Strongly committed to the building of a Rama Rajya, the way our Sanatana Dharma suggests and a staunch proponent of Sanatana Dharma based value system for all
We are forgetting one crucial thing here: the Nehru family treats/ed India like a fiefdom. From 47 to 90, entire India supported them, celebrated them, venerated them.
Now, when the support wanes, they are happy to cut and partition again. To retain parts that support them.
Indira Gandhi, for all her faults, was a patriot. So was Rajiv. Both would be shocked at the state of today’s Congress as a party that aligns with those who wish India ill.
@nityajagarwal A woman’s side of the story is always to be believed no matter how toxic and obviously India being a 3rd world banana republic , her husband should be exposed, ostracised, jailed and needs to pay alimony till he’s bankrupted !
Jai ho!
India in 1947 was not some muscular modern state with highways, nukes, forex reserves and surplus food. It was a broke, traumatised, newly partitioned country with a freshly divided army, a refugee crisis and a food crisis.
Pakistan was not a powerless NGO either. It had inherited roughly a third of the divided British Indian Army, about 140,000 men to India’s 260,000, plus tribal lashkars from FATA and NWFP.
Also, in the sectors that were actually lost, Gilgit and the western Poonch-Mirpur belt, large sections of the local population were pro-Pakistan, and anti-Dogra. So Delhi was not just fighting tribals and Pakistani units. In several pockets, the ground under its feet was hostile too.
Despite these adverse factors, India still held the Valley, Jammu and Ladakh, including the core population centres and strategic spine of the state.
For a nearly bankrupt country with weak logistics, limited state capacity and no easy military depth in the northern sectors, that was nearer the ceiling than the floor. "Nehru gifted it" is a childish way to describe a very ugly strategic constraint.
Let me narrate the practice of socialism of Nehru and indira Gandhi.During my leave i went to see my class mate who was employed as a clerk in SBI chandni chowk at about 12 pm .He was free gossiping with his colleagues. asked how he is so free .He said he is supposed to maintain a register of transaction upto 60 entries and he has already finished. any additional work i am asked to perform within my working hours i.e 5 PM i will get additional money as over time . Another incident .During our Staff college land tour in 75 we visited public enterprise ITI Bangaluru .At 11 A. M the work floors were empty . One worker was present .He was blind .We asked him where are others He said they have gone for tiffin meaning lunch .We enquired why so early .He said they have finished their day 's work of soldering of 100 joints in the telephone instruments .It is taking me time since I am blind and that is why i did not join them.He further said that any work over these 100 soldering even though within working hours i.e 5 PM will be entitled for Over time payment . Trade unions of telecom industries for years did not permit installation of electronic exchanges .No wonder our GDPgrowth was less than that of Pakistan and country came at the verge of default and had to mortgage her gold .
So you have to imagine politics from the framework of backing communities and the interplay between money, politics and political power. What Tamil OBC communities have seen is that their political power erode in the national mainstream over the past 14 years when DMK came out of the UPA alliance. For the period between 2017 to 2024, certain communities in Tamil Nadu imagined that they gained some equity in national politics. But that was proven otherwise in the way, the central government handled the business and social needs of even core backing community, which is the Kongu Vellalar Kounders, even when both Annamalai and EPS, where from the same communities. Lesser said about the absolute loss of political power of the Thevar community from the South to which Sasikala and TTV belong.
The jallikattu protests were not organic. It was a community expression of the Mukkulathor community for having lost absolute political power in Sasikala’s arrest. It was shrewdly engineered as a Tamil cultural assertion while it was essentially Thevar community political street power projection.
BJP on its part did try certain things like giving CP Radhakrishnan, the vice president role to reach out to the Kongu Vellalar community. But The community wanted to do business and access to power, not namesake representation. Vannathi Srinivasan, who is the BJP’s Mahila Morcha chief also hailing from the same community couldn’t influence BJP enough on redressals of Tiruppur and Kovai business communities.
It is after this that Tamil moneybags started going back to funding DMK, Vijay and began to lose interest in Annamalai. That’s when Annamalai saw the writing on the wall. That he has to be the voice of Tamil interests for him to get backing both money as well as popularity. And he was vindicated with the results by Vijay when he laid out to the leadership that Tamil communities may opt for change from the Dravidian parties, but will not shift to BJP in its current form and style.
Saw an interview of Sumathi Venkatesan from Annamalai's political movement. The core team had a meeting today. I'm sharing some key points- again, not a verbatim translation, but the essence based on what I heard.
Annamalai has stated that politics should not be something stressful. He emphasized that spending time with family and focusing on personal aspects of life are equally important.
He also mentioned that politics cannot be a lifetime profession or a source for building wealth. Everyone in public life should have a legitimate source of income to sustain their families.
Regarding accusations of being the BJP's "B-team," he urged members not to worry. He noted that the party would prove through its actions that this is not the case, keeping the focus strictly Tamil Nadu centric with a national outlook.
Sumathi shared that hundreds of employees from a single software company joined the movement this morning. She also mentioned that an Islamic organization with around 1.5 lakh members has approached them to merge their outfit into Annamalai's movement.
This movement is likely to be registered as a political party within the next six months. Mandatory administrative training and ethical orientation will be required for everyone, right down to local body members.
Ultimately, opportunities will be provided to thousands of people to become an active part of governance.