On Manipur... And Chacha

There is a longish but heartfelt story on Manipur in Mint today that tells us a lot about how our The Chacha State handles dissent in the far-flung provinces. This is worth noting at a time when Omar Abdullah in Kashmir says he still needs the Indian Army there to support his "democratic" rule.

The report talks of 6,00,000 jobless educated youth, many of them now pulling rickshaws, It adds that there are about 1,00,000 jobs in the government – all taken. Further, it speaks of how “Manipur has received very little private investment, and there’s almost no job in the private sector either.”

Kashmir has gone the same way.

And now they will do the same to all the Naxal-Maoist-PCPA affected states. All 10 of them.

There cannot be a “civil government” where the majority are government employees!

A civil government exists only as an appendage of a society where survival is essentially based on Market exchanges. Where there is no Market, there can only be rampant State Clientelism – and eternal internal war.

The only solution is a New Politics – one that speaks of Free Trade, Free Markets, Private Property – and Peace.

We must put an end to The Chacha Manmohan politics – which is all about State handouts to the rural poor – more cleintelism. Chacha seems to think his The State exists to employ all. The man must be nutts.

There are two editorials today on Chacha’s defense of the US dollar. The Express sounds like the PMO drafted the edit. Mint, on the other hand, strikes the right, questioning note.

Finally, I would like to add to yesterday’s post where I spoke of how Chacha owes his ascent to bureaucracy and not democracy. I would like to add that bureaucrats exist to “serve ministers” – not the people, nor the law. Chacha has been a “loyal” servant of the Nehru-Gandhi clan all his life. His ascent is because of his sycophancy, nothing else.

Further, Chacha spoke of how an India that solves the problems of poverty, disease and illiteracy will have “lessons for the evolution of the countries of the hitherto Third World in the 21st century.” Here, I hold that India has led the Third World astray with its foolish statist ideas, including State socialism and a closed economy.

Only if India changes course and embraces free markets and free trade, with consequent urbanization, itself based on an excellent roads network, can India influence the Third World positively. This must be kept in mind: that government economists like Chacha Manmohan S Gandhi have spent a career leading other Third World nations astray. What will they do to us? Ask someone in Manipur.