When India won freedom, Sir Winston Churchill, in his typical laconic manner, predicted that we will cease to be a democracy within 50 years of independence.
In retrospect, I wonder, how close to truth he was. It didn’t take even 50 years from the first general elections in 1952 to 1975 for internal emergency to be declared in India which suspended all freedom of the citizens with a sleight of hand .
Autocracy reared its ugly head from behind the garb of democracy.
You were right about Mobocracy vs Democracy @MVenkaiahNaidu. It's just that you got the names of the parties wrong. pic.twitter.com/AYAyi8pH77
— Congress (@INCIndia) December 9, 2015
The ensuing decades have been traumatic. India going through different phases of economic and political upheavals, punctuated by moments of prosperity and tranquility on the hostile borders, facts, which are well in public domain and memory.
The year 2012 and 2013 saw a paradigm shift in the political scenario of India when the benighted advocates of the post truth era successfully impressed upon the national psyche an imaginary and fabricated saga of corruption, inaction and indecisiveness in the UPA government, led by the ablest Prime Minister of India after Nehru.
The gains in the field of economy, international relations and social harmony were lost in the cacophony of the vile and the incompetent idiots whose only claim to fame dwelt upon communal riots and massacres of the innocent citizens of India.
The incessant and carpet bombing of the gullible and politically uninformed middle and lower class people coupled with the inherent anti people attitude of the Indian masses replaced democracy with mobocracy in no matter of time.
The landslide victory of the BJP in two successive general elections in 2014 and 2019 proves our admiration for the vile and the incompetent, villains, thugs, murderers and the unabashed slaves of the corrupt businessmen.
The predilection for a disease is generally genetic. The love for the base and the vile is a genetically empowered reality of the Indian masses in general.
Churchill was right. We are not fit for democracy. We love mobocracy and we’ve failed as an independent, forward looking nation.
RIP INDIA!
[ प्रतिभा एक डायरी स्वतंत्र ब्लाॅग है. इसे नियमित पढ़ने के लिए सब्सक्राईब करें. प्रकाशित ब्लाॅग पर आपकी प्रतिक्रिया अपेक्षित है. प्रतिभा एक डायरी से जुड़े अन्य अपडेट लगातार हासिल करने के लिए हमें फेसबुक और गूगल प्लस पर ज्वॉइन करें, ट्विटर हैण्डल पर फॉलो करे… एवं ‘मोबाईल एप ‘डाऊनलोड करें ]
