Jagan Reddy, quit Congress few days back, announced that he will launch a new party in 45 days, few days after announcement goes on to a hunger strike, claiming to support compensation to farmers who lost their crops.
Before going further I want to clarify one thing, I am not against Jagan, I barely know anything about him. But still does it take any brains to see that this all hunger strike is a drama? Are people in this country so stupid to understand that real motive is to get sympathy of people to launch a new party? He was part of Congress few days back, couldn't he have served people better in staying with the government and serving people?
When I saw at this news, I realized that hunger strikes seem to have become a standard way of protest in some parts of country specially Andhra Pradesh. This has been used as a way of protest for a long time. History of hunger strikes predates our Independence itself. It has been used first for Dali rights, then for State reorganization on linguistic basis, Telangana movement, and other countless occasions. I am sure there were only few of the instances when the hunger strikes were not motivated for electoral gain. In fact it seems that this has been used an easiest approach to get attention, sensationalize issues and gain people sympathy.
If you really want to do something for people, community, nation then why don't you just do something meaningful? Why is that we have most of the leaders in our county who just do anything and everything just which makes them gain votes and then they use those votes to ultimately loot the Exchequer.
I believe that civil society should step up and expose such practices used by political parties. Supreme court should also act as guardian of Indian constitution and recommend some guidelines to government implementing some strict rules to avoid such unfair practices for petty electoral gain.
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