Comment by Sanjay Parate
Today we talk about Madhya Pradesh, where a poor BJP MP is in danger from a Yuvraj BJP MP and his complaint is being raised loudly in the media. The first MP is a true Sanghi and the second is a new BJP member, but he has the power of his past reign. The matter has reached the Sangh headquarter, but the Sangh is also standing with the Yuvraj MP for its reign.
This poor MP is Gwalior MP Bharat Singh Kushwaha and the Yuvraj is Guna MP and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. This poor BJP MP has assets worth three crore rupees, but how can he be compared to the Scindia family! Kushwaha complains that despite being the Gwalior MP, he is not allowed to work like an MP, let alone getting respect as an MP. For all the schemes of the Centre for which he run around, as soon as they are approved, Yuvraj steals the credit for bringing all those schemes. He also complains that he is often not invited to government meetings and programmes.
Bharat Singh Kushwaha is not the only MP who has such a complaint. Most of the MPs in the BJP's 240-member team of MPs have similar complaints. Most of the ministers in Modi's jumbo cabinet will also have similar complaints. It seems that everyone has together presented Kushwaha as their representative.
In fact, in a country which is being pushed towards the path of a fascist republic, person-centric dictatorship is the main element, which is tried to be covered up by chanting the name of democratic process. This dictatorship comes from top to bottom and its form can vary according to the state and region and the individual character of the person.
Everyone knows that BJP is not an independent political party. It is guided by the RSS and its fascist Hindutva ideology. RSS is also a leader-following (ekchalakanivarti) organisation and the Sarsanghchalak is not elected, but is nominated, the one who leaves nominates the one who comes. It is the RSS that nominates the Prime Minister, whose removal is being speculated upon these days. This dictatorship has two faces at the centre too, who together keep installing Paploos in different states through envelopes, who directly keep the RSS and its two representatives at the centre happy. The more these Paploos spread communal frenzy, work to polarise the society, the more their numbers increase. This is the basis of the politics of BJP and the RSS gang.
It seems that despite being a staunch Sanghi, Kushwaha still lacked in getting educated and initiated into the policies and practices of the Sangh-BJP, otherwise he would neither have had such a complaint nor would he have reached such heights.
This Yuvraj is the head of the Scindia family. His father Maharaja Madhav Rao's life was spent in the Congress somehow, but the Yuvraj wanted something more than that, perhaps the old kingdom of his family. Now this was not going to be achieved directly in democracy, and even more so if he remained in the Congress. So, he left the Congress and joined the BJP. In a way, this was his homecoming, because generally the entire Scindia family is a Sangh devotee. Madhavrao had gone astray, so his son corrected his wandering. Historians tell that if the Scindia family had supported Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi in the fight against the British, then India would have had a historical future. But in the war of 1857, they supported the British. RSS was not born then. But since its birth in 1925, the devotion of the Sangh towards the British is its history, and today in the centenary year, its devotion towards America is the present. There is no contradiction in this present with history. In the words of the Sangh, this is a unique example of harmony.
Loyalty to kings and maharajas is the core of RSS philosophy. Even after 75 years of independence, they want to establish Manu's monarchy by overturning Ambedkar's democracy, or rather hang him. Manu's system is the Varna system, where upper castes always rule over non-upper castes. In the hierarchy of society, a person from any backward class, to which Kushwaha belongs, cannot be above a king or prince. Therefore, despite being an MP from Guna, Yuvraj Scindia has full right to spread his 'light' in Gwalior and the entire ancestral kingdom. Now Bharat Singh is an MP, so what, he should work like oil in a lamp, he should burn himself to spread the light of Scindia's wick. Otherwise, the Yuvraj of Scindia family is already doing the work of showing them their place, in this Amritkaal, RSS will also have to do it.
In the RSS hierarchy, Kushwaha's qualification is neither being a Sanghi nor belonging to the backward class. Apart from these two, he has another qualification, and that is that he is a three crore rupee man. Had he not had this additional qualification, he would not have become an MP even in his dreams. Therefore, if he is associated with the RSS-BJP, then despite being elected in a democracy, he will have to remain bound by the social system of the RSS. We do not see any substance in Bharat Singh Kushwaha's complaint. His case is dismissed in Bhagwat's Supreme Court and Yuvraj Jyotiraditya Scindia is honorably acquitted.
(The commentator is the vice-president of the Chhattisgarh Kisan Sabha, affiliated to the All India Kisan Sabha. Contact: 94242-31650)
