By D N Singh
It sounds a little oxymoronic to read the political claims, idealistic rhetoric vs the realities in the ground. Slogans are fine, as an ingredient of political narratives but the leaders must feel the need to get down to read the peoples’ pulse once in a while.
On Saturday the Prime Minister, Modi, while speaking at a high-profile inaugural session said that, it is time to do away with the ‘regressive’ colonial laws and the mind set for ensuring social safety and speedy justice to the people.
That is most welcome but the present laws those rule over us should be sound enough not to drain us mentally and financially.
While on one side, thousands of crores are being invested on ambitious projects like, the Vistas or erection of memorials, down below India has taken a nosedive in the Global Hunger Index.
India ranks 107th out of the 121 countries with sufficient data to calculate 2022 GHI scores.
Inflation is a topic no leader in the ruling set up likes to discuss let alone be debated.
We can lambaste at Colonial regressive mindset with all the words in the lexicon of politics, but we cannot either steal any breather from a system so dispassionately isolated from the ground.
Where the dissents have no space and at the political front the majoritarian politics refuses to accommodate any bitter truth. One has to go by what comes his or her way.
Be it accepting an all-time cap in fuel price at Rs.100 plus p/l or any other essential commodity which can make your wallet hollow.
If one has to face a GST slap for a ‘parotha’ or a 18 to 28 % on live-saving drugs, then no voice can be raised.
At best there can only be epistolary satisfaction of text a message in the Social media only.
Like in some western nations, economy is obviously in a turmoil and the common man is a victim of political firestorm.
Remove the ‘regressive’ colonial laws but replace them with peoples’ friendly pricing and more so, let the voice of dissent prevail.
These days one rarely finds the common men coming out with marches or ‘dharna’ protesting the brow-beating cost of living and people always cannot look up to the political leaders to do that job.
At 19.3 per cent, according to the latest data, India has the highest child wasting rate of all countries covered in the GHI.
Very good that India is required to do away with many old laws but the remedy(alternatives) should not be so that, majority Indians feel themselves at an isolating precipice of need for minimal food and health care.
A lot of legal procedures are still embodied in the colonial laws letting a long rope for offenders in many fields. Including human incarceration who kill with unabated ease.
