COACHING THE COCKROACH?

 

During the Nehru to  Manmohan Singh period, India could not be  poised towards a Self-Sufficient  economy  at the top of the economic indices was not because India did not have adequate wealth or resources. Such a leap to stand tall with front ranking nations as a super power required   dynamism in  certain frontiers  both domestically and internationally.  Political power of India was dictated by  irrational political approaches driven only by the greed to cling on to power by any means. Like other democratic nations, India could not have a healthy domestic politics of ideological dialogues, instead tend to act as hostile and antagonistic forces acting on each other. For the same reasons, channels were left open for external forces to intervene and create disturbances and bring about societal insecurity to create impediments in the  forward march towards higher economic goals. No government ever had projected a target for economic growth and self-reliance and the country largely remained backward with minimal areas that could be projected as advanced. When a government asserts the determination to shed off the past and to leap into a planned economic growth to  emerge as a super power within a stipulated time frame, it has to be a cautious step. Ruling Party and its frontal organisations have to be vigilant, sharpen their faculties and create an ambient environment of the entire country shaped into a place of happening.  The country   will have to develop a nationalistic character with main thrust on its own interests. They will have to ensure that   the challenges created by the external forces will not percolate into the societal fabric, it has to be noted by the entire political system that “India “ as such has not invested to position itself in the International Order. Though associated with the National media for over 40 years,  a sick bureaucratic mindset could not steer  a global information flow to the outside world in a dynamic manner. This handicap became visible at the time of Operation Sindhoor. Prominent International News agencies and media turned against India which affected the credible achievements in the operation. The Prime Minister had to send delegations to quite a few influential countries to appraise the real situation.

The economic growth of India can be curtailed only through creating distrust in the government. For a long time , indications pointed towards a massive public unrest in the country. The assertive power of Indian in the control and security of Indian ocean is a being poser before the US and Allied forces. Operation  Sindoor exposed the failures of US air Defence systems and they had to step into a new development process. Several other  strategic factors were pointing towards internal disturbances to ignite distrust  among the decisive segments.

India had to carefully look at the new generation stepping into the electorate count of the country and the affairs related to them , where a probable penetration could be possible,

 A rough assessment leads to a figure  of 2.73 crore children who were born in 2007, by  2012 entered schooling and in 2024  would have appeared in 12^th board examinations.  

Only 1.58 crore of the total births in 2007 appeared in the HSSC Examinations, where did the rest of the children vanish?  The infant mortality rate of 55 per 1000 live births if taken  nearly 11. 13 lakh children would have died; Actual  number of children who survived from 2007 births may be 2.61 crore. Nearly 1.03 crore children born in 2007 became unaccounted in the educational system of India ?

The new born who survived would have  attained 18 years in 2025 and naturally should be enrolled as voters. In the  year 2026 elections  2,61 crore new voters at the age of 18 years would have naturally enlisted in  electoral rolls of the country. If the country had a committed government machinery without taxing the people to produce records for Voter ID,  there would have been proper statistical data in the country.

In 2024, nearly 1,2 crores students may have passed the Higher Secondary school Examinations. With the rising number of students rolling out of the Higher Secondary Institutions, the  biggest beneficiary is the Coaching Industry.

With an average size of nearly few lacs of employees and dependents, the Coaching Industry is not an easy structure that can be dismantled. Annual enrolment of students in the  organised and disorganised institutions falls somewhere between I cr0re with an average fee of nearly 1 lac.  The market is expected to grow to nearly a 1.75 lac crore  intermediary raw production centre.  Apart from NEET  and other aspirants in Management, Law  and UPSC  a parallel market of  nearly 5 lakh entrants enrols into the coaching segment.

Entrance Examinations by now have become an undesirable and   unwanted  practice to determine the quality of entrants into various  Professional courses. It was originally devised to give space for students who do not fall into merit list, which later on became misused.  From IAS Coaching Centres, the segment became diversified within the past 45 years. Competition between the institutes led to unhealthy criminal practices, right from the permissions to fingering in the very examination processes.

The Present ruling party has not much stake in the growth of the Coaching  segment.

Scandals arising from undue indulgences in the Entrance Examination Question paper leaks attained public attention in 1997.  Following a question Paper leak, the IIT JEE examinations had to be cancelled. Trivaag Coaching Centre , Lucknow, was found to have colluded with the Printing Press to smuggle the question papers.

