Foreign Direct Investment & Mulayam Mayawati

On sunday 2nd dec there was discussion on NDTV on upcoming babri mashjid demolition anniversary. In that debate an ex congress mp put the Indian political and social scenario too simplistically and said there are two different Ideas of India . One is about secular India and another is about communal India (read hindutva) and we need to see that secular India is strengthened.

It is true that Idea of India has many division and two prominent ones are secular India and another is Idea of India in which a particular community is given preference. Something like Pakistan which is officially Islamic country and gives certain book (quran) and certain set of laws (sharia) as context of their constitution and how their citizens live their life.

There are many sections among Hindus who think that when sub continent was parted on basis of religion ,why Hinduism is not official faith?. Congress too has failed to answer and address their concerns and quiet often their voices are ignored by congress.

Instead of addressing concerns of sections of majority community , congress has very smartly used it to terrify minorities (Especially muslims) ,secularist (which form majority of hindus), dalits. Congress has used every opportunity to bring threat to Secular Idea of India to keep themselves in government .

Regional parties too have used same point to form alliances and see through many otherwise hopeless situation and thorny issues. Consider Foreign Direct Investment in multi branding issue.  Barring NCP,NC ,RJD most parties are against FDI in  multi branding retail. Samajwadi party had joined left , BJD ,JDUS in protesting against FDI multi branding on streets. Mamata Banerjee’s TMC pulled themselves out of UPA-2 on this issue and Behn Mayawati too opposed FDI in retail.

Logically government should loose vote on FDI since majority of people’s representative called MPs of various political parties are opposed to FDI but guess what?. It is less likely that government would loose vote on FDI in parliament. Behn mayawati indicated that she wont like to vote with BJP (often used term is communal taqaten).

Mulayam singh yadav too has not made his card public and says he would disclose it during voting in parliament. I wont be surprised if they too use communal taqaten card to remain absent or vote with government.

Now FDI is not religious issue. FDI is not about communal or secular. FDI is not about communal taqaten or Secular taqaten. FDI is about economics, about retailers,about farmers and aam junta . How is it logical to vote on basis of communal taqaten or secular taqaten?.

It is plain hypocrisy of so called secular parties on FDI. It is fooling people in name of communal or secularism and getting political mileage on it. Unfortunate for the country because governing is not just about secularism . It is about justice,law and order,growth,lack of corruption , prosperity and addressing citizen concerns too.Isnt it?

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