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| Posted By: M.Sajjad Posted On: Feb 28, 2005 Views: 662 | An Open Letter to Laloo Mr. LP Yadav At the very outset, let me make it clear to you, as to why did I prefer to address you as "LP Yadav". You had been consciously avoiding to use this acronym for you because it could have'elitised/Anglicised' you, going against your political interest, as it hampered your communicability with the poor masses whose messiah you procalimed to be.But in actual practice you turned to be as 'elite'(in terms of corruption)as many few your predecessors and many of your contemporaries, even though retaining electoral supremacy and charisma significant. This time you are DOWN, if not out. I know you will attribute the fall of your graph to infighting,rebel... You have practised politics of this kind on caste/community arithmetics, so you won't heed different analysis.But let me tell you, why did you loose? There used to be a time when rebels against you were given rejection by your electorates. No yadav(so to say) could be elected unless you gave him/her your own symbol.This time it did not work.Nobody could be accepted by the musl;ims as a serious opponent of BJP unless you certified it.But this time Paswan's and even Nitish's nominees, in few cases, could well be trusted by the muslims. Why? You were successful in "hypnotising"(electorates are not hypnotised, they are not given dependable choices)even the Muslims of Bhagalpur that only you are the genuine protector of Muslims, despite the fact that you not only protected the killers of the 1989 riots, even Chunchun Yadav, alleged to have been among the prominent killers,could be elected both to Assembly as well as Parliament.This time your charisma dissipated.Now a new set of voters have emerged who demanded/expected basic concrete necessities. They have attained the age of franchise for the first time in this election, they were children in 1989.Having seen the exit of the NDA from the centre, they refuse to accept your politics. One such voter, expressed his anger before your Rabri's minister of minority Development, Shakil Ahmad KHan in the NDTV's BIg Fight, that a loan of Rs. 10 thousand in 1990, had hiked the debt to Rs. 40 thousand because their cloth manufacturing business had suffered badly during your regime. After all how long could you cash in on a single issue of having prevented communal riots (combined with large scale killings in different forms, not to say of kidnappings and mobike/vehicle snacthing and extortions, the criminals being protected by you).While doing your gimmicks to humble the upper castes and giving a psychological empowerment to the oppressed ones, you comfortably ignored good governance and development.You made a crude calculation that large segments of the middle class of every caste will go against you, hence you preferred to pursue a kind of governance and politics which precludes the formation of middle class and compels the pre-existing tiny middle class to migrate from Bihar, leaving the field easy for your electoral politics. Yet, the very logic of the forces beyond your control, did produce enough middle class even among your support base whose aspiration for political power could not be accommodated by you. It was just not possible. So a phenomenon of desertion/rebellion/infighting became inevitable in the election.This was also due to "revolution of rising expectations" among every Tom, Dick and Harry to become MLA, as they wer more talented and deserving than your Rabri. From 1990-2000, in about 50 incidents of heinous massacres of landless labourers(mostly dalits), not less than 500 people(including women and children) were killed. You kept patronising and protecting(at times even overtly), the landlords having private armies.You were forced to speak against it, with any degreee of sincerity, only once, when people of your own core constituency-Yadavas-were killed.You did not work for serious, intensive implementation of the Welfare Schemes for Dalits by the BDOs(practically the officers who block the development) even in such areas of agararian violenc, consequently you lost your dalit voters to CPIML/LJP substantially.Had you worked for industrialization in those areas, the dalits won't have depended upon the meagre wages paid by the increasingly crisis ridden(if not impoverished)landlords. This would have helped not only the dalits but also the middle and lower peasantry who are hit hard and bear the greater brunt of the cycles of violence(the big landlords can still defend themselves by their private armies and escape the consequences of their own ruthlessness perpetrated against the dalits since centuries). In 1995, and 2000 elections, the Central schemes like the Indira Awaas Yojana fetched you dalit votes. Now this is disbursed through the agency of mukhias, so snmall wonder that more than 50% of the incumbent MLAs have been rejected by the electorates. After you find some time, out making caste/community based electoral analysis, you also consider the fact that your rhetorics of abusing upper caste to give