India
Comment on the State of Affairs
- TML Reader -
Mass movement of migrant workers through New Delhi
in late March 2020. (People's
Dispatch)
In India, out of a population of more than 1.3
billion people only 38,000 people have been
tested. It reveals the incompetence and criminal
attitude of the government, the state and its
agencies towards the life and health of the
peoples of India. One just has to see videos of
hundreds of thousands of workers walking back to
their villages on the roads. One report stated
that 1.2 million people gathered at the bus stand
in Delhi. Some older folks said they are reminded
of Partition when millions of desperate people
were on the roads. Just like at the time of
Partition, the governments today announced a
lockdown without any plan and preparation, causing
great misery to people. The ruling elite continues
to commit crimes against the people.
For the last 73 years deception and fraud have
been continuously repeated about the life and
health of the peoples of India by every
government, no matter which party formed the
government at the central or state levels. Images
of millions of people stranded without shelter and
food keep on flashing on TV and on social media.
Where are all those who claimed that India was the
"largest democracy in the world," and spoke
nonsense about "Ram Rajya" or a "socialist and
secular" constitution? They have disappeared from
the scene, revealing the hollowness and fraud of
these claims. BJP leaders and it's affiliates and
some "educated" non-resident Indians, instead of
dealing with the health issues are fanning beastly
hatred against Muslims claiming there is an
"Islamic Problem." Such virulent propaganda is
reminiscent of racist gangs in the USA inciting
people to get rid of the "Yellow Peril" or "Hindu
Problem" to target Chinese and Indians in the
past.
Life is already a living hell for the majority of
people in India. The coronavirus pandemic is only
going to make it worse. Hopefully, this hellish
life has developed the kind of resistance that
might save people. They cannot expect much from
governments which are self-serving and have no
interest in solving problems faced by the people.
One can also see the blinkers and crisis of
thought and imagination of political parties,
activists and public intellectuals. None of them
is calling upon people to take over governance, or
empty apartments, food godowns etc., and run
affairs themselves and resolve this crisis in
their favor. Many who speak in the name of being
communist and revolutionary or on behalf of unions
and social movements are turning people into
beggars. They think that begging the criminal
ruling elite and their state for what belongs to
them by right will make it so. The times are
calling for people to tear off this blindfold of
anti-consciousness and organize to change their
situation by once again taking up the battle cry
of 1857 -- "Hum Hain Iske Malik Hindustan Hamara"
-- "We are the owners of India, It belongs to Us."
The ruling elites are incompetent and criminal.
Workers, farmers, teachers, doctors, nurses,
sanitary workers, engineers, domestic workers and
all toilers cannot depend on the government. They
must organize in a manner which opens a path to
weather this crisis. They are quite competent to
run their affairs, as they already run farms,
factories, mills, mines, offices, universities,
schools, hospitals and other enterprises.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 11 - April 4, 2020
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