Tuesday, March 31, 2015

janhastakshep -hashimpura

Janhastakshep: A campaign against Fascist Designsd
Delhi

INVITES YOU
To
A public meeting
On
STATE AND COMMUNALISM: Travesty of Justice in Hashimpura massacre, 1987

Venue: GANDHI PEACE FOUNDATION, Deen Dayal Marg (Near ITO)

Date: 9th April 2015

 Time: 5.30 PM

• Justice (Retd.)  Rajinder Sachchar, member of the PUCL fact-finding team  into the genocide.
• Rebeca John, Lawyer representing the ccase.
• Saeed Naqvi, senior journalist
And others

Friends,
Playing communal card and communal killings for electoral gains are not the monopoly of communal organizations only but even so-called secular parties also play communal cards leading to the increasing trend of communalization of the state apparatuses including judiciary. Most glaring example of connivance of state and its judicial apparatus is the judgment in the Hashimpura massacre in 1987 in which 42 men were cold-bloodedly killed by the UP PAC and 5 managed to survive by pretending to be dead to narrate the ordeal. After 28 years of the proceedings, the court acquitted all the accused of one of the most gruesome state organized massacres. No one killed them. In 1987 the then Rajiv Gandhi government, having come to power with unprecedented parliamentary majority after the anti-Sikh pogrom of Delhi in 1984, opened the lock of the now no-more Babari Masjid at Ayodhya,  to counter the ongoing Mandir campaign of BJP under the leadership of L K Adwani. The decision to open the lock was protested at many places by different sections of the society. Muslims, being the community directly aggrieved, came out in large numbers to protest this communal  move by the Congress governments at Centre as well as in UP. As has been the experience over the years, whenever the Muslims come out in large numbers to protest it  is termed as riot. The then state Home Minister, P Chidambaram has been reported to have instructed the state government to ‘crush the Muslims.’ Following the tip the 41 battalion of the communally trained PAC (Provincial Armed Constabulary of UP), in the night of 22-23 May 1987, raided the Hashimpura village in the name of a search operation. Many Muslim men were arbitrarily picked up quefrom outside the mosque and huddled in a truck. They were taken to a lonely spot on the bank of Ganga canal and many of them shot dead with the service rifles by the uniformed policemen and their bodies thrown into the canal. Rest was taken to the banks of the Hinden River, shot and their bodies were left there.

The entire incident would have simply been buried without any consequences to the perpetrators but for a timely report filed by Vibhuti  Narayan Rai, the then SP of Gaziabad and later supported by the testimonies of 5 survivors of the massacre.

After 28 years of legal proceedings in the case, the court set aside the testimonies of the survivors to acquit the culprit policemen giving them the benefit of doubt. Apparently, no one killed the victims.

This judgment conforms to the emerging pattern in which the courts in different parts of the country have acquitted the perpetrators of heinous crimes may they be against the dalits or the minorities. The acquittal of Ranvir Sena killers in the Laxampur Bathe and Bathani Tola massacres in Bihar for similar reasons are other cases in point.

However, there is a pattern in the madness. Such crimes cannot but be committed with active connivance or direct participation of the state machinery. In any such instance the government and the police ensure that every shred of evidence is destroyed to save the culprits. It ought to be ensured in the interest of justice that the suspected government agencies are kept out of investigation in such cases.

What is particularly noteworthy is that the ruling class parties have done little more than pay lip service to the cause of the victims in such instances of gross miscarriage of justice. Mere statements of protest and symbolism have come to replace the need for a sustained campaign towards the ends of justice.

Janhastakshep seeks a broader discussion on the issue of communalization of .the security forces and the judiciary.  Please joins us in the discourse.

