Political Alliances: Life & Credibility

I'm prompted by an article Political allies must make the best deal they can before the Govt is formed in The Hindustan Times here http://www.hindustantimes.com/editorial-views-on/Chanakya/Objections-Speak-up-now/Article1-1047833.aspx

LEFT FRONT

The best and the most credible political Alliance in independent India is the Left-Front.
Howsoever anti-Communism political pundits may try to contest the assertion, fact remains that Left-Front, from the very outset, is the most mature, stable and consistent Political Alliance even to date.
Ideologically, it has been a non-Congress, but not exactly anti-Congress entity till pro-Capitalism and local landlords' lobby took over complete control of Congress under the name of New Economic Policy or, as euphemistically called Manmohonics.
This is also the moment in time from which Indian politicians following ideology of Marxism/Communism/Socialism stopped being contemporary.

Alliances of Anti-ism

All other political alliances SVD, "Janata Party" of post-Emergency times, etc were formed on more on Anti-ism than for any national or public good. And, they all died except for NDA led by Bharatiya JanaSangh (JS)under its new avatar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under a soft-administrator Shri Atal Bihari Vaajpayee. 

NDA

The NDA has survived as it has no political ideology or agenda, it survives on negative ideology of Anti-ism and positive (?) ideology of appeasement of partners. Its leader/s cannot prevail over its regional partners. In fact, it is better to say BJP doesn't lead NDA partners but is led by its regional partners. Unlike Congress that leads UPA.

UPA

UPA-1 was formed on solid CMM - Common Minimum Programme  - an example of political maturity of Left Front. It fell victim to political immaturity born out of arrogance of Congress leaders. The Prime Minister, Dr Man Mohan Singh failed to convince and win over Left Front partners over Nuclear Deal.

It was a bad day for the country and the people - for, interests of the large segment of Indians became redundant under the Manmohonics.

UPA-2 is an example of crass opportunism. Its entire tenure is marred by gagging popular voices (Anna Hazare movement for Janlokpal), disrupted sessions of Parliament, cases of Scams & Corruption running into mind-boggling sums of billions of Rupees and, most importantly, Congress' favourite - attacking Constitutional bodies, the CAG!

Abuse of CBI became almost proven but all other alliances have abused and misused CBI. Hence, UPA alone is not the only culprit.

(Inconclusive)

Police Reforms

The present character of Police, in India, is of a Force under control of a Supercop who is not accountable to the people but to his/her political boss. The police uses brute physical and psychological force to intimidate, control and attack people with complete immunity to its actions and consequences thereof under the law.

This Police Force was designed by and suited the British for whom people were subjects/slaves and not free citizens.

This lumpen character of Police Force - totally unacceptable in an Independent India - was recognized by eminent jurists, cops themselves, citizens' rights groups and also a section of political class.

The history of events led to formation of various committees/commissions to suggest ways to change this scenario to make Police aware of its role of Service-to-the-People and not of Servants of Political bosses.

Once the Reforms are in place, the Cop-In-Charge can be made accountable for actions of his Dept and staff and brought to justice. In the present set-up,  no one is accountable and suspension, sent-to-police-lines is all that a cop receives by way of punishment.

Since the Law-and-Order is a State Subject under the Constitution,  the Union Govt cannot enforce Police Reforms. Hence, the Hon'ble Supreme Court asked States to implement Police Reforms specific to their own State.

On the face of it, it seemed natural that the States will introduce Police Reforms, but, that's the point where politicisation of the whole matter led to chaos. Politicians will have none of it, they won't let this symbol of VVIP Status go to people.

Hence, it is the political class, and not the Law, not the Courts, not the Constitution and not the Cops themselves but, the political class that is blocking the introduction and implementation of Police Reforms.

The brutalities of police cannot be dealt with effectively without the requisite reforms, the training of cops and accountability by the Supercop of the State.

Till it is done, there is no end, in sight, to Police brutalities as witness in past 18-months as exposed by visual and print media.

TV debates on sensitive matters like sensitization of cops show such crass insensitivity by panellists (and anchors of the show) who use their lung power to score brownie points.

Some anchors believe they have the last word on the topic and interrupt the wisest panellist midway through his/her viewpoint on the pretext "Let us have the other perspective..".

Can "Other perspective" to Police brutality be anything but articulated justification of the brutality itself?
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