Where Is Rahul Gandhi?

The questions “Where is Rahul Gandhi?”, “Why Rahul is silent?” etc have been doing the rounds for quite some time now, without getting any convincing & sufficient answers! The sabbatical he took from the Parliament when the session was going to begin was something unheard of from a politician of Rahul’s stature!

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!