Samajwadi Jan Parishad
National Executive, 12 &13 October, New Delhi
Political, Economic & Social Resolution
Having grabbed power with larger majority for the second tenure, BJP and RSS have started implementing their real and larger agenda in full speed. The signals were loud and clear with Amit Shah taking over as Home Minister at the Center. We all know that this right wing formation has only two objectives – first to polarize Hindu votes by propagating hate and all sorts of canards against minorities in general and Muslims in particular, to remain in power and second – to hand over all national resource to select crony-capitalists in order to accumulate massive wealth for their leaders and Party. Welfare of millions of starving, malnourished and jobless Indians has never been concern of BJP and their allies.
Due to pedestrian and ill-conceived economic policies deployed by NDA during their last tenure the country has started heading towards an imminent slowdown. To divert attention, Article 370 and 35A were abolished in Kashmir and all Kashmiris were made hostage by the Army, a situation never seen in the history of democracies. This move was aimed at evoking emotional aggressive nationalism of a section of population and effort to bury the burning economic issues at hand. SJP is of the view that policies of capitalism are unable to deliver results of growth, employment etc. at national and international level. Therefore BJP Govt. is aggressively taking forward divisive agenda of NRC & Temple construction and probably constitution amendment. All these steps are taking the nation towards an unprecedented crisis.
We have been regularly deliberating about series of deceptions by the government like handing over govt enterprises to select capitalist friends, electoral frauds, massive one-sided deployment of money in elections, taking full control of all democratic institutions even the judiciary. Therefore, we will not elaborate further on these issues here. Even more disturbing signals came from Supreme Court where Habitus-Corpus cases related to Kashmir were not given ant importance. All these signals indicate that Indian Democracy and our Constitution is under attack and this issue is the most challenging contemporary matter at hand. New provisions brought in UAPA is meant to suppress all dissenting voices against government. Thus, common man is now even deprived of his basic right to protest against injustice. They are either confused about magic shows being played daily before them or they are scared of repression. A simple criticism of government action is converted in sedition case.
This has also been demonstrated repeatedly that none of the so-called opposition party has a vision, leadership, organizational structure or plans to steer out nation from this miserable collapse. It is therefore incumbent upon SJP to come forward with alacrity and devotion to fulfill the purpose of our formation as an alternate political entity.
It’s worthwhile to note here that the present ruling outfit has gained its strength by manipulating our democracy through communal and castiest interventions on a large and obvious scale. In the process, the liberal traditions of Hinduism, multi-cultural ethos of India and our long-standing Sufi traditions are being replaced by medieval, feudalistic, Hinutwa bigotry. At the same time BJP has been pitching various castes against each other for their electoral advantage while the castes which gained political prominence via reservation plank are oblivious of this divisive game plan and the fact that all round privatization and capitalistic economic / administrative policy is eliminating employment scope in public and govt sector. Privatization of govt run schools, institutions and transfer of existing units to private business houses via PPP model, government is disowning its primary welfare responsibility while farmers are being lured by advancing petty doles. Land, forest, water resources, mines, all are being handed over to private businessmen. On the other hand, artisans and self-employed are losing their livelihood in the hands of market forces and manufactured goods. Agreements signed with World Bank and WTO have already heavily and adversely impacted our farmers and local producers. Further to this an agreement with RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership), a group of ten ASIAN countries comprising of Australia, Japan, South Korea, India among others, is likely to be signed in November 2019 which will further bring misery to our farmers and forest producers. It’s shocking that government is not revealing the details of proposed agreements. We have to fish out information from web sites of other countries. SJP condemns such secretive approach of government in dealing with matters of larger public interest and demands public declaration of all related documents.
The results of gross mismanagement of economy and administrative set up of country during last five and half years are now showing their impact all around. Economy is in doldrums, GDP growth rate has tumbled down to an eleven year low of 5% while the government is tom-toming a 5 Trillion Dollar economy by falsifying and hiding statistics. While the fact remains that India’s growth rate is now lower than that of Bangladesh and Pakistan and prominent economists have gone to extent of affirming that real rate in close to negative.
SJP advocates limiting personal income and imposing upto 70% personal tax in higher slabs. Simultaneously inheritance / wealth tax should be reintroduced and indirect taxes should be minimized to increase the purchasing power of common citizens in order to improve the economy.
India’s legal and criminal justice system is in shambles. Poor innocent citizens and Adivasis in particular are being detained and lodged in jails for years together without proper investigation or legal proceeding which has become worse than even colonial era. SJP also protests demanding proof of identity at the time of casting votes when the photo identity is available with polling officers and agents.
Social Economic and Caste Census – SECC 2011 was conducted during UPA II and data is ready but this government has put it in cold storage for more than four years now. On the other hand, citizens are being harassed and terrorized in the name of NRC in many states. The rumor of putting non-NRC citizens in detention camps in Assam is not acceptable to SJP. Rather we suggest such persons should be allowed to remain in their houses. SJP also demands that India should take lead in facilitating free movement of people residing in Indian Subcontinent in line with vision of Dr. Lohia in order to facilitate universal brotherhood and peaceful social political climate in the region .
Proposed by Prof @Mahesh Vikram
Unanimously adopted.
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