FREEBIES – LURKING DANGER FOR KERALA

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It is election time in Kerala. The politically proactive proletariat in this southern state of India is looking forward eagerly for the state assembly elections. It is still one of the few places in the world where a democratic communist party still has a chance. After the 1976 elections in which Kerala saw a congress led government come into power, the common man has never preferred the same front twice in a row. The Left Democratic Front or famously the LDF has been enjoying the power in Kerala for the last five years, after being elected in 2006 with a huge majority.

As usual, after 5 years of mixed rule – doing much for the poor and the needy, but unnecessarily dragging itself into scams and allegations – has much to fear from the intrinsic strife, the common man’s reluctance and frustration. Instead of going for the jugular, the congress led front, is busy fending off scandals (involving the farer of the two genders), answering the involvement of its leaders in huge scams and difficulties in power sharing. The third alternative of Bharatiya Janata Party is so weak and its leaders are naïve up to a certain extent. In a state with 100% literacy, the party can do well only if it can shed its hard-line Hindutva shade, and project itself as a secularist party.

An alarming fact, as the Chief Election Commission, rightly pointed out is the real politik governing the election pitches of the two main parties. These parties, instead of marketing itself by upholding virtues and development plans, are trying to be expedient, hoping to woo the voters by giving out freebies. Such a system of wooing voters is prevalent all over India, especially amongst the poor and the backward communities. Such gimmicks of the politicians were relatively unknown and unprecedented in Kerala. But this election might be the starting point. The political parties, though not as openly brazen or as loud as their counterparts in other parts of the country, seems to be proceeding the along this un attempted path.

There has to be a joint effort, from the CEC, and the electorate to weed out this insidious danger in its infancy.


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