POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS.( A diplomat's views)

BY K P PASWAN.

It was during the grea Hindu gathering known as the KUMBH in Prayagraj, I was accompanying the family members of an American Physicist with a Nobel in Physics. A devout Quaker with outstanding knowledge of Hindu scriptures happens to be my mentor, While travelling to New Delhi we overheard conversation among a group of passengers belonging to a neighbouring country. These conversation was heard while passing over Iran.

 One of the passangers was lamenting that the administration of Donald Trump has fallen into the hands of communal minded Hindus. At that time Ms Tulsi Gabard was being heard in the Senate for confirmation as the Director of American Intelligence. Mrs Gabbard is known for her deep knowledge of Hindu scriptures, At the time of hearing she swore by placing her hand on the Geeta. 

It is mentioned that the former American Secretary of State Tony Blinken was an anti Indian while Marco Rubio is an anti Pakisan and certainly not anti Indian.

style="text-align: justify;">At the Kumbh there were discussions on physics, politics and the economic   The journey of these great brains went unpublished and after witnessing these scientists having holy dip   was impressive and surprising. I am writing a blog titled as IN SEARCH OF A DEITY, this is likely  to be completed in time and may be presented a copy to my mentor and another copy to Carlo Rovelli a famous French physicist who is telling scientists that the cosmic dance of Lord Shiva repesent the flows of time but my own mentor thinks that the holy verses of Rigveda are flows of time. While a famous physicist who has become a pastor in South Africa wants to erase the concept of time to make the Deity more powerful. This scholar is also well versed in the  Upnishads.

                   Here we are concerned with politics. In this politics by other means Ms Tulsi Gabbard may be caosidered a major participants.

Leader of opposition in India has only one agenda. He wants to know the relations between Adani and Modi, Several incompetent politicians who are supporters of the leader of opposition raised this strange question in the parliament and created rukus when theey failed to get an answer. These India lawmakers never bothered to know the relations between Trump and Elon Musk and Trump's close relations with other business magnets.

Now readers may be curious to know the role of Ms Gabbard in the murky Indian politics. Ms Tulsi Gabbard was confirmed with convincing majority in the American Senate and now she is the head of powerful Intelligence Agency of the USA.

USA INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY is the powerful agency which is responsible for shaping and predicating the status of the mighty nation.American greatness has been a great idea but it has failed to build upon it and it is said that the end of America' unquestioned hegemony has already began. But what is the reality?.

The global economy is now multipolar and so too is global politics The US confronts autonomous allies as well as new political ideologies and actors unimagined at the high point of the American history. Advanced industrial society is  obsessed with the phenomenon of decline. Both the US under Trump and the Europe recurrently justify necessity of political and institutional innovations and activitism as a response to the threat of decline. America under Trump present themselves as fighting declinism.

The reality of declinismis however may be found in the official published views of th United States Intelligence Community. Thefirst report known as the GLOBAL TREND( Part 1) was published in 2008 this  report entitled GLOBAL TREND 2025 made this predictions " The US will remain the single most powerful country but will be less dominant The report was further revised in 2012. It declares " No country whether the US, China or any other big countries will be a hegemonic power, The empowerment of individuals and diffusion of power among states and from states to informal networks will have a dramatic impact, Largely reversing the historic rise of the US since WW1.

The reports focuss on the growth of powerful and internationallly active non state actors like business, religious organisations and above all criminal networks.

And Ms Tulsi Gabbard as the new head of this intelligence community has not altered the findings of the report.

America's image in India is at a favourable 70% and as the latest survey Pew Research Centre would indicate. It is a relationship that resonates in the popular mind and for an inspirational middle class, the American dreams attracts and beckons in myriad way.

       RAISINA DIALOGUE.                               

POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS. Mrs Gabbad is the right person to reveal the relations between Adani and Modi.  I was surprised to see that none of the stalwarts who questioned Adanis'friendship with Modi dared to meet Ms Gabbard. News channels supporting the Dynasty maintained studied silence. In fact no body in India even tried to draw the attention of Ms Gabbard. Most probably Narendra Modi will be lost in the crowd following the general election of 2029 and if somehow(unlikely) the dynasty has a friendly government than the dynasty may need the support of Adani for survival. If anti Modi forces are convinced that there is unholy nexus between Modi and a few Indian business magnets than the new FBI chie Kashyap Vinod Patel and the new Chief of American Intelligence community Ms Gabbard shall remove the cloud. But the fact of the matter is that  a few disgruntled politicians who are misguiding members of the dynasty are playing dirty games.

     FINAL THOUGHT.

 Raisina dialogue is important in the sense that for the first time a Chief of American Intelligence was participating in the debat. America;s role in a new political role has been elaborated in the report GLOBAL TREND (1&2) and as stated earlier Ms Gabbard has neither added nr expanded the report.  Trump is influenced by this findings and for this reasons he is abusing political heads of the world . But it appears that Modi;s baitors have no courage to ask specific question to a trusted lieutenant of Trump.

NEITHER RAM NOR IMAM.

BY K P PASWAN

 We had a number of PMs in India who worked within the meaning of democratic principles and made a place in history  The first PM Pt Nehru is still remembered as highly educated with scientific temper and not for any grand contribution in any field. A number of Technical institutes were opened but these steps were not enough for an underdeveloped country to impress the world. His policy of mixed economy and the five years plan failed to make India an emerging economy. He tried to become a Statesman when Cold war was gaining strength.But he failed as with mischievous smiles the American Secretary of State Faster Dulles mocked India under Pt Nehru.  Another American diplomat Else Worth Bunker overshadowed the Indian PM. And the humiliation of India reached its zenith in1962 when China  launched operation Land Grab and India suffered humiliating defeat.  He died in 1964 as a depressed man. 

