"the Gandhian
inspiration of AAP politics calls for serious rethinking. Gandhi’s use of civil
disobedience was very infrequent. Only the issues of gravest significance
required that mode of protest. A dharna, too, requires systematic prior
analysis before it is undertaken as a mode of non-violent protest.
Socialism as an ideology
has lost its meaning in the 21st century; especially in India, some of the
worst forms of government conduct emanated from a socialist state, which also
kept the masses poor; and as a purely pragmatic matter, the so-called
aspirational millions and the urban elite, who have flocked to the AAP, have no
taste for socialism any more." More here.
The following sentences has serious flaws:
"The two strands,
initially represented by the Jana Sangh and the Swatantra parties, remained on
the margins. It was the Ayodhya movement and economic liberalisation that
created the conditions for a viable Right, so far a work in progress."
Revisiting the grammar
of democracy in the eternal words of B.R.Ambedkar:
- "...if the parties place creed above country, our
independence will be put in jeopardy a second time and probably be lost
for ever.
- that political power in this country has too long been
the monopoly of a few and the many are only beasts of burden, but also
beasts of prey."