comfort to lower castes have exhausted their electoral potential. That gimmick has already played its historical role. Now you have to devise new things.You voters can see through your gimmicks. Now they demand more concrete things and you are absolutely incapable of delivering on that front. You are master of garnering votes and manipulations in power game.Agreed. But your support base demands many more things. The migrant labourers have seen fly overs/roads, electricity, hospitals, schools, punctual payment of salaries. Now they demand all these things in their own province of Bihar.And they know it very well, you are completely incapable and unwilling to fulfill such aspirations. You and your predecessors refused to accommodate the political aspirations of the tribals, the separation of Jharkhand became inevitable, notwithstanding the fact that it suited your cynical political arithmetics in the then context and you had to give in albeit with so many turns and curves. Similarly, you refused to accommodate a dalit as the Dy. CM.making the emergence of LJP kind of forces relevant for all time to come, loosing your own vote base. You are so confident and proud of your political manouvring around caste lines. But here too you failed.You did not heed the demands of the Muslim OBCs/dalits, despite the assertions of Ali Anwar and Dr. Ejaz Ali..They are demanding proportionate share of political power. Last but not the least, despite being a strong critique of your conscious politics of non performance on the front of good governance and development,since 1994,I salute your clever and cunning manouvreability in the realpolitik. You deserve credit for extracting maximum electoral advantage of the Mandal-Mandir conundrum. No other politician matches you.The power seeking politicians will always emulate you with as much of ruthlessness as you did. In the political history of India/Bihar you won't be forgotten by both your admirers and critics. I avoid writing political obituary,as I still fear/apprehend you might stage a comeback, not only because you are a big manipulator but also because you are fortunate enough not to have a matching rival. I pray, you don't come back again, because my best wishes are for those politicians who have (a)will, commitment and capability of fighting criminalization, casteism, communalism, corruption (b)vision for a prosperous Bihar-- prosperity to be achieved through flood control, agrarian improvements, electricity, industrialization, improvised transport and communication for robust commerce. I know my desires are almost impossible to be fulfilled yet I will continue to dream because, " Bahut khatarnak hota hai sapnon kaa mar jaana"(it is very dangerous to kill dreams). Not waiting for your reply M.Sajjad. 28th FEb, 2005. |
| Posted By: binod anand Posted On: Feb 28, 2005 Views: 728 | resurgent and vibrant bihar only change in political eqation is not going to give any desired fruit .it needs the contribution of all those mind who wants to participate in development of bihar. india can not we world leader without a developed bihar. thanks to bihar times whohaspioneredin this regard .let us have a vision for this .act seriously in this regard.set the targets .empowered the civil society. |
| Posted By: Ramesh Sharma Posted On: Feb 28, 2005 Views: 734 | Come on friends--Think of Sonu's murder Thanks Mr. Sajjad , for enlisting important ideas to make a start. Iron hand dealing of Law and Order is the precondition to any other step.In the election Hangama, killing and cutting into pieces of Sonu Thakur, the kidnapped student from Samastipur did not make a news. Let the new regime take it up in a ferrocious way to start with and appoint a fast track court -and eliminate the criminals involved. Also was forgotten the killing of 4 men and women of Mushar caste in Jahanabad by MCC for having voted CPI-ML. Quick justice is need of the hour.CPI-ML leadership is erratic , sick and hopeless.They can not protect their voters from the messiah of secularism. But we will now help the masses in jahanabad. I appeal to all you bright sons of land to take up this cause. Next comes Road followed by electricity and land reforms. Officers of Bihar have mostly gone mad or hopeless in the last 15 years---let us call officers from Punjab , Gujrat and Karnataka in large number for a revival. |
