Donning the role of Dushashan for the cheer haran of women of India, is the new role of the chief minister of Bihar.
Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: When Modi government had bestowed the Padma Vibhushan upon the late Mulayam Singh Yadav, I was in for a big surprise, with a question seriously haranguing me: has the Modi government begun rewarding those who contributed towards lowering of the public discourse; deplorably aiding and abetting the dawn of an era when bolstering the acts of debauchery and depravity found an inevitable fillip in such acts of instigation from those holding the high public offices: it is worth remembering that how Mulayam Singh Yadav had publicly encouraged the acts of rape and molestation by saying that boys committing such crimes, in such a delicate stage of youth, stood justified, for the natural cravings engendered by the age, constututes no offence. Unfortunately, Mulayam, despite receiving flak and fulminations then, in the wake of his death, as is the Indian trend to glorify the deceased, especially when he is a politician, all his transgressions not only stood condoned, but he was rewarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest Civilian Award by Modi government. Just imagine the morally and politically upright face of Lal Krishna Advani too was feted with the same Padma Vibhushan, which stood maligned when Mulayam Singh Yadav, notwithstanding his Himalayan transgression, was unconscionably rewarded with such highest civilian honour. Was Modi government rewarding the debauchery and depravity in public life? I sincerely wondered then. In fact, the primary reason for awarding Mulayam Singh Yadav was this: Mulayam had publicly advocated for Narendra Modi’s return to power in Parliament which ostensibly had embarrassed Sonia, but certainly gladdened the Prime Minister’s heart, paving the way for Mulayam’s elevation as the recipient of the second highest Civilian Award. Is the BJP and Prime Minister who had rewarded the moral depravity of Mulayam in such loftiest of terms, deserves to condemn Nitish Kumar for his lousy conduct in Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is a million dollars question now? Apparently, if the past conventions and precedents are any indication, if Nitish Kumar joins NDA, all his humongous transgression will be soon forgotten, as he will be rewarded in no less handsome terms than Mulayam Singh Yadav was! Small wonder then while Modi government reveled in rewarding Mulayam, I as a bonafide citizen of this country, was not enthused, let alone participated in showering the eulogies on the deceased leader for getting the undeserving national honour.
But then, Nitish Kumar transcended all the conceivable limits of public propriety and good conduct in office. In contrast to the Prime Minister donning the role of national motivator for inspiring its citizens, Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, volunteered to don the role of the sex educator, putting to shreds the last vestiges of principles of ethics. Significantly, when I heard Nitish Kumar teaching the importance of sexual abstinence in such an eloquent terms, I wondered whether the people of Bihar have given him the mandate to teach them certain tips on sex and, that too, from such an august platform as Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad. Paradoxically, Nitish Kumar purportedly was least concerned when, blissfully suspending his valued judgment, he gave two hoots to the conspicuous presence of women in the House when he went on offering his prescription to the fellow citizens: ‘ Jab raat mein ladka karta hai, wo to karega hi'( ‘When a boy does at night, he will do it….’) I wondered was Nitish fully in an inebriate state? Nitish Kumar was speaking on Caste Census, when he digressed from it and began mouthing the balderdash. Evidently, as I have been watching him for sometime, I could make out this senility of the worst form had already engulfed him, yet his deterioration was so fast, I could hardly imagine it. Now, in the wake of Nitish Kumar’ going bonkers with his sex lessons, the moot question arises: Can the people of Bihar afford a lunatic man whose best place ought to have been the mental asylum in Ranchi, ironically though, presides over the destiny of the state which irreconcilabily has resolved never to learn; the people of the state irretrievably appear to be cocooned to their caste based identity as their exclusive raison d’etre and summum bonum, Nitish’ delinquent misdemeanour brings into question the very credibility of people to bear with a man who is morally bankrupt and has completely become senile to the hilt.
