Saturday, October 27, 2007

Nepotism is in our blood

Nepotism was originally used for the practice appointing or elevating cardinals by pope, and those people who were being elevated are either pope's nephew or realtives. In mordern times nepotism can be seen majorly in Indian politics.
From times since independence the centre stage of congress party is always occupied by people from Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.However we cannot ignore their sacrifices but we also cannot ignore their blunders.
our rule our blunders:
It all started with jawaharlal Nehru, because of his mistake we lost 1/3rd of kashmir to pakistan and it is now called as pok, another 1/3rd was lost to china during his reign.The so called last english man to rule India, he was very much intersted in converting India into a socialist state like stalin's russia.
Then came Nehru's daughter Indira. She is best known for two things, one is liberation of bangladesh and another emergency. However 1971 war was really a great one but attrocities during emergency were no less.She was preparing her son sanjay to be the next PM so that her family tradition of being in power continues, but unfortunately he died in a misadventures plane crash. Now her last hope was rajiv, who eventually became PM after her death.
Rajiv started reforms in his own way, people thought that if he can fly a plane then he can also run a governement, he was elected to power with an unprecedented majority, he sent India's peace keeping force to sri lanka only to increase the voilence, he struck a deal with bofors with a middle man as his italian born wife's best friend, it was revealed that Indian people were defrauded and the ghost of bofors still haunts congress.
India had to wait till 1991 to see a person outside nehru gandhi family to complete a five year term.
The legacy returned with sonia gandhi who banked on the blunders made by the NDA government to reach the power corridors, she refused the chair of prime minister amidst high drama but still possesing the governments remote control with her. The UPA government whose chairperson is soina defreesed the bank accounts of Quattrocchi(her best friend), by the time it was brought to the notice of the people, it was too late as all the money was taken by Mr.Q, even when Mr.Q was detained by argentinean police, the whole of the country was kept in dark before some unfortunate person leaked it to media, god knows what is going to happen to him.
Recently during the uttar pradesh assembly elections rahul gandhi was one of the frontrunner in congress's campaign, if he was able to turn the fortunes of congress then their would have been no one who could have stoped him from becoming a prominent leader, but his charisma did not work and congress faired badly getting only 8% of the total votes but still he was appointed as congress general secretary even after this debacle, he is also included in the party's