Five years later the examination paper leaks surfaced and was not meant to be contained in any way.  in 2002 All India Post Graduate Medical Entrances test,  2006 Class 12 Accountancy question paper of CBSE, in 2007 All India Engineering Examination, again AIEE and Pre Medical Test in 2008, Haryana Board Exam 2011, AIIMS Entrance Exam in 2012,  Higher Secondary Examination of Rajasthan University  followed by state PSC  were badly Hit.

The spate of Question Paper leaks continued. In 2021 Rajasthan Eligibility Entrance Examination  papers were leaked. IN 2023 Bihar Police Constables Selection  Question Papers and 2024 UP Police  Recruitment and Promotion Board also faced identical scandals,

In 2024,the Ministry of Education began to intervene in the sick system of Entrance  Examinations and issued guidelines. Nearly three decades  after the  reports on the organised smuggling of question Papers had surfaced, the crime continues unabated. Every mechanism employed by the government to plug the leakage have been defeated by effectively manipulating  the loose ends, and by   by now, the whole circuitry  became matured and grown beyond imaginable  proportions 

The government has to look back and take cues from the CAB/CAA and the Farmers Agitation.  The faces that appeared in these agitations will have a different story to tell. It was evident that these agitations were platforms for some vested interests to pump their hatred and venom against the government in power.  The outrage was more against the people who voted the present government to power.  Yet, the government could not create a vibrant counter operative measure outside the regime of conventional measures.   The massive investments from the farmers' agitation  were a fight back to bring back the  farm-based lobbies and food market to take back the decision-making powers of electoral politics. To some extent it became successful in reducing the steady growth of BJP. The size and money power of the Coaching Industry cannot be ignored  and therefore, both these two  have to be scaled upon.

The objective of creating a  procurement mechanism along the side lines of the MSP regime of FCI was resisted  by the farmer’s organisations in the most violent manner forcing the Government to rescind from the act.  It cannot be ignored that outside the MSP regime, a strong and powerful market mechanism  controls and regulates the pricing system. Market driven  price hike and food security of the country  has become a number game at the hands of these massive market lobbies. Fate of the elections in the country was dictated by this lobby. By 2010, the corporate lobbies of India became powerful enough to assert their interest with well-coordinated mechanisms to influence the electorate and to set the score over the mandate. Fall of Manmohan Singh government and the irrecoverable damage to the Congress Party was anticipated. The Congress leadership harps on big corporate Houses  of the country for the very same reasons. With the concealed mechanisms of political turnarounds  well known to the Government, it would be a costly affair to put hands on the Coaching Segment without adequate  ground operations.

The question that the Government has to address is whether the  NEET and  HSC Evaluation  defects were the reasons for the  formation of  CJP?  For the second time, from the United States a campaign was unleashed for political destabilisation. India Against Corruption was the first  collective movement directly employing the Indian Diaspora for a shakeup of  the Indian State.  So far , the Narendra Modi Government kept itself free from any major corruption except those which could not be checked and continues despite interventions. Question Paper leaks are such a situation. The Anna Hazare movement was used as a shield to create political instability in the country using the  “internet Platform”.  A massive task force was  aligned and landed in India for a campaign that was decisive in the electoral turn out of Delhi. At that critical point. bringing Narendra Modi to the central stage was an unexpected turn of events, which the perpetrators of weakening India could not imagine. That was also the beginning of the counteractive forces swinging into action.

The Internet has become an integrating mechanism to destabilise and create political uncertainty in India. The government has to think beyond cybercrimes and existing regulatory frameworks including  that of TRAI.   A new form of Terrorism has taken shape that  uses the internet to identify antagonistic forces against the government in power to wage an open war against the existing government and the political system. When usual political campaigns and freebies fail to win elections, the next  stage is demolishing the credibility of the electoral system. When the campaign against the mechanism of election and theft of votes fails, the next mechanism would be to inflict injury  of a massive  proportion to sensationalise the Youth. It is at this point where the government has to  dig further on the operationalisation of the NEET and CBSE issues  read with the campaign of CJP from overseas.  Can the Government rule out the new mechanism of  “stochastic terrorism” ?

The whole set back in India is that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not address the Press and opine on matters like his predecessors. The internet heads in the wait to unleash the new form of terror fails to get the proper signal to unleash a communication  revolt.  This time  the remarks of the Chief Justice of India on certain Youth are like “Cockroaches” was  picked up to form the CJP with a surge of over 20 million hits. It cannot be said to be a communication to do good for the State, instead , it is to be seen as an extension of the  operations of radicalisation  propagated by the fundamentalist Groups and frontal bodies of terror outfits.  

