Dirty politics behind peasants' movement

Lalit Garg

(The writer is a journalist and columnist.

He can be reached at lalitgarg11@gmail.com)

The farmer's movement has been going on in the country for twenty days; the farmers are agitated and protested then there are millions of people facing problems due to them. At the same time, the country's economy has also suffered loss of thousands of crores due to agitation and protest. The issue between these complex situations is not what policies the political parties of the country support and which they oppose. The real issue is why the political parties of the country mock the country's democratic values, constitution and law by tricking the people of the country. The root cause of most of the problems in this country is the double attitude of these political parties, only undemocratic activities and political interests. Due to the dual policies of these political parties, this peasant movement has become a political movement.

Now it is not only about the so-called opposition party leaders that they can stop the chaotic conditions and undemocratic conditions like the peasant movement, hold down the falling human values, improve the social and national structure prone to problems, break the myths and can make the new path. Those who are non-discriminatory and have no political interests should give a paved path and say the right thing at the right time. Therefore, the time has come that all political parties of the country leave politics of selfishness and votes and do politics of values. They should ensure that there is no difference between their words and actions. If you advocate a law while in power, openly or silently support a bill during the vote in the house, and then why pretend to protest on the street outside?

For the larger interests of the farmers, the Narendra Modi government at the centre passed these three agricultural laws in both Houses of Parliament, which were implemented with the consent of the President. Now these farmers are stuck on the border of Delhi against these laws at the instigation of various political parties. This movement started with the demand for guarantee of MSP but now after the government is ready to negotiate, the farmer leaders are demanding the repeal of all three laws. It seems that perhaps these farmers' organizations or peasant leaders are concerned about these political parties, not their own interests. In six long meetings, the government had consistently made it clear that there will be no tampering with the MSP system.

The government has also accepted many other demands of the farmers, but as the government bowed down, the peasants have been dominating, as they are trying to decide the direction of the movement at the behest of the so-called political parties. The farmer is a big vote bank in the country and no government would like to impose itself as being anti-farmer. No one has any right to fight for the rights of the peasants, but block the major highways, use vulgar, insatiable and chaotic language for the hero chosen by the highest and democratic methods of the country, what kind of democratic protest is this? However, it is a fact that since independence, the farmers of the country have been cheated. Whatever may be the intention of governments, but the system working under this government system has always tricked the farmers. If the Modi government showed some courage to get rid of this deceit, then it went against the opposition political parties.

In these irrational and contradictory situations, various parties are roaming for their political selfishness, but no political party appears to have come out with a genuine mind in the interest of farmers. Then Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, while stating the old stand of the Congress and the Nationalist Congress, strongly targeted the double and contradictory attitude of the opposing parties. Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Congress in its 2019 election manifesto had talked about abolishing the APMC Act related to agriculture. In the previous government as Agriculture Minister, NCP chief Sharad Pawar consistently advocated these reforms.

The Kejriwal government of the Aam Aadmi Party has notified the new agricultural laws on 23 November 2020 and implemented it in Delhi. The policies of economic reforms were also implemented rapidly during the government of Deve Gowda, IK Gujral and Manmohan Singh on the support of Lalu and Mulayam. But today all these parties are trying to protest only in the name of protesting and the people of the country are suffering its loss, the country is becoming weaker.

You are not able to distinguish good and bad, and useful and useless. How holy and meaningful the word was, but the leader became an actor. Today the word leader is an abuse. Whereas the leader was synonymous with father. He should have played the role of a father. The father is not only the one who is born for birth but he is also the one who teaches discipline, shows the path of development, lives the values of wrong and right, becoming a guide and then nurtures the nationality.

Despite being a democracy in the country, a conspiracy is going on that in every way illegal tactics are being adopted to hold power and farmers are being used as effective weapons for this. The same goal is being strengthened by declaring Modi as anti-farmers. From this a new type of eloquence has arisen, which is not based on any healthy political values but on the ideals of deviation. In which all want to be heroes, none of the characters. Who will benefit such a mentality and movement?

There is a cloud of selfishness, all of them are making themselves, and all of them are nothing. And in this process of hysteria, there is no eligibility to become an ideal, that is why changing the ideal itself and creating new values. Newly created values and so-called politics of redesign have reached cruel, corrupt, scandalous inhuman and poisonous routes. But beyond the reality, we still keep creating 'Myth' everyday for personal and partisan interests. It is necessary that speech should not be given only in the sense of wholesomeness, words and actions should be based on reality. Decisions taken at a higher level should be in the interest of the country. Be determined. Fists of one billion 300 million countrymen tied up, awaken confidence – be it is in the name of a big scam, or in the name of an unfairly-run peasant movement. One who crosses the lines of rights and dignities must be made aware of the true meaning of rights and dignities. In the forest, foresters have made their 'Lakshman Rekha'. Why does not man make? Why does it keep these limits and limitations for its false interests?

The real problem today is not 'peasant movement' but 'black politics'. Four men are enough to deliver the crematorium. Millions cannot face the tears of human beings struggling with problems, for that they need clean policies and fixed opposition, and the makers of these policies and the politicians with advanced character who implement them. There is a need to have a leader of high stature in the country. There should be a series of superior men in the field of service and character building. Not only individuals emerged, policies emerged, lifestyles emerged. Brightness of character emerged. After the Green Revolution, White Revolution, there should be a phase of character revolution. Otherwise, the identity of manhood and nationality will continue to be dwarfed. That line of Mahatma Gandhi's beloved hymn- 'Sab ko Sanmati De Bhagwan' has a slight change at the moment – 'Keval Modi Virodhiyon ko Sanmati de Bhagwan'.