Thursday, May 14, 2009

Secular Parties

Its election time and the entire country is resonating with promises, sops, concessions and resolutions. Its no different here, especially with the elections scheduled only in the final phase, it has given the politicians ample time to work out their strategy and analyse trends. The major deciding factor in elections here are the caste. On one side, you have a group of people proclaiming to form a casteless society while others play politics with caste as their trump card. The irony lies in the fact that the two groups are the same and are in no ways different. All political parties here are just “democratic front office” of caste organizations. No, its not the BJP, its all other parties accusing BJP of being non-secular when they themselves are confined only to a small community of people. The PMK is the political outfit of Vanniyars, Sarath Kumar’s’ SMK is for nadars, not to mention TMMK for Muslims and other trivial parties for various other communities. Though DMK or AIADMK will not figure in that list, they cannot be discounted from the fact that it was them who nurtured and nourished these outfits. What an irony when these people accuse BJP of being non-secular?