india politics
It can’t be a rebranding exercise alone.
‘The BJP isn’t unbeatable, but we have our task cut out for us.’
As the Samajwadi Party gears up for the UP State Assembly Elections in 2017, Akhilesh Yadav’s young shoulders carry a massive burden. The burden of lawlessness and increasing crime against women. The young Chief Minister believes that his home state is "better in every aspect" and appealed to the people to visit and experience the "real UP" but in the fact is that the “real UP” is overflowing with spine-chilling and horrendous tales of corruption, communal violence, ministers with stained backgrounds, atrocities against women.
If only we had our own homegrown Bernie Sanders! Not only for the millions of the subaltern for whom he could be an uncontested messiah, but even for the fictitious middle class in India -- they too need a Bernie Sanders to reveal to them the deep wounds inflicted by the fairy-tale neoliberal boom story. Which political party or media house has asked as to what happened to the Right to Food legislation?
In the recent Cabinet reshuffle, Irani was shifted from the HRD Ministry to Textiles.
How does anyone justify support for those who want the destruction of this country? Why did this slogan and its implications deteriorate into a shouting match between those who consider themselves patriotic and the self-appointed saviours of the values of liberalism? When did it become "nationalistic" to question the student protesters wanting the destruction of the very same state that funds the bulk of their education? The government and its spokespersons have gone overboard but the critics haven't done a great job either.