It is the time for the Government to further look into  the volume Youth disappearing in the country every year. The numbers are quite high to  nearly 80% after the Higher Secondary results.

From all the Higher secondary boards of all the states in India in 2025, over 1.305 crore  and in . CBSE board over   16.9 lac students appeared in 2025. Total  Students appearing in the 12^th  examinations throughout India is  approximately 1.307 crores.

A total of 1.2768 crores join professional courses – MBBS, BDS, Paramedical, ANM, GNM, BSc Nursing, Engineering, Polytechnics, Management, and Law. In all the universities  of the country nearly 34 lacs sought  admission for general Courses of Graduation in Arts, Science and commerce faculties.  Putting all fragments together , total population total admissions to after 12^th to various courses in the country in 2025 would have been 4.2 crore students.

Where did this population surface from?  On an average, India needs to find  placement for an average of 1.8 crore professionals every year.  All India Survey on Higher Education Data  draws back four years.  The Government has to look into the numbers that sink in the layers of the society who do not find any place in the whole educational system. Such a situation breeds a large chunk of crimes and subversive activities.

Our planners have to find answers to certain  questions. Can the country  manage the  population with the present Land Use and Land Management?

What should the basis of futuristic  planning be?

India Should have the Planning system integrated with the projected  growth in the population. Exact adult population that enters in electoral rolls should be corresponding to the decadal population attaining 18 to 22 years after the previous   General elections. If the decadal population of Corresponding periods do not get reflected in the electoral, everything in the country has gone wrong and will go wrong. In a vague approximation , the electorate of India  had to be 120 crores . Nearly 30 crores of people went missing in this country?

What is the actual population of the country?

 

#educational system #NEET#India population# professional courses and job opportunities#  Planning India

 

DISATERS IN POLITICS OR DISASTROUS POLITICS?

 

Disastrous Politics:

Against the Backdrop of Cockroach narratives that took off from the Chief Justice of India,  NEET and CBSE issues raised a serious question on the manner in which the government is handling the situations.

It seems the North Block could not reinvent the  integrating mechanisms of the political integration of new generation communication systems for the chaotic public order shaping in the country. When alliances encounter failures for more than one occasion, unpredictable eventualities are bound to happen. Those who are at the helm of affairs handling various sensitive segments of governance had loyalty towards their political affiliations out of power. The designs can be to the extent of merciless  public injuries to sensitive issues that can create unrest in the younger generation,   Trade and business establishments of identical nature will be affected at several pockets that may look as if accidental local accidents, but in a chain reaction it will have an overall  devastating effects in the economy.

The ruling political party , if adopts Manmohan Singh policy of cooling heels when the public ire fumes, it would be a sign of overconfidence, leading to self-destruction .Before dissecting  the Cockroach Janata Party,  the political observers should look at the  real picture of the two major political parties of the day.

Congress elected a Party President two years before the 2024 General Elections as it did prior to 2019. Sashi Tharoor in his late sixties  and   Octogenarian Mallikarjun Kharge became ceremonially contested to democratise the electoral process. 

Kharge had at times felt uneasy over the indiscipline among the audience at his turn.   Though he is the Party President, what matters is the voice of Young Gandhi's. Mallikarjun Kharge had a long political career in his home state Karnataka and at the Centre. He was a Cabinet Minister and Leader of  Opposition both at home and in the Rajya Sabha. Even if he is ceremoniously holding the post of Congress President, he is a known figure in the National Capital and rest of India.

The projected Prime Ministerial Candidate Rahul Gandhi  has been vigorously campaigning against the ruling BJP and throwing his ire straight to the people. His thoughts, dialogue and action is nor so far synchronised with the mindset of the people of the country in order to uproot  both BJP and the Prime Minister along with the soil they stand on. 

On the other side, BJP  became reduced to one and only central figure Narendra Modi. If an average Karya Karta is asked about the   President of the party- majority in the country hardly knows.  The pattern follows from  the takeover of the Chair from Rajnath Singh  by Amit Shah. Till Rajnath Singh, BJP presidents had a proven track record and working experience in Parliamentary politics and strong presence in the central politics. The shift to Amit Shah was seen to assert the control and authority of the Prime Minister in the Party and Government.  His successor JP Nadda was  drawn from Himachal Pradesh, and was moulded into the fold of the Modi -Shah camps.  As the National President of the ruling party at the centre, he could not use his cult to save the party from a big loss in the 2022 elections in  his home state.   Elevating  Nitin Nabin , from remoteness of localized politics to  chair the party at the national level, sounded  as if the BJP is rolling  out a  Sand Box Experiment in leadership strategy.  

