Rahul Gandhi MP, the heir-apparent to the throne of Indraprastha, Sonia Gandhi, MP, UPA Chairperson, Congress President, Chairperson, National Advisory Council, keep mum whenever the stability of the Government in power faces a threat of ouster from power. Tall talks of ethics, morals, the rich heritage of Grand old party of India (GoP), Indian National Congress which has already crossed 125 years of existence once led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gopalakrishna Gokhale, Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhai Patel - an array of great leaders of integrity and honesty who swore by great democratic traditions and principles the party has now fallen into an abyss of corruption, horse trading, encouraging defections, cobbling together of majority befriending opportunist parties who pretend to be the avowed enemies of the Party when threatened with loss of power. Here I am compelled to point out the enormous profits being made by various corporates each quarter, the wide coverage they get in the media, finance columns of each national newspaper are full to the brim about the gross profits amassed by corporate honchos. The business channels like CNBC TV18 and NDTV Profit compete with each other in projecting the record profits acquired by the business tycoons, interviews, hot discussions and debates, well, no news forthcoming about the progress made on agriculture front, alas it is just the opposite when the media men are confronted with the issues and problems faced by agriculture in our country which is actually the nation’s backbone have nothing to say about it and keep mum. “The less said the better”- they might be telling to themselves. The elite get bored about the harrowing tales, countless of them about the severe droughts experienced by the country, the toiling farmers who find it difficult to make both ends meet, the threat of GM foods and seeds exporting to our country by multinationals, or their agents with the covert and overt support of the ‘Gandhian’ government in power, crores without roofs above their heads, the vast slums and the languishing men, women and children, now even the loud and tall promises of uplift of crores of Kalavatis are not being mentioned - no indications of trickle down effect which our economic pundits under an economist Prime Minister proclaiming at the top of their voices but all turn empty proclamations notwithstanding. Fed up. Our ruling leaders remain inebriated with power, hence their arrogance and intolerance to criticism. Recent nation wide bandhs did not make them climb down on the issues of petrol price hike (you know the petrol prices remain volatile hence no looking back, says our Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, “sometimes high and sometimes low”), sky rocketing of prices of essential commodities, food items, host of issues. The opposition sponsored cut-motion threatened the very existence of the ‘pro-poor’ frantic henchmen of UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress Secretary Rahul Gandhi M.P and Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh all were reportedly in search for fence sitters with promises of waiver of criminal and civil cases filed against them to be watered down with Sonia, Rahul,Man Mohan Singh keeping mum and clean. This is the period of proxies in India - proxies there were in the past also – that is another truth but such henchmen in large numbers emerged right from IPL to politics, both related to each other. Here also proxies jumped into the forefront to propitiate the Gods and Goddesses with promises galore. To defeat the cut-motion, the avowed enemy, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) sided with the Govt in power with Rashtriya Janata Party Dal (RJD) of Lalu Prasad Yadav, Samajwadi Party (SP) of Mulayam Singh Yadav abstaining. Like the young man or lady in the UNINOR advertisement saying confidently, ‘Next comes my number’, both the aforesaid leaders still dream about a day, when two seats remaining vacant to get enconsced in cosy chairs.
Mayawati’s enemity verging on personal animosity towards Sonia and Rahul is famous/notorious and the mutual mud-slinging and allegations of corruption on various fronts traded against Mayawati by Rahul and Sonia Gandhi on the issues of instalments of statues of Mayawati, her mentor Kanshi Ram, B.R.Ambedkar and SreeNarayana Guru, misusing of central funds allotted to the State, deforestation to beautify some parts of Uttar Pradesh - all swept under the carpet with both of them keeping mum and remaining clean. How much value they give to the words mouthed by them now? Any kind of introspection took place? Even an iota of remorse?
Whether in politics anything is possible? If that be so, the future of this country is doomed with democratic traditions, principles, ethics and morals getting guillotined.
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