-sd-

Ish Mishra
Convener

Monday, March 30, 2015

DU 61 (Education & Knowledge 30)

Gaurav Goel You asked a pointed question that everyone is talking about bungling and nepotism in the interviews and that no one is talking about one's own selection. Did you get the job within 3 years of doing your Masters through some Godfather or accidentally, for a change, the selection committee was fair? I confess that I did get the job accidentally after over one and half a decade of my Master's, as an atheist, I do not have a God and hence did not allow any academic fief to Godfather me, though by doing so, inadvertently caused a social loss by depriving myself from teaching 15-16 batches more. In 1985 with another friend from JNU, Dr. Ashok Raj, we had planned a book on the University appointments, but as both had to earn their livelihood through writing so we could not go beyond the title -- THE GODFATHERS AND THE ....... SONS. The accused are not those who get selected but those, who select. It is not to say those selected with the grace of Godfathers are academically incompetent but the process itself is vicious for a healthy academics. I do not lament about getting it late, but pleasantly wonder on getting it. As an elderly teacher, I appeal to all the young colleagues, to realize the importance of being teacher -- by reminding our students that they are intelligent people; by instigating them to unceasing application of mind instead of fettering it; by helping them to unlearn the acquired moralities and replace them with the rational ones; by explaining them that money is means not the end of the life and that one has only one life time and that the individual good is safest in the collective good; by making them understand that the key to any knowledge is questioning and that there is no final knowledge but is a continuously, ongoing process; by teaching them the pleasure of transcendence of personal considerations and strength of the honesty and the principled life; by acquainting them with the basic fact that under capitalism, only capitalist can accumulate, others can have only illusion of accumulation; by encouraging them to dare to know and have courage to apply their reason; by making them realize that happiness lies not in luxurious life but in realizing one's creative potentialities; and helping them to transcend the identity emanating from the coincident of birth and in creating a work identity. In nutshell by helping them in realizing the importance of justice and of standing up against injustices. And a teacher and a father/mother must teach by example. Preaching has limited effect.

DU 60

Gaurav Goel You asked a pointed question that everyone is talking about bungling and nepotism in the interviews and that no one is talking about one's own selection. Did you get the job within 3 years of doing your Masters through some Godfather or accidentally, for a change, the selection committee was fair? I confess that I did get the job accidentally after over one and half a decade of my Master's, as an atheist, I do not have a God and hence did not allow any academic fief to Godfather me, though by doing so, inadvertently caused a social loss by depriving myself from teaching 15-16 batches more. In 1985 with another friend from JNU, Dr. Ashok Raj, we had planned a book on the University appointments, but as both had to earn their livelihood through writing so we could not go beyond the title -- THE GODFATHERS AND THE ....... SONS. The accused are not those who get selected but those, who select. It is not to say those selected with the grace of Godfathers are academically incompetent but the process itself is vicious for a healthy academics. I do not lament about getting it late, but pleasantly wonder on getting it. As an elderly teacher, I appeal to all the young colleagues, to realize the importance of being teacher -- by reminding our students that they are intelligent people; by instigating them to unceasing application of mind instead of fettering it; by helping them to unlearn the acquired moralities and replace them with the rational ones; by explaining them that money is means not the end of the life and that one has only one life time and that the individual good is safest in the collective good; by making them understand that the key to any knowledge is questioning and that there is no final knowledge but is a continuously, ongoing process; by teaching them the pleasure of transcendence of personal considerations and strength of the honesty and the principled life; by acquainting them with the basic fact that under capitalism, only capitalist can accumulate, others can have only illusion of accumulation; by encouraging them to dare to know and have courage to apply their reason; by making them realize that happiness lies not in luxurious life but in realizing one's creative potentialities; and helping them to transcend the identity emanating from the coincident of birth and in creating a work identity. In nutshell by helping them in realizing the importance of justice and of standing up against injustices. And a teacher and a father/mother must teach by example. Preaching has limited effect.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

