Welcome to Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI)
The basic principles of the Indian Republic face grave threats from both inside and outside. In the past two decades predatory capitalism has vandalized the country. New forces have appeared, but the feudal, upper caste ruling class still exercises great control on the republic. The political camps led by the Congress and the BJP have in fact become midwives to the birth of a new class unbridled in their pursuit of capital accumulation.
The regional political parties also have often found it expedient to co-operate with this new class. Left parties have turned right garnishing their neo-liberal policies with leftist terminology. A modern India with socio-political equality and economic justice transcending the religious, linguistic and caste barriers still remains a distant dream.
In the contemporary political landscape, democracy has become a game for the rich and the privileged. The republic is soon to become an empty shell. Instead of inclusiveness exclusiveness is ruling the roost. We still have a glass-curtain economy with teeming millions denied entry to the world of bare necessities. The new economy is killing India’s farmers who are two thirds of Indian population. The sizzling growth figures hide extreme marginalization of a large number of people including the Muslims, the Dalits, the tribals, the women and some sections of the backward communities. Denied access to the national kitty they rot on the margins of the urban and rural habitats.
Since Independence Muslims have faced well planned and well executed riots in which they have lost lives, limbs and property. The demolition of historic Babri Masjid in 1992 and Gujarat genocide in 2002 were marked for official patronage and mob terror. Muslims are severely underrepresented in all sectors of community life. They have a disproportionately high representation when it comes to being in prison. Most of the Muslim majority villages have no primary schools. Their access to clean drinking water is very limited. Dalits do not fare better.They are the new underdogs of the country. Every two hours a Dalit is assaulted, every day three Dalit women raped, two Dalits murdered and two Dalit homes torched.
Human rights violations have become very common. Encounter killings and other extra legal executions are glorified as efficient police work. India usually comes to the top of the list of most corrupt countries. The rise of Hindutva fascism has also left deep, bleeding wounds on Indian polity. It has used religious symbols and the identity problems of the urban middleclass and professionals to vitiate the society and system.
Still greater is the threat from neocolonial powers led by the United States. India’s withdrawal from anti-colonial international forums and her rejection of ethical foreign policy positions shows the strength of the current nexus between India and the US. India is covert partner in US War on Terror which is nothing but war for control over oil and natural resources. The country has become the crucial player in the strategy of the global imperialism.
The fragility of the new system demands a different political strategy in which the Muslims have a very crucial role to play. Muslims hoped against hope that the secular parties would help them. So it is time that they take their fate into their own hands and painstakingly build up a secular political party committed to the cause of achieving adequate representation and equal justice to all classes of people in India. It should be an endeavour covering different states and include all other marginalized classes who remain in the outskirts of our society and polity.Such a party is not to follow sectarian demands but focus on the identity, security and equity rights of the underprivileged lots all over India.
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