Guilty Palms

Three resounding victories for congress! Rahul baba does it again. Congress’s enfant terrible is suddenly the face of Indian politics. He’s young by political standards, articulate and charismatic. He goes to the homes of poor people, spends time with them and eats their food without suffering from dysentery. Ah, Rahul baba, who was once ridiculed for spending too much time playing cricket in UP, has undergone a serious makeover. There was a time when he was being blamed for all the election reverses that congress faced. His immaturity was being highlighted all over the media. What has changed so much? Kalavati, the poor widow from Vidarbha became an overnight star after Rahul baba endorsed the fact that farmer suicides in the region were a serious enough issue for the Maharashtra state government to consider. So what happened in Vidarbha after Rahul baba’s visit? Have the suicides stopped? Wasn’t Kalavati forced to back down from contesting the Maharashtra state election from a non-congress ticket by the grand old party’s henchmen? Did not the incumbents who can be held responsible for the crisis in Vidarbha get congress tickets again this election?

These are just a few questions which come across my mind as I see the media endorsement of congress and its poster-boy. On my part, I blame the Nehru-Gandhi family for almost everything that’s wrong with India. I blame the womanizing patriarch of this family who let India be a pushover in international politics and allowed us to be mauled by the yellow-skinned bastards. His daughter, the megalomaniac bitch is responsible for the dictatorial politics that is now the motto of her party. The grandson called Rajiv, who apart from making money from gun deals, also wanted to project India as a South Asian superpower and finally got his ass blown up by the LTTE in 1992. Although Rajiv’s intentions were noble, he failed to understand that the LTTE were trained very well by the Indian military as per the directive of his mother. Now the great-grandson is lining up for the job and I’m not sure of how much mess he’s capable of making.

The problem also lies with the people of India and their inherent laziness- ‘CHALTA HAI’ and also their love for the “Stars/Idols”. We like to take things for granted.

Yes, we are doing well. We have the most sincere guy out there leading us.

Sincerity can be faked and so also the statistics.

We have the world’s largest functional democracy and our economy is doing well. By 2030, India will be the world’s third biggest economy and by 2040 no Indian will remain below the poverty line.

I totally agree. Why? Because those people who are saying this would be dead by 2040 and as for the new breed, they will simply revise the poverty line to make us feel good. India has always been and will always be the land of 1000 promises, none fulfilled. Have you ever truthfully believed in the song, ‘Saare Jahan se Acha’? It reminds us of our own credulity. We can never be the best, not with this attitude.

Indian Politics! No one plays the game better than the grand old party. When faced with imminent collapse after the left pulled out last year, they magically pulled out so many bunnies from their hat, that even the opposition was mystified. Crores of rupees were transferred overnight and the voice of the opposition MP’s who claimed bribery was downed in the subsequent euphoria. That’s why we need the BJP. Yeah, it’s a communal party with no definite morals but so is the case with congress. Do you really believe them when they say that their ‘HAATH’ is with the ‘AAM AADMI’? It has never been with the ‘AAM AADMI’. This was best exemplified in the 80’s when the Ambani brothers were allowed to brazenly flout the rules of the country for their own profit. We see it even now when they are playing politics over a national resource like gas while our PM watches on like the proverbial Dhitrashtra. 

We need a strong opposition to keep the congress in check and we don’t have many options. We have the Left who are nothing but a bunch of glorified wankers who resort to communism only as a shield to defend their ineptitude.

Everybody’s poor. Everybody’s equal.

 This is the only motto they go by. Don’t bother with the regional parties who are a bigger threat to India’s integrity than the Pakistani terrorists. The only credible opposition we can hope for is a strong BJP and we desperately need them to keep the Congress in check. History needs to be studied to remember the corrupting force of absolute power. Be it Hitler, Stalin or even Indira- We have seen it all but somehow we seem to forget the lesson in the mundane. The BJP is a communal party. I don’t disagree, but it is communal because we are not a secular nation. Hate breeds hate. The real reason we feel disillusioned with the BJP is because they don’t have someone who can satisfy our voracious appetite for idol worship. They need someone like Rahul Gandhi and truth be told- we need BJP to have someone like Rahul Gandhi for our own good.