अाप विमर्श 1

Dilip C Mandal साथी, सही कह रहे हैं अाप. जन्म की अस्मिता के अाधार पर चरित्र-चित्रण प्रकारांतर से ब्राह्मणवाद की ही पुष्टि करता है. योगेंद्र जेयनयू के CPS में मेरे जूनियर (उम्र अौर विश्वविद्यालय में प्रवेश तिथ के लिहाज से) सहपाठी अौर मतभिन्नता के साथ वहां की छात्र राजनीति में राजनैतिक सहयात्री थे. जेयनयू के बाद संयोग से 2-3 मुलाकातें हुई होंगी. 21वीं सदी में हम शायद ही मिलें हों. लेकिन, मेरी समझ से योगेंद्र जन्म की जातीय पहचान से जेयनयू में ही उबर चुके थे. योगेंद्र से समाज तथा इतिहास की राजनैतिक समझ की अामूल असहमतियों के बावजूद उनकी निष्ठा अौर ईमानदारी पर संदेह नहीं करता. प्रशांत लंबे समय से मानवाधिकार के संघर्षों में सहयात्री हैं. उनके अन्नाअौर बाद में केजरीवाल के साथ जाने पर अाश्चर्य हुअा था, वैसे ही जैसे क्रांतिकारी कवि बल्ली सिंह चीमा के जाने पर हुअा था. अानंद कुमार योगेंद्र, अजीत झा के उधर जाने पर इसलिये अाश्चर्य नहीं हुअा कि लोहियावादियों विकल्प की तलाश में शासक वर्ग की विभिन्न ताकतों से समझौते का पुराना इतिहास है. अानंद भाई का नाम इमरजेंसी के पहले सुना था जब इलाहाबाद विवि में पढ़ता था. वे बीयचयू छात्रसंघ के अध्यक्ष थे. 1977 में जब जेयनयू में मिले तो एक गंभीर अौर खुशमिजाज भले इंसान लगे. अजीत भी जेयनयू के सहपाठी रहे हैं, सहज, सरल अौर सहज एक लोहिया-गांधीवादी मित्र है अौर बहुत लोकप्रिय शिक्षक. इन लोगों के साथ राजनैतिक समझ अौर शौक्षणिक संस्थापनाओं में मूलभूत असहमति के बावजूद हममें पारस्परिक सम्मान के संबंध रहे हैं, क्योंकि कोई अंतिम सत्य नहीं होता, बस नीयत साफ होनी चाहिये. वैसे भी क़रपोरेटी फासीवाद के हमले से बचने-लड़ने के लिये हर प्रकार की जनतांत्रिक ताकतों के व्यापक गठबंधन की अावश्यकता है. इनका केजरीवाल ऐंड सिसोदिया कंपनी से जो भी मतभेद रहे हों, इन्होनें जितना भी पार्टी विरोधी काम किया हो, इन्हें जिस तरह निकाला गया अौर निजी गुंडों-बाउंसरों का इस्तेमाल किया गया वह निश्चित रूप से सर्वथा निंदनीय बजरंगी मार्का फ़ासीवादी लंपटता है. दर-असल मोदी की ही तरह केजरीवाल भी सत्ता पाने की मैक्यावली की सलाहें पढ़ लिया लेकिन सत्ता पाने के बाद के शासनशिल्प के परामर्श पढ़ना मुनासिब नहीं समझा, इसी लिये दोनों का ही अवशान अवश्यंभावी है.

Friday, March 27, 2015

AB VAJPAYEE

The problem with Sanghis is that they are trained not to apply mind. I too have met him more than once and shared platform with him as an ABVP leader during in Allahabad during 1974 UP assembly elections when the then Jansangh was projecting him as the UP Chief Minister. Again I met him in 1985 at IIC in the reception of Mahesh Jethmalani's reception. He is a good human being and possesses appreciable comic sense but is as visionary as Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan or Modi. He acted as a police informer in 1942(National archives). The only great job he did during his 13 day tenure in 1996 was to give counter guarantee to Enron, which he had been opposing just prior to elections. When he became full fledged PM, he accentuated the Narsimha Rao-Manmohan policy of mortgaging the country to corporate in the name of economic reform at the peril of millions the countrymen. Congress and BJP are twins fathered by the global capital. Bandemataram.

