THANK YOU MODI JI

 

THANK YOU MODI JI

Thank you, Modi Ji. Maybe for the first time in all these years, I feel I should thank you.

No pun intended! I am saying this seriously, and also, sincerely.

Modi Ji, you deserve to be praised for the farm laws. I know you don’t have any clue of what changes these laws can bring about in social milieus that yearned for such changes for long.

And it is high time we all stopped Modi bashing for anything and everything, day in and day out! It won’t do any good except to expand the scope of one more term for him.

I may not be able to say a lot about what the changes in the law will bring around for fear of a couple of things. The first and foremost is: if someone goes to Modi Ji and whispers it into his ear that his idea is eventually counterproductive, and Modi Ji takes it seriously! LOLz… I don’t want it to happen. Second, my (maybe weirdly) imagined possibilities may require a lot of data, which I don’t possess now. Third, I may be mistaking my imagination as possibilities and in reality, they may not be so.

Anyway, I will mention a few of them here to say why I imagine such changes.

Farmers started social changes (don’t want to use the word ‘revolution’ and make the context look so big as of now!) everywhere as they are the people who live most of the social contradictions of the time.

Here 55% of wage-labourers of India that lacked the basics to be the agent of change are being shaped to be one such. This needs deserving attention.

Put simply, millions who lacked the consciousness to form a ‘class’ can now gather it under similar living and working conditions and a similar set of problems that the new corporate governance of agriculture will offer them. It will be easier to bring them under one umbrella. For, the corporate will enable the basic structure for that.

Their life under the new regime, no doubt, is going to be much better than their past of living as serfs under India’s hinterland zamindars and their whims and exploitations in terms of service, payment and other facilities. At least temporarily.

Thus, a day India's fertile agricultural fields becoming fields of significant social changes may not too far off a case. History has it for us in several volumes that how dreck decisions of arrivistes go to harm themselves eventually; how wicked designs come back to their beginners and destroy them ultimately.

What makes you think Modi Ji’s fate is different or should be different? 

And if he faces the music because of this, why should it worry his enemies?

And a question to political parties and social activists who now fight for farmers: How did you all justify a single farmer holding thousands of hectares of land while hundreds of his labourers lived their life in penury and wretched conditions all along? Did you ever think of those hapless, landless workers in millions? What did you all do all these years to better their life a bit?

So, let things start moving from here, let it gather the desired momentum in the right direction. Instead of cursing Modi Ji realise the opportunity he gives and thank him for that.

PS:  This is just my wishful thinking so that I can keep myself optimistic in these dreaded times.