The King Makers:

May 19/2014: Corporate India has got its moment of glory. When Obama announced a new health policy and his wife Michelle started a campaign amongst the youth to shun fast food and go in for healthy homemade snacks, thus indicating a move against giants like Mc Donald’s, the American public gladly accepted veering away of national politics from corporate influence and voted Obama back to office for the second term. Americans opted for a peaceful revolution which they named ‘Occupy Wall Street”. This was the average US citizen’s mindset which wanted to remove the yoke of corporate burden from the US administrative setup. Compare this to the multinational sponsored Magsaysay award winner Anna Hazare leading an anti-corruption drive in India. This drive meticulously avoided naming the entities that invested huge amounts in corrupting the system. The target became the greedy recipients also called bureaucrats and politicians. But the Twitteratti of India never questioned who the funding came from and which were the eventual beneficiaries of the illegal and illegitimate largesse of the government.

The Anna Hazare movement, seemingly spontaneous, was very planned in details and executed with finesse and efficiency. The movement was a precursor for the 2014 elections. The educated and the youth of India is so enamoured with people like Mukesh Ambani, Ratan Tata, Naveen Jindal and Aditya Kumaramangalam Birla types that they are unwilling to look a bit deeper and see the machinations implemented by these people that fuels the huge wheel of corruption in India.  With this in mind, we also have to take into consideration the surreptitious inroads and takeover of the electronic media of India by these business giants.

With the media at their beck and call, they first experimented its efficacy with the Anna Hazare movement. When they found that they could ignite sparks throughout the subcontinent, all of these honchos invested billions into the media not as a business proposition by itself but as a proposition to buy up the whole country. Unlike US multinationals, even lame ducks like Coca Cola which invented a black drink that enthralled people across the globe, Indian corporate never did create any new product by investing in research and development. This makes them depend solely on exploiting natural resources of the country. To do this, they have discovered it is easier done by controlling the government. To control the government they needed to sway public opinion. To reach out to the public, they used the media. This time through, Narendra Modi has been chosen by them for serving their purpose. Once India and her voters have fallen into this trap, it would take a long time to retrieve from the damage caused. Modi, with the innumerable promises he has made, will have an extremely difficult future in which his handling of the nation’s economy, foreign policy, employment, rural development and so many other aspects will compete with corporate demands. It is anybody’s guess as to where his loyalty lies. Today’s scenario does not allow much elbow space for even the RSS which has always nurtured a rosy dream for itself whenever the BJP comes to power. Corporate sponsored television now claim that Naveen Patnaik, Jayalalitha and Mamata Banerjee would have been kingmakers had no party got an absolute majority. So according to these media there are no kingmakers, only the King (Modi). Those in the know, also know that even today, there are those who made this King. Today’s kingmakers are not Representatives of the people, they are the super rich Ambanis, Adanis, Tatas and such like giants.