Mainstream WeeklyIndian political theory needs to explain the movements of ’GenZ’ and ’dimagi naxal’. State, party and class converge in Modi raj. People are against the party now and tomorrow they will question the ruling class and day after they will question state. Democracy doesn’t accept the neo fascist regime of Modi. It provides space for the movements of youth. Modi raj is getting deconstructed by the rise of youth. Modi turned into the supreme leader on the top of the pyramid and the RSS members are in the middle and the ’andhabhaktas’ on the lower rung of the pyramid.
Politics has stopped functioning in Modi Raj. Politics is to mediate diverse social groups. Democracy helps in settling interests of diverse groups. Modi has come this time backdoor as he had no majority but successfully manipulating the some political parties like JDU and Telugu Desham to bring simple majority. He believes in his Prime Minister ship who just moves out of the country and spends his happy gala time and returns back to the country for a short period. Speaking in his Man ki Bat without raising any critical issue affecting the country. He speaks very often non sense as common sense is rare thing which does not exist with him. In country like ours problems are getting accumulated and piled up like Himalayas but he vanishes like monk with other monks who gather at the Ram Mandir and misappropriate public donation of Rs 200 crores.
Election bond helps the party to appropriate 6000 crores for the party. Various ministries have paid money to BJP and RSS. The private industries have paid money in exchange of works given to them by the state. The best example is the Ministry of Petroleum has paid 600 crores to 12 groups associated with the RSS. The headquarter has been built with the help of 150 crores and the BJP head quarters have been built by thousand crores. Each ministry is involved in corrupt practices and the PM cares fund is another source of corruption. Modi talks of governance without corruption but without corruption there is nothing left. Bridges got built and get washed away within a month and roads have been constructed get washed away with one shower. The second Parliament house has been built with leakage. We live in corrupt system as politics is unable to function today’s India. Politics is the public action for improving the quality of life but it does not happen.
The movement by Gen Z created a new debate among people to relook at Modi critically. Modi turned into a phenonmenon which is getting critically dissected by scholars and social activists and young people who are participating in the movement. Vir Singhvi the last editor in true sense giving opinion fearlessly in the largest circulated paper Hindustan Times spoke today about the movement by Gen Z. He raises a critical point regarding the movement that it has no similarity with the movement of Nepal and Bangladesh. He finds the most immediate comparison can be found with the students movement of 1974 led by JP and found the underlying reasons behind the movement of that and today are the same. That the economic reasons like high rate of inflation of 74 and today and GDP is not growing today as the foreign capital is not coming and the Indian indigenous capital are not investing in the economy. But the real reason is located in politics of today. Hindutva has a narrow view of politics with their agenda of constructing the Hindu rashtra is not accepted by people of India and then youngsters. Intermixing between religion with politics is not accepted by the Gen Z as they compare with the alcohol mixing with petrol is not accepted by the middle class consumers. Their manipulation of the Election Commission is not accepted by these youngsters and villagers of India. Modi has a narrow support among the upper middle class or 6 percentages of India. Today the politics of six percentages vs 94percentages is the troubling them. The rise of the Gen Z in India. I agree with him the movement of India has no similarity with other countries. It is a big country with federal structure is getting threatened by the BJP rule by introducing the bill on delimitation which may create Modi rule for ever. This created fear in the youngsters as they have heard from their parents about terror of the Landlords of rural India. Politics in India is in fluid today like the climate change created by El Nino and this is what happening in Indian politics. Cyclonic wind is blowing which can transform the present regime.
Modi’s rule after 2024 made Indian people to question his legitimacy as the Prime Minister, Election of 2024 got manipulated by the Election Commission which is creating doubt in the minds of people. The youngsters are raising the slogan: Modi as vote chor. This doubt lingering in the minds of youths who voted for the first time in the last election against Modi and the BJP but the result is different. This brings the question of new rulers like Modi and his people in each public institution like CBI, EC and Universities and Judiciary are of doubtful integrity. The present youngsters question Modi for this lack of integrity among various public institutions today. This encouraged the students to protest in various universities from Delhi to Allahabad to Luck now. For the first time the younger lot in schools are protesting against the misrule of Modi and his provincial leaders. This is very deep and as the school children are fighting for their quality education and blaming the Modi regime is responsible for reducing the budget for education which is steadily declining after 2014. Furthermore in the time of active social media they are aware of the whereabouts of the children of the BJP leaders. They are abroad getting best education and here they are not getting quality education. This has angered the students of India against the Modi regime. The second phase of Gen Z to go to the village schools to monitor the quality of education has created support among the villagers for the opposition Politics is moving out of the purview of the Hindutva framework to democratic politics where social forces are going to fight united to achieve justice. This is coming out of the womb of movements led by Gen Z. It creates hope and the sky looking bright and dark clouds have been receding. The sun is looking bright and the moon brings coolness and joys in the minds of public. Public is turning into political reality and private is getting pushed out.
