What Year is it?

Yesterday while reading the newspaper I came across an article about the Samajwadi Party’s manifesto for the general election this year. Well I know that most of the manifestos are bull shit and whatever is written hardly gets implemented. This has been followed religiously by our political system for ages. But after reading certain points of this manifesto I was completely stunned. Stunned is the word that describes my feeling precisely. To share a few points that are present in the manifesto:
1. Ban of English language as a medium for all government institution and activities.
2. Ban of English medium schools in the country.
3. Promotion of Hindi language as a common medium in all of India
4. Ban of usage of Computers in Government offices, companies etc.
5. I don’t remember the point exactly but it said building of X nos of temples, Y nos of mosque, etc

Well the SP party has provided many justifications for all these points. What they feel is that English language and computers are the two main reasons because of which we have a lot of unemployment in India. They feel that since many people cannot talk in English and don’t know to operate computers they don’t get jobs for which they might have qualification and capabilities. So they want to target this. They feel that the solution for this is to remove English language’s use. So they want to first remove its usage in communication in government offices and companies and later in private sector. And they feel that Hindi should be promoted more as a one language for India. Same is their theory with computers. They feel that computers first take away certain jobs for humans. If we remove computers then jobs will be done by humans so that will reduce unemployment. They have pointed out that the current state of the world and all the financial problems can be solved by these measure. And some that cannot be solved needs to be solved spiritually. So they want more temples and mosque in India to get India out of trouble today and in future.

After reading this I could believe what I was reading. How can people today take this crap from anyone. I cannot imagine what would be the psyche of the person who wrote this manifesto and people who support it. I seriously don’t understand how do these people get the balls to put up such a thing. And what is funny is this is not some small party. It is a party who are contesting for 400 odd seats and do have a probability of winning the elections and ruling India for the next 5 years. I seriously don’t find words to express my feelings.

In the end I just want to know one thing. The last time I slept the year was 2009. What year are we living in now?