by Dr Ved Prakash Bhardwaj
Defection (move from one political party to another) in Indian politics is not a new phenomenon. After
the announcement of the recent elections, we have seen that many prominent
leaders left a party and went to another. Today, if the Congress broke a BJP
leader, the BJP has made any Congress leader its candidate and candidate. This
game of 'Aya Ram-Gaya Ram' has been running for a long time. Initially, the
angry leaders of Congress formed their own party but later instead of
forming the party, they started joining the other party. The funny thing is
that at times it is not known who the leader in which party is. The issue of
Shatrughan Sinha, who recently left the BJP and joined the Congress is totally
different. He has joined the Congress while his wife Poonam Sinha is contesting
from Lucknow on the ticket of SP. It is being discussed which party their
children will go to. If someone is returning home today, then one has
complained of suffocation and the other has gone in other’s garden.
Bhajan Lal was considered the biggest player in this game of
'Aya Ram-Gaya Ram'. When the Janata Party came to power in 1977, Bhajan Lal was
a part of it. In 1979, he became Chief Minister by defeating his own party's
Devi Lal government in Haryana. But the bigger task was done in 1980 when
Indira Gandhi came back to power. He shifted into the Congress with 40 MAL’s
including total ministry. The
government's party's flag change; the rest will be the same, from the chief
minister to the minister. This was an amazing event in the history of Indian
politics. At that time Bhajan Lal was also a legislator, Gaya Lal, on whose
name 'Aya Ram-Gaya Ram' jumala became. If Bhajan Lal was a superstar of the
team-changing game then Gaya Lal was evergreen.
It is also recorded on the name of 'Aya Ram-Gaya Ram', which
has changed the party three times in just nine hours. In 1967, some MLAs broke
up with the Congress in Haryana and formed a huge Haryana party and formed the
government by making United Front under the leadership of Rao Birendra Singh, a
key leader of South Haryana. At that time, the MLA from Ferozabad constituency
Hasanpur Assembly was independently elected. It is said that he first joined
Congress and then joined the United Front in a few hours and then went to the
Congress from there immediately. But the game was still the rest. Within a few
hours, he returned to United Front again. Until Rao Birender Singh had said,
'Jai Ram has come now Ram.'
If the history of change of most parties will be written
then it will be a leader from Bihar, Nagmani who has worked for twenty-two
times party change in his political career. Even he came and visited many times
in the same party. The record of party change was recorded in the political
life of Nagmani in the twenty-year political year of 2014. After that, he
changed the party many times. He has come to visit many times in BJP. Recently, he
joined JD (U) except the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP). At least there is
no such major party in Bihar in which it can not be. Perhaps there are Left
parties which they never stopped.
A similar incident is recorded in Uttar Pradesh's history
when the BSP withdrew its support from the joint government of BJP and BSP in
1997. At that time Kalyan Singh was the Chief Minister. The BJP then proved its
majority by breaking the BSP and Congress. At that time, the BJP was accused of
buying opposition parties of the opposition parties, in which it was said that
all the MLAs who were defamed were made ministers. In Uttarakhand, in 2016, the
attempt was made to play a game of defection, but BJP did not get success in
it. In Karnataka, whether it is Congress or BJP or any other party, they are
playing a game of defection to get all the power. With the slogan of a stable
government, the reason behind the stagnation of the minority government of BJP
in 2014 in Jharkhand is also a defect. At
the same time, the BJP split the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha and recognized its six
legislators as a separate party in the assembly and proved its majority. From
then until February 2019, it was not decided that the going of the six MLAs is
a division of the party or the party changed. Those MLAs said they had merged
the party in BJP. After the decision of the Assembly Speaker in February 2019,
it was assumed to be a division.
Trying to play a similar political drama The BJP did not get
any majority in the 2018 assembly elections in Karnataka. At the center, the
ruling BJP took Yeddyurappa to the chief minister and had to leave the chair
without having the necessary majority. He tried to break the Congress and JDS
legislators but did not succeed. In this case, the court went on, the court
rejected the BJP's argument that the defection law does not apply to the MLAs
elected before taking an oath.
In Goa also the BJP had made its own government in the same
way. Of the 40 seats in the 2017 assembly elections, BJP got 13 seats, Congress
got 17 seats. When the Manohar Parrikar of the ruling BJP in the center became
the Chief Minister. A majority of people including the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak
Party was proved to be the majority. At that time, Congress had accused BJP of
buying and selling MLAs.
These are some big examples of the swamp of defection in
Indian politics. Apart from these, the leaders of the day leave the party and
go to another. Never get the ticket because of this, and never get the job of
profit. It is the result of this politics of changing loyalty like clothes that
now no party can be called pure or ideal. Even after this, such leaders succeed
in winning the election, it is not surprising. Shatrughan Sinha, who is
critical of the BJP till yesterday and criticizing the Congress, is today
praising Congress and criticizing the BJP. That's just one example. In Indian
politics, there is such 'Aaya Rama-Gaya Ram' that there is pressure on the
fingers under the teeth after hearing about them.
