In an interactive session with students of Lucknow University and Ram Manohar Lohiya University, Rahul Gandhi made some interesting comments as General Secretary of All India Congress Committee as also the leader of National Students Union of India (NSUI) at Uttar Pradesh. The youthful leader missed no opportunity in squarely blaming the UP govt for the backwardness of UP and Madhya Pradesh in the fields of education and health. The charming leader conveniently forgot the fact that even very much before Bharathiya Janata Party, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party wielding power in both Uttar Pradesh govt and Madhya Pradesh Congress was very much entrenched in the saddle since Independence. For decades together the party ruled these States and the names of BJP, SP and BSP were quite unheard of then. While in the fields of education, health and infrastructure development these States were lagging very much and because of these reasons the mushrooming of regional parties came into existence pushing Congress far far behind. Mr Gandhi kept mum on that subject not because he was quite ignorant of the facts, playing ignorance and innocence is the hallmark of each political party. Mr.Gandhi too tread those lines and we people need not be surprised or embarrassed on that score.
To a query posed by a student why during the period of Indira Gandhi she could very well contain price-rise and corruption why can’t the present dispensation contain that. It is however a matter of dispute that Indira regime could contain corruption and price hike. How come the student who posed that query came to that conclusion is something puzzling let’s leave the matter to the majority. Well, Indira Gandhi could rule with a firm hand and her empathetic approach toward the downtrodden was well known that is also true but on the corruption front her tenure marked a steady decline as also erosion of values. But she was not to be blamed for it as she was very much surrounded by sycophants who forced her deviate from the straight path.
Let’s come back to that poser to Rahul by the student on the matter of corruption and price-hike during Ms. Gandhi’s tenure. His answer to which was quite amusing. Without any moral prick he answered that then it was the Congress regime, please note, Congress single-handedly was managing the State of affairs but now it is a UPA government means, today’s govt is a conglomeration of various constituents. If his remarks to student’s query are being taken a strong exception to by any power constituents that would turn out to be a headache to the Congress forcing Mr.Gandhi to backtrack from his comment if at all he is taken seriously.
Mr. Gandhi exhorted the students to join politics thereby they would get an opportunity to save the motherland. A student’s poser to him whether to choose politics as a career is not a correct option, he responded by saying that politics is a sacrifice. That might be the reason behind him choosing politics as a sacrifice, who knows?
He had something to mention about why China is surging ahead of India even while both countries achieved Independence almost at the same time. Mr.Gandhi replied in his typical style that India is a democracy where individual freedom is the hallmark but in China though economic freedom is prevalent individual freedom is still a distant dream.
Going by his interactions with the students of UP that which he entertains most is his dream of going back to the old days of Congress gaining power to rule with absolute majority if possible five fourth majority both at the Centre. Something worth dreaming about and let him have nice dreams of gaining majority of seats both at Centre and the States. One fact remains.. That is nothing else than even some States where Congress alone is ruling with absolute majority are not quite different from the States like UP, MP, Assam on the matter of corruption and price-hike. Mr.Gandhi seems to be quite ignorant about it. Pity.
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