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Thursday, May 29, 2014
Thursday, May 22, 2014
India has a new Prime Minister!
The right wing BJP party has swept the polls , and is drunk with its own victory. The new Prime Minister-Elect, is to be sworn in on Monday, the 26th May and presumably a new Cabinet of Ministers announced shortly thereafter.
The election has been divisive to say the least , but the hatred persists; and I must confess from my own side too- I am not such a good loser, I suspect; especially when it comes to India.
Though I have been a New Zealand citizen for about 7 years already, my ethnicity is Indian and the happenings in the Sub Continent affect me, more than I would care to admit.
Nor sorry for the Congress Party , which has deservedly received a sound thrashing - with every one climbing on to the Gandhi surname gravy train- and utterly failing to work for the people. One distinguishing factor of politics in India has been that the Member of Parliament becomes totally invisible to the public that elected him/her after the election. They get possessed of an attitude of Maharajahs, for the next 5 years.
I have never found stories of even one Member of Parliament, actually staying in their constituencies and serving the people.
NOW, however that has changed, atleast in the constituency of Amethi. A bitterly fought constituency, considered the bastion of the Gandhi family (Feroze and Indira's, not the Mahatma's), it recently had a fire that destroyed the homes of some poor people. The Gandhi siblings, Rahul and Priyanka actually arranged relief straightaway, while their strident opponent, Smriti Irani actually lobbied with the local council for relief to the people.
The election has been divisive to say the least , but the hatred persists; and I must confess from my own side too- I am not such a good loser, I suspect; especially when it comes to India.
Though I have been a New Zealand citizen for about 7 years already, my ethnicity is Indian and the happenings in the Sub Continent affect me, more than I would care to admit.
Nor sorry for the Congress Party , which has deservedly received a sound thrashing - with every one climbing on to the Gandhi surname gravy train- and utterly failing to work for the people. One distinguishing factor of politics in India has been that the Member of Parliament becomes totally invisible to the public that elected him/her after the election. They get possessed of an attitude of Maharajahs, for the next 5 years.
I have never found stories of even one Member of Parliament, actually staying in their constituencies and serving the people.
NOW, however that has changed, atleast in the constituency of Amethi. A bitterly fought constituency, considered the bastion of the Gandhi family (Feroze and Indira's, not the Mahatma's), it recently had a fire that destroyed the homes of some poor people. The Gandhi siblings, Rahul and Priyanka actually arranged relief straightaway, while their strident opponent, Smriti Irani actually lobbied with the local council for relief to the people.
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