribes did he accept for BJP from the Adani Corporation for being licensed for extracting and exporting coal from the coal fields of Madhya Pradesh which is the sole property of the people, to resurrect himself after heavily falling into debt? Is there a prime minister or a party with this much corporate thirst like this? In the meantime, who else is here to warn India about her disappearing democracy except America where democracy was born, and Germany which overcame extreme fascist impulses and moved to it? Maybe France too- if they had not bribed BJP and sold fighter jets to India, maybe they too would have wanted to point out the loss of democracy in India.
From the enmity of the aforementioned religious corporate slave class, including India's foreign affairs ministry, towards democratic countries because of their open opinions about India's situation, it will look America stole democracy from India, India was self-taught in democracy, no one need to teach India democracy, and that in the Bharatiya Janata Party, Reliance and Adani Corporations, Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and their crowd in the Indian Parliament who combined rule the country now democracy has been prevailing not for decades but centuries. When where was democracy in these tovara plants of yesterday’s rain and tin heads? In the history and the past of which of these was there at least a remoteness of democracy?
Where else did democracy in India come from other than by copying it from the United States which has been a democracy for more than two hundred years, and from Britain, which withdrew from the United States after giving it its independence? Where did the parliamentary concept in India itself originate from? Before the American Civil War and their war against Britain and the establishment of democracy in the US, were there any articles, books or literature in India discussing democracy and a people's government? Then, for who else but the United States, which has more than 200 years of democratic experience, and excellence, is it possible to understand, to warn, to advise, and to say what is now in India is not democracy?
Not only Germany and the United States but the United Nations also has raised the question whether a democratic system exists in India now. Even the Vice President of India, Mr. Jagadeep Dhankar, responding to this saying that India is a democratic country and each country should look after its own affairs and no one should come to teach India about democracy must be his personal opinion, because the United Nations' job is to look after other countries. They are created and kept there to look into what is and what is not there in a country. Not only that, the question raised here from foreign democracies is whether there is any democracy in India and whether India is still a democratic country. The Vice President's response was irrelevant and childish.
A man cannot bark at people, therefore he makes his dog bark at people. One can say it was a Doberman and not a street dog. The higher the pedigree the more prestigious the bark would be in his belief.
The Ministry of External Affairs summoned the representatives of the United States and Germany to their offices and announced their protest. The Department of External Affairs claimed that the legal process in India is implemented in a factual and timely manner. Their message was that America’s and Germany’s interfering in the internal affairs of other countries like India is not acceptable, and that the legal process in India is monitored by an independent judiciary. It is a country with a retired Supreme Court Chief Justice of India while in service, for the BJP, despite all the abundant evidence put in forth even by the United States in multiple ways in the serious cases including inciting communal riots and demolition of mosques before him against the cream of BJP leaders, ensuring their political future and the rule of BJP in India, acquitted all of them and unscrupulously joined the ranks of BJP after retirement as their Parliament MP, saying their legal proceedings are monitored by an independent judiciary! To be precise, won’t the United States guess how much democracy would there be in a country where Narendra Modi, accused of his role in the communal riots and pogrom of minority communities in Gujarat while he was the Chief Minister there, based on the abundance of evidence in their hands collected through their own intelligence agencies and from the field, asked through their US State Department to never enter their country again, becomes the Prime Minister later!
It is because of what America and Germany said on the actions of India’s central government, of their arresting and jailing him in a completely fascist manner Mr. Arvind Khejriwal the opposition chief minister of Delhi and a former Civil Service Officer who is more educated than Modi, without allowing him to participate and campaign in the ongoing India's national elections, that these actions should not go beyond democratic barriers but should be kept within constitutional rights of citizens that they are being shouted at against by some people including the media and the central government who stirred them up and their opinions being interpreted as an interference in the internal affairs of India
When countries which have democracy, a copyrighted ideology of the whole world and which undergoes constant research and development, express academic and political interest and opinions on its current use in India where this term and concept of democracy of the European world are freely used by the administrators of India, how can it be interference in the internal affairs of India? Did anyone mind the Nazi Germany’s complaining that the Second World War military build-up (as well as the subsequent infiltration and subjugation!) by the allied countries was an intrusion into the internal affairs of Germany?
Isn't it academic interest in the faculty of democracy that is manifest and taking precedence in this questioning of India? What would have they done if the statement was made not by the US State Department but by the Political Studies Department of Harvard University? Without studying the good or bad changes and trends in democracy, how could anyone apply it anywhere, improve it in their countries, and how will they develop this system of governance that would be endeared to many more countries in the future flawlessly to suit modern times? For an example, when the representational democracy system followed in most countries departs and direct democracy which ensures online participation of all adults in parliament and their online voting arrives, shouldn’t there be lessons of such deviations and falls and failures as these?
The anger of some of the people mentioned earlier stems from the discomfiture of it being established that what is under the rule of the BJP in India is not democracy; it stems from the fear of having to blatantly admit that it is not democracy but Hindu Theo Corporatocracy. When there is a constitution, and there is a democracy under it as visualized and ensured by it, even they themselves know that to reject that constitution, overthrow that democracy, and establish in its place not even a theocracy but a theo-corporatocracy is a heinous crime and an act of anti-nationalism to be trialed and hanged by law. They fear because they know better, and anger, when the world analyzes them exactly as what they are, and what theirs is.
Under their rule so far, what has actually been going on in India- democratization, theocratization, theocorporatization, or theocorporate dictatorization?
Written on 28 March 2024 and first published on 31 March 2024
Original article in Malayalam written on 28 March 2024 and first published on: 29 March 2024
1567. ബീജേപ്പീയുടെ ഹിന്ദുത്തിയോക്കോ൪പ്പറേറ്റോക്ക്രസിയിലു് ഇ൯ഡൃയു്ക്കു് ഡെമോക്ക്രസിനഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്നുവെന്നു് അമേരിക്കപറയുന്നതിലു് ചില൪ക്കസ്വസ്ഥതയാണു്. ഏറ്റവുംപഴക്കമുള്ളജനാധിപത്യമുള്ള അവരല്ലാതെ പിന്നെയാരാണതുപറയേണു്ടതു്?
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