Chapter 414 Power Transfer
A glimpse of the whole picture shows the situation of the Indian general election from Mumbai.
Zooming in a little closer, Kamat has become the person the public pinned their hopes on.
He was full of energy, leaving home at ten o'clock every day, running across Mumbai, from Jogeshwari to Dahisar, or even further to Goa or Raigad, and still managed to rush home at night to be with his daughter.
He was not afraid of the ugliness in political struggles. On the contrary, he threw himself into it with full enthusiasm and even encouraged his wife to run for election.
He is idealistic about the nation and extremely pragmatic about his personal future.
Kamath is a typical example of a successful counterattack in capitalist Mumbai.
The city's new heirs were very different from the former powerful men who had taken over India from the British.
They had not attended Cambridge University and might not have heard of the famous Inner Temple in London.
These insignificant people, like Kamat, are despised by the public, uneducated and unscrupulous. They lack the sensibility of urbanites, but to the greatest extent they represent the grassroots class of this city.
The fact that a murderer like Kamath can maneuver his way around Mumbai is both a victory and a failure for democracy.
Although not all politicians have blood on their hands like Kamath, they have to rely on people like Sukamat to get elected.
Most Mumbai politicians require huge campaign donations, while their salaries and what their parties can raise publicly are just a drop in the bucket.
So they have to compromise, and this compromise is everywhere.
Bombay's political life is no longer dominated by Parsis, Gujaratis, Punjabis and Marwaris.
In this regard, Navier Tata, the current chairman of Tata Group, gave the best footnote.
In the 1970s, Navier Tata, a wealthy industrialist and heir to the Taj Mahal Hotel, ran for parliament in South Mumbai, India's smallest and wealthiest constituency.
He still lost. Unlike in the United States, in India, great wealth alone cannot win you an election.
Nowadays, the only way for the upper class to pursue a career in politics is to be nominated directly by the Senate.
Ordinary people in Mumbai don't like the rich people in South Mumbai unless you have a very good reputation.
The fact is that almost no one can do this, except for a certain Mr. Sur.
It's a pity that Ron has no plans to go into politics now, which makes many people feel sorry.
To today's traditional privileged class, the so-called new rich in Mumbai are barbarians who broke into the city gates and dared to sleep at the feet of the emperor.
South Mumbai has nothing but disgust towards these “mountain people”.
Its only slight consolation is that it has expanded the cheap labor market in South Mumbai.
This is what makes Mumbai so attractive: buying out a maid's labor for a whole month is cheaper than having breakfast at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
The same is true of politics in Mumbai, where once you have money you can do whatever you want.
You can hire a lot of people and immediately assign the menial tasks to helpers or subordinates, such as cleaning toilets, doing the accounting, answering the phone, or waiting in line at government offices.
"Send someone over here." That's what the bank staff will tell you whenever you call to handle banking matters.
Whether in business or politics, everyone is used to "sending someone over" whenever possible.
In Mumbai, no one would do anything themselves if someone else could do it.
But it is these arrogant rich people who create wealth and jobs for Mumbai.
They provide shelter for orphans and widows living on the streets in their employers' homes.
The rich enjoy mansions and brandy first, and then the poor have a place to live and food to eat.
In this materialistic age, people no longer believe that making the rich poorer is enough to make the poor richer, and reallocating resources cannot solve the problem.
This is a fundamental shift in perspective, a topic that has been hotly debated across the country and remains unresolved.
Just like the consistent attitude of India's state-owned banks, the government is both fond of and afraid of foreign investment, and is contradictory.
Even though the right wing is pro-foreign, it is inevitably indecisive; the left wing is always xenophobic and cannot justify itself.
After fifty years of experimenting with social "rituals", who can say with a straight face that a planned economy is the best way to eliminate poverty?
During this year's election, the only campaign slogan not heard from any party was "eradicate poverty." It seems that everyone has tacitly agreed that our poverty cannot be eradicated.
So we should first solve other problems, such as corruption, ethnic conflicts, and whether to build a Ram temple or a Qingzheng temple in Ayodhya.
There is no doubt that the BJP won a landslide victory in this election.
For the first time, they became the masters of this country and wielded tremendous power.
Just as the United States once underwent a transformation, India is undergoing a similar transformation.
While the political machine under the banner of democracy has rapidly risen, bringing job opportunities and political power to new immigrants, it has also not hesitated to use violent oppression to eliminate dissidents.
Eventually, there may be a wave of reform in those American cities, with new leadership teams being elected, and the old and the new being ushered in, and the momentum will be unstoppable.
But in Mumbai, this may never happen.
"The scum at the bottom of society have suddenly become the scum at the top." Some human rights activists cried out in grief.
The people of South Mumbai mourn the loss of their city's former splendor, but what they really mourn is the loss of their voice in the city.