Power Behind the Throne has been an unquestioned  political mystery of India, so far could not be properly reconstructed. Beyond doubt. The concept  has roots in the political manoeuvring that emerged from the spying over the movements of  Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in Germany. The political fate of India changed from the Indian Information Bureau and the concealed Soviet interventions of  Stalinist regime to opt for Socialist political leaders of independent India. The model was duplicated in 1965 by the “Goongi Gudiya” and culminated in the 1969 split in congress. “Goongi” to “Goonga” followed the course of disintegration of the order in Congress. Then, the  Power centre of India looked as if in a Trapped State which resounded 7 Race Course Road  as more or less  an identical phenomenon near to the  Asymptotic Theory in Physics.  At that point of time. any Political Party surfacing with a  leader who has a powerful voice would have run over the electorate  to emerge as the Prime Minister.

Emergence of Narendra Modi cannot be attributed solely to Hindu Consolidation or mandate for Hindutva, instead , it was  a frustrated India that  brought him to the helm of affairs.

 Rahul Gandhi, nicknamed  Pappu, launched Academic Lectures abroad  following the course of   Lecture Tour campaigns of  his grandmother. .

Irrespective of the strings pulled by the media alignments what matters would be the  reciprocal behaviour of the leaders of various parties.

A new beginning was set into motion when the Congress Party took a dramatic step to  the leadership from Sita Ram Kesari to Sonia Gandhi, soon after the general elections of 1998. The poor performance of the Congress party was a serious setback. The party went by the general notion of Popularity of the Party President as the key factor in electoral dominance. Atal Bihari Vajpayee emerged as the NDA leader and took over as the Prime Minister within four days after the leadership change in the Congress Party. In the next elections, BJP projected LK Advani as the Prime Minister material pitted against the Congress President though the party kept silence over the  Prime minister  if the Party cleared the deck. There were certain deep rooted regional sentiments in the influential states that was inherited during the Pre independence days, which decided the fate of BJP.

The Vajpayee Government was one of the best governments  till then,  and had put India into a new track and orientation in economic growth,  international relations and conflict management. Yet, the defeat of the party was not properly assessed.

It would be improper to agree with the political observers  on the consolidation of Hindu votes as the key factor  for the mandate of BJP.  From the nearly 25% vote share in 1998,  within the next   12 to 13 years, Manmohan Singh Government created a frustrated Indian Public. A weak Prime Minister and   Force of Power presented political weakness  and suffocation, with corruption and modesty of women  rising public disorder.

The Congress had to fight back. The party failed to read the colour  change in the societal fabric. An adverse campaign in 2014 opened up the dialogue between Hindutva and Hinduism. Unprecedented assertions by Manmohan Singh send a different message. If the projected BJP candidate Narendra Modi had won, the reaction of  a generation would strike the chord and mainstream India would fall into the fold of Hindutva. 

Again, the Congress returned to the 1998 strategy of changing the President of the Party. Towards the end of 2017 , Rahul Gandhi was elected as the President of the party., He sounded  a new dynamism to counter BJP and the command Narendra Modi enjoyed in the country and abroad. “They defame; we respect and defend” idealism of Rahul Gandhi could succeed to reinvent the Congress as a “grand old young Party” is a different aspect of Indian Politics.

The Party elected an Octogenarian as the  President, Mallikarjun Kharge.  However, situations did not end up  as with that of Jitendra Prasada who gave a challenge to Sonia Gandhi in 2000.  She continued for  17 years till  her son inherited the position, with no rival candidate. He vacated the chair after the party was decimated in the 2019 elections.   However, it can be said that Rahul Gandhi too  has adopted Manmohan Singh -Sonia Gandhi relations  in his relations with Kharge. The old school theory of reclining politics surfaced and Rahul Gandhi made an effort to draw the party workers and sympathisers back to the streets and formed a new political front. Though the 2024 elections could make some difference, the I N DI front remained as a leadership folly with no mass base, a repeat of VP Singhs Janata Dal experiment of 1989.