RSS and Jamat-e-Islami were openly opposed to freedom struggle so AB Vajpayee's testimony as an approver, against the revolutionary Liladhar Vajpayi is not surprising. Traitors of yesteryears have become the leaders of today-- particularly the descendants of the princely states spread over all the ruling class parties. Had the Scindhias  of Gwalior not assisted the British forces against the forces of peasants and of Laxmibai, colonialism might have ended in 1857. After independence, Scindia clan has been occupying important positions  in both  -- CONGRESS & BJP, one of them being the present Rajsthan CM. Even if his role as a government approver is set aside, what was the compelling force of the Rashtravaad  to kick out all the ethical norms for giving counter guarantee to Enron in his 13 days of PMsip in 1996? Traitors become  Gods in the country of idol worshipers. India's ruling classes have historically have sided with imperialism --from colonialism to the on-going neo-liberal imperialist onslaught  against the Indian people. The only difference between colonial imperialism and neo-liberal imperialism is that now there is no need of any Lord Clive, the Sirazuddaulas too have turned into Mir Zafars. Well there is one more striking difference, now it sustains and expands itself by the export of capital, needing an invitation of make in India instead of export of goods.

मेैने तो महज तथ्य दिये हैं. ऊपर Frontline के लिंक में 1997 में जब सुब्रहमन्यम स्वामी ने इस मुद्दे को उठाया तो अटल जी ने खुद स्वीकार किया है लीलाधर बाजपेयी की मुखबिरी की बात. बाकी 13 दिन के प्रधानमंत्रित्व में, संसद के विश्वास प्राप्त करने की नैतिकता को दर-किनार कर उसी एनरॉन को चुनाव के पहले तक जिसे देश की संप्रभुता पर हमलावर मानते थे, मुनाफे की काउंटर गारंटी देना कौन सी राष्ट्रभक्ति का सबूत है. विनिमेश के नाम पर मुल्क की संपदा कॉरपोरेटी पूजी को नीलाम कर शाइनिंग इंडिया करते रहे इंडिया इतना शाइन कर गया कि जनता को दुबारा कांग्रेसी दमन चुनना पड़ा.

Hindu College struggle 2

Vasant Sharma There have been no error of facts in our representation, Hindu College is nlarities ot a private body as claimed by the GB chairman in a communication to staff association 4 years ago nor a family that exposing its irregularities will bring bad name to the college but the corruption and mismanagement will. Hindu college is a public institutions maintained on public fund  and the irregularities must be made public. Since the last 5-6 years the Staff Council and its committees are being undermined and ignored. The Principals, mostly acting have been acting as the PA to the GB  chairman who instead of communicating through the Principal, ex-officio Secretary of the GB, has been directly writing and threatening the teachers, the principals, acting as postmen/women. We shall soon bring out a white paper  on the financial irregularities, arbitrariness and administrative mismanagement of the GB. We shall continue writing memorandums to constitutional authorities regarding the irregardless of the college administration. These moneybags are the governors as representatives of the trust under the obligation of contributing marginally (effectively 3%) towards the college expanses. according to information for the last 15 years availed under RTI Act, there is arrears of around 1.25 crores, that amounts to theft from the college. The huge amount of OBC EXPANSION fund is said to have been spent out without the expansion of single inch, excluding, as one of the English professors Dr. Tarun had said in a staff council meeting the uglification f the campus laying down the slabs  blocking the ground water harvesting system under the last regular principal, Dr. Kavita Sharma. The GB finds it easier to extract loyalty from the acting principals. This terrorize the teachers, those who get scared do not deserve to be teachers as the teacher is supposed to inculcate fearlessness in students and cowards by definition are unfit for bthat.

HINDU COLLEGE STRUGGLE 1

HINDU COLLEGE
STAFF ASSOCIATION

26 March 2015

AN APPEAL TO THE DELHI UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO JOIN THE TEACHER’S STRUGGLE AGAINST THE NEFARIOUS DESIGN OF THE GOVERNING BODY TO DESTROY THE ACADEMICS IN THE COLLEGE

Dear Students,
The communication gap between teachers and students, though a common feature, is detrimental to the creation of a healthy democratic academic tradition. The Staff Association of Hindu College has been opposing the misdeeds and authoritarian, arbitrary acts of the Governing Body of the college, headed by SNP Punj.

Friends, Staff Council of a college is a statutory body. All the important decisions have to be discussed in the Staff Council. But the present GB consisting of a majority of businessmen and security agents, has been secretly taking decisions without the knowledge of the Council. The misdeeds of the GB include arbitrarily scrapping of ECA and Sport admissions, the legitimate rights of the students.