Unequivocally, Nitish Kumar had done the cheer haran of those women who were present in Vidhan Sabha and later, Vidhan Parishad, in particular and the women in general. Donning the role of Dushashan, he went berserk to outrage the modesty of women in India, and like Duryodhan and other Kaurvas, his deputy Tejaswi and others remained the cheerleaders. This was hitherto the most outrageous enactment of farce and travesty of the very sanctity of Vidhan Sabha was ever palpable; in fact, the Bihar Vidhan Sabha appeared to have been reduced to a market where women were sold to the highest bidder, and Nitish Kumar was advising the prospective customers as to what they should do or what they should not! In philosophical terms, the adage conveys, ‘ People deserve the government they get’, Bihar has once again proven to the nation and the global community about the class of its people voting for Nitish Kumar, the most discredited and disgraced face of the chief minister of any state ever. With the National Commission for Women taking cognizance of women’s dignity being sullied, Nitish, in far more dramatic manner, sought the public apology for his contemptuous comments lecherously targeted at the women community, the reverberations of this despicably unwarranted conduct shall continue to be felt for the long, long time to come. Worse still, with the galaxy of discredited politicians sans the infinitesimal discipline, having taken siege of polity in Bihar, the state is already suffocating under the scorching heat of anarchy having come to define the order of Bihar, ever since the blot of Mandal Commission began dictating the mindset of the people of the state.
With the advent of Laloo Prasad Yadav as the chief minister of Bihar, the state had its reputation sliding to its nadir. In fact, Bihar never had any credible reputation in the minds of the fellow Indians outside Bihar, much before Laloo had his ascendancy in Bihar politics. Nonetheless, the reputation of an ailing state which was beyond reproach, gained currency with the people across the nation. Thus the tag of being a ‘ Bihari’, the imprimatur of being the lesser citizens, was reprehensibly carried by the citizens outside Bihar. Significantly, the very name ‘ Bihari’, was considered as a pejorative term, which warranted an immediate redemption. Nitish Kumar’s emphasis on fixing the ailing state, salvaging its dilapidated image from the precipice of its doom, when he began commemorating Bihar Diwas, the day when Bihar was carved out from the Presidency of Bengal, with the sense of pride. The avowed motto was to lend grace to an already punctured and vitiated identity of being a Bihari. This writer too, since his childhood days in Calcutta, disdainfully was exposed to the humiliation brought about by the tag of being the son of lesser gods, which later got further cemented in his stay in Delhi and Mumbai, bit the bullet to write Yes, I am Bihari, to showcase the glory of Bihar at the global level. Unfortunately, all that so called non-existent glory has become all the more eloquent when Nitish Kumar presided over its funeral by donning the role of Dushashan in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha when, far from glorifying his role as the architect of so called I. N. D. I. A block, he has disgraced everyone whoever had reposed his or her faith in him. Nitish Kumar is mentally sick, his lunacy is to be attended forthwith. No wonder, he is to be hospitalised in Ranchi Mental hospital, rather than presiding over the affairs of the state. Unequivocally, Tejaswi, who is the next chief minister of the state, has been robustly backing Nitish in all his omissions and commissions, because he feels greater are the transgressions of Nitish Kumar, sooner will be his chance to step into his shoes. In other words, Bihar has no respite; the very tainted image of being a ‘ Bihari’, notwithstanding all the window dressing–my stupendous effort to write the book –is no guarantee to arrest Bihar’s slide into the state of dystopia wherefrom its retrieve was absolutely impossible. Who will believe that India is the same country which worships women, Nitish Kumar has only sought to commodity women in its crudest form.
Vivekanand Jha is an Author of Yes, I am Bihari, where unlike the mentally and sexually perverted Nitish Kumar, he sincerely and honestly sought to portray the pitfalls and fallibilities of the state, and to restore its past glory. It is humongous shame for anyone to identify himself or herself as a Bihari today.
He is an Author, Academician and a Public Intellectual.