| Posted By: M Sajjad Posted On: Feb 28, 2005 Views: 730 | Making DEVELOPMENT the Political Agenda The voters of Bihar have polled in a way every political party is on toes.Every formation has been kept tantalisingly short of the magical figure.Now most prostituted political practice,"SECULARISM" is being invoked by the rapacious plunderers of Bihar.While BJP haters can cheer up for its shorter tally than what is required to form govt., the Laloo haters can cheer up for bringing him down, if not out. But this cruel joker called Laloo is still consistently popular among non-Triveni(lower)OBCs.(In fact much hyped M-Y has always been less crucial than this electoral arithmetics). This is a question mark before the political forces opposed to Laloo.They will have to do a serious stock taking on this subject. Now only way to get rid of Laloo is to put an inviolable condition that Laloo-Rabri duo family members are kept out of the CM's chair.Don't forget that ridiculing the genuine aspiration of the common electorates, this man called Laloo did not hesitate in saying on 24th Feb. that Politics means vote and power, development is the issue only in media. Will Ram Vilas Paswan be able to keep its flocks together for long? Will Paswan take the risk of supporting the NDA, leaving Muslim electorates to,probably, again go over to the disastrously non performing Laloo? Paswan's advisors in political brokery would advise him not to do so.Paswan's Political future may take adverse course if he goes over to the BJP.If the Assembly is put in a suspended animation for long then Paswan risks split in the LJP. This disgusting Jyoti Basu/Sitaram Yechury, are speaking out even with no seat, complete rout.Likes of R.Mishra of this forum may cheer up for, his CPIML has increased its tally from modest 5 to still modest 7. Bihar's wait for genuine development is agonisingly long, regardless of what comes out of this deadlock. The elections have largely been contested on Caste/community arithmetics, and the results are also being analysed on the same lines, hence one should not expect anything spectacular to happen.(After all so many Shahabus, Suraj Bhans, Munna Shuklas have still managed to get into the assembly, despite the commendable fact that the Election Commission has remarkably succeeded in conducting an extremely free and fair poll. Infact they are caste/community heroes and work upon their Robinhood image). Despite all such constraints, I would like the discussants on this open forum to consider the following demands to be put before the next govt. 1.Demanding central package and negotiation with the Nepal govt to form Dams in order to control flood, instal hydel projects which will pave the way for Agro-based food processing industries and thereby reduce unemployment, check labour migration (and humiliation at non Bihari hands). 2.A central univ, IIT,IIM, IIIT,AIIMS all should be established immediately. 3.Welfare schemes should be implemented with transparency and efficiency so that poverty eradication programmes yield results, cutting across castes/communities . Only then Dalit emancipation and empowerment can take place. 4.Without land reforms(both in terms of landholding pattern, irrigation facilities, proper crediting/marketing institutions,technical and technological improvements), capital formation is impossible, so all efforts at land reforms should be taken.(e.g.Britain underwent Industrial Revolution, only after having Enclosure movement, Meiji Japan(after 1968)could go on capitalist path only after a certain kind of land reform). I would, therefore, once again request the discussants to intensely debate along similar lines so that development becomes the agenda of the people before the otherwise outrageously opportunist, corrupt, criminalised, communalised politics of Bihar. Notwithstanding the limited reach of this medium, lets try and hope. We should not forget that likes of Laloos continue in power because of the flight of the middle class from Bihar, and this condition was always there in Bihar. Politicians have always consciously managed to keep Bihar like that.Can't we see that Laloo is not voted by a significant chunk of Yadav middle class. One of the reasons for his defeat in 199 Lok sabha from Madhepura was this.Signifying the prosperity of Yadavas, the saying goes, "Rome's Pope and Madhepura's Gope".So lets talk of the things which go a long way in creation of Middle class and their stay in Bihar. Regards, M.Sajjad |
| Posted By: Bihari-NRI-USA Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 685 | New era for all Biharis Thanks Mr. Pardesi, Its definitely a new era for all Bihari. I am glad we are3 done with LAlu-Rabri-Shabuddin type. Lets show them all that Bihar was once the strongest state in India, remember Magadh Dynasty, Sher Sha Suri etc |
| Posted By: Pardesi Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 697 | New era for all Biharis A day for every Bihari to be proud of. Plenty of Congrats to brave voters of all communities--- We are the best workers on this earth. We will work hard to reconstruct the state.Modern science has already cleaned the minds of young generation who do not give much weight to caste and religion. We will not listen to anyone who talks of majority/ minority, forward/backward, etc. At the same time , let us lead a movement for second Republic and a healthy, native constitution , in the same way ,we led the 1942 movement. The new constitution should give us a federal structure so that governance of state is not lost in legislature , so that MCC/PWG/ULFA/Bodo etc. are not sponsored by political parties in provinces. The new constitution should take away trade Union rights from Govt. employees-- Marx did not give his theory for Govt. departments .Govt. bodies are people's own bodies and must maintain a very high level of efficiency. --so on. |
