The right Left way. Just when India is finally trying to stand on its feet, we have carpet pullers lending “outside” support to the UPA government. Some nuggets from the latest instance of rug-pulling (from the Rediff piece I have linked to):
- West Bengal paralysed
- Strike hits normal life in Kerala
- Chandigarh hit too
- Confusion at Hyderabad airport
- Tripura badly affected
- Banking in Karnataka badly hit
- Most factories in Gurgaon closed
- Chhattisgarh badly hit
A few thousand crores will be washed down the sewer but that should only bring the smile back on the Comrades’ lips.
Tags: Commentary, Indian Politics, War on Communism
Fell, you are assuming that the only worthwhile objective here is growth of the economy, without worrying about the workers themselves who have to work within that system.
Strikes are an inevitable part of industrialised society. They show that workers too should have some power, not just the CEOs.
Sunny,
Nope. Please read the opening lines carefully:
>>Just when India is finally trying to stand on its feet, we have carpet pullers lending “outside” support to the UPA government.
I never spoke about any “worthwhile” or only objective. Just meant to show another instance of the Left’s history of putting a spoke in the economy. I haven’t disputed the validity or inevitability of strikes either. But as with all cases, a “fine balance” is necessary.
What is the fine balance in your opinion?
I’m not lending blind support to the unions because I think Indians workers generally have it far too easy and are too militant etc etc… but the slant of the post is that any sort of union activity is bad for the Indian economy and therefore to be condemned.
India btw has been growing at around 7% for the past decade, so I’m not sure when you mean by “just getting on its feet”. If anything, some are saying its overheating with all the jump in share prices.
Workers of a particular factory going for a strike against the policies of its bosses
is normal. But the entire nation coming to stand still with the support of politicians
who btw themselves are enjoying the fruits of economic liberalisation (read capitalism)
is not normal. As they as ‘It happens only in India’.
Breeding insecurity amongst the working class is Left’s favourite game. In fact its the only way it can survive
Keeping the working class married to moth-eaten ideas is Left’s best bet. And its doing it
quite well.
Thankfully the Left’s domination is not absolute and its popularity amongst the Indians is not all that great. Though it has a disproportionately high presence in the media thereby inflating its actual strenght within the average Indian perception, it still commands only around 6% vote share which is way below the 25% vote share of the right wing parties.
I see hope in blogs like these that can puncture the false baloon of the Left, which till now enjoyed a free ride via the Indian media.
Keeping India poor suits the pinkos. No wonder they are hard-pressed for support in places like Punjab and Gujarat.
Keeping India poor suits everyone, not just the so-called Pinkos. At least the lefties have a much better record on educating and empowering Indians (eg Kerela for a start). The problem is that of regulation, for which blaming the left is a big mis-nomer. The right-wing BJP did pretty much nothing to cut regulation during its rule.
Than could you please explain the mass exodus,if you will, of the Kerelites to the middle east and even to the other parts of the country to find a decent job. Please do not attribute the quality of lif in Kerela to the “good” work done by leftist. Even in education for that matter. Its a myth.
It is more to do with “petro-dollars” than anything else. That also by the way explains the 4000 crores worth of land held by the commies in that state.
If Kerela had just great and “progressive” things to offer why nobody bothers to stay back.
If you really want to understand what few years of Leftist rule can do to a region, please find time to read this paper..
http://www.econ.ucla.edu/people/papers/Lahiri/Lahiri319.pdf
As for the BJP, all i can say is it did not have a magic wand to undo the mess created by its predecessors in all these years.
>>The problem is that of regulation, for which blaming the left is a big mis-nomer.
I beg to disagree. From Nehru’s time, and more so during Mrs.Gandhi’s rule, it was the Left that brought in the harebrained regulations which refuse to go even to this day. I wouldn’t use “blaming.” I would say “progenitor” of regulation.
Great idea of your article. We are fully agry with you. Maybe you can talk more for us.
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