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Insurance Worker Insurance Worker JULY 2016 41 Insurance Worker 42 JULY 2016 Insurance Worker VOLUME 59 NUMBER 7 JULY 2016 Monthly Journal of All India Insurance Employees’ Association EDITOR: AMANULLA KHAN NOTHING MUCH TO CHEER he Modi Government completed two years standards of this government stands clearly Tin Ofice. The event was celebrated with exposed in the passage of the Insurance Laws massive publicity overdrive. The newspaper (Amendment) Bill and the Aadhar Bill and its advertisements and television screens came investment of quite a lot of energy on GST alive with the government boasting of its Bill. Therefore, there is nothing much to cheer achievements. This celebration is at a time about these 2 years of Modi government. when nearly 50 crore of Indians are leading The BJP led NDA came to power promising a miserable life due to drought conditions. development and a zero tolerance for If the Modi government had delivered on corruption. On both these important promises, its promises, why was it necessary for this the government has clearly failed. Let us massive campaign spending hundreds of crores take a look at the state of the economy. The of public money? The people themselves would economy grew in the range of 7.2 to 7.4 percent have celebrated if there were changes for the during the two years of this government. But better in their living conditions. This publicity this growth figures are determined after overdrive was necessary to hide the failures changing the methodology of estimating the of the government. The Modi government GDP. There is a huge euphoria that economy has not been able to deliver on the promises grew at 7.9% in the irst three months of and failed to meet expectations of the people 2016. This estimation is being contested by by following the same discredited neo-liberal a number of economists as the discrepancies policies. While the government says that it is shown is nearly 7 to 8 times larger than the following different economic policy, the double earlier period. The sectoral performances India’s Growth Story: Not An Occasion For Celebration In This Issue Santosh Kumar Mohapatra 10 Lab of Mischief is Cradle of Music The Victory of Left in Kerala Elections Ganapathy Krishnan 13 Pheroze L. Vincent 22 pÉÉUiÉqÉÉiÉÉ-kÉUiÉÏqÉÉiÉÉ mÉU qÉÆQûUÉiÉÉ ZÉiÉUÉ Why Muhammad Ali AÌuÉlÉÉvÉ MÑüqÉÉU ÍqÉ´É 14 Matters to Everyone Nightmare for Working Class Sean Gregory 24 in the Construction of A.P Capital Images courtesy: Ganashakthi & arts-wallpapers.com P Satish 17 Insurance News-A M Khan In Modi And Amit Shah Speeches, Working Class Struggles-S.Sridhara The Two Sides Of BJP Economic Tid-bits-J.Suresh Mihir Swarup Sharma 20 For Our Field Force-Arivukkadal No.8, OTC Road, Bengaluru-560002, Ph:080-22211883 Subscription e-mail: [email protected] Cover Design & Lay-out: Annual : Rs. 120 M.Ramu, Kriya Prakashana [email protected] Single Copy: Rs. 10 JULY 2016 1 Insurance Worker also raise doubt about this estimate. It is a However, this imagination of a super power is fact that agriculture is in distress, industry busted as the World Bank recently classiied is stagnant, there is decline in the growth of India as a lower middle income economy in services, exports are at an all-time low and South Asia. According to the World Bank food inlation is very high. Despite this the data, India languishes on the world indicators government is gung ho and claiming that India like labour force participation, sanitation and is the fastest growing in the large economies of access to clean drinking water. the world. The Prime Minister even on foreign The other claim that BJP is a party with a soil drummed this as the biggest achievement difference and provides clean governance is of his government. also busted. The scandals involving Foreign Assuming that the economy is growing at Minister, Finance Minister, Chief Ministers of a very high rate as claimed, why this growth Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh is not relected in the improvement in the say a different story. The Panama papers living conditions of the people? The economic have named industrialists close to Modi and conditions of the people have been pretty bad the son of Raman Singh, Chief Minister of measured in terms of hunger, malnutrition, per Chattisgarh. The numbers of ministers involved capital food availability and access to basic in questionable deals in the Maharashtra services like health and education. It is a shame government are too well known. It was only that nearly 45000 mothers die due to causes due to popular pressure that Eknath Khadse related to childbirth every year. According to was shown the door. World Health Organisation, India accounts for The two years of Modi government has 17 percent of such deaths globally.Secondly, seen increasing communal polarization across a growing economy necessarily has to create the country. The rightwing brigades have been jobs. The data from the Labour Bureau suggest given a free hand to run amok. While the BJP that India created a measly 4.3 lakh jobs in President calls for Congress Mukt Bharat, the irst 20 months of the Modi government Sadhvi Prachi calls for Muslim Mukt Bharat. showing huge gap between promise of creating Communal feelings are fanned on the issue of 10 million jobs a year and the achievement. food habits. Though the Prime Minister says India is facing a huge unemployment problem he is focused on vikas, one cannot forget his which cannot be solved by catchy slogans. own speeches during elections when he spoke But the situation is not bad for everybody. about pink revolution (beef export), matar While vast majority of people are still awaiting (greenpeas) vs mutton or earlier in Gujarat achche din, for the rich and powerful,achche when he attempted communal polarization din have already arrived. A number of studies with slogan of hum paanchhamarepachchees. show that the top 10 percent of Indians own The Prime Minister, who is eloquent on every 76.3 percent of the national wealth while the other subject, refuses to speak and rein in remaining 90 percent have to share the balance his ministers or rightwing brigades when of 23.7 percent. Such inequalities in wealth they polarize the society. These two years and income distribution are unprecedented and have also seen assault on freedom of speech, are the result of aggressive neo-liberalism. debates on ideas in universities and other There is widespread euphoria that India democratic institutions. The most disturbing today is a Super Power and has come on the fact is denying the right to contest panchayat centre stage of world politics with countless elections by the BJP ruled Haryana, Rajasthan foreign visits by the Prime Minister. The rich and and Gujarat on the basis of educational powerful are jubilant that Modi has been able qualiications and property. This is the real to construct a sound relationship with United dispossession of the already dispossessed and States. In its blind belief that it is already most vulnerable sections of the society. a super power and stands equal to United The Working Class has experienced States, Modi has made India a junior partner massive attacks on their hard won rights and of the US in its geo-political strategic interests. beneits during this period. The States ruled 2 JULY 2016 Insurance Worker by BJP have amended the labour laws to make confront the Modi government with another them employer friendly with full support of General Strike on 2nd September 2016. Central Government. The Modi government The two years of Modi government has is engaged in amending the ID Act and the burdened the working class with enormous TU Act to make the trade union functioning challenges that include protecting national and formation of unions extremely dificult. unity and defending economic sovereignty. Profitable public sector units are put on It is only the working class that is capable of sale. 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