Poor people
are losing take from politics and power. Politics has been driven by money. In
this capitalist system, the gap between deprived and rich is increasing. Rich
are becoming richer and poor are becoming further poorer. The poor people are
moving far away from the power and politics. The poor are used only as vote
banks and lower level activists to take the richer at top of the power.
The life of
politics is election and election has been so much expensive. In Nepal local
level election-2017, we saw the candidates spent millions and billions in
election campaign. There was competition between them to spend the money and
attract the voters to them. Now, the federal and provincial elections are
approaching and there will be expenditure of tremendous amount of money again.
One without money is unable to get even ticket from their party. The parties
are offering tickets to them, who can spend exponentially.
In such a
way, the poor are even unable to be candidate for election. It means, the poor
and lower class people can never reach on the legislatives and executives. They
can select among only the available candidates (the privileged) and ultimately select
a rich with a hope that, he will speak and act for them. This is never going to
be happened. The winner candidate, who has spent a lot in election campaign
will use his power to reimburse the expenditure and make more so that he could
win in next election with the money he earns today. In this way, the corruption
will be increased. The MPs and Ministers will work for the business men, industrialists,
elites and even smugglers to get the fund in election. In this circumstances,
can we expect that, our representatives will act for us? No, they will act only
for money.
In this
capitalist system, money has the power and money has such nature that money
attracts money. This is a common proverb. So, like mentioned above, money makes
money. Rich becomes richer, because they have the resource to invest. Poor
become poorer because they even don't have a seed money for investment. They
will be used as low paid workers and only employees, getting very small
fraction of profit. Even that earning is spent to purchase basic level
commodities and the lower class people become dependent on the higher class
people for employment. This dependence increases and the commoners lose the
capacity to speak for themselves. So finally the rich captures the resources
and power and deprived loses them. This was already explained by Karl Marx a
long ago.
The negative
side is, even the communists or so called Marxists have ignored this theory.
They reached at power after revolution and movements. It is for sure that they
have struggled more to change the system. But ultimately, the system has
changed them. They have been part of the existing system. They changed the
shape of system to create an illusion of change in front of people. But in
fact, they have been an inseparable component of existing old system. If we
look over the history of political movements in Nepal, we see the root of
system hasn't been changed, even though its structure has been changed.
Ultimately, the power is with the higher class, higher caste and rich people.
It is nature
of money. In this capitalist system, money can buy everything and money makes
money.
Friends, the
purpose of writing this blog is to express my views towards today's politics of
Nepal. Nepalese politics was never for poor people, lower class people. Once
Gagan Thapa had said, a son/daughter of a lower class family can involve in
politics but only as activists not as leaders. This political system is not for
us. This is for the higher class, who are already capturing the resources and
power. Existing all major parties won't act for us because to reach on the
power, they have to win election, to win election they need money. So, they
speak illusively for us but act for the rich because the rich are them, who
provide the politicians with money. In this way the election, the politics and
all these things are the drama of current political system, which is played to
change the characters at power but the roles are still same.
I don't mean
to reject this election. Let's use this as a tool and make the deprived
candidates win, even though they may be a free candidate or candidate of small
party or whatever. Let's not vote for existing major parties. Let's vote for
the marginalized candidate not the candidate from so called marginalized
community. We know very well, even the reservation of marginalized community
has been used by the elites of that community. After all, they are the elites
who will reach on power. This election, no
vote to elites, vote for a commoner.