. Friends, for no reason, the GB of the college hiked the fee of the students by Rs. 4000 without taking Staff Council into confidence and before that it had enhanced the hostel fee by almost 100%. There is a student welfare fund collected from the students. This fund is meant for students’ welfare. It is to be noted that these businessmen occupy the position in the GB of the college as representatives of the Hindu College trust by virtue of statutory obligation of contributing 5% of the college expenses. According to the information availed by RTI, the arrears of trust contribution have gone up to approximately Rs. 1.25 crore in the last fifteen years. The GB has been arbitrarily diverting this fund to make up its deficit.

The UGC gave a fund for girls’ hostel about 10 years ago but it hurriedly planned to construct the hostel when the fund was to about to lapse without completing the formalities of taking environmental and other clearances. 7 teachers, using their constitutional, fundamental right to freedom of thought and expression wrote about these irregularities to the Lt Governor of Delhi who was supposed to lay the foundation stone. The 7 teachers have been punished by deducting two increments and debarred from holding administrative positions that include participation in the various committees of the staff council, the statutory body of the college. Services of two teachers have been terminated on flimsy grounds.

We thought it appropriate to communicate with our students as it is the teachers and students together constitute the academic community. Actions against the teachers directly affect the students as an authoritarian atmosphere is inimical to the growth of knowledge. 7 teachers are punished by the GB to create a sense of terror and fear among the students, karmcharis and teachers. But friends, the teacher needs to inculcate in students fearlessness and orient them to dare to stand up against injustice and the teacher must teach by example.

We appeal to our young friends, to join us in our struggle against injustice.

INQILAB ZINDABAD             STUDENTS-TEACHER-KARMCHARI UNITY ZINDABAD

Ish Mishra
President

hashimpra

Janhastakshep: A campaign against Fascist Designs
Delhi

Press Release

Hashimpura massacre: Travesty of Justice

After 28 years of the proceedings, the court acquitted all the accused of one of the most gruesome state organized massacres - the Hasimpura massacre.  

In 1987 the then Rajiv Gandhi government, having come to power with unprecedented parliamentary majority after the anti-Sikh pogrom of Delhi, opened the lock of the now no-more Babari Masjid at Ayodhya,  to counter the ongoing Mandir campaign of BJP under the leadership of L K Adwani.

The decision to open the lock was protested at many places by different sections of the society. Muslims, being the community directly aggrieved, came out in large numbers to protest the move by the Congress governments at Centre as well as in UP. As has been the experience over the years, whenever the Muslims come out in large numbers to protest on any issues perceived to be inimical to their interests, the attempt of the Hindu fundamentalist forces is to convert the situation into a riot. Just as this had happened in post Babri Masjid scenario, this was also done in the instant case.

Rioting was instigated in Meerut. The then Home Minister, P Chidambaram has been reported to have instructed the state government to ‘crush the Muslims.’ On the night of 22-23 May 1987, the 41st battalion of the PAC (Provincial Armed Constabulary) of UP raided Hashimpura village in the name of a search operation. Many Muslim men were arbitrarily picked up and huddled in a truck. They were taken to a lonely spot on the bank of Ganga canal and shot dead with the service rifles by the uniformed policemen and their bodies thrown into the canal.

The entire incident would have simply been buried without any consequences to the perpetrators but for a timely report filed by Vibhuti  Narayan Rai, the then SP of Gaziabad and later supported by the testimonies of 5 survivors of the massacre.

After 28 years of legal proceedings in the case, the court set aside the testimonies of the survivors to acquit the culprit policemen giving them the benefit of doubt. Apparently, no one killed the victims.
This judgment conforms to the emerging pattern in which the courts in different parts of the country have acquitted the perpetrators of heinous crimes may they be against the dalits or the minorities. The acquittal of Ranvir Sena killers in the Laxampur Bathe and Bathani Tola massacres in Bihar for similar reasons are other cases in point.

