The Devil’s chessboard is an insightful book written on how the USA was hijacked by the deep state and how it undermined democracy in the USA. The repeat of the same is taking place in India when the entire government is now hijacked by the Brahmin-supremacists, Intelligent Bureau, RSS, and corporates. Before taking over the Union government, the RSS has been always moving as the deep state in terms of its network among the army officers and people in various bureaus. When the Brahmin terror striked India in Malegaon Bomb blast case and Samjhouta Express case, the ugly nexus between the army and the fringe Hindutva organisations was exposed by ATS under Hemant Karkare.

After the RSS/BJP came to power, the cases are either diluted or kept pending for a long time period. Most of the accused in the terror cases are now out on the bail despite the fact that evidence indicates an entirely different situation. In this nexus between the dark powers that take the larger mass of the people for granted, the biggest losers are India’s majority of the people. The wealth in India is getting concentrated in the hands of a few and the gap between the rich and poor is increasing day by day.

India as a sovereign nation must protect itself as much from the external enemies as the internal enemies of the people and the democracy. The death of democracy in India is taking place in the darkness of the corridor that sees increasing nexus between the powers that can potentially destroy democracy in India. The threat is real and present.

While the government is up for selling the national assets to the private parties, the economic disaster looms just ahead before the citizens. The key assets like coal blocs are now being handed out to the companies directly. The key public sector units are being liquidated irrationally and most importantly instead of focussing on the core industries, the government is handing over the precious assets of railways to the private hands.

The mindless focus on defence production when it is not needed is going to make the taxpayers pay more to the government than needed. India is already a nuclear state and it is the ultimate weapon and the large-scale war will be mutually destructive and therefore India should concentrate on diplomacy than weaponry. The manufacturing sector can be tuned to create everything from the pin to plane and therefore the talks of defence corridor in Uttar Pradesh is questionable. India is poised now to become the armed nation by aiming at the arming benefits the arms makers and arms dealers.

Author – Mangesh Dahiwale

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