Protests,Politics and the Power of Civil Society
My opinion on events of last week:
- The NEET Paper leak was genuine, the concern, the sufferings, the way kids are checked like criminals before entering exam halls, all genuine and needed a voice.
- GenZs stepped in when needed even if with whatever vested interest they had, to make reels or to show dissent to the current govt or whatever.
- Largely this protest did act as a timely voice for positive criticism led governance. That govts cannot do just anything.
- Matter got serious when it spread across cities and decade old urban naxals started showing up.
- The protest was heavily taken over by the anti-India leftist forces, as will always be. It is on the leaders of these protests to hold their ground.
- Even it CJP was a genuine movement at first, it cannot remain so. It cannot escape the funding, the meddling, the web of foreign players trying to burn India since years.
- The only option any new future leader has, to keep a movement about its goals is to take shelter in Hindutva, to avoid getting into a dark mess they can’t come out of.
- Hindutva led politics is going nowhere till 2047 at least, it’ll stay in some or the other form and lead India to economic prosperity through the sheer shield it’ll form to keep certain kind of leftist termites and anti-India cancers away.
- There is no point of trying to throw down the govt. There is no alternative with more institutional IQ. Period.
- The best bet we have is to use our voice to be the staunchest critiques of whatever they are doing. Know our local MLAs, other leaders, MPs, ministers and annoy them with questions and answers.
- The biggest lesson this protest has given is that the govt has its eyes, nose, and ears on the ground. They know what’s happening and they are listening.
- There was no way they would let the resignation happen because of some state politics and party related calculations. But he did. This is genuinely a victory. Truly shows the importance of civil society, specially the youth in bringing about accountability in governance.
- Even though this was mostly a protest of the people who want this govt to fall, they ended losing the most—investment-return wise. The optics went in the other’s favour and opened the floodgates to all kinds of protests. Wait and watch.
- The problem with hating someone too much is that, you don’t have the patience to observe them, study them, understand them. But people who play to win, study their opponents very carefully. The current govt has been using the same playbook with respect to using diversions to do things, staying quiet on things when they are slowly infiltrating the system and altering something, etc. since years. They are sharp. The kind that is required to make the irregularities in their own systems fall apart. They’re doing their own checks and balances powered by the diversity of criticism coming at them. They turn everything in their favour and everyone sees it too late because they are always a step ahead.
- We need to be a step ahead. This is a capitalist system, one I support for economic development. But capitalism has it’s limitations, we have to be smarter than them if we want to save our trees, improve our govt schools, roads, hospitals, make our Municipal Corporations answerable to us, give exams with our respect and dignity intact, and get our money’s worth from the taxes we pay in the form of better quality of living. Protests work, they can shake down the unshakable but only if we are smart enough to understand the dark realities of this world and the mood of the nation and have the courage and patience to utilise things to our benefit.
Ps: This is an opinion of someone who genuinely enjoys the quality of life that private sector entry into govt is able to provide. The roads in Gurgaon maintained by DLF, the airports by GMR and Adani, smart cities maintained by companies like HIRA Group. I believe in a capitalistic welfare state. All my opinions are guided by this philosophy and are to be read accordingly.
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