आपातकाल

 इन दिनों वर्ष 1975 में भारत में लगाए गए आपातकाल की बहुत चर्चा है जिसे असंवैधानिक भी कहा जा रहा है। आपको याद दिलाने की आवश्यकता नहीं होनी चाहिए कि इसका प्रावधान संविधान के भाग 18 में  

किया गया है। भारत के राष्ट्रपति केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल और प्रधानमंत्री की अनुशंसा पर आपातकाल की घोषणा संपूर्ण भारत अथवा किसी एक राज्य के लिए कर सकते हैं ।अगर केंद्रीय मंत्रिमंडल को यह विश्वास हो जाए कि भारत की एकता, अखंडता को किसी भी  बाहरी शक्तियों से खतरा है या सैनिक क्रांति की  आशंका है तो आपातकाल लगाया जा सकता है।    

 आपातकाल में जहां तक सवाल  नागरिक अधिकारों के निलंबन का आता है इस बारे में जो लोग वर्ष 1975 में भारत में रह रहे थे उन्हें ठीक से मालूम होगा कि आम नागरिकों को आपातकाल के दौरान कितनी सहूलियत प्राप्त हुई थी। आपातकाल के दौरान कोई भी अधिकारी , कर्मचारी अपने कार्य पर समय से पहुंचने के लिए बाध्य था, कोई भी रेल अथवा सरकारी सेवा तनिक भी देर नहीं कर सकती थी, कार्यालय में कार्य नियमित और समयबद्ध तरीके से हो रहा था, कानून और पुलिस नागरिकों की शांति और सुरक्षा के लिए बहुत कड़ाई से मुस्तैद थे। उस दौरान अपराध, दंगे लड़ाई- झगड़ा चोरी, डकैती आदि पूरी तरह से बंद थी। इस प्रकार नागरिकों को तो कोई तकलीफ नहीं हुई थी। आपातकाल में केवल राजनीतिक गतिविधियों पर रोक लगाई जाती है। जिस पर तत्कालीन आपातकाल के दौरान भी रोक लगाई गई थी। इसे सही या गलत नजरिए से देखने की यदि आवश्यकता महसूस होगी तो उसका मूल्यांकन समय काल और परिस्थितियों के हिसाब से किया जाएगा। आज 2024 में जब इस बात की चर्चा की जा रही है तो इस समय इमरजेंसी या आपातकाल लागू नहीं है लेकिन अभिव्यक्ति की आजादी, मानवाधिकार तथा राजनीतिक आजादी के हिमायती इस बात का स्वयं मूल्यांकन करें कि उन्हें कितनी आजादी प्राप्त है? 

यदि नहीं प्राप्त है तो क्या आपातकाल लागू है ? यदि आपातकाल लागू नहीं है फिर भी अधिकारों का हनन हुआ है तो यह व्यवस्था असंवैधानिक है या वर्ष 1975 में लागू की गई व्यवस्था असंवैधानिक थी ?

विचार करके देखिएगा।

CREAMY LAYER IN RESERVATION.

 CREAMY LAYER IN RESERVATION. 

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Creamy layer in India was first used to define the affluent segment of other backward classes (OBC). The meaning of creamy layer in terms of affluent segment of the society can be better defined to understand that the 90% of forward cast in our country are under creamy layer. According to the Hinduism varnashram the first three castes naming Brahmin, ksahtriya, and vaishya are the most affluent castes that come under the creamy layer. But ironically the term creamy layer  was first used to define that segment of  society which had only 10% of the creamy layer. Since, this term is to be understood in the context of economically affluent society has never been used for the actual creamy layer. It sounds pleasant if you talk in society about one's afluence but the same sounds objectionlable in  political discussions. So far as the reservation is concerned ,it was brought in the constitution to give justice in the terms of social and political matters by providing representation in politics, administration, judiciary , police , all the government departments and the P.S.Us  run by central and state governments etc. But this system and the policy maker always misinterpreted the word representation and gave it a meaning which relates the reservation as a poverty elevation programme. Once it was  considered in economic terms the creamy layer word was very prudently pasted with the reservation system which is totally a wrong notion according to the constitution of India. The policy makers well understood that it is a foul game in reservation but they did so to deprive the maximum number of people from their rights of representation at various levels. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar speaking in the parliament during the debate on reservation had expressed his concern and apprehended that if the authorities of implementing the law will be prejudiced the constitution will not bring the results as expected . His concern became quite correct with the way the law has been implemented and the fear Dr Ambedkar had expressed in his speech is now proved to be true. To understand this we have to see some reality based on the data of the government.

