Yet Another Lok Sabha Session: Part 3

The speaker continued, "The next quest raised was about wasting time and resources on useless things like music, arts, movies, etc. The question was raised by V.K. Menon ji. Menon ji, please continue your question."

Menon was one of the key players in shaping India's independent foreign policy. But he was also a communist sympathesizer, and one of the main reasons for loss in Sino-India war in the original timeline.

Here, he is a member of opposition, and his question exposes his communist ideology.

"Why are we focusing on useless things like music, dance, and such other things when our people can't put food on their table? And why is the PM himself writing songs, teaching dance moves, and even styling clothes? And, why did you design such an expensive car for yourself? Surely a cheaper one would have worked? These things aren't your job. And you, and us, shouldn't waste our time and resources in these things."

"The answer is very simple. These things serve huge purpose without any downside.

First of all, we didn't spend a single rupee from the government's funds. I spent 99% of all my remaining money in these projects. So, it didn't actually waste anything from the government.

The first rule of a healthy economy of any institution is diversity. We were around 85% agriculture based economy in the last financial year. The 10% was secondary, and 5% tertiary, which mostly included salaries of officials.

Now, growing other industries like entertainment doesn't impact agriculture. These two are separate things.

As our population continues growing, and as machines make agriculture more efficient, unemployment will rise. So, we need to develop other industries too. With our population, we should develop every industry that isn't something unethical.

The things that you labelled as 'useless' brought 50% of our Red and Pink funds internationally.

Our shoe industry, which was merely making shoes for foreign companies, now has our own internationally recognised brand Juta. Our clothing industry, which was merely making clothes for foreign companies until now, have many of our own brands now, promoting Indian modern clothing-"

"Such short clothes aren't in our Indian culture!"

A man shouted.

"Well, why aren't you just wearing a dhoti then? Indian women didn't need to wear blouses in sarees. In Indian culture, we dressed very less due to our hot weather.

I am saying this beforehand. No cultural policing. You can't control what anyone wears because you aren't the one wearing the clothes. You can't decide what Indian culture is.

Anyway, where was I? Ah! Yes. Benefits of those 'useless' things you mentioned.

Our toy industry is booming because of dolls, the car company, 'Billionaire', that I created with my own money, is to showcase India's strength and pride across the world. This will also benefit our automobile industry. And 45-45% of the profits go into Red and Pink funds respectively anyway.

India can't rely on agriculture and heavy industries alone. Not with our population. We need more money, we need more tourism, and we need more popularity across the globe. If I am talented in creating some new things that the world hasn't seen before, and use them to benefit India, even without using any government funds, I don't understand why anyone will have any problems.

Even putting the economic benefits aside, things like these are necessary in our current depressing situation. Things like these bring people together. After the end of winter session today, I will be focusing on sports as well.

You are a lawyer, following an inherently flawed economist. We have the perfect economic model of how India worked. Why it worked. Why it was so rich.

Diversity. Diversity when used properly is a very significant tool for prosperity. Any economy which focuses on some few things is bound to collapse."

After some moments, the speaker said,"Does anybody have anymore questions on this topic?"

When nobody had anything more to say, speaker moved on to the next topic.

"The next question was about the Middle East relationship, raised by Nehru ji. Please state your question."

"As we know, our relationship with the middle east are currently terrible. As it was revealed some years ago, India was the target of the war before Israel was officially recognised by the UN.

While we know the main reason of it, the Mosair Revolution, and we aren't one bit against any reform movement under freedom of religion, what has the government planned out to ease the relationship? We should diversify our oil supply, and not be overly reliant on any country."

"Well, we are trying to improve our relationship with West Asia, but they have been stubborn about cracking down on the Mosair Revolution. The vandalists of the Babri Masjid are arrested according to our laws, but they are interfering in our internal matter and demanding death penalty. Moreover, our intelligence have received reports of assassination plans for the Supreme Court judges for Ram Mandir case.

Which country(ies) planned will be kept secret right now, but we do hope they stop trying to harm our sovereignty. We don't try to be friends with such countries.

The talks with Iran, which has been also targeted due to it being Shia Muslims by Arabs, have been progressing smoothly. They are currently in the middle of creating a secular constitution, we both suffered at the hands of British, we both have huge historical ties, and we both are neighbours. It's best if we have good relationship, and both parties are working on it.

Though, for anything definite, we will have to wait until their first leader is elected.

We are in backdoor talks with some other Arab nations as well, and we can't really reveal anything right now.

Though, we can reveal as much that we will work with Iran, or any West Asian country to help them getting a permanent seat in Asian Union and technological advancement if we get a good oil deal, and they aren't hostile to us."

As of right now, Asian Union has effectively three members, India, Indonesia, and Japan. And all three countries need oil. Japan can't get it from Soviet Union due to USA, and if it is able to get it a little cheaper from West Asia, it wouldn't mind it. Indonesia is a Muslim majority country to begin with. Unless it has any rivalry, it wouldn't mind another country getting on.

Iran is the best choice. It has oil, natural gas, uranium, a less radical population, and is even a neighbour. By joining Asian Union, it will effectively make it harder for a military takeover. And with India's help in taking the education and economy in the right direction, a theocratic takeover will be difficult.

Of course, there is danger of both USA and USSR. But Iranian revolution was too successful, with a cooperative style ownership of oil and gas. Having a dictator is virtually impossible for atleast 20-30 good years.

While CIA may be trying to put its puppet leader on the position, all the candidates are already Pro-India because the core members of the revolution know that they were supported by India. It isn't much of a secret that will topple the government.

And, having them admit it themselves before it is exposed will surely put off CIA. It may support one or two candidate. Maybe three. But they will loose because all India, and the Iranian public wants is an independent strong leader who will think about his own country first.