As 2014 beckons, we need to take stock of how have we allowed this country to be run the way it is being run. What transpired between the night when we had our tryst with destiny and this day when we have a battery of ministers hell bent upon turning a multi-crore scam into a few-crore one and ultimately into a zero-loss aberration !!! Its a long story and could run into numerous volumes of history. 65 years of history is too eventful to cover.
But one thing that has run parallel to our fate till today is our fixation with the Gandhi(Nehru) parivar. For all that Jawahar Lal Nehru was - a champion of democracy,secularism, fabian socialism - he was also a hopeless romantic who viewed things from a high pedestal,true to his classy upbringing. Ram Manohar Lohia's jibe in the Lok Sabha - contrasting the income of a common man and the money spent on Nehru's dog - signified all that was wrong with Nehru. You could trust him to be well-intentioned but then intentions don't build nations. Actions do. His well-bred daughter kicked her dad's dream of democracy aside as she laid the foundations of the sultanat to whose reign we are still subjected to - The Gandhi Sultanat.
When Sonia ji so cleverly draped her inability to lead the nation with a farce of a sacrifice in 2004 and chose to install a puppet Pradhan Mantri , the ever-so-gullible Indian exalted her to a status that few have enjoyed in this poor country. Little did the common man know that there would be a NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL - led by the same lady which would be the real fountain authority. Authority has since then flowed out of 10 Janpath while Responsibility is a poor soul that mumbles and grumbles at 7RCR.
No wonder our pradhan mantri has no knowledge of any scam. He still drives a Maruti 800 afterall. We don't blame you Sire. You are merely following the directives of the lady that this country trusted. Twice over. But the problem arises, Sire,when you go " Hazar zawabo se achi hai meri khamoshi, na jane kitne sawalo ki abru rakhe " . We wonder was the aabru so sacrosanct to be kept when right under your nose sychophants and thuggs looted the public exchequer! But then again, your kurta is clean because the mota maal goes to Italy via a different route.
And alongside all this we had a constant overdose of a bachelor baba who,if the Congress is to be believed, is the only baba left in India capable of curing it of the ills it is plagued by, - Rahul Baba! The messiah of a country of a billion and more, they say. Except for the fact that we know nothing about his education, we know nothing about his ideology, we know nothing about the solutions he proposes, we know nothing about his vision. Half a decade he has spent reforming the Youth Congress and only he knows what these reforms have been. I know it for a fact that his visits to the villages and bastis are planned a month in advance, the photo-ops are well choreographed, the food is squeaky clean, the actors are well paid. The cameras are 'bought'.
Where was he when the youth of the capital was crying hoarse for change during the Anna Andolan? Why did he not come to Ramlila Maidan to give his side of the story and why did he not give his 'constitutional status' prescription before a crowd of thousands at Jantar Mantar? Why does he- and his mummy- go underground every time we face a crisis,only to emerge at rallies pointing a finger and grumbling "humne dilli se paisa bheja aapki sarkar kha gayi" .
Ye paisa aapke pita ki jaagir nahi hai Rahul ji, ye paisa is desh ke har nagrik ki mehnat ka paisa hai. Aap isko bhejte nahi hai .aap bhej bhi nahi sakte aapki aukaat nahi hai.aap is paise ko lautate hai - janta ko. It is the money that the people of this country keep with the Government Of India ,protected by the Constitution and to be spent with all care and caution.You don't own it Brother.
Despite complete absence of meat and merit , Rahul ji is the de facto PM-in-waiting. As if India is a large estate passed down from Nehru To Indira To Rajiv To Sonia To Rahul To Priyanka To who-so-ever-is-next-in-the-family. Even Vadra ji would someday grace the Cabinet if things work out to his plan!
Vadra, a one-time vagabond, is today desh ka daamad. Salman Khurshid can sell his soul,dharm and imaan and much more just to defend Damaad Ji. And when he can not, he takes off the microphone and vanishes. Well tried Sir. You failed not only in your defence of Vadra ji, you also failed your pedigree. Dr. Zakir Hussain was as distinguished a statesman as India could ever get. You betray his blood with your sychophancy and guile.
Sonia Ji, the lady with the lamp of sacrifice, with the legacy of a sacrificed husband ( or a pradhan mantri husband who sold our ijjat and aabru to the Swiss!! ), with a starched saari to show for her Indian-ness and her ever so chaste Hindi, we thank you for all you have done for this nation. And we pray to you with folded hands, leave us to our own fate. Let Rahul baba chill out. You also take a nice long vacation.Please. And worry not, we'll take good care of Mr. Vadra.
There is no end to the price we are paying for this parivar's sustenance. It is for us to decide how long we want to be ruled by a family that no longer carries Nehru's sincerity of heart nor his passion. It is for us to take our fate into our own hands and decide our own future. Let a thousand small parties spring up and let a thousand coalition governments form and fall, at least we'll learn how to run a country. Sooner or later we'll get it right. Madame,you and your family have tried long enough to ruin us. Somehow we still hold firm. You have completely turned a party that won us our freedom into a rotten warehouse while the likes of Digvijay Singh and Ambika Soni keep your ego well fed by their unabashed sycophancy.
Our destiny - of 1200 million people - can not be written unilaterally by a mother-son duo. It should NOT be.
brilliant expression.. indeed "It should NOT be."
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