Regional Parties Endangering Democracy And India

After Beni Prasad Verma shoved his foot in his mouth, sending the SP into a tizzy, Sonia Gandhi had to go to Mulayam Yadav with folded hands asking for his forgiveness. You see, without the DMK support, Congress needs SP and BSP to survive. Sonia Gandhi may be a lot of things but her power in India in undeniable. An arrogant and aloof person like her was forced to beg Mulayam Yadav. Such is the power of regional parties. At least in this case, India as a nation does not lose anything. However, there are umpteen numbers of examples that clearly show that the emergence of regional parties is not only bad for the nation but to some extent for the regions these parties claim to champion.

West Bengal, which used to be an economic powerhouse and a bastion of culture now, has been reduced to a beggar state and a bastion of intolerance (anti Mamata cartoons) and leftist crap (the JNU kind) thanks to the selfish and narrow policies Commie and Mamata. It took three decades for WB voters to throw the commies out. However, instead of a pro-development BJP, they chose Mamata Bannerjee who is nothing but a street level rabble rouser. She had a lot of leverage with the UPA and could have used it to WB’s advantage. However, thanks to one bad decision after another, she has all the problems that the commies had and no leverage. To top it all, her bad decisions have hurt the nation too. We all know that India would rather have Sheikh Hasina rather than Khalida Zia and her Jamaat goons in power. We could have helped Hasina by making concessions to Bangla Desh including the Teesta water sharing. However, Mamata threw a hissy fit and scuttled Manmohan Singh’s initiative which would have helped the nation. On the other hand, the commies and she adopt a soft line on illegal Bangladeshis (all potential voters) which in turns hurts the nation’s economics and safety. One can safely say that the Commies (essentially regional – WB and Kerala) and Trinamool have hurt the nation.

Look at Tamilnadu. Both Amma and Karuna have never uttered a word about the problems Tamilian Hindus are facing in Malaysia (maybe because the Malaysians are Muslims). However, when it comes to the Tamilians in Sri Lanka, who were led to their doom by the Christian leadership of the LTTE, Amman and Karana have become their biggest champions. I am sure that you can see their hypocrisy. Not to undermine the pain inflicted on the Elam by the hyper nationalistic Sinhala’s but we do have another concern here. The Chinese are already in Sri Lanka. They have made a deep water naval port in Hambantota. If we continue to marginalize the Mahinda Rajapakse government, we will push them deep into the arms of the willing Chinese and Pakistanis who voted against the UN resolution. India is surrounded by China, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. We will be totally surrounded if the Sri Lankans join up with the other three. I am sure that there are ways to convey our concern about the Tamilians in Sri Lanka and actually influence their policies without resorting to humiliating them internationally, beating up Buddhist monks and discriminating against Cricketers (actually Karunanidhi is not talking about the cricketers because he has money invested in the IPL – another proof of his crocodile tears). For the selfish politicos of TN, it is about votes and not the human rights, Indian interests be damned.

Omar Abdullah is insisting that the CRPF jawans carry lathis rather than guns. Anyone can see that this unscrupulous regional politician is playing dirty religion based politics with the lives of Indian jawans and our national security.

The examples of regional pseudo-secular politicians playing vote bank politics while closing their eyes to our national security are too numerous to be mentioned here.

We can see that the local effectiveness of the regional parties is extremely limited because in most cases, these parties represent a family or a person. Their demagogic politics may get them elected but do nothing for the state and actually hurt India. Because of these parties, the central government is always susceptible to blackmail and become totally ineffective. Because of Mulayam or Nitish or Mamata squeezing the central government for more money, performing states get hurt. The regional parties are destroying our democratic system and hurting our safety.

The only solution to this problem is that either these parties should be rejected by the voters or the voters become mature enough to vote regional for state and chose between BJP and Congress for national government. A legislation could also help but with the regional players in command that is not going to happen. So we will have to wait for the Indian voter to mature. That is the only solution. I know that it will be a very long wait but what choice do we have?