According to a data received from the government under RTI act it was found that the representation of SC is around 6% ST 0-to-3% and OBC was 0-to 6% in the Ministries  and Directorates of   Central Government. This information is based on 10 years back official record. To get the latest position if we go to another RTI we hope this data of representation will be very close to zero in respect of all the SC ST and OBC category. This assumption is based on the records of government according to which  officers in bulk are getting retired   every month. Again we have seen the central government appointing various Directors , Deputy Secretary, Under Secretary in various departments under central government on lateral entry basis. In this pattern of recruitment no representation of SC ST and OBC was considered on the name of excellence.    

Under such circumstances when the reservation is stopped for creamy layer the case of representation will be become a complete failure! This is very clear that the students of SC ST and OBC have  no financial support to pursue the education in the field of medical, engineering, higher judiciary and other professional skill based jobs . The central government during last seven decades has been providing professional education and all other academic education on subsidized tution fee to the students of SC ST and OBC and it has been giving various scholarships at all levels to the students of these communities. Now this scholarship has been stopped and the tuition fee for various courses have been enhanced drastically manifold.  This step of the central government has thrown far away these students from professional education. This means the representation of these classes will never be met in the departments mentioned above. And finally if this is going to happen , the concept of  representation through reservation  will become complete failure.  This failure is a failure of the constitution as well. Hence, this is the time to stop and think again about the sentiments of the constitution regarding the representation of SC ST and OBC in the government and political system in  true word and spirit of the constitution.

यही विडंबना है सत्य की ----------+------

 यही विडंबना है सत्य की 

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देखता हूं कि सत्य की ताकत को सभी जानते हैं

पहचानते हैं 

 इसीलिए सत्य के ठेकेदारों ने 

सत्य को भगवान बनाकर मंदिरों में स्थापित कर दिया है और

 हर सोमवार मंगलवार को उसकी पूजा करने जाते हैं 

कुछ ठेकेदारों ने सत्य को   नुमाइश बनाकर शीशे में

 बंद करके रख दिया है 

शनिवार रविवार उसे देखने जाते हैं 

बच्चों को दिखाते हैं और तालियां बजाते हैं 

कुछ लोगों ने सत्य को 

अपना तकिया कलाम बना रखा है 

जो अपनी हर बात करने से पहले सत्य का नाम लेते हैं 

यही नहीं कुछ लोगों ने तो सत्य को कैद कर रखा है 

उसे बाहर की हवा लगे भी नहीं देते 

वह सत्य को जीवित तो रखते हैं लेकिन उसे अपने आचरण में कभी नहीं उतारते 

सत्य तो सत्य है और अपनी शक्ति से 

वह फिर भी प्रकट हो ही जाता है और 

जब वह प्रकट होता है तो धरती पर भूचाल आता है 

सत्ताएं बदल जाती है निजाम बदल जाते हैं 

महात्मा गांधी ने सत्य को अपने जीवन में उतार लिया और वह अमर हो गए 

समय बदला युग बदला और आज सत्य की यै हालत है कि 

वह मंदिर में है, नुमाइश में है, कैद में है 

बस हमारे जीवन में नहीं है 

यही विडंबना है सत्य की !

What after BSP coming to ground zero

 What after BSP coming to ground zero? 