| Posted By: Anil Kumar Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 694 | well myth and drama unfold Jyonti Basu says, Seculars should form Govt. in Bihar. Backdoor Secular Govt: to deceive the people Prsident rule for backdoor ruling rejecting verdict Among 16 seats where Muslim voters are decisive NDA won 9 seats bit Congress 3 and RJD 4. Still NDA is communal and they are secular. Verdict is clearly against the RJD but Congress High Command and Lalu says it is in the favor of secular farces. Were Paswan and Bihar Congress asking to vote for secularism instead of opposing ruling RJD? To evoke minority by Gujarat riot CDs, posters and Banerjee Committee reports was an act of secularism? Loksabha speaker says naxalites are not criminals. Lalu said Shahabuddin like bahubalis are not criminals. All they are secular. Congress of 10 Janpath rejects the verdict, which have been given against Lalu-Rabri-Raj. Though up till now Bihar Congress says it is against the RJD. Congress is planning to rule Bihar from backdoor by imposing president rule. All knows that Paswan and Lalu both are ministers in the UPA. So indirectly they want to rule Bihar along with Congress. Congress says, Once Paswan agrees for a secular government, the give and take formula can be worked out. Murderor of each other in words now come under the umbrella of Secular Sonia. Still Lalu says the RJD will stake claim to form secular govt. Congress, Lalu, Paswan all are Besharms & opportunists They cannt live without power as fish cannt live without water. They played drma. Laloo loses ground in Bihar after 15 yrs. More than 60% sitting MLA & six ministers more than 60% lost their seats. RJD looses 40 seats to their opponent. One brother and wife of another brother of Rabri lost. Congress ka haath, walking stick ke saath. This resulted 9 seats for congress less 3, which it held. Arjun Sinh wanted to be Chankya and played game to deceive the people as well as Congress allies. After the death of Rajiv, he wanted to be PM, so he revolted against Late Rao and formed Tiwari Congress. Later he did not hesitate to serve Sonia. |
| Posted By: SANATAN Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 697 | Congratulations Motherland !!!!1 Dear Friends, I congratulate my State people for casting their votes freely to who ever they liked. Although, its a deadlock situation, but over all I see a victory of one establishment, and that is democracy. Well, As far as who will come in power and what will happen, I cant predict but I can really say that next election will bring a clear mandate. This election was run on hate issues and people voted to a particular party or parties out of hate for other party or parties. I appeal to all my state mates to keep working in the spirit of democracy and I am sure we will come against these resistances of caste and religion. "Do a river gain velocity if there is no resistance". Jai Bihar |
| Posted By: Bhaskar Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 688 | Bi har Paswan knows to his MLAs very well. They need power to join in govt, so it is his only choice to satisfy his MLAs rather than his long term ambition or people of bihar ambition (anti Lalu), so it is ovious: As there is no clear mandate,so next chief minister is going to be Rabri devi by support of of LJP( with deputy chief minister post) and Paswan is going to get either telecom or bit higher rank protfolio but not railway in center. |
| Posted By: Rajesh Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 673 | Paswan's choice Paswan's only choice is to support Laloo. His platform was anti-Laloo, but his voters were anti-BJP. He seems to be in long term game. |
| Posted By: Bhaskar Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 627 | Bihar needs again Lalu As there is no clear mandate,so next chief minister is going to be Rabri devi by support of of LJP( with deputy chief minister post) and Paswan is going to get either telecom or bit higher rank protfolio but not railway in center. |
| Posted By: Prabhat Sinha Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 631 | President Rule? Rajesh, President rule is not about fit-unfit.It is about/in constitution. Wait till politicians are busy with mathematics, after physics (muscle power),chemistry (social power) and biology(brain power). It will keep us busy with our computer. Let us keep talking about solutions. Jai Bihar |
| Posted By: Rajesh Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 632 | President rule? Did somebody suggest president's rule? Why, are we not fit to govern ourselves? Well, these Biharis would rather sell their than except rule by the oppenents. They did it once by breaking it for Jharkand, to cut wings of Laloo. |
| Posted By: MOHAMMAD SYED Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 644 | LALOO YADAV YADAV IS THE MOST CORRUPT AND DANGEROUS MAN FOR INDIAN HISTORY AND HE IS SPHISTICATED GUNDA IN INDIA. |
| Posted By: RAM JATAN SINGH Posted On: Feb 27, 2005 Views: 620 | LALOO YADAV YADAV AND HIS WIFE AND FAMILY ALL ARE JOKERS OF DEMOCRACY AND INDIA. |
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