WHO IS THE WINNER IN THESE ELECTIONS?

Once again it is proved that the parliamentary mode of democracy is a pseudo democracy. The people perform only one day role by just casting the votes and after that they are never cared. Even the one day role is so manipulated by the corporate and their media. It is neither people nor political parties who are the winner. In this election more than ever, the Indian corporates and foreign investors are the only winners. People were frustrated with the onslaught of neoliberal policies, rising prices, corporate loot of natural resources, weakened political leadership, declining power of elected representatives, and Modi has been able to divert this anger in his favor just as Kejriwal did in Delhi elections few months back.  The very corporates who stripped-off the livelihood and rights of millions of people through the re-colonization policies implemented by Manmohan Singh, have, through this election, reaped the benefit of peoples’ discontentment too! People have to just wait and watch Modi government’s attitude to Dalits, Women, Minorities, Adivasis and other Nationalities.  The BJP, led by Modi, has given the people to believe that replacement of the INC will solve the country’s problems, and has proposed a 3-point macro-agenda of Ram Mandir, Article 370 and Uniform Civil Code. It is a matter of time before people get disillusioned with the BJP (NDA) government and the 16^th parliament, simply because the model for development that BJP will follow is not different from what the UPA-1 and UPA-2 (and indeed the NDA before the UPA-1) have been following ever since Manmohan Singh formulated the New Economic Policy in 1991. But this time around, the hold of the big corporations on the print and electronic media and on governments can ensure that dissent and protest is silenced more effectively than UPA could ever do. Total population of India today is 1.27 billion people. The total electorate is 810,000,000, out of which the total polling percentage in this election was 66.3%, which brings the number of people who voted to roughly  541,000,000. The election commission says 165,480,309  people  voted for the BJP i.e., roughly 31% of those who voted.

 In other words, 69% of an 810 million strong Indian electorate did not vote for the BJP and yet Modi has come to power. Comparison with vote shares of winning tickets in past elections is instructive. In 1977, the Janata Party got 41.1% for 295 seats. If we add the Janata Party’s allies, who took part in the government it got 52% votes for 345 seats. The combined NDA vote share (BJP+Allies) of votes polled in 2014 does not exceed 35%. A significant feature of the elections has been the decimation of the Pseudo Communist Party’s like CPM, CPI and the revisionists like CPI (ML) Liberation. The failure of parliamentary left is grounded in the errors like of the CPI (M) leadership, especially its opportunistic vacillation vis-à-vis the Congress, for which it needs to take collective responsibility.

The Indian compradors have succeeded in predicting people’s antagonism, steering it in the direction that is beneficial to the corporates, and making people accept a corporate stooge as their own leader. The Indian corporates have, in fact, kicked off the “Modi for PM” campaign as early as 2009; since then they were aggressively spreading the ‘vibrant Gujarat’ myth all over India. Indian corporates had a dream - ‘coronation of Modi as the next PM’; they have succeeded in achieving that by projecting their own dream as dream of the masses! The dream sold through 5,000 crore rupees campaign. This is the true meaning of this victory! Many responsible citizens have exposed the pathetic situation of Gujarat on various counts including literacy, poverty, infant mortality, GDP growth, etc. and most importantly the dismal regard for democracy.

We can proclaim that this election has made the corporates like Tatas, Ambanis and the Adanis to sit in the PM’s chair directly. Even before the start of the election, the corporate rating agency (Moodys) announced the ‘list of tasks that need to be accomplished by the next government (irrespective of whoever comes to power)’. That list includes allowing multi-national corporations to plunder mineral wealth by destroying our pristine forests, rivers and mountains; removing & changing the ‘obstructing’ labor laws (as if they are adhering to them now!); opening-up of all sectors, including insurance, for looting by multinationals, etc. On the other side, RSS has a list of demands including anti-homosexuality law, construction of Ram Mandir, Kashmir issue, uniform civil code etc. that it wants Modi to focus on. RSS would draw people’s attention towards the list of tasks that it wants to accomplish. While RSS holds on to peoples’ attention, Modi would dissect our land into pieces, as instructed by Moodys, and would have started handing them over to Ambanis, Adanis and other multi-national corporations. While newspapers carry ‘sensational’ news items about Indian Mujahedeen, cycle bomb, tiffin-bomb etc. in their headlines, pristine forests and mountains of our beloved nation would have changed hands. A continuum of re-colonization and communalism – we can call it ‘growth-friendly communalism’! The people of India did not quite understand the relationship between the GATT agreement and Babri Masjid demolition when it happened. Now, we have Modi who would make Indians understand the relationship between “growth” and Hindutva. People were duped into voting for this fascist huddle by an extraordinarily well-oiled, well-heeled confluence of corporate media and big industry (owned by each other). The tyranny of the corporate capitalists; the Hindu fascists gang serving as their infantry, ready to unleash the tyranny upon people; a professional killer as their boss; diverse careerist vote bank political parties that are shamelessly willing to join hands with this murderous gang; bureaucrats who are eager to serve as a stooge to this brahministic fascist class; political folly and careerist minded people! It is this combination that has succeeded now. This is what is being shamelessly projected as the victory of democracy.

This judgment looks like the punishment that Indian people have conferred upon themselves for the blunder of not punishing the brahministic fascists. Modi will make people realize “what the punishment is”. We need to assume the responsibility of safeguarding people from that punishment!