Coming to  Atal Bihari Bajpayee, he was a patriot and  a flopped Hindi poet( 1998) As  the PM of democratic India, he headed a coalition of nearly two dozens political parties.  He is  still remembered by a large section of society for his speaking power and his ability to appease everybody  including traitors, patriots and antisocial elements.

He started his political career during the period of Jawaharlal Nehru. He won and lost  election several times, his main opponent as per records was Mrs Shubhadra Joshi who defeated Vajpayee many times but Vajpayee bounced back from different constituency. His political party Jansangh was known for pro Hindu stands. Balraj Madhok  was a formidable critics of Vajpayee  Madhok had to  quit the party or most probably   was shown the door. Vajpayee waited for the top position for long but he never got an opportunity to lead the country.  Certain political figures became PM with help from other smaller parties but Vajpayee was denied the premiership. It is surprising because Vajpayee was perhaps the most experienced politician of contemporary India.

This blogger cleared the UPSC and got the service of choice so  during this period I was in the best service of the time . I  quit the service under extreme pathetic condition. An young bride of 22 years educated in Miranda House touched her final destiny in a French Air crash and she is sleeping peacefully at the bottom of Atlantic.  I am no longer in the service , however the strict discipline does not   prevents me to remain a sincere critic. 

Before abusing K P Paswan in filthy language please study the nature of administration under this PM.

  Post Pt Nehru and before Narsingh Rao India witnessed three traitors as the PMs who compromised the security of India and acted as well wishers of Pakistan.

There was V P Singh who laid the foundation of social tension and we find Indra Kumar Gujral as the PM, who in the guise of Gujral Doctrine opened the door for ISI agents from Pakistan.  At last Vajpayee got an opportunity to lead the nation but he had to sacrifice his stand on Hindu religion.  Grand old party that is Congress lost its charm and the reason was the absence of a charismatic leader. With spread of education and the improved system of communication it was difficult for  the Congress party to remain in power. So now it was Vajpayee to steep in and occupy the chair of PM.

 We dont find any radical economic and political reforms but in order to remainin power , he virtually followed the ideology of Congress party. Narsingh Rao a former PM had already opened the Indian economy and Vajpayee had nothing to do further . With opening of Stock markets top business magnets of India were adjusting themselves  as per new environments. No credit should be given to Vajpayee for keeping the economy stable. 

 But it was his policy towards Pakistan which reflected his weakness not seen in the period of either Pt Nehru or Narsingh Rao. However there was difference in international politics. Communism collapsed and Russia lost its status of a Superpower. Cold war was hibernated and a new political order  engulfed the world. In this new world politics  there were several centre of powers and it was beyond the ability of Vajpayee to  bring India at per with new political order. He was only conscious of his image and nothing else. 

 Nuclear experiments in Pokhran was meaningless as India was already a nation with Nukes and the credit goes to Indira Gandhi. Further Pakistan was being picked by the US to face the new global politics.  Vajpayee journeyed  to Islamabad in a BUS but his counterpart Gen Musharraf was not impressed and the cunning General inaugurated an era of horrendous killing in India warning Vajpayee that  Pakistan could destabilize India. Vajpayee gave grand welcome to Gen Musharraf in Agra even after knowing that Gen Musharraf was a competitive enemy and not a political rival.

 During his period a large  number of young commissioned army  officers who received their training in National Defence Academy were allowed to be butchered by Pakistani soldiers without any border skirmishes. With Pakistan Vajpayee played a game of love and hate, a legacy of Nehru era but this policy was going to cost the Indian PM who who sought to turn himself from a bumbling office holder into a victorious commander Vajpayees opponents were waiting to pounce. 

Kargil war with Pakistan was  anticipated long ago. A willy General Musharraf knew the image building exercise of Vajpayee. Musharraf was not elected democratically ,he grabbed the power by toppling th government of Elder Sharif brother. Vajpayee was unprepared for this war. While Pakistan did not mind its suffering and humiliation India was not prepared for humiliation. It was a war which cost Vajpayee his post and the party suffered humiliation .The grand old party bounced back. It is still not clear the foreign policy of this Hindi poet who claimed to have  vast experience. While Vajpayee released Kandahar hijackers in exchange of Indian passengers but India had to set free a good number of dreaded terrorists from Pakistan who are still active and operates from Pakistan. V P Singh also released terrorists from Kashmir in exchange of the daughter of the most communal Home Minister.

AND THE FINAL THOUGHT. 

 From Texas I was watching the last rites of Vajpayee. I was surprised to see a former Home Minister who encouraged genocides in J&K and released a dreaded terrorist in exchange of his kidnapped daughter. He was paying the last homage to Vajpayee.  

Once Vajpayee  addressed a group of  eighteen officers, I was one of them. His words still haunts me. He told us "We will remain confident,tough and confident and consistent in our fight to destroy the terrorists completely."  For all the steel in his voice  his words did not inspire confidence. So after witnessing the former Home Minister attending the last rites of Vajpayee, as a lessor mortal I concluded that Vajpayee fought for himself. He condemned N Modi but within years Modi won absolute majority and formed the government.By sacrificing  large number of young army officers Vajpayee failed to get what he wanted, Nobel for peace was preserved for war monger Obama.

Vajpayee did not fight for Ram and Imam so he got neither RAM nor IMAM.