In response to appeasement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has raised the word of satisfaction. He told his party’s national executive meeting in Hyderabad that the goal of the BJP is to take the country from appeasement to gratification. The point of appeasement is understandable as the BJP has been alleging for decades that the Congress and many other anti-BJP regional parties practice the politics of Muslim appeasement. Muslim appeasement has been a political issue of the BJP, which has been claimed to change for the last eight years. The same thing was told by the Prime Minister in one line that the goal of BJP is gratification rather than appeasement.
The question is, who will be satisfied and how? There are thousands, lakhs of people in this country who are just satisfied that Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir has been abolished. Many people are satisfied that Ram temple is being constructed in Ayodhya. The BJP and its central and state governments have provided many such opportunities for fulfillment at the national and local level. Somewhere by changing the names of railway stations and somewhere by changing the names of cities and districts. Otherwise, the people have been satisfied only by arresting Muslim leaders, journalists or social workers. Some people are satisfied with the triple talaq law, while some people are waiting for the amended citizenship law to be satisfied.
Think, fulfillment is a very personal feeling, which is related to one’s body, mind and soul. It is not a collective or public sentiment. The feeling that comes in the mind by seeing someone else’s trouble or seeing someone else’s difficulty, even if it is an enemy, cannot be called satisfaction. The wicked one who is happy with pain will be considered not satisfied. And of course, contentment and fulfillment are also completely different emotions. Respect, religion and art-culture come later, the first basis for the satisfaction of mind and soul is to have a full stomach. But in India, the biggest crisis is of bread and employment. Can anyone claim that the 81 crore people who are living on five kilos of food grains are getting satisfied? Will there be a sense of satisfaction in their mind by taking five kilograms of food grains from the government or will there be a sense of helplessness and embarrassment? Will the mind get restless after losing employment or will there be a feeling of satisfaction that we will work in MNREGA? During the Corona epidemic, when seeing someone dying in agony due to lack of oxygen, there must have been a sense of fulfillment that there must have been a sense of guilt and helplessness? Will the four-year Agniveer plan to give satisfaction to the youth preparing to join the army with the spirit of service to the country or will his mind be filled with despair? In fact, gratification is a philosophical kind of feeling, which can be felt with a full stomach and a full mind. Are the people of India getting such satisfaction?
The reverse is happening in India. India’s vast middle class The Great Indian Middle Class, which was the most sated and drank-fed class, is the most restless. It is facing the biggest hit of inflation. He is the one who suffers the most due to loss of employment. It is his compulsion to work under MGNREGA by coming down from his social status. So, the one who was satisfied is now the most unsatisfied and restless. Struggling for the basic necessities of his life. The one who was already living life in God’s faith, he was satisfied only with the fact that God has given him life here, so what can anyone do. He is satisfied by accepting five kilos of grain or MGNREGA wages as the will of God. Even he cannot be said to be satisfied. Then who is satisfied and what is the fulfillment?
