Opinion View From The Right: Let Modi Work
The Organiser has an open letter by a “nameless” writer that makes an appeal to “let the PM do his job”.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Organiser has an open letter by a “nameless” writer that makes an appeal to “let the PM do his job”. Taking a swipe at analysts for their take on Narendra Modi and his government over its first year’s performance, it says everyone wants the PM to perform as if there were no tomorrow, “do it now or never”. Pointing out that the expectations were high, the writer says, “…one needs to understand that the NDA government at the Centre under the leadership of Narendra Modi has to first undertake a cleansing process — cleansing of theexisting system in which several ills thrived for decades”.
It adds, “criticise our PM and prove yourself an intellectual. It costs nothing. Millions are doing so. They want Modi and his government to perform instantaneously. But Modi is not a magician…” The writer advises looking into the “adversities Modi and his government have been facing since the day it came to power.” Narrating instances, including the beef ban in Maharashtra for which the writer feels Modi was wrongly blamed, the letter says, “Can anyone go to a Muslim locality and set up a shop, selling pork? Just give it a try… Probably, the person won’t get back as he may himself get slaughtered, because selling or consuming pork in Islam is ‘Haraam’. So, why expect Hindus to approve cow slaughter? For centuries, cow has been worshipped by the Hindus… Any person who has read history well… must be aware that Mughal emperor Akbar imposed a ban on cow slaughter. Was Akbar a right-wing activist?” The letter concludes by saying the PM should be allowed to focus on his work.
Communist Future
In an interview to the Organiser, political scientist and director of the India Policy Foundation Rakesh Sinha says India’s communist parties, the CPI and CPM, which are “utterly confused about the path they should follow”, have no future. He predicts that Sitatam Yechury’s election as party general secretary will change the CPM’s tactical line and follow the footprints of Harkishen Singh Surjeet, unlike his predecessor, Prakash Karat, who followed the EMS line, making the party “relevant in the corridors of power”. Sinha says, “rectification programmes would be dumped and [the] party would also gradually drift from Marxism”. According to Sinha, Yechury is “a social democrat, not a communist at all. And he knows well communism has lost its relevance. Yechury has read more Golwalkar than Marx. He is a master misinterpreter.”
Sinha argues that the CPM’s political ideology document of 2005 praised the RSS for its work among Dalits, tribals and in education and appealed to the party to follow the RSS’s example. He says the communist leadership has failed to integrate its social base with workers and peasants. Sinha argues the communist parties’ failure in addressing the youth has led to its decline among youngsters. “Communists failed to understand that Hinduism is a way of life,” he says and cites this as a reason for “the communists’ hatred towards Hinduism”.
Indian Education
The Panchajanya editorial harps on the “Indianisation” of education by giving more thrust to ancient and traditional knowledge. It clarifies that the argument certainly is not that we should re-introduce the gurukul form of education and do away with computers and English: “The idea is [to] make our students aware of the knowledge gained by our sages and their philosophies which can provide guidance to the world…”
“Indian philosophy is about taking our education to new heights. Only when education broadens your horizons, does it bring knowledge. When knowledge comes, it benefits not just the individual but also gives a new direction to society,” it argues.
Compiled by Liz Mathew
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