HOW PATRIOTIC, WHEN OUR
CONDUCT IS ANTI-NATIONAL?
On the way that I used to go to office every day in mid 1975, there was a Government Thermal Power House, where electricity was generated and supplied to the city. Everyday morning hundreds of workers used to gather at the gate of the Power House and protest with slogans of Murdabad. I came from outside. This sight was everyday while passing by the road. Stopped for a day and tried to understand this ritualistic routine. There was a Union, whose foremost leaders were non-workers. However, this work went on for months and years. Stopped only when one day the Power House was closed and power generation stopped.
When we started our working life in 1969, I was gradually conditioned that being an entrepreneur or running a big business is a criminal act. At that time some big industrial houses like Tata, Birla, Dalmiya, Goenka, Singhania, Bangur were in the country. Everyone's background was Indian. All were devoted to the nation. Everyone supported the freedom struggle. But people did not get tired of raising slogans of their downfall. After independence, there was a democratically elected government in the country and state, but the peoples' government was called the government of the capitalists.
We were told that imported goods are good, but we were never aroused to appreciate the goods made by Indian entrepreneurs, employment provided by them, industrial development, capital formation, taxes etc. A hatred feeling was filled towards them. He was the biggest revolutionary, who abused the capitalists the most. He was the biggest progressive and communist, who abused the management, conducted strikes, jammed the wheel of work and closed the lock one day.
If we look at the country's banking industry, except Allahabad Bank and Imperial Bank, all the other banks were established by one or the other Indian entrepreneur, in which lakhs of people like us got employment and even today they are national institutions, engaged in the development of the country. Our Unions raised profuse Murdabad slogans against the Founders.
Our Unions have never shown gratitude and indebtedness to the Founders. The foundation day of the Banks was not celebrated. In the Banks where lakhs of people were employed, the Unions mobilized the same Bank Workers against the Bank Founders and the Management.
After the nationalization of the Banks, the private Founders and Management went into the background, but the attitudes of the Unions did not change, becoming more aggressive and anti-establishment. Since the ownership of the Banks was in the hands of the Government, the opposition attitude of the Unions began to be determined by the political proximity of the Unions.
Our industries were kept dwarf in front of MNCs and when Make in India was announced, the political parties opposed and made fun of it. Our industrial houses are not capable of case studies. Indian banking is completely Indian, but there has never been any study on its success. Mockery of Indian products, ridicule of industrialists! Abusing Baba Ramdev and praising Johnson & Johnson whose products are carcinogenic. Now people have started pointing fingers at the contribution of public sector banks and advocating to sell them.
This country has been living on the strength of its heritage. We have been grateful to such people, who have given something to the country and the society. We have been comparing our teachers with Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. The farmer is considered as the food giver. We have been looking at the rishis, sages and saints with reverence. But, the one who gives us employment, wages, creates surplus for the country, is motivated to hate him by calling him exploiter.
This is the same country where today industrialists are called exploiters and even traitors, while they always stand for the nation. Those who work in the industrial units of the country stand against their own industry and business. The farmer does not do any such work which destroys the fertility of his field and does not produce crops. But thousands of industries were shut down in the country because their workers did not allow them to run.
Working in the trade union, we saw that we have no knowledge of the creativity of capital and its formation. We saw big leaders, saw lakhs of their members, but all of them together could not establish a bank. If this had happened, the world would have got a new idea that an industrial empire can be built with the unity of the workers. It shows that what millions of laborers cannot do together, one enterprising individual can do.
Needless to say that we have not learned to celebrate the success of our loved ones. No industrialist or big business people keep money under the bed for personal use as portrayed by some politicians, documentaries or newspapers. They create assets that benefit citizens, provide jobs to the unemployed, and pay taxes to the government.
When will we be honest towards ourselves and towards the society and the country? When will we salute hard-working, risk-taking entrepreneurship? When will you celebrate the best contribution? This is Amrutkal and we have honest and transformative leadership. The world is looking at us with great expectations, but we are seen standing with the conspirators against our country.
Why do we always feel inferior and look towards the West for their acceptance and recognition. Why the whole system politicians, bureaucrats or common people think wrongly about businessmen, yet these are the people who take risks and work hard and generate employment, revenue and develop sectors.
It's not about being right..It's about being wrong and having a mindset of slavery.
(Prayagwani, Prayagraj / 11.2.2023)
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