Publicness is the basis of any democratic actions of different classes who are struggling on the streets. Youth, workers peasants and students all interface today to confront reality. It is a joint struggle changing the balance of forces against the Hindutva which had a narrow limited space in Democracy. It may be pushed out of the political world getting constructed by these new forces. They will bring back Constitution and Democracy to the core of politics. This will push the public institutions to work with responsibility to discharge their duties towards the society not to any vogue ideology where the powerful controls the political space. And Gen Z actions have angered the Villagers against Modi,
Modi’s Redfort goggle " Dimagi Naxal’ is getting some clarifications from their leaders like Ram Madhav and Prasad. Ram Madhav wrote an article in Indian Express that Congress Party’s socialism is a dangerous move. He enunciated it starting from Nehru to Indira Gandhi to Rahul Gandhi but Shri Prasad today made it clear that the Congress leaders are carrying Dimaki Naxal. Strange but true and a right wing party and its government pursuing the policy of enlarging economic inequality between rich and poor which is the highest in India according to the Institute of Inequality located in Paris which is higher than pre Independence India. BJP leaders should feel ashamed of their economic policies which creating such scenario.
Prime Minister Modi speaking from Red Fort used Dimagi Naxali which brings out the Indian public is alert of their rights. They are speaking out of their rights. Girls of a school lucknow came out today and demanding the teachers to be appointed in their school and they are on strike and demanding the presence of Yogi to discuss the issues related to their school. Allahabad students demanded a meeting to be organized which was not allowed by the administration and after some time it was allowed in city where they discussed the issues confronting their university. Students of the schools in Jaipur came out to the streets to demand better infrastructure and better teachers. In Bankura a young leader went to visit the school where the goondas [goons] attacked him and his father who died of these brutal attacks. They went to the police station to file the case but they were not allowed the filing of the case. Some criminals including the local BJP leader have been arrested by the police. Right to education is the basic right of the students and cannot be ignored. Modi regime needs to be proud of the Dimagi Naxals are doing justice by taking up the school issue and improving the quality of governance. Modi promised in 2014 that he would provide good governance and less government
In Bankura around hundred goons associated with the BJP and RSS attacked Abdul who went to village school for inspection. They came to his house and attacked his father who succumbed to the death. But the question arises now that in three months how could the BJP got so many criminals around the party. But my hunch is this they used to work for the TMC and shifted to BJP now. Non ideological goons working for both of these parties. Furthermore Adhikari the chief minister today was the great conspirator to destabilise the Left front by raising the false issues. He left TMC and joined the BJP. Modi as the PM needs to ban the RSS and Bajrang dal who killed a person in Bankura and they killed Stains and his children and today their killer is a free citizen who terrorise the villagers. Every day they are involved in some crime against human beings and dogs Please ban them.
On the date of hearing on police violence against the students on the parliament street in Supreme Court that the present government has given statement that they have used lies to tell that they have not used violence against the Gen Z which turned the youngsters more angry and Modi and Shah regime is turning more vulnerable. This vulnerability is getting deepened with each passing day. This is going to work against the government and the negotiated agreement with the leaders of Gen Z. Once the integrity of the government is questionable then in future no discussion is going to happen.
Rahul Gandhi sat five hours for filing FIR for a pellet gun victim in the police station at Parliament street and then they accepted the case. In olden times the Congress Leaders used to take up the cases from the village and work out with the police station. Police remains as a part of colonial state despite after Independence. Modi and Shah have succeeded to shape the police force like the colonial police in the last 12 years. Shah experimented this in the last communal riots and forced police men to file large number of cases against the Muslims. Cases against the social activists under the UAPA law where trials have not started yet. In the lower courts the judges have been telling the police men that the cases have been filed against the Muslims without basis. The movement by Gen Z have removed the darkness over the police force in Delhi. They should take an independent stand without the consulting the Home Minister. A great move by Rahul Gandhi.
The tea stalls in the country side and in small towns to big cities are active now. For the first time people started discussing politics over tea. In group they carry the discussion and one finds the various points of view. The movement at Jantar Mantar has pushed fear out of their minds. It looks a vibrant place where young to old discuss politics. The old in the parks are silent for the first time after 12 years. They used to howl at anyone who opposes Modi and today they are silent. They used to hold Havan in the park to remove the evil star from the head of Modi. Not happening after the Jantar Mantar except the police men are active now. They went against the independent channels as an alternative news agency but they refused to be silent after the threats from Police men. The young raises a slogan " Jab Jab Modi darata Hai Police ko aghe bhejata hai" This is very much appropriate slogan in the present day politics. The creativities of the young and old have been getting flowered now a days. People are discussing the Modi and Adani together and their nexus working negatively in Indian politics.
With the movement by Gen Z the political space owned by the Coffee houses have returned back. People in buses and metros and tea stalls and universities are discussing politics. As the SFI leader Aishe Ghosh speaks out that universities are not the Nagpur RSS office and we discuss politics and we cannot be dictated by the RSS headquarter. This is an interesting observation. RSS head Mohan Bhagwat is planning to visit USA and there is a discussion in America and their body for religious freedom questioning his entry into America as the RSS is a terrorist organization.