However, there is a pattern in the madness. Such crimes cannot but be committed with active connivance or direct participation of the state machinery. In any such instance the government and the police ensure that every shred of evidence is destroyed to save the culprits. It ought to be ensured in the interest of justice that the suspected government agencies are kept out of investigation in such cases.

What is particularly noteworthy is that the ruling class parties have done little more than pay lip service to the cause of the victims in such instances of gross miscarriage of justice. Mere statements of protest and symbolism have come to replace the need for a sustained campaign towards the ends of justice.

Janhastakshep calls upon the widest sections of the progressive masses and organizations to take up a concerted campaign on the issue for ensuring that justice is done to the affected families and the guilty are handed the due punishment. Such a process ought to expose the larger conspiracy behind this.

-sd-

Ish Mishra

Convener 

Sunday, March 22, 2015

बास के कुत्ते

लोकसभा के चुनाव के समय इस अाशय की एक तुकबंदी  की थी,  मिल नहीं रही है, फिर से कोशिस करता हूं.

 बॉस से नहीं उसके कुत्तों से लगता है डर
भौकते हैं जो बेबात किसी भी पथिक पर
करते हैं पीछे  से वार अपनी ही जमात पर
अाती है बात जब हड़्डी के बड़े टुकड़े पर
पाते ही कुर्सी का अाश्रय पड़ता है इन पर ऐंठने का दौरा
बैठ जाते हैं दुम हिलाकर पाते ही रोटी का छोटा सा कौरा
चलते हुये रथ के नीचे सोचते हैं खुद को इंजन रथ का
अौर पावर हाउस अनुशासन के ज़ीरो पावर बल्ब का
इनकी प्यार-पुचकार में भी होता है 14 इंजेक्सनों का डर
(वह बात नहीं अा पायी)
(ईमिः22.03.2015)





जो डरते हैं वे जीते नहीं

जो डरते हैं वे जीते नहीं, खींचते हैं ज़िंदगी पशुवत
करते हैं वफादारी कुत्तों की तरह किसी बड़े टुकड़े की अाश में
(ईमिः 21.03.2015)

DU 60 (Education &Knowledge 29)

This is my response to the querry by Narender Singh​ on a post regarding Hindu College episode --

The Hindu College does not have a regular Principal FOR A LONG TIME baring couple of years of VK Shrivastava  a cham of GB, who began the destruction of college atmosphere for ignominious selfish gains.The post of Vice Principal is his contribution to the college. An acting principal is easier to subordinate by the GB. Vice Principal is the Acting Principal, she became the Vice owing to her declared proximity to GB and "naturally" supported the action, nevertheless she pleaded with them to be lenient and reduce the the reduction of increment from 2 to 1 and retain the bar from administrative duties (particularly Staff Council committees). It is to be noted that she hopes to complete her tenure of Vice-ship as acting like her predecessor (suspended from the Staff Association due to his anti-teacher actions. One teacher representative is on long CCL and rarely attends the meeting. Another teacher representative gave dissent. VC is in collusion with the GB and university representatives are his appointees and hence "naturally" did not give the note of dissent. But we shall take the struggle to logical conclusion in association with DUTA



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Saturday, March 21, 2015

कायर हमलावर

कायर होता है हमलावर अौर निहायत डरपोक
डराना चाहता है हमें हथियरो के बूते
नहीं जानता वह मूर्ख यह बात
डरता नहीं  क्रांतिकारी न भूत से न भगवान से
जानता है वह यह  रहस्य
कि डर डर कर जी नहीं जाती ज़िंदगी
डर डर कर मरता है नामाकूल मंद गति से
जानता नहीं वह निडर ज़िंदगी का लुत्फ
लिख रहा था किशोर भगत सिंह जब क्रांतिकारी अांदोलन का इतिहास
पूछा था इक सवाल खुद से
कि क्यों लड़ता है इंकिलाबी मज़लूमों के लिये
खुद-ब-खुद दिया था जवाब खुद को
कि क्योंकि अौर कोई रास्ता नहीं है उसके पास
डर कर हमलावर हो रहा है कायर डरपोक
क्योंकि हमने डरना बंद कर दिया है.
(ईमिः21.03.2015)