The 'Love Shop" of Rahul Gandhi may be mocked and decried. The reality is that the love shop has sold  candies of hatred against Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. From a massive mall, the trading of love finally became reduced to Kiosks and in small pockets/  The cry of loss of jobs, opportunities and large-scale migration abroad  has become an antagonistic campaign against the Modi Government. His sharp  attacks on the economic situation of India cannot be taken as an amusement piece for the ruling BJP.  It trickles deep into the unsatisfied and unemployed youth who cannot look for anything beyond  “Service for Jobs”.  In between the frequent attacks on Theft of Votes- Vote Chori sounds as a sweeter candy thrown to the public.  His words are finely crafted and calculated as he calls the situation an “Economic Storm”.

It is time for the BJP to  keep their feet firm, watchful of the overall situation. Every mechanism operated by the opposition could not overthrow the government or score in the election. India has a reluctant population prone to self destruction with enough potential to create chaos at any point of time. So far the impact could create disruption in some states for different issues. Every effort is made to bring it to the fore on a national agenda after the success in Nepal and Bangladesh. Only  road block against such an experiment is the presence of RSS.  Situations like that of Hathras. Immediately after BJP gained power, a weakened congress,  secured the background settings for radical Muslim outfits ton exploit the space created by the Dalit Consolidation. At the time of the 2024 elections it was clear that  “Continuity for a third term has a lot of intricacies. It cannot be a straight election. Big powers are opposed to India having a powerful political leadership. The decisions of Narendra Modi in the matters of Defence Preparedness, Make in India and most importantly, the change in the mindset of the upcoming generations is unprecedented and is not welcome for those who envy the economic growth of India. Narendra Modi - JP Nadda combine seem to have a campaign strategy to overcome the  stake of international interests in the political decision making of India. The Cards are open in the game plan. Will it make it difficult to have an anti BJP Front in reality? All parties will try to keep their score intact , rather than throwing the mantle to Congress.” (FB 11 Feb 2024) .

Choice of Party Presidents , Key Functionaries and Chief Ministers and  Cabinet Ministers holding key portfolios  should  be based on popularity and their affluent language to address the crowd. As and when they handle serious and sensitive matters,  general public and the  opposition party leaders should get a sense of gravity and grip in their words, Convincing the people even the wrong as the right, buying time and  douse the fire and rage of a provocative situation has to be the calibre of the Ministers in any Government. If the Chief Minister is to take the call for every matter and the Prime Minister is the only one who the people would like to hear,  such political leaderships would be nothing less than power centric.

In the NEET and CBSE issues, the Union Minister of Education could not be convincing. Transferring CBSE  Head and ordering high level investigations are routine ways of handling by a frozen inactive government . The Ministers have to be bold to ask the people to proceed on leave and suspend them, adopt corrective measures and physical presence to the concerned offices for verification are anticipated by the people.  It is where a senior Party President steps in and if needed ask the minister to step down and recommend the matters to the Prime Minister. The situation here is that after Rajnath Singh  , BJP do not seem to have a proactive Party President.

On the Other side , the Congress High Command , that was the hope for the party in a crisis time proved to  be fatally indecisive. The decision on the Chief Minister of Keralam was delayed for more than what could be expected . Rahul Gandhi  failed to  assert his command to appoint his trusted aide KC Venugopal. It was said that Priyanka Gandhi had intervened and she decided on VD Satheesan as the CLP leader. Other side of the emotional wave sent across was the involvement  of Muslim League. Rahul Gandhi abandoned Wayanad Constituency and is in his ancestral bastion playing a safe card. Priyanka is from Wayanad and she has to listen to the large mass base of Muslim population of her Constituency. Whether the realities are the same or not , the rumour mills have its own impact.  

Immediately as the situation in Keralam  was put to rest, the State of Karnataka came under political turmoil. The twists and turns finally saw the elevation of DKS to the stage.

The Ruling BJP government need not have to ring alarm bells on the virtual reality of a digital political venture. The second term of Narendra Modi Government was not at all palatable to the Opposition parties. There should have been certain cautious steps, measures and changes within the party and its top leadership. The signals were strong for an innings defeat of the Modi Government in the 2024 General elections. The return of Narendra Modi to stay back at 7 LK Marg marked the beginning of a new political  engineering to  raze down the splendour of the Prime Minister as a nationalist and his agenda of Economic transformation as global leader.

Any political  leader of a third world country  venture to formulate an economic design that poses any threat to the stability of the Super powers, all those leaders will be either brought down or eliminated. There are only a few leaders who challenged the Supremacies and survived, but all cannot. IF BJP failed to understand the basic Doctrine interventionism,  it can only be said to be “unfortunate”.