The purpose of business, employment or self-employment is to fulfill personal needs, earn money and gain respect. On the contrary, for the desires that one has to fulfill in order to dedicate one’s life to politics, the first condition is that the person is sensitive, has the ability to rise above his family and fulfill his duty towards the society and does not back down from his responsibility in any difficult situation, no matter how much sacrifice he has to make for it. In politics, fulfilling personal interests, accumulating innumerable wealth and means of comfort cannot even be thought of, because such a life is like that of an ascetic or not being attached to worldly things.
The second condition of politics is that there is no guarantee of success in it, there is no provision for your work to be appreciated or your status will increase, you will be praised or you will get any benefit or position. Sometimes it seems that you have reached the heights of the sky from the ground and can be thrown down to the floor in the next moment. This is the truth of politics.
In politics, when people start becoming scholars, they start becoming politicians. There are two categories of them. One is those people who discuss and take decisions on the challenges, problems, basic issues like poverty, unemployment, which are facing their region, society, state and country. They make policies or get them made with their ability and discretion and implement them. The second category is those who work to destroy the discretion of the public, that is, those people will do what Netaji would say. From the government treasury that is formed through taxes, they get involved in providing them with free food grains, ration, cash money, all the facilities sitting at home without working hard or earning money. Most people are entering politics so that people start considering them as Gods, meaning that their hearts and minds are controlled by the leader and they are not capable of taking decisions themselves.
Let us understand the matter with some examples. The entire country is becoming increasingly affected by air, water and environmental pollution today. It is difficult to breathe, infections (infections or viruses) are spreading in the lungs and we do not even demand from the government and administration that they ensure clean air and clean water by using the country’s advanced technology. In the eyes of the government, this is not a priority and the public does not say anything, so mountains of dirt and garbage are built up. The ruling leaders and their cronies tell the people to put a mask on their faces, drink boiled water and go out and show that pollution is a lie spread by the opposition parties.
Look at the second example, when industries and factories were being established in the country, people were coming from rural areas to cities on a large scale to get jobs. Where would they stay? Instead of the industrialists or entrepreneurs making arrangements for their stay (even though they had agreed to this while taking land and other facilities from the government that they would make arrangements for the stay of the workers, artisans and other employees), they asked the officials to turn a blind eye to this by giving bribes and commissions and on the other hand they set up a slum mafia and set them to work by illegally setting up slums on vacant government land and settling the workers in their factories. Later they told them the trick of getting free electricity here. Similarly, water and toilets were arranged, because all this was done without any permission and planning, then stench and dirt started spreading everywhere, diseases started happening and in a way this problem arose by becoming a fistula between the luxurious colonies.
Netaji would come and say that we will protect them, we just need to get their votes. In this way, slums are common in every big and small city of ours today. It is said that 30 seats of the Delhi Legislative Assembly can be formed by any party due to these slums. Similarly, there are big metropolises like Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata. Due to these slums, any leader can be allowed to remain in power for a long time.
More than 5 crore cases are pending in the courts of our country and no one knows how long the hearing will take and when the decision will be taken. Similarly, only a quarter of the prisoners in our jails have been sentenced and the rest are still ‘under trial’ or are in jail without any crime. There is no one to interrogate them or grant them bail and they keep blaming their fate. The number of people who fall victim to petty fights or enmity or not obeying a miscreant is in lakhs.
The tragedy is that some leaders are so eager to be arrested that they even think it is their in-laws’ house, because all the arrangements are made there for their safety. A leader who is serving a sentence for some scam, sexual harassment or financial crime is greeted by a crowd at the jail gate and when he is released on bail, a crowd plays drums and welcomes him in such a way that even the revolutionaries of the freedom movement bow their heads in regret at how many people they had sacrificed everything for.
What kind of law is this, which can give a terrorist and a traitor the freedom to contest elections from jail, but deprives a prisoner of the right to vote.
Call it a trick or ability to manipulate the public at will, even knowing the truth, people remain silent, tolerate oppression and consider it a skill to keep their mouths shut. Be it educated or illiterate, rich
Whether rich or poor, employed or businessman, businessman or industrialist, everyone keeps thinking that whatever happens, they should complete their work and go on their way so that they reach home. Criticizing the government or pointing out its shortcomings means incurring a lifelong enmity with Netaji. Even if we assume that the government of a corrupt party falls with their vote, there is no guarantee that the next government will not do immoral things. This is what it means to control the thinking of the citizens so that they can never protest.
There is no doubt that some honest leaders of the country have tried to work for the welfare of the countrymen and have increased the dignity of the country and given India a place of honor in the world, but their number is very small. Most of them have worked to increase their personal and family assets. They have formed many NGOs or foundations to fill the government, that is, the public’s money, in their coffers. No one knows how much money is exchanged in these and from where. They say that the money is given by the public to fight elections, but in reality it is extortion money, which is spent unaccounted for in elections and since no one has the right to know its source, no one can know where this money came from. Is this democracy, really?