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

बजट पुराण

बजट पुराण
बजट है घोर राष्ट्वादी इस बार
खुश हो गया है कॉरपोरेटी संसार
यह बज़ट है इतना आलीशान
देश बनेगा अवश्य महान

अच्छे दिनों के दिखते हैं निशान   
चकमक चमकेगी कॉरपोरेटी शान
बेबस होंगे जब मजदूर किसान
राष्ट्र बनेगा तभी महान
यह बज़ट है इतना आलीशान
देश बनेगा अवश्य महान

बनना है मुल्क को जो दुनिया में बड़ी ताकत
बजट से होगी विदेशी पूंजी की बहुत लागत
करती नहीं ये बजट बढ़ोतेतरी में भेदभाव
बहुत ही निष्पक्ष है इसका राष्ट्रवादी स्वभाव
बढ़ायेगा नहीं तेजी से अमीर की अमीरी ही
बढ़ायेगा उसी गति से गरीब की गरीबी भी
असमानता ही नहीं बढ़ेगी परकैपिटा इनकम भी
आय के औसत में एक से हैं रमझू-ओ-अंबानी
देश बनेगा उतना ही महान
बौना होगा जितना इंसान
यह बज़ट है इतना आलीशान
देश बनेगा अवश्य महान

कटौती में भी ये बजट करता नहीं पक्षपात
हो जैसे युधिष्ठिर के धर्मराज्य की कोई बात
करता नहीं कटौती सिर्फ कारपोरेट के कर में ही
करता है कटौती शिक्षा-ओ-स्वास्थ्य के मद में भी
राष्ट्र बनेगा उतना ही महान
जितने ऊंच-नीच होंगे इंसान
यह बज़ट है इतना आलीशान
देश बनेगा अवश्य महान

शिक्षा है मूल्यवान सामग्री
दाम बिना न मिलेगी डिग्री
खुली हैं दुकानें तरह तरह के ज्ञान की
कोचिंग से विश्वविद्यालय तक के संज्ञान की
होगी जिसकी जेब गरम जितनी
मिलेगी शिक्षा उसको उतनी
देश बनेगा उतना ही महान
लेफैगा जितना अज्ञान
यह बज़ट है इतना आलीशान
देश बनेगा अवश्य महान
स्वास्थ्य है हर व्यक्ति का निजी मामला
निजता पर यह बजट न करेगा हमला
जरूरी नहीं है सबका रहना सेहतमंद
इलाज होगा उनका जो होंगे कर्मठ दौलतमंद
वैसे भी  मुल्क की है बेइम्तहां आबादी
फिजूल है गरीब के इलाज पर धन की बर्बादी
मरेगा अगर भूख से तो लगेगा सरकार पर इल्जाम
रोग से मरेंगे तो छपेगा स्वाभाविक मौत का नाम
करेगी सरकार ग़र हर गरीब का इलाज
कैसे चलेगा मेडिकल-माफिया का कामकाज़
देश बनेगा तभी महान
बेइलाज मरेगा जब इंसान
यह बज़ट है इतना आलीशान
देश बनेगा अवश्य महान

गांव हैं मुल्क के पिछडेपन की निशानी
शर्मसार करते मुल्क को किसान-ओ-किरानी
गांव के शहरीकरण की है विश्वबैंक ने ठानी
लिखता है ये बजट स्मार्ट सिटी की कहानी
है इस बजट में मुकम्मल प्रावधान
न बचेगा किरानी न बचेगा किसान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान

पहले ही कट चुकी है खाद-पानी की सब्सिडी
खत्म नहीं हुई तब भी किसानों की मौजूदगी
देश बनेगा तभी महान
खेती होगी जब उद्योग समान
कैसे खडा होगा कृषि-उद्योग का वजूद
देहातों में रहेंगे जब तक किसान मौजूद
करता है ये बजट पूरा इंतजाम
करने को किसानी का काम तमाम
राष्ट्र बनेगा तभी महान
उठ जायेगा जब धरती से किसान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान

