Years ago, I went to Madhya Pradesh to report on the last Assembly elections there, a battle between the Congress and the incumbent BJP. I was fresh out of college and very indignant about the nature of minority politics in India. I was sitting, on one of my first days there, in a Muslim neighbourhood in Bhopal, talking to a group of young men. I asked them why what the BJP had done for them. ‘Nothing’. I asked what the Congress had done for them. ‘Nothing.’ I became excited. ‘Don’t you see,’ I said, ‘why there is no difference between them? Neither of them do anything for you. Why should you think one is better than the other?’ One of the men, a taxi-driver, said there was a difference. ‘It’s a personal thing. You know when the BJP is in power, these gangs, they can come to our mohalla, they can start a fight, break or burn something. We can’t respond. We go to the police, they won’t file a case. I suppose it’s a question of safety ADMIN :-
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:06:46 +0000
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