Introspection makes one silent
and, reminiscences, too, do the same! This seems to be what
has happened to Rahul Gandhi, who is far away from the maddening crowd & the
eulogisers of the scion! He has gone into the world of meditation from where
he will come out, if he wishes to, to make or mar the party of legendary
proportions which, at present, lay in tatters!
Someone said he was in the Himalayas (Searching for the
mythical Yeti?!) & the others pointed to the multitudes of political possibilities
which include the rearrangement in the top echelons of Congress politics, the
implication of the ‘44’ seat strength of the Grand Old Party in the Lok
Sabha & even the disbanding of the Congress Party!
BUT, when one thinks
that he is in the Himalayas & that too for introspection &
reminiscences, the chances of a new world of new thoughts &
ideas getting revealed to him cannot be completely ruled out; and, he
has a lot to ruminate about & introspect, too!
For the boy, as he was at that time, who
saw his grandmother, who was shot dead by her own body
guards who supported the terror outfit Khalistan movement, disappearing in
dense fumes into a world of no personal existences & his father
following the same route his grandmother went, just 7 years after the first
tragedy, blown into pieces by another terror organisation for whatever he
did to PROTECT THE INDIANS – Read Tamils in Srilanka!- the
reminiscences cannot be that comfortable!
But, at this crucial juncture, where it’s been
reduced into a mere 44 @ the last Lok Sabha elections, the political party which
depended that much on the Nehru-Gandhi family since Independence, Rahul has to
do something to pick the party out of this precarious situation, ‘IF’
HE WILLS SO AFTER HIS LENGTHY INTROSPECTION! And, here is where from the
True Leader emerges, if one emerges at all!
When one goes back in Time,
it is pretty clear that all the 3 prime ministers which the Nehru-Gandhi
family produced had been the victims of the stand they had taken, where ‘Taking
No Stand’ had never been a virtue! Nehru passed away in
1964 in the pain inflicted upon him by the 1962 Chinese betrayal, when
the Chinese back stabbed him & took away large tracts of Indian
Territory in North-East & Ladakh, despite the pretended bonhomie shown
from the Chinese side!
Indira Gandhi
was betrayed by her own pro Khalistan security men for exterminating the
Khalistan terrorist group, which operated & terrorised from the Golden
Temple premises, in Amritsar, in 1984, which caused unusual human
losses to the Indian army!
Rajiv Gandhi
was betrayed by the Tamil terrorist organisation LTTE ‘for
protecting them’ from the ‘PRETENDED or ASSUMED’ Tamil
persecution in Srilanka, where too the Indian army (IPKF – Indian Peace
Keeping Force) lost heavily due to the impossible stand taken by the
LTTE!
While ruminating, Rahul’s cup is full!
As the vice president of the Congress party @ its lowest ebb, Rahul must have
super human senses & ability IF
he wants to lift the party from its present day abyss! He must be
answering multitudes of questions from ‘within’ which makes his Introspection
long & painful! He would be wondering what was it that went wrong with his
party that made it lose so badly that even a resurrection plan takes years to
come forth?!
‘Bad governance or No governance’
is ‘made to be’ the MAIN thing behind the drubbing the
party got in the 2014 elections! But, A BIG BUT,
when he sees the ‘SAME’ programmes & policies created &
followed by his so called ‘Bad governance or No governance Party’, which
include the Aadhar, Insurance policy (FDI), Black Money (Bringing It
Back from the foreign shores!), The Secret Subhas Chandra Bose Documents,
Article 370 & a variety of other things, ardently followed &
implemented by the Modi government, he can surely doubt ‘ON WHAT THE INDIAN
DEMOCRACY RUNS’?!
While he ruminates, he will definitely come
to the point that reminds him that his father was
ousted from power in 1989 due to ‘TILL DATE’ UNPROVEN Bofors Scam!
And, because of this GROUNDLESS ALLEGATION, which VP Singh ‘PROMISED’
(BUT, ‘NEVER’ fulfilled?!) the Indians way back in 1989 that
he would make come in the open, if voted into power, within a year, made the
Indians vote against the incumbent Rajeev Gandhi government.
Due to the moral standards he followed,
Rajeev Gandhi sat in the opposition despite his party
becoming the single largest party in the Lok Sabha in the 1989 elections, after
the so called Bofors Scam was ‘REVEALED’ by the righteous
media & various righteous politicians of various righteous political
parties of that time! And, it was this ‘moral
standards’ he showed made him lose his life!
Definitely, Rahul will think more than a
couple of times about the transient standards of political morality & other
value based standards in Indian politics & the HABIT of the so called ‘ALWAYS
MORALLY & OTHERWISE CORRECT’ modern Indian citizens to remember ‘ONLY’ those
‘limited things’ which were ‘not’ done properly, throwing away ‘all’ the innumerable
good things done into wholesome oblivion! He will ALSO
be forced to think about the futility in trying to rectify what is non
rectifiable, giving one’s own life in Indian politics!
THE HARD REALITY that sacrificing ‘3’
Prime ministers from the Nehru-Gandhi Family for the
country is NEVER appreciated & NEVER seems to be ENOUGH
for the Indians will DEFINITELY take ENOUGH TIME PONDERING, may
be decades, out of Rahul’s life, as the people of India seems to be indifferent
& arrogant in Respecting Values, Quality & Other Worthy Standards of
Life & Politics! It will ALSO come into his mind that
‘EVEN’ the ‘Father of the Nation’ is not spared in the
mud - slinging competitions (Or should we call them ‘Mud Slinging Celebrations’,
a wild variety of Holi?!) run in every nook & corner of the so called democratic
country, India, by whoever interested in these sort of ‘shameless mud -
slinging parties & celebrations’!
He will definitely spend Time on ‘his
own life’, as well! He will think a thousand
times ‘whether’ to come back into active politics at all as in a
country where ‘3’ sacrifices are NOT counted enough, what is
the significance & use of a FOURTH ONE, when & where the sun
will rise in the east as if nothing will have happened & people continue
their well groomed habits of pleasures, including the non - stop mudslinging
at all the people who are dead, in the surety that no dead man EVER
slung the mud back!
