BJP Government Brought Good Days for Sri Sri and Vijay Mallya
Thursday, March 10, 2016
The Art of Living headed by one of the protégé of the RSS, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is hosting a grand event to save the environment at the floodplains of the dying Yamuna; ironically, this event is hosted with utmost disregard for the environment and causing severe damage to the leftover floodplains in Delhi.
The colonial ceremony of Common Wealth Games and the construction of Delhi Metro depot in the flood plains of Yamuna has already caused immense damage to the ecosystem of the most polluted city in the country, the remnants of the floodplains will suffer gravely, thanks to the entrepreneur guru who is deputed in India by foreign monopoly and finance capital to thwart all forms of rebellion against the atrocities of the ruling classes using his spiritual jargon.
The BJP and its paternal organisation, RSS, is lending its unconditional and yet unconventional support to the multi-billionaire Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, one of the prominent corporate gurus after Asharam Bapu and Ramdev, known for their allegiance with the fascist Hindutva brigade.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is going to attend the event despite the fact that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has condemned and penalised the event. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal maintained conspicuous silence on what actions the government should take against the Sri Sri, whose not so spiritual power was manifested when the Indian Army Soldiers, hailed as the hallmark of patriotism by the Sangh affiliates, were found labouring for the event preparation.
The Modi government and its sycophants have claimed that the event organised by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a cultural event and must not be opposed under any pretext. It seems that the Brahminical Indian state, which considers the fascist militant RSS as a cultural troupe, has suddenly developed a new definition of cultural events and organisations.
Venkaiah Naidu, well known for his comical stints, suddenly claimed that the opposition to the cultural event, which, he claimed, is essentially Hindu, is creating a negative image about India abroad. Naidu did not bother to mention who is perceiving a negative image about India and why does a protest against the gross violation of the environmental laws, which is even observed by the government appointed NGT, will tarnish the image of the country before the world?
Probably their last resort in the past few months to justify their fascist onslaught on the dissenting voices within the country has been the 'protection of the nation's honour', quite similar to a North Indian man killing his daughter or sister in the name of 'protecting the family honour'. This 'honour' card could justify the acts of violence against the marginalised people for the fascist thugs of the saffron brigade.
The democratic and progressive voices of India, particularly the progressive forces in Delhi, vehemently opposed the grand event and its organiser, the self-styled god man who enjoys immense political-economic and social support from the highest echelon of the Indian society. So much support that even after finding out that the entire event, organised by the Art of Living, has violated the ecology and environmental norms, the NGT could only levy a penalty of a paltry sum of Rs. 5 crores on the godman. A tragedy of justice or a mockery?
While the Sri Sri Ravi Shankar saga was taking its own course, the country came to know that one of the icon of Indian comprador and crony capitalism, the owner of Kingfisher group, Vijay Mallya, fled the country with the covert support of the Indian government. Mallya defaulted on the loans that the public sector banks provided him to bail out his Kingfisher Airlines during the Congress-led UPA II regime.
The money came from the pocket of the common people, who paid unknowingly to bail out the enterprise of a man who is well known for his lavish lifestyle, parties, islands, mansions and is accompanied by young women models. A remake of the Quatrrochi incident for the BJP government! The figure Mallya apparently siphoned off is somewhere around Rs. 6000 crores, while the former employees of Kingfisher Airlines are still waiting for the arrear of their pending salary.
It is suspected that the Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, anticipated the fleeing of Mallya and other capitalist tycoons by duping the public sector banks thousands of crore rupees of debt. Hence, he allocated around Rs. 25,000 crores for the public sector bank capital while presenting the Union Budget for the Financial Year 2016-17. The Finance Ministry has not pressurised the public sector banks to forcefully recover the bad debts from the corporate world, which is not the case during the failure of the farmers to pay back their debts. The tremendous pressure from the banks forces a large number of defaulting farmers to commit suicide in India, which the government calls suicide due to failed love affairs and impotence.
These events were happening around us when the upper caste Hindu media of Zee News, ITV, etc restarted firing the salvo against the JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar for his speech against the atrocities and rapes committed by the Indian army in Kashmir. The nationalism of the Bhakts, with the comedians like Anupam Kher as their mouthpiece, has taken a deep slumber on the issue of BJP support for Mallya and his type. While most of them kept absolute mum on the Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's attempt to destroy the leftover flood plains of Yamuna in Delhi for his cultural extravaganza, some so-called 'fringe' elements came out in open to threaten the activists and protestors with dire consequences.
We do not see these self-proclaimed 'nationalists' raising decibels against Vijay Mallya, rather they started their own blame game by pulling up the Quatrrochi incident to save their own bums that are on the stove now. The government of Modi is left with no recourse to defend itself and hence, they have placed Venkaiah Naidu and other comic characters to defend the government. The disarrayed Bhakts and the online troll force of BJP cyber cell have resorted to whatever straws they could clutch amidst a strong current to stay afloat.
Indeed the good days are here for the corporate thugs and Hindutva goons including the cunning Sri Sri, who are enjoying the patronage of the state machinery in the most naked form hitherto exhibited by any previous regime. This is the updated version of Vajpayee's India shining campaign. However, when India is shining, the fortune of the poor and downtrodden 60 per cent people of Bharat is eclipsed by immense poverty and starvation.
The irony which no self-proclaimed patriot will neither acknowledge nor fight. The task of ending this reign of oppression must be taken up by the exploited and oppressed people, for there is no one else they can depute on their behalf, but themselves. They have to hammer the shackles to free themselves from the bondage of slavery, else they will perish en masse.
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