Modi’s move confuses opposition parties
The Bharatiya Janata Party was voted to power with a majority
of its own in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. Since then opposition parties have been trying to find an issue that would put the Narendra Modi government
at the Centre on the defensive. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the
demonetisation of high-value notes on November 8, the opponents were taken by total surprise. It left them confused. They were unable to find any fault. They could
not attack the move in principle without being seen as supporting the corrupt
and the devious.
The opposition parties are divided as their intentions are
not correct and they don't have any political ideology in common. Moreover they
are affected due to shortages of cash which were main drivers for getting
supporters. There are two distinct aspects that lead to the disruption of
opposition unity on demonetization. One is that despite tremendous hardship
faced by common people, the sentiment in general among the masses was to endure
the hardship assuming that it was really an attack on black money, as Modi had
claimed. Most of the Indians believed that demonetization, apart from tackling
the black money would considerably paralyze the terror outfits operating
against India from inside and outside. Due to this public sentiment prevailing
in general, the political parties had difficulties to be aggressive on the
issue. The second was the fact that leaders of most of the political parties
except the Left were involved in various scams. People consider the UPA-II
regime to be most corrupt. There are allegations against Robert Vadra, against
Lalu Prasad, Mayawati, Mulayam Singh and many others. TMC is still to be
declared clean on Sarada and Rose Valley issue. Naturally, the unity was weak
and shaky.
Why should anyone expect a rallying of opposition parties
against the BJP government headed by Modi who has done something which none of
his predecessors had the guts to do, despite growing voices of discontent over
unabated terrorism funded by fake currency and illicit money, parallel economy
and tax evasion through concealment of income? We want total transparency in
our personal dealings and in our government. Both were lacking for too long.
Now a leader is about to achieve that with considerable success. If we have no
mind to laud his efforts, we should at least refrain from personal attacks of
the type especially witnessed from the Congress party about which Rahul was so
eloquently praising yesterday.
The most plausible reason for this anti-government stand is
that the oppositions were totally shell shocked at the most risky and bold step
that snuffed out their entire party black money funds in one stroke, a death
blow to their election funding and day to day functioning. Their knee-jerk
initial unity was this single disturbing factor. They are equally confused as
to why NDA would venture on a very dangerous path that could cause its own
obliteration in the event of a failure. The disunity comes after realizing that
the entire nation is supporting this great effort. Black money and corruption
had become rampant and a way life after the Ten year scam infested misrule of
the UPA.
Congress of course has tried very hard to make an issue out
of demonetization. Since the day of announcement by Prime Minister, the vice
president of Congress, Rahul Gandhi has been making statements at political
rallies as well as before media. That these statements were nothing more than
blabbering, is the main reason behind the failure of party's strategy. Other
parties have remained totally confused and changed their stands everyday. The
sudden reaction of almost all the parties of supporting the PM's decision. Later
on when media overplayed the hassles faced by public due to cash shortage,
everyone from opposition started to jump the wagon of criticizing government. In
the end, we can see that all parties are running in different directions hence
no clear stance to oppose the said decision.
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