I am writing this in the backdrop of:
The title spells out the dilemma many Indians are grappling with; to REJECT 10 Janpath as an conscious decision or ACCEPT RSS headquarter as a sub-conscious capitulation to fascist forces? They look as if they are all and same; they are not; One is rejecting a democratically responsive regime and the other is accepting a fascist organization.
To understand this well we need to understand what are these address signifies in Indian political landscape.
10 Janpath was a Govt. accommodation for the DEMOCRATICALLY elected former MP and then the second PM of India, Sri Lal Bahadur Sastri. This address has many 18 month jinxes, like:
1. Sastriji died after 18 months into office
2. Indian youth Congress office was shutdown by Janata Govt after a 18 month stint during emergency
3. Rajeev was assassinated after 18 months into the house after his crushing defeat in 1989.
A nice anecdote can be pushed here relating to Rajeevji and this house. As a PM, Rajeevji was staying in 7 Race course (First PM to stay there) and after his defeat he asked VP Singh to move in and choose an unprepared 10 Janpath.
Then, this is how a CPWD engineer recalled how Rajiv, when told that 10 Janpath was “jinxed”, had laughed it off saying: “Jab woh bhoot is bhoot ko dekhega toh woh bhag jayega (When that ghost sees this one, he will run away).” :)
And we know what happened after 18 months.
That may be the reason why Sri La Krishna Advani turned down the offer of Rajeev Gandhi to move into 10 janpath. He offered him the house after he ceased to be the Leader of Opposition during ChandraShekhar led Govt. He wanted to turn this as the permanent house for subsequent Leaders of Opposition as 7 race course is for PM. If that would have happened, Sonai won't be tagged with 10 Janpath. :)
This house has housed all the democratically elected representatives who took the oath of upholding the constitution of India. It's occupants have to stand the scrutiny of the people through periodic elections and accountable top them through Parliament. In a way, they also have to face the consequences of the jinx that 10 Janpath has been associated with and talked about briefly above. :)
So, if the current resident of 10 Janpath is facing the wrath of people for ""all reasons that Reason itself fail to reason,"" it will be still considered as a DEMOCRATIC rejection. Normally, a democratic rejection is considered to be an AWARE decision of the VOTERS and all should respect it.
BUT!!!
This can not be seen in ISOLATION from the other important house; the house of opposition i.e. RSS headquarter in Nagpur. RSS was banned by Sri Sardar Patel for participating in political activities, effectively making it a religioso-cultural organization. Though, it was successful in asexually reproducing BJP as its political heir apparent. Still, the house never participated any direct democratic tussle; but only hiding behind BJP. The road to RSS headquarter littered with:
Let me lay bare the difference of 10 Janpath and RSS headquarter:
10 Janpath never hosted UNDEMOCRATIC elements, where as RSS headquarter never has a brush with DEMOCRATIC processes.
With this FACT, the conscious rejection of 10 Janpath and subconscious acceptance of RSS headquarter raises some serious doubts:
It will be an watershed moment in Indian democracy; when we most probably be accused by the world of closing our eyes to the example of the Dance of Democracy in Germany in 1933.
Note: This might look like, I have accepted the defeat of Congress as an independent Congress supporter. But this must be taken as an assumption till the morning of 17th May 2014.
But, the true nature of the two houses are as per my observation in the write up. There is no scope of ASSUMPTIONS there.
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- RSS accepting that it is managing election campaign of Narendra Modi
- Modi paying visit to RSS Chief just before the crucial last phase for the 16th loksabha election
The title spells out the dilemma many Indians are grappling with; to REJECT 10 Janpath as an conscious decision or ACCEPT RSS headquarter as a sub-conscious capitulation to fascist forces? They look as if they are all and same; they are not; One is rejecting a democratically responsive regime and the other is accepting a fascist organization.
To understand this well we need to understand what are these address signifies in Indian political landscape.
10 Janpath was a Govt. accommodation for the DEMOCRATICALLY elected former MP and then the second PM of India, Sri Lal Bahadur Sastri. This address has many 18 month jinxes, like:
1. Sastriji died after 18 months into office
2. Indian youth Congress office was shutdown by Janata Govt after a 18 month stint during emergency
3. Rajeev was assassinated after 18 months into the house after his crushing defeat in 1989.
A nice anecdote can be pushed here relating to Rajeevji and this house. As a PM, Rajeevji was staying in 7 Race course (First PM to stay there) and after his defeat he asked VP Singh to move in and choose an unprepared 10 Janpath.
Then, this is how a CPWD engineer recalled how Rajiv, when told that 10 Janpath was “jinxed”, had laughed it off saying: “Jab woh bhoot is bhoot ko dekhega toh woh bhag jayega (When that ghost sees this one, he will run away).” :)
And we know what happened after 18 months.
That may be the reason why Sri La Krishna Advani turned down the offer of Rajeev Gandhi to move into 10 janpath. He offered him the house after he ceased to be the Leader of Opposition during ChandraShekhar led Govt. He wanted to turn this as the permanent house for subsequent Leaders of Opposition as 7 race course is for PM. If that would have happened, Sonai won't be tagged with 10 Janpath. :)
This house has housed all the democratically elected representatives who took the oath of upholding the constitution of India. It's occupants have to stand the scrutiny of the people through periodic elections and accountable top them through Parliament. In a way, they also have to face the consequences of the jinx that 10 Janpath has been associated with and talked about briefly above. :)
So, if the current resident of 10 Janpath is facing the wrath of people for ""all reasons that Reason itself fail to reason,"" it will be still considered as a DEMOCRATIC rejection. Normally, a democratic rejection is considered to be an AWARE decision of the VOTERS and all should respect it.
BUT!!!
This can not be seen in ISOLATION from the other important house; the house of opposition i.e. RSS headquarter in Nagpur. RSS was banned by Sri Sardar Patel for participating in political activities, effectively making it a religioso-cultural organization. Though, it was successful in asexually reproducing BJP as its political heir apparent. Still, the house never participated any direct democratic tussle; but only hiding behind BJP. The road to RSS headquarter littered with:
- Defiance of Indian constitution
- Designs of innumerable communal riots
Let me lay bare the difference of 10 Janpath and RSS headquarter:
10 Janpath never hosted UNDEMOCRATIC elements, where as RSS headquarter never has a brush with DEMOCRATIC processes.
With this FACT, the conscious rejection of 10 Janpath and subconscious acceptance of RSS headquarter raises some serious doubts:
- The doubt about the ability of Indian voters to think RATIONALLY.
- The ability of Indian voters to understand the difference of conscious decision and subconscious intervention in Indian democracy.
It will be an watershed moment in Indian democracy; when we most probably be accused by the world of closing our eyes to the example of the Dance of Democracy in Germany in 1933.
Note: This might look like, I have accepted the defeat of Congress as an independent Congress supporter. But this must be taken as an assumption till the morning of 17th May 2014.
But, the true nature of the two houses are as per my observation in the write up. There is no scope of ASSUMPTIONS there.
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