National integration & our India

National integration is the crying need of the time. The need of it is well felt in the soil of India as disintegrative forces are very much proactive in India and it is the perpendicular threat to split the nation into small fragments. “Unity in Diversity” is the basic theme Of Indian solidarity. Our India is a multi racial, multi lingual, multi religion and multi community country. Differences in cultural tradition and heritage are the very natural inevitability. Yet India was so long united intricately. India presents a remarkable variety of people with different ways of liking and disliking. But now the problem of national integration has overshadowed our thinking of unification. As constitutionally pledged after independence, India is a secular, democratic and republican country. It envisages equal rights to enjoy to all the citizens, no matter what the difference is. Concept of secularism and democracy can never be challenged in India and if that is contested in any way that is a punishable offence in the eye of law. But it is an irony to note that conspired as well as the heinous activities to destabilize the integrity and sovereignty of India are constantly mushrooming in every pocket of India and we, the peace-monger countrymen of India, are getting terrified subject to the unity and solidarity of the nation. India united and India divided into parts will not be the same reflection to accept or accommodate in passiveness as a citizen of free India.

Neither the national character nor the national policy has been well formulated with national feelings since independence in India. It is painful to note that even after six decades have passed we are threatened with our national integration and sovereignty being threatened. Forgetting the cultural heritage of our country, forgetting the main stream of our culture we are fighting with each other on the ground of flimsy interest and sense of brotherhood is steadily eliminating there. Issues are constantly being cooked in the kitchen of disintegrative forces for our national integration to stand before a big question mark.

Frankly speaking; communalism, racial discrimination, religious fundamentalism, separatist trends, terrorism, sabotage activities coupled with many other allied vices are the different wings of national disintegration enfeebling the unity and solidarity of India in wider senses. Social and political disparities have created problems of disruption and disintegration. Sometimes it comes in our mind that national disunity is regardless the well thought political calculation for gaining cheap and narrow political advantages. The gross disparity of fiscal and social status holds the responsibility of divisive thinking to promote. An exposition of grievances of the larger section of the common people being deprived and exploited is not an offence. A long chained agitation to acknowledge their grievances is also natural. Poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, population explosion will very much exist and movements will not be launched as a token of protest; it is a greater contradiction. But, if those movements are wrongly channelized in the form of the onslaught of national disintegration those are crime.

Economic inequalities also fuel the national disintegration extravagantly because no section of people wants to be economically deprived what leads them to the field of endless humiliation. Naturally people of those communities want to revolt out of class-consciousness. Why do they agree upon that maximum share of our national capital vis-à-vis income will be enjoyed by minimum representation of countrymen? Why do they not earn according to their need? How long would they remain in the status of economically deprived? These questions can never be ruled out because they do have merits and relevancy and they are definitely to be answered, failing which violent disintegrative movements will come in renewal and those will break the unity and solidarity of the nation itself.

Anti-national and disruptive forces were always at work throughout the history of India. But that history of ignominy can never be allowed to repeat with its sharp teeth being opened to tear our existence in India. We must have to terminate it from the root. The country must be saved from being split into parts. Without national unity a nation can hardly develop and achieve prosperity. It’s a precondition to protect unity and solidarity at the very outset and then to think of development and prosperity. The government should ponder over the disintegrative issues deeply and to find out the roots of them. Concrete discussions with the stewards of the disintegrative forces in a liberalized visionary look can easily decimalize the problem with a golden solution. National disintegration should never allowed to be on the rife because we don’t want see India being divided further for our myopic vision to save India.