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Just announced results of Parliamentary general election 2024 the performance of Bahujan Samaj party has gone to zero . A national party which had ruled a big state like Uttar Pradesh for three times has been reduced to zero is an alarming situation for that movement which was started for the upliftment of SC ST and most back backward classes in the decade of 80s bhai Manyavar Shri kanshiram. However many provisions where made in the constitution of India for the welfare of this community and the same was implemented in 1950 but the changes came in the life of lower classes wear so decimal that hardly could be observed Manyavar kanshiram had realised that the constitution can work in favour of lower classes only when there is sufficient representation of these classes in the governance that is why he worked to form such a Political party which is in the leadership of poor classes and works for the poor his experiment was very TDS but somehow after 20 years of continuous work among the people the dream of Bahujan Samaj party could be realised when the Bahujan Samaj party came into the scenario it got opportunities to rule over Uttar Pradesh in the hip of Behan Mayawati ji. Later Samajwadi Party came into rule in the leadership of Mulayam Singh was also a result of the Bahujan movement as this government also came into existence on the grounds of social engineering. By the passage of time the circumstances changed as a result today that movement seems to have been  appeared and the Bahujan Samaj party has failed to secure even single seat in the just announced results of Parliamentary General elections 2024. 

Such a remarkable deterioration of Bahujan Samaj party is an example of failure of SC / ST and other backward classes representation in main stream politics of this Nation. As it was presumed that only the representation of lower classes in Indian politics can bring social justice to them. After passing  70 years of Indian independence the target of representation is still far away. As a result the cases of spitting on the face, urinating on tribals or beating schedued caste poor men for taking water from public hand pump, riding on horses in the marriages  processions and other type of atrocities have still not  stopped. The bonded labours in the brick fields, agricultural bonded  labours in Madhya Pradesh and other bonded labours in the remote areas in different fields including hotels and dhabas are still matter of concern . The political parties have failed  on their front of unity and giving representation to the society but the public in general has become much aware in the field of education, health care, economic affairs on the basis of the education they could get in the regime of Congress party lead government in the last decades.

 If we talk about the running decade it looks that the drive of government providing education and training specially professional education like medical, engineering, media studies and law etc are going far away gradually due to the unfriendly government policies. This is important to note that the tuition fee of these professional courses have been enhanced by the government disproportionately during last one decade. This has deprived the poor from entering in these courses. This 

is also a very important truth to note that the diminishing job avenues in the government has left many youths of lower classes unemployed . As a result these empty handed unemployed youths will not be able to send their children in good schools to secure quality education. The quality in government run schools has been deteriorated due to complex reasons. Lack of teachers in the government school is the main reason. Those teachers who are posted there are working with mid day meals and busy in up keep of related documents, have not much time to devote for the education of the children . This has been observed that the teachers are deputed in many other works not to mention. When we go to the right to education act it has been observed that this act has been given much publicity but any ground work has not been reported where there are new school opened or any specific drive moved to pick the drop out students and bringing them to the main stream.  This is making the situation bad to worse. If it continues for another ten years more one generation will be left fit only for labour work and entire society will be thrown into backwardness which was earlier in the years pre 1947! The general public is being misled on the name of free food grains and other petty things   enticing them to come forward to vote in favour of a certain political party and that party has no concern about the future of lower classes!  This is an irony of the present day situation. The Bahujan Samaj party which was supposed to be the torch bearer for these poor and backward communities has gone into Oblivion due to continuous failure in election procedure. unfortunately the general elections of 2024 has cleared the picture where this party has been reduced to zero . With this result the question of representation  cannot be imagined. This failure of Bahujan movement raises many questions but the question which is to be considered very seriously is that why there is no another political party which could take the place vacated by the negligence of BSP leadership?  The people in lower classes have many political parties registered on various names but they have been fighting among themselves and pulling one another carpet so as not to let anyone go forward. In politics this is an irony which the society is facing at present. This is also important to note that the irresponsible behaviour of educated people of scheduled caste schedule tribes and other backward classes raises concern to sympathetic of Bahujan movement. As a result of which the common SC/ST, poor and backward classes are waiting for one more Manyavar Kanshiram!!