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The government leaving the people to their own devices and going on a Kalpavas in a tent worth crores?

The government leaving the people to their own devices and going on a Kalpavas in a tent worth crores?

Vandita Mishra January 13, 2025

The entire focus of the Uttar Pradesh government is on this religious/spiritual event. Yogi Adityanath has even decided that during the Maha Kumbh, the state government will also be run from the Kumbh site. Crores of rupees are being spent for this as well. 4 huge tents have been erected on 2 lakh 40 thousand square feet of land at a distance of about 300 meters from the Sangam site. Although about 1 lakh pandals have been built at the entire Sangam site, but the 4 pandals from which Yogi Adityanath’s government is to run are very special. These four pandals in this area, equipped with interlocking roads, have been built using German hanger technology. The Uttar Pradesh government is to be run from these pandals, which have been built by spending crores of rupees of the public for their stubbornness and hobby. By ignoring the infrastructure of billions of rupees already built for the government, the Yogi government is going to organize the Kalpavas of his government. The government should also pay attention to the other Mahakumbhs of struggles and sorrows that are going on parallel to this two-month long Mahakumbh of faith, devotion and grandeur. Because governments are elected to remove the sufferings of the people and raise their standard of living. But the ruling party is in a different mood.

Let us discuss one Mahakumbh of sorrow. Uttar Pradesh is known for its most helpless health services. During Covid, the displeasure of the Allahabad High Court was very clear that a state which has such helpless health services is almost certain to collapse during an epidemic. Even after completing 7 years of its rule, the Yogi government has not woken up. It is not long ago when the Indian Express had found in its investigation that more than 200 community health centers and primary health centers in Uttar Pradesh do not even have a brick structure, let alone health services.

There is a very low number of doctors here, due to which the health of the people is getting affected. The health services which they have the right to get easily are rare for them. According to the data, only 45% of the primary health centers in the state are open 24 hours. In a study published in the medical and health journal, The Lancet, Uttar Pradesh has been included in the five states where district hospitals provide only 1 percent of basic services. Apart from this, Uttar Pradesh ranks first in the country in maternal mortality rate (MMR) and second in infant mortality rate (IMR).

Yogi ji must know that according to the 7th Schedule of the Constitution, health is a state subject. This means that the state government is responsible for the health of its citizens. It is a different matter that under the guise of the sacred concept of ‘Centre-State relations’, the ‘double engine’ relationship would have provided some special help, but both the one giving help and the one taking help seem to be indifferent towards the interests of the public.

Just think that the Prime Minister of the country spends 62 crore rupees in three years on organizing, promoting and publicizing his personal program ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’, but his own education ministry closes down the country’s most prestigious scholarship examination- National Talent Search Examination- NTSE because it does not have the money for it. Whereas the cost of organizing this examination and distributing scholarships for three years is just 40 crore rupees. Even a less knowledgeable person can tell how the PM’s personal desire to give advice has played with the country’s future. The PM is neither an educationist, nor an examination expert, nor a child and psychology expert, yet he is giving unnecessary advice to students without any invitation or need, that too by wasting so much money? Does it befit a government to waste public money on unnecessary works like this? I say that he should have either given this advice from his personal salary or with the help of one of his personal industrialist friends.

When his friend can get the contract to distribute prasad in Maha Kumbh, then he could have at least done this much help for the students of the country. But under no circumstances should the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) have been postponed. This is a big crime!

Amidst the huge event of Kumbh, it is also important to know that in the year 2024, Uttar Pradesh is the state from where the National Commission for Women has received the most complaints. More than 50% of the complaints have been received from Uttar Pradesh alone and this is frightening. Not only this, the figures of 2022 show that Uttar Pradesh ranks first in terms of crimes against Scheduled Castes, which also includes gruesome violence. What is the use of a huge religious spiritual consciousness like Maha Kumbh if the Yogi government is not able to stop the crimes against the oppressed class in the state. After all, what is that religious consciousness due to which Uttar Pradesh, drenched in it, alone accounts for almost a quarter of the crimes against Dalits across the country? Of the 51,656 cases registered across the country under the Scheduled Castes (SC) law in 2022, Uttar Pradesh accounted for 23.78%.

Apart from this, Uttar Pradesh is struggling with poor infrastructure development and low level of investment. Religious and caste violence further weakens the investment environment here. This time, Muslims have been banned from entering the Maha Kumbh, a festival in which religious and caste identities have not come in the way for centuries. This kind of divisive talk has the support of Shankaracharyas as well. The government, which should focus on the development and welfare of the state, is going to work with full dedication in the Kumbh Sthal and from the Kumbh Sthal for the next 40 days.

It seems that the Yogi government, which was elected for the people, to reduce their problems, has only aimed to recharge its religious identity. It seems that this government is using a religious event as a political event. This government is trying its best to establish its political interests and dominance through the Maha Kumbh.

Coming out of empty rhetoric and speeches on women safety, ensuring safety of women at all costs, adopting zero tolerance policy against rape, implementing measures to free the people suffering from rising inflation and severe unemployment from poverty, eliminating malnutrition, being alert to attacks on a particular religion and preventing the state from being established as a government of only one religion under any circumstances, keeping law and order free from religious and caste identity, not treating political criticism of the opposition and policy criticism by the press as terrorist attacks. Everyone knows that all this is very difficult and only a strong government can work in this direction.

According to newspaper reports, the Yogi government also plans to organize the ‘winter session’ of the assembly from the Kumbh Sthal itself. Organizing the entire session for all the members of both houses of the legislature will consume unlimited resources and energy. The problems faced by the common people will increase manifold, and there will be no one to listen to them. Everyone will justify suffering in the name of religion and faith. But the government should know that not only 20-25 year olds come for Kumbh bath but a large number of people who are not even old enough to step out of their homes, who are at that age where they need rest, who are also suffering from age-related diseases but their faith draws them to Kumbh. These are also the people who cannot even afford luxurious tents. They have to rely on themselves in this harsh winter. If the government does not change its ‘grand’ attitude, then these people will face the

The government, which is spending thousands of crores of rupees on this religious event, is hoping that this festival will bring in many times more revenue. Maybe it will.

This is not a new thing. A Chinese traveler who visited India in the 7th century also called it an economic event along with being religious. The problem is not with these things, the problem is whether the government is aware of all the other parallel events going on in its state or not? If rapes continue to happen in police stations, Dalits continue to be beaten to death, and the state’s health system remains in ICU, then no religious event will be able to fill this gap. The government elected for the people is responsible for every religion, every caste, no ‘ifs and buts’ can be put in it. The government should do its work from government offices so that the state, which is already in a bad state in many matters, does not get into an even worse state.

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