AMUL BABY SYNDROME

His name is Rahul Gandhi, General Secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC). He is past his 40s and always surrounded by sycophants, respected and feared by them as they have many things to gain and nothing to lose by prostrating before the respected young man.
Usually clad in white pyjama and kurtha, he is the embodiment of ‘simplicity and humility’ so it seems. He sports suit, coat and tie only when he flies abroad like our Home Minister Harward educated Palaniyappan Chidambaram who sports suit, coat and tie only when he goes abroad. Think of a Congressman soon a picture of simplicity flashes across our mind.
Rahul Gandhi as you know belongs to the Gandhi dynasty previously Nehru dynasty. He is the son of Congress President Sonia Gandhi who is incidentally UPA Chairperson as well as Chairperson National Advisory Council. Mr.Gandhi is the grandson of Pandit Jawahar Nehru India’ first Prime Minister and great statesman cum scholar still remembered and respected by the citizens the world over.
Nehru was a great freedom fighter was imprisoned several times, suffered immense hardships in life and his prison years were in a way a blessing in disguise. He could write a lot, ‘Glimpses of World History’ (the collection of letters he wrote to daughter Indira Gandhi), Discovery of India and his Autobiography. The great man had a flair for writing, the felicity with which he penned his works had a poetic element in them.
After Nehru, Indira occupied the saddle, in between Lal Bahadur Shastri was in power for a short term and the third one to occupy power from Gandhi dynasty at Indraprastha was Rajiv Gandhi and he remained throughout his life a pure gentleman whatever be his drawbacks, he kept aloft his gentlemanly attitude and dignity throughout his life. The heir apparent is naturally Rahul Gandhi and hence the rush of sycophants towards him like moths to fire.
He came to politics after his 30’s till then he was abroad doing his studies. Like his mother Sonia Gandhi, he too was disinterested in entering politics and was literally forced into the world of politics. But overnight he found himself catapulted to the top level, that made him the ‘yuvaraja’ (youth king) of Indian politics. While other youth across India were struggling from their student days they couldn’t reach the position Rahul Gandhi reached one fine morning. At present he is the AICC General Secretary and that post seems to have entered his head.
Perhaps this arrogant thought must have prompted him in taking on a nonagenarian like Justice V.R.Krishna Iyer for the little crime of shooting a letter to him accusing him of his lack of interest in trying to solve the myriad problems confronting the nation.
Justice Krishna Iyer is now 97 years old, in the twilight of life, who might have been flabberghasted on reading Rahul Gandhi’s reply to his letter. What all Justice Iyer wrote to the chap was worth reading and if the latter was kind enough to go thru the lines he wouldn’t have dared to pen such an arrogant letter.
Rahul Gandhi accuses Justice Iyer of writing letters to men at the top echelons of power without doing practically nothing sort of periodic release of emotions.
In his letter Rahul Gandhi reportedly is pointing out that he is not after power and he doesn’t want to b a hero. That he spends a good part of his waking hours to fight the rotten system prevailing across the country.
Laughble. The system went rot, too rot while Congress – his party was in power, still in power and the alleged scamsters like former CJI K.G.Balakrishnan and Suresh Kalmadi are running scot-free. The former DMK Minister Andimuthu Raja is cooling his heels, he was imprisoned not because of the effort of UPA govt but due to the consistent pressure of opposition parties.
Justice Iyer sarcastically commented about Rahul Gandhi visitng Kochi and the traffic getting blocked, his each visit a menace t the traffic.
Justice Iyer advised him to go through the autobiography of Pandit Nehru and learn about patriotism, socialism and secularism and reminded him that our country is now in the clutches of communalism.
No wonder Justice Iyer’s letter must have bruised Rahul’s ego and that prompted him shoot off an angry letter to Justice Iyer.
Justice Iyer replied regretting his writing to him the inner tone of sarcasm is however very much evident in the reply.