करेगा वालमार्ट अब यहां पर किसानी
देगा वही अब हम सबको दाना पानी
राष्ट्र बनेगा तभी महान
कॉरपोरेट बनेगा जब नया किसान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान

मिलेगा नहीं मजदूर को कोई भी अधिकार
फैलेगा वरना उनमें कामचोरी का विकार
करेगे वे वाजिब मजदूरी का विचार
झंझट में पड़ेगी कॉरपोरेटी सरकार
बजट ने किया है ऐसा प्रावधान
बने रहें मजलूम मजदूर-किसान
राष्ट्र बनेगा तभी महान
भूख सहेगा जब आम इंसान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान

नहीं है यह बजट नमकहरामी का
व्यर्थ नहीं होगा चुनावी निवश अंबनी-अडानी का
मध्ययुगीन है मुल्क का फुटकर बाजार
करना है उसमें मूलभूत सुधार
नहीं रहेंगे आढ़तिये और किरानी शेष
मिट जांयेगे ये मुल्क के मध्ययुगीन अवशेष
हर कस्बे में खुलेगी जब वालमार्ट की दुकान
भूमंडलीय हो जायेगी फुटकर बाजार की शान
राष्ट्र बनेगा तभी महान
विदेशी पूंजी की जब बढ़ेगी शान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान
बेचेगा वालमर्ट मुल्क में नमक तेल
जेनेटिक फसलों की होगी रेलमपेल
चलाते जितना कारोबार बयालिस करोड़ लोग
वालमार्ट करता उसके दहाई मजदूर प्रयोग
बढ़ेंगे मुल्क में बेइम्तहां बेरोजगार
सस्ते श्रम से चलेगा कॉरपोरेटी कारोबार
देश बनेगा तभी महान
त्रस्त रहेगा जब आम इंसान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान

पानी है दुनिया की बहुत ही अहम चीज
प्रबंधन के बिना हो गया है नाचीज
प्रबंधन पर है कारपोरेटी एकाधिकार
पानी के निजीकरण के हैं इसमें विचार
मिलेगा तब पानी को पूरा सम्मान
बीयर से अधिक होगा उसका दाम
राष्ट्र बनेगा तभी महान
पानी को तरसेगा जब आम इंसान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान

होती न अगर सोसल सेक्टर के बजट में कटौती
हो न पाती रक्षा बजट में इतनी अधिक बढ़ोत्तरी
फैलेगा न अगर युद्धोंमादी राष्ट्रवाद
रुक जायेगा मुल्क का आर्थिक विकास
इसीलिये इजाफा किया बजट में विध्वंसक हथियारों के
तोप, टैंक और युद्धक विमानों के
जब देखो इतराता है कल का पाकिस्तान
बम गोलों से बना सकें जिससे वहां रेगिस्तान
मांगती है महानता एक महान सेना
हथियारों की दलाली में सुरक्षित है लेना-देना
यह राष्ट्र बनेगा तभी महान
शस्त्र बाजार को जब देगा अनुदान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान

सेना की मजबूती इसलिये भी जरूरी
कश्मीर में रहते हैं काफी कशमीरी
जिसके आधे में है पाकिस्तानी सेना काबिज
आधे पर हिंदुस्तानी कब्ज़ा है बिल्कुल वाज़िब
पाकिस्तान ने भी बढ़ाया है रक्षा बजट
मिल दोनों दूर करेंगे उपमहाद्वीप का संकट
करेंगी दोनों सरकारें अावाम का निर्बाध  दमन
गूंजेगा जब तक राष्ट्रवादी नारों से गगन
खिलखिलायेगा थैलीशाहों का चमन
फैलेगा तब इस भूभाग में चैन-अमन
नहीं है सीमित कश्मीर तक बगावत
फैली मध्य भारत होते दक्षिण पूर्व तक
देश बनेगा तभी महान
होगी जब सेना बलवान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान

यह बजट है वाक़ई बहुत महान
छोटों का छोटा बड़ों का बड़ा लगाती हिस्सा समान
यह बजट है इतना आलीशान
राष्ट्र बनेगा अवश्य महान
(ईमिः 17.03.2015)