India Drops To 85th In Passport Index And There Are Uneasy Issues To Address

India Drops To 85th In Passport Index And There Are Uneasy Issues To Address

As reports came in that the show of unity that was visible among travelers as far as visiting from India and to India was visible in 2024 making it enjoy the ranking of 80th in passport index this slump this time is much to do with factors that have lost political aura and shine. In 2006 India shared a spotlight with a ranking of 71st and worst ranking came in 2021 when India was ranked 90th. That ranking in 2021 was much to do with the fact that ringleaders were seen as chameleon swearing by the slogan that we are the best and rest of the political class soars up with clouds of dust. The regime of that time was unwilling to trace to a locale where sycophants could be put aside and tinkering with policies could well be done by keeping opponents thoughts in mind. 

For Regime Of The Day The Unipolar Arrangement Is Best; Issues Plaguing Travelers

Opposition space and those in media who wish to point out lacunae and such figures can't be traced is due to all pervasive fear that they would be picked out one by one and targeted here and there. The regime of the day can't stomach opposition from any quarter and for them unipolar arrangement should get broader. These issues do bother inbound and outbound travelers and with freedom shrinking most are India averse and shivering. Travelers with deep pockets have reservations while traveling from India and those wishing to touch India shore have inbuilt fear and phobia. Most travelers with Indian Passport know pretty well elections in whichever part of the country in the decade gone by have been least civil and clean and those with surging money wallet reigned supreme. Most travelers with Indian Passport wishing to travel abroad and bring their relations stationed there can't do this with ease and in the exercise of relocation their movements freeze. 

Electoral Rolls Disconfigured; Maharashtra Polls Can't Be Revered

Never in the history of Independent India electoral rolls have been disconfigured to the maximum to bring gains to one political set up and there is the rub.  Political uncertainty prevails and polls after polls there are rebels to chase. An aura of respectability India lost given the upheaval in the State Of Maharashtra where the conduct of polls were minus fair play and thereby fair index getting grey. It was not just the State Of Maharashtra that saw seesaw battle between the need to be diligent and those with outside chance holding partial and prejudiced pageant. This played out in other sections of India and for election agents this was TRIVIA. How could Maharashtra State hold such barbaric polls in the face of one political strike here and one political strike there given the voter revision list that was shaky and multiple times some having done recce. In the heat of the moment one political coalition was brought down and in came in office combination of those forces whose ideology were poles apart driven by the destructive desire to amass and give the unethical and unscrupulous elements a free pass. Voter list which stood at around 9 crore 20 lakh (9,20,00,000) during Parliamentary Polls jumped to over 9 crore 70 lakh (9,70,00,000) in the run up to Assembly polls in a space of four months and this brought to the fore the elements with least morals having shortchanged the institution of election and if they hadn't resorted to this malpractice they would have been looking for evacuation. 

Political-Cum-Economic Freedom On Agitational Course With Religious Freedom Chants One Can Least Boast

As travelers from abroad know inside out the political follies that creep up now and then they are wary of visiting this zone and wary as well of hosting someone from here as political-cum-economic freedom the nation can boast of is too little and too far with cities after cities that can well be captured by drone. From those riding cars with least discipline to runways to host planes getting thin to vehicles with malfunctioning axle that roam free and here freedom for common man is elusive tree. The nation bubbling with numbers can't get the same set of satisfaction for its economy which this fiscal looks to log growth that would be thorny. With economy little shaky and religious freedom chants looking slender and skinny travelers by and large can't repose faith as in States After States the democracy theatre looks to be a Shaky Gate. Journos have been in the firing line and so have been those who stood up for the rights of marginalised and here travelers bear this in mind while trying to figure out in the world forum which nation is Free And Giant. 

YEDU KONDALWADA VENKATRAMNA GOVINDA GOVINDA