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Peoples Agenda - Elections 2004

GOODS ARE FEELING GOOD NOT THE ORDINARY PEOPLE.

Beware of hypnotism  - “Garibi Hatavo”, or “Feel Good".
(February 9, 2004)

The Late Ms. Indira Gandhi, Congress leader and former Prime Minister, had in early '70s conducted a "Garibi Hatao" campaign, a program of hypnosis at national scale that saw the party voted to power. Now Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has launched a similar campaign using the "feel-good" slogan. As far as propaganda is concern, the BJP is a step ahead of even Gobbles, so the hypnosis it unleashes is bound to be more powerful than Congress.

Such is the daily bombardment with advertisements in newspapers and on television that it won't be surprising if an ordinary person - poor, hungry, unemployed, homeless and with hardly any clothes to wear - may yet begin to feel good. Great hypnotism by our great leaders of the country since 1947 even before that is going on in the country. Whom is Mr. Vajpayee addressing when he says feel good - goods or the ordinary citizens? It is the reality that consumer goods are feeling good because they got the market and their prices has gone up but how can the ordinary person whose real income and earning from savings have gone down because of falling interest rates and growing inflation feel good?

The Government spending on advertisements in the name of India Shining and parties’ election expenditure are so huge that it can be budget for any people oriented program. Ordinary people of the country should beware program of hypnosis like “Garibi Hatavo”, or “Feel Good”.

Rohit Prajapati
9
th February 2004

 
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