AAP adika mudiyuma :-)....!!
In our locality we heard a
drainage is going to come, metro water too soon, as many of them in our
neighbourhood, we were also excited. But after more than an year, all we got was
existing roads dugup indefinitely, many lanes becoming inaccessable. I heard
from a friend from another part of the city that the drainage done couple of
years back have already caved in and yet to receive the water connections :-(
Another family friend shared that most of his collegues from his school have
got transferred to their convenience greasing the concerned.
Should the government be running
alcholic outlets from every housing colony :)) Should everyone be coming down
to Chennai for jobs..Many towns are left with retirees :-) Cities like Trichy
and coimbatore are industry based, they have lost their charm, many their jobs and
peace. Each day we hear about our fisherman taken hostage by SL Navy, but why
no pro-active steps...
When one is pondering over all
such happenings around you we hear about a new phenomena called AAP, but will it
be relevant to Tamilnadu
A Delhi based leader called Kejriwal
Indian politics revolves around
an Indra, a Rajiv, a Jayalalitha, a Kalaignar, a Modi and Kejriwal now...A film
fanatic community like Tamilnadu had Anna, MGR, Kalaignar, Jayalalitha, Captain..........what
can AAP do here...Should Kejriwal position himself as another Modi and market
Pan-India :-) Or another grass roots common person like Kejriwal, well
informed, highly intelligent persona but yet rooted to his beginnings and
purpose comes up in Tamilnadu...
National executive, National political affairs committee
Congress calls it AICC, BJP calls
it as Parliamentary board, so will state AAPs be driven by their National
executive,PAC or have an unique regional identity, which may have sometimes cross
purposes with their National team...How do they try to handle these...They may
become another central command structure...I dont know whether each state AAP
has to throw up its own Kejriwals :-) Will all the state Kejriwals be able to
team up together sinking their identities...
Hindi, Metro...
The AAP topi has Hindi words,
which all of us cant read or least interested..and these topis are associated
with Northern Indian traditon..Kejriwal travels by Wagan R and lives in an
apartment.But most of his admirers and aspirants
to volunteer for him, possibily stand in elections happen to be from upper middle
class or civil elites. Can they still find common man and will the upper middle
class work for this common man :-)
He has guts and Delhi vocal advocates backup..
Kejriwal has survived against all
odds..but will the going be easy for those who are likely to sail across the
winds..There are many right activists based out of Delhi and form a back bone
for many small activists too..But activism in Tamilnadu is rather nil and truth
is many fear the repercussions :-)
Funding...
Its said Congress and BJP spends
atleast two crores for each constituency from Delhi for Lok Sabha elections,
that works out to 1000 Crores for each party. Then the candidates themselves
mobilise crores. Adding to that the state elections another thousand crores and
sustaining year long another 500 crores....Looks like our national parties turn
over will be more than leading corporates.. In these where to fit in AAP...
Amma canteen, Small bus, free grinder-mixie, Amma water, Amma market...
When people see these things,
they get food at the cheapest price, buses upto near their houses, cheap veg
markets...Looks like the poor ppl have been taken care of during these days of
high inflation...Where will AAP come in here...Of course one cant be critiquing
such well meaningful programmes.
Media
Delhi based English and Hindi
media did back up the IAC Jan Lokpal agitations, later the Nirubhaya case and the indignition created
over these moved over to AAP. But in Tamilnadu most media organisations are
owned by political parties ! Where would AAP get media space...
Social media and Social conditions
A huge section of young tamil
populations are into facebook, which was seen during the support generated by
college students during the recent Srilankan Tamils agitations lead by the Loyala
students. There is a huge section among student community feeling deprived and
marginalised by various factors. These are youngsters from the slums and dalit
communities around Tamilnadu. But they are an vibrant community
looking to have their say in the mainstream polity, which was seen during the
students Srilankan agitation. The 67% reservation is an unique successful
social experiment in this part of the country. We see equitable development of
the population. But one should agree that the Dalit population is still stigmatized
and quite more needs to be done to bring them to the mainstream.
Caste and religion
Caste based outfits have
increased over the period of two years. Interestingly the hypothesis that high
level of literacy would bring down castism seem to be wrong in the case of
Tamilnadu. Religion is a mainstay for tamils too. With castist mind sets it
would be difficult for AAP to penetrate..
Quality of life
Places like Tamilnadu and Kerala,
literacy levels are better. The basic infrastructure from roads, buses, ration
shops, government schools in rural areas are better than in Northern India. The
delivery mechanism through ration shops are really good. In Chennai atleast
every street has water tanks that is filled once in two days by Metro lorries
and people have access to free treated water. The previous DMK government could
dole out their free TV sets to almost to the entire populace successfully but
failed miserably in the elections. What Tamil people may ask would be, develop
and maintain the slums into very good hygienic comfortable living conditions.
Affordable housing for middle class with real estate prices sky rocketing due
to corrupt practices. Best medical and education access to the poor.
Agriculture is a dying profession but has to be resurrected using technology
and using people like MS Swaminathan.
With all these,
AAP adikanumna (sorry for bit colloquial), AAP could put candidates in five to ten places
only, may be in Chennai and in central Tamilnadu, work hard to get vote shares.
But activists across the state should be bold to pull off day today corrupt
practices, organise weekend workshops, meetings and agitations. Create
awareness in the slums, rural heartland of their rights for next one year and
should set a stage for the next state elections. Tamilnadu and Karnataka could
be a good starting ground for AAP to foray into the south.
