Constitution should be weeded for people to flourish

It all started when our first Prime Minister decided to split Indian provinces on the basis of language and his decision was influenced by Mr. Sri Ramulu’s death by undergoing fast to create a state called Andhra Pradesh. This decision was a fundamental flaw in Nehruvian vision of India and its states. But man is susceptible to do mistakes. But our problem was we dint learn from the mistake. From the beginning to till date our leadership doesn’t have any vision and even the people who have vision doesn’t have courage to implement and the people with courage are confined to narrow electoral gains.

The pathetic situation for our country is, we are not ruled by leaders to betterment but we ruled by the people who are all ruled votes, money, lust for power etc etc. Our present bunches of impotent leaders are not showing even an atom of interest to learn new things by seeing from other countries or by our own experiences. Then why we should have these people as our leaders.

The true colours of myopic decision in past, is ULFA killing Bihari workers. To put down ULFA rampage our union government is sending 20 companies of soldiers from different regions to Assam. But my question is “Whether this action will bring these types of barbaric incidents to end” and the immediate answer to this question is “No”.

But if we see this incident from the other side the prism we can summaries like following. If a problem occurs and to put an end to the problem we usually take two approaches that is short term effort and long term effort. Short term effort is taken to bring the situation under control and the long term effort is taken to prevent such incidents in future even after 50 years or 80 years. But in our prevailing situation sending of troops to Assam may bring the situation under control but in order to prevent such incidents in future what we are going to do. But the irony is we cannot expect any such things from our leaders.

In order to analyze the present situation in Assam let us revisit the history a bit. This ULFA was formed by Assam students in order to prevent people from other Indian states to move into another Indian state of Assam. So this separatist mentality was the result of the actions and policy taken by our first Prime Minister. Later they got themselves armed and they started to fight against our army and ULFA started to make headlines. But successive governments brought lot of economic activities in north eastern states. So this movement got diluted but not eliminated. This ULFA would have not formed if the provinces were not divided on lingual basis.

Not only this but to solve many such problems, BJP with or without knowing decided to bring constitutional amendment in 1998. But immediately congress opposed them as usual. They thought doing changes in constitution is like bringing disgrace to our founding fathers of this country.

But they failed to understand how our founding fathers had right to write the constitution and as a citizen everybody has right to rewrite the constitution. By doing this I am sure we are not offending Mr. Nehru or Mr. Ambedkar. Our Union government should form states reorganization committee and this committee should analyze all the factors like natural resources, people aspiration, size, administrative convenience, literacy rates and what not before forming a state.

The central motive of the states reorganization committee should be “DEVELOPMENT” and “NOT SENTIMENTS”. Sentiments should be given place but it should not guide our policies. This constitutional amendment for states reorganization is just an atomic level problem what we have today in our country. But to sort out all our fundamental problems like this we need to take relook of our constitution on the whole. But this need courage and visionistic leadership which we don’t have.