'Bangaru Bharat': What is on KCR's mind?
Vanam
Jwala Narasimha Rao
VJM
Divakar
The Pioneer (25-02-2022)
Telangana State Chief Minister and TRS supremo K Chandrashekhar Rao has
declared that he would pursue his idea of forging an alternative to the
Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre for the coming General Election and
started taking initial steps in that direction. This is the right time and
situation to assess, examine, study, and posit what would happen when KCR,
going by his track record, succeeds in his lofty endeavor, marking a paradigm
shift in national politics as well as governance of the country.
The Chief Minister has articulated the need for a sea-change in the
country's political landscape, which has been in a rut for the past 75 years.
He has hinted that he himself would be leading the emerging alternative. He has
called for a qualitative change in the country's politics. For those who have
been following KCR as a front-line leader who had spearheaded the Telangana
statehood movement for 14 years as well as his governance as the Chief Minister
for nearly the last eight years, the task envisaged by him is not at all
difficult.
KCR has begun to specify what should be done to raise the country, which is
now under a dispensation that has shattered the economy, disturbed peace, upset
law and order situation, polarized people on religious and caste lines,
harassed political opponents, criminalized politics, indulged in unprecedented
corruption, shown total disregard for the poor, SCs, STs, BCs and minorities,
and betrayed lack of understanding of ethics and values of democracy.
His angst towards the BJP-led Centre for undermining every institution, the
powers of States and the very basic fabric of cooperative federalism should be
understood in the right spirit.
The first and foremost thing that KCR would do, when he gets a chance to be
at helm of affairs at the national level, is to strengthen the time-tested
and age-old Ganja-Jamuna tehzeeb of this country.
He will get rid of communal polarization that began in 2014 and knit the
secular fabric, making it strong once again. He would ensure that there is communal
harmony in the country and no more targeting, attacking and persecuting of
people based on their caste, creed and community. He would bring back the
freedom of speech and expression, freedom to practice any religion; and restore
people's right to eat what they want and dress the way they want.
Some people may be curious to know what exactly KCR meant when he talked
about 'Bangaru Bharat (Golden India)'. For the unversed, some logical
conclusions may drawn about his vision on the basis of his stellar achievements
in Telangana as the state's first Chief Minister.
The three sectors that will get priority are Power, Irrigation and
Agriculture. KCR would bring reforms in the power sector and tap 2 lakh MW
of power generated and supply it to every nook and corner of the country. Thus,
24-hour, uninterrupted and quality power supply would be a reality across the
country, not just in Telangana State. Major, medium and small irrigation
projects would be launched to utilize 65,000 tmc of water available across the
country.
In a scientific method, he would interlink the rivers to make all
farmland in the country fertile and irrigated. Besides providing 24-hour water
availability to the farm sector, he would address farmers' problems once and
for all. KCR would launch his Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bhima programmes all over
the country.
He would create agriculture clusters all over the country and
ensure that farmers would produce crops that are appropriate for the soils they
have and which are in demand at national and international markets.
For Dalits, KCR would implement Dalit Bandhu scheme all over the
country and ensure that the each and every Dalit family is self-reliant
economically. For tribals, BCs, SC, ST and the minorities, he would launch
schemes that would give them benefit and make them live with self-respect in
society. Programmes like Kalyana Laxmi and Shaadi Mubarak will be implemented
at the national level in all the states.
Residential educational institutions, especially for the BCs, SCs, STs
and the minorities, would be launched and 50 per cent of them would be
earmarked for girls.
KCR would make India a favorite destination for students abroad. Instead of
our students going abroad for higher studies, students from other countries
would swarm to India for their higher studies.
KCR would think of reversing certain decisions of the Modi government
like implementation of faulty GST, usurping powers of the state
governments, and trying to take control of subjects in the Concurrent List of
the Constitution. He would pave way for the true federal spirit with which
states and the Union governments ought to function. He would scrap all
draconian laws that have been in vogue from the colonial times.
On the economy front, KCR would usher in new policies like the ones
introduced by former Prime Minister late PV Narasimha Rao. KCR's reforms would
be practical, people-friendly, and a win-win policy for the government as well
as the taxpayer. His reforms would bring in major investments and India would
become the most favorite investment destination in the world.
In other words, KCR's Bangaru Bharat would mean a peaceful, happy, and
comfortable country -- a nation which would be the most-favored
destination for investors, students, travelers, truth-seekers and globe trotters
alike.
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