An argumentative piece which really makes one reflect over the change and continuity in Indian Politics. However, one feels that whenever a new moment of politics emerge, the liberals invariably attribute it as a New Avtar of Congress. Remember even the emergence of AAP was criticised be some as AAP is the New Congress. Are we to makes congress the benchmark of good and bad in Indian Politics. It seems such argument deny autonomous space to distinct social and political imagination that different political parties develop and around which they develop. This relationship between ideas and politics mostly remains dialectical rather than linear. Drawing moral and political equivalence between BJP and Congress seems really to be a far fetched imagery. Would ever any congress leader come to the forefront and accept the desirability and feasibility of a small state as a matter of administrative convenience? Devendra Fadanavis accepted it on a TV interview just after the polls and as he was hailed as CM candidate. BJP and Congress represent two sets of distinct political imagination which is very much reflected in their style and functioning. A parallel and similarities can be drawn but that remains more a function of regional context and Indian Context. It has nothing to with the congressisation of BJP politics. It seems you are drawing a momentary contingency into a systemic attribute of BJP and then linking it to the practices of Congress politics, which one feels does not keep well to the methodological protocols in understanding politics. Haryana and Maharashtra are two states that represent contingent political situation, where BJP is weak. Also one would wish to know, is realism that now characterise the politics in India represent a kind of degeneration or moral perversion? Being frank about power is a noble virtue in a democracy. Problem arises when power presumed to be an ideal in rhetoric, however in practice pwer remains sole pursuit. Such thesis about, power is poison, ought not to be a sovereign virtue. One disagrees with you, but one admires your arguments and the way of presentation. But one also feels, India has realised that it is not congress chalisa writ large.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 05:25:45 +0000
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