Can we go beyond Politics?

Impossible is Nothing...

Recently I had been Vasai... A simple place in Thane district... And I must tell you, it is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited... Vasai is a place which is rich in its culture and heritage...It is the place near Aamachi ‘multi cultured’ Mumbai, where we could see the perfect blend of Hindu and Christian culture... The people are of course Christian by the religion but are Hindu by Heart and nature... That is not all, because they are so generous and beautiful; it feels like home away from home... But as we say every story is not a fairy-tale... it too had the other side... It too had some complications... And it came just few days before... What happened in Vasai over a demand to exclude 53 villages from Corporation, we all know... But the saddest part was that the agitation took a violent turn... and the peace we were talking was disrupted...

There are problems everywhere and there are answers to every question... So why not to solve any problem logically... Why every problem be it a social one or any question, should take a political turn? Why in our country each and everything ends at the doorstep of the politics? And this brings to the question that Can we go beyond Politics? Vasai problem is not a political issue... It is indeed a social and welfare issue of people of that part... But at the end of it we see Vivek Pandit, a social worker turned sitting independent MLA and Hitendra Thakur, former MLA of that region literally fighting over this issue... We see police force beating up the residents and villagers and still no action is being taken over it... Why there is no consensus on any issue regarding the betterment of people? Why we need to leave everything up to these grimy politicians? Or can they not take a decision just once which will not have their own benefit and do something for the common man? Can we not stop playing political games and think about us as the citizens? Is it that hard? If we closely look to it then No... We can change the given scenario... Everybody in the business is not bad but as the saying goes, one rotten mango can spoil everything... that is the case... This does not mean that our leaders do not do anything for the people who have elected them... But the amount of work is surely less...

Now a day’s, conditions like these are creating a feel of going to the basics... In the time of Freedom movement, India has witnessed Styagraha, many agitations, a demand for Swaraj... And if we see today’s era, we are indeed going back to the basics... The revolt which occurred in Vasai was not less than a demand for Swaraj... The way by which it was done was by agitations by local people... and this all was nothing but Satyagraha... So if we are going back to the basics don’t we need to change the scenario? Should we not evaluate the circumstances by which this is happening? And are we still not free? Or are we again going to fight for the freedom in a Democratic and Republic India? Actually we should not... According to me these are the phases of development... But in order to do so we must understand the need and speed of an individual, a community or a society...
This is one small example of changing society and the interference of politics in it... This was all an ideological problem... But what will you call to the Amitabh Bachchan and Chief Minister Ashok Chavan wrangle? We normally see many situations like this... But tell me frankly is it ethical to disrupt a program of a social benefit (of inauguration of a Sae link) over an obtuse political issue? But why can’t our gifted politicians understand this? When can it all stop and we see pure governance, is a million dollar question to answer... Are you the lucky one to answer it???