Here we are, once again after a year, celebrating the Republic day; one of the few days like the Independence Day and Indo - Pak cricket days, when our rich and upper middle classes flaunts their patriotism and feels proud to be Indian.
Indian government celebrates the Republic day with full fanfare and propaganda to commemorate the adoption of a plagiarised constitution by the Constitution Assembly headed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who himself later claimed that he was hacked into the job and according to him the constitution should have been better burned, as it served no interest of the nation.
The adoption of the Indian Constitution on 26th January 1950 ended the dominion status of India, which it officially entered on 15th August 1947. Dominion status, according to the Indian Independence Act of the British Parliament meant, an autonomous region within the British colonial commonwealth with the British monarch, King George VI as its sovereign and head of state. This made it inevitable for Indian government to swear allegiance to the crown through the representative of the British monarchy in the country, ie the Governor General's office.
The Governor General's office was created by the British government to replace the office of the Viceroy of India, which managed the affair of the Indian colony under British Raj. The first Governor General of Indian dominion state happened to be the last Viceroy of the country, Lord Mountbatten, who oversaw the entire partition of the Indian land on religious lines. He was the first and last man to head India and Pakistan at the same time. His successor C Rajagopalachary became the second Governor General of Indian dominion within British commonwealth, under whom finally a hotchpotch constitution was adopted by the rulers.
The adoption of the plagiarised constitution did not ended British colonial legacy over India, as some proponents of the system along with official historians will claim; rather the adoption of constitution made India sovereign of British monarch and made it a republic within British commonwealth. It is the very same reason that alike Togo, Australia, New Zealand and other such former direct colonies of Britain, Indian leaders are also inclined to uphold the commonwealth membership of the country.
The end of British direct colonial rule and the transfer of power, as per Bhagat Singh - from white sahibs to brown sahibs, marked the beginning of the semi colonial era of the Indian nation. Today the nation is fast becoming the neo colony of the new global power blocs that has evolved out under the new world order founded by the U.S. led Western imperialist bloc. Their monopoly and finance capital has tied up the entire state machinery of the country and they have vigorously buttressed the semi feudal production relation that exists in the country side of India, forcing the nation into an era of communal bigotry, misogynist patriarchal system, which collectively moulded the shape of the neo Brahminical fascist state that is all set to rule us with iron fist today. They have made India the republic of cow, where only cows and hardcore cow worshippers can survive fruitfully.
The nation has become the republic of terror for the poor, the workers, the peasants, the oppressed castes, minority communities, tribal people, other nationalities, and everyone else who differs with the doctrine of the ruling clique. Over the span of six decades we have experienced the gradual tightening of the noose of exploitation and oppression around our neck. An atrocious regime has evolved, which manifests its utmost fetish for tormenting people.
The republic of loot and plunder, as our nation has turned over in last 66 years. Our hard won rights are gradually lost, and the only right the broad rank of people enjoys is the right to vote and chose among various crooks the one sycophant who will help the imperialist forces, crony capitalists, and feudal landlords to rule and plunder the country.
Still we observe this day every year with the city dwelling middle and upper classes exhibiting their loyalty to the country by posting on social media and TV channels airing patriotic movies from the bygone era. We observe long queues in metro stations and airports as our government informs us routinely every year that some foreign terrorist groups will launch an attack on this special day. This is followed by discriminated arrest of youth from a particular community every year, who are lodged behind the bars by a security agency that miserably fails to prevent any terror attacks on the people. We are told that the youth were planning terror ops, yet no credible evidence is shown to us and even if the arrested people are innocent, they soon opt for the terror path due to the treatment by the security forces.
Every year we celebrate this day, with big promises made by those handful of leaders whose expenses are paid by the people of the country. They promise to resolve our problems, knowing well that they are one of the core problem this nation is facing. They promise to cleanse corruption, though they themselves came to the political arena to reap benefits from the booming industry. They tell us that we must love our nation, yet on each foreign trip they say they are trying to "hard sell India" to foreign capital.
Still every year we observe this day, bombarded with advertising campaigns by the government and corporations that reminds us that we are living freely in a sovereign, socialist, secular republic, and we should be thankful.
Really can any sane person, who does not belong to the affluent classes of India, feel thankful for what he has got? Is it a great privilege to enjoy rights, which should normally be embedded in the life of a modern society?
I do not think, neither does the workers and peasants of the country, that we should remain subjugated to the ruling classes for allowing us to survive in this land on bare minimum standards. It is our right to deserve what we own and the fact is that we own the country, as we have created it and its wealth with our labour and blood.
The time is not to parrot the lessons imparted by the Indian ruling classes, the foreign imperialists, feudal landlords and crony comprador capitalists. It is the time to assert our own ownership on the country and its destiny, to build up a true republic, the republic of the people, which can emerge only by overthrowing the evil rulers from their thrones of tyranny and autocracy.