But for those outsiders who have to rely on others and live under their roof, Mumbai has never been a magnificent city.
On the contrary, it is extremely xenophobic and will quickly eliminate those who are different from it.
There are doubts about whether the BJP can manage the city well.
A strong proof of this is that a report on religious conflict that had been investigated for five years was suddenly shelved indefinitely.
Everyone knows that it was the Shiv Sena who initiated the attack, but now that the BJP is in power, the case has miraculously "disappeared."
In April 1998, a power transfer ceremony was taking place in New Delhi.
Ron flew back from Mumbai. He was one of the few people on the invitation list who could enter the Prime Minister's residence and witness Vajpayee's inauguration ceremony.
Thousands of dignitaries and representatives from dozens of countries also attended the meeting.
The new government is still a coalition government, consisting of 24 political parties across the country.
Thanks to the size of Uttar Pradesh, the Progressive Party was also present, and Munna and Devaram came to attend the meeting as representatives.
Of course, the BJP is the largest party in the coalition government and occupies a dominant position.
This victory was hard-won for the BJP and the celebrations will last for a long time.
Ron had planned to stay with Isha and the child for a few days and then return to Mumbai.
But Daxian specifically hinted to him not to leave New Delhi yet, as there would be important events later.
It is said that Tata and Ambani have received similar notices, but Ron doesn't care and just wants to stay for a while longer.
Just when he was expecting something big to happen, the BJP fanatics took the initiative.
Those intellectuals claim that in fact the Aryans originally lived on the Indian continent and later migrated to other parts of the world.
In addition, they also suggested that India's history should be pushed back several thousand years.
That is, to make people believe that India is the only cradle of civilization, which is far earlier than ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon and other civilizations.
Through immigration, India exported its civilization to all parts of the world.
When Ron saw this report, he immediately looked like an old man.
Damn, Banat Yingxue is really extraordinary!
Is this the essence of the three brothers’ winning strategy?
No matter what science or history you are into.
India is the source of world civilization!
Well, I said it!
All currently accepted foundations of the study of ancient India, and of orthodox archaeology in other parts of the world, would be completely overturned.
The Hindu masses were encouraged, but the elites were silent.
Especially those highly respected and world-renowned Indian scholars, not a single one of them stood up to agree with this statement.
It’s not that they are unpatriotic, on the contrary, they are defending India’s last bit of face.
It's the most ridiculous thing in the world!
Western media on the other side of the ocean all reported this news in a sarcastic tone.
The BJP's unique paralyzing philosophy of winning makes them care nothing about the international public opinion environment.
Newly appointed Education Minister Joshi has decided to invest a large portion of the budget in projects that he hopes will give the theory greater prestige.
That is to say, finding it from the pile of old papers will be more conducive to the proof of this statement.
Many scholars who stood up to speak fair words were subjected to vicious personal attacks by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
“Almost all other research projects have been shut down,” one scholar said. “Everything else has been squeezed out in order to prove something that has no basis and does not exist.”
The Education Minister has his own way and has decided to rewrite India's textbooks, incorporating the Aryan-Harappan theory into them and distribute them to thousands of schools in the country.
In order to support this claim, there are specialized scholars who are responsible for forging cultural relics in order to gain legal legitimacy.
However, this trick was soon exposed, but the relevant teaching materials were not recalled or revised.
Even mainstream public opinion has been infiltrated, and more and more reports tend to this view.
Ron almost watched helplessly as the values of the entire country rushed towards the extreme right.
This is the fanatical momentum that emerges from a religious country, it's chilling.
However, compared to these insignificant historical events, the middle class is more concerned about the BJP's economic policies.
Like other political parties in India, the BJP has a deep attachment to slogans from the independence movement, such as "Indian autonomy" and "economic self-sufficiency".
This is one of the few political legacies left by Gandhi and Heruru, and they continue to influence India today.
"India's self-rule" remains an important element in the BJP's philosophy, which often describes foreign products as "polluted".
Two years ago, the BJP's municipal party in New Delhi closed the capital's only KFC outlet after health inspectors found a fly in its kitchen.
This is simply hilarious. What is India's own situation like? Doesn't it have any idea of its own situation?
Fortunately, the BJP promised in its election manifesto to accept foreign investment, but only in areas where new technologies are needed. Its slogan is: "Chips, not potato chips."
Just when many elites and foreign speculators were worried about New Delhi's policies, Ron was invited to the Prime Minister's office.
When he got there, he found Tata, Ambani and others sitting in the conference room.
Ron went over to greet them, and after a few pleasantries, they all talked about this meeting.
I don't know what the BJP asked them to do, and they are all top figures in India.
Just as everyone was whispering, someone walked in excitedly from outside.
(End of this chapter)
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