Bihar Elections Is Not A Catalyst of Nationwide Change
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Bihar Elections is making rounds in the news these days as the pundits of parliamentary politics, sitting in their comfy air conditioned offices in New Delhi and Mumbai are forecasting on the outcomes of the elections counting caste, religion and similar equations to tally figures.
The legislative assembly elections of Bihar is majorly fought between the two broad coalition forces led by the BJP and JD(U) - RJD respectively. Though the six parliamentary left parties has floated a front to test their luck this time, it is evident from looking at the political equations of the class forces of Bihar that this front of the official left will not be able to make much difference in the political landscape of the feudal stronghold in India.
The election campaigns started with usual hate mongering by the saffron outfits against the minority communities and the oppressed castes on one hand, and the hotch potch set up of unity by yesterday's foes and today's allies RJD - JD(U) and the Congress on the other hand. The likes of Assauddin Owaisi and Mulayam Singh Yadav joined the fray to divert the anti BJP votes, especially of the Muslim community and through that they unofficially provided support to the BJP led NDA.
The elections of Bihar, followed by the complex caste equations, through which feudal oppression manifests itself in the lives of the poor, is only a test for the BJP for its parliamentary power and does not significantly makes any difference to the political scenario of the country. Neither the victory of the BJP nor its defeat will make any difference in the grass root section, where the people are exploited and oppressed day in and out under a barbaric semi feudal economic system.
The parliamentary left, right and centre has magnified the Bihar elections out of proportion because for them winning few more seats or increasing their vote counts consists of the lifeline of their politics. However, if we analyse from the view point of the oppressed workers and peasants of Bihar we will find that election results does not bring any significant change in their lives. One monarch is replaced by another while the public remains its subject.
The real catalyst of change in Bihar's political landscape can be a militant anti feudal peasants struggle for political, economic and social emancipation. The bud of which the feudal armies of the landlords and upper caste warlords like the Ranveer Sena has mastered in crushing. The 90's of the last century symbolised such confrontations between the militant peasantry and the feudal armies. However, lured by parliamentary opportunism, the official left forces soon abandoned the path of building peasants resistance struggle by baptising the peasants, the poor, the oppressed with the politics of emancipation. This opportunist capitulation caused tremendous losses for the Bihar peasants, who are still bearing the burnt of that treachery by being re-enslaved by the feudal landlords through their military supremacy supported by political support from the helms at Patna and New Delhi.
The legislative assembly elections of Bihar is majorly fought between the two broad coalition forces led by the BJP and JD(U) - RJD respectively. Though the six parliamentary left parties has floated a front to test their luck this time, it is evident from looking at the political equations of the class forces of Bihar that this front of the official left will not be able to make much difference in the political landscape of the feudal stronghold in India.
The election campaigns started with usual hate mongering by the saffron outfits against the minority communities and the oppressed castes on one hand, and the hotch potch set up of unity by yesterday's foes and today's allies RJD - JD(U) and the Congress on the other hand. The likes of Assauddin Owaisi and Mulayam Singh Yadav joined the fray to divert the anti BJP votes, especially of the Muslim community and through that they unofficially provided support to the BJP led NDA.
The elections of Bihar, followed by the complex caste equations, through which feudal oppression manifests itself in the lives of the poor, is only a test for the BJP for its parliamentary power and does not significantly makes any difference to the political scenario of the country. Neither the victory of the BJP nor its defeat will make any difference in the grass root section, where the people are exploited and oppressed day in and out under a barbaric semi feudal economic system.
The parliamentary left, right and centre has magnified the Bihar elections out of proportion because for them winning few more seats or increasing their vote counts consists of the lifeline of their politics. However, if we analyse from the view point of the oppressed workers and peasants of Bihar we will find that election results does not bring any significant change in their lives. One monarch is replaced by another while the public remains its subject.
The real catalyst of change in Bihar's political landscape can be a militant anti feudal peasants struggle for political, economic and social emancipation. The bud of which the feudal armies of the landlords and upper caste warlords like the Ranveer Sena has mastered in crushing. The 90's of the last century symbolised such confrontations between the militant peasantry and the feudal armies. However, lured by parliamentary opportunism, the official left forces soon abandoned the path of building peasants resistance struggle by baptising the peasants, the poor, the oppressed with the politics of emancipation. This opportunist capitulation caused tremendous losses for the Bihar peasants, who are still bearing the burnt of that treachery by being re-enslaved by the feudal landlords through their military supremacy supported by political support from the helms at Patna and New Delhi.
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