India has the full potential, resources and capacity to become the best developed nation in the world. However, it is the Indian mentality which may not allow to achieve this goal. If people want our nation to grow, then they will first have to put aside fascism, narrow mindedness and corrupt practices.
We cannot live in denial that our country has been divided on caste, religion and region issues and so these factors will never allow the nation to grow. We have seen the politicians using caste and religion against people to divide India and surprisingly these leaders have been elected time and again and today they have so much power that they think they can do whatever they want.
We take pride of the diversity and pluralism that our country is showing and displaying to the world. However, during election, pluralistic society gets divided and people vote based on the issues which India can never move forward. Polarizing people on caste, identity, religions, regions, harms society. It also makes democracy vulnerable. When people get trapped in polarization, they are fulfilling the views and political agenda of the political parties. It is also saddening to see the leaders who spread hate and violence win elections. Is this new India?
India takes pride when two Indians become the world’s top ten richest men in the world but fails to acknowledge that the 23 crores of people have been pushed below poverty line.
The country grows when people grow financially, economically and socially but only when two men enjoying the wealth of the nation it is not ‘Sab ka Sath, Sab ka Vikas.’
India cannot become a developed nation if two men become the richest men in the world. Recently, new oxfam report states that the richest 21 Indian billionaires have more wealth than 700 million Indians, while just 5% Indians owned over 62% of total wealth in the country in 2021, the bottom 50% of the population possessed merely 3% of the wealth. The Story of the Richest: The India story” – The findings of the report was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland.
The analysis further shows that if India’s billionaires are taxed once at 2% on their entire wealth, it would support the requirement of Rs 40,423 crore for the nutrition of malnourished in the country for the next three years. Does the government has the courage to tax the wealthy?
If India has to attain status of developed nations then we want the leaders whose focus is on education, healthcare, sustainable development, preserving our environment, creating job opportunities and employment, increasing production of goods and services, exports and so on. The country’s progress will be determined by the policies of the government. Hence it is the need of the hour that we rise above petty political issues and keeping nation first in mind, to work intelligently and diligently to make India the Number 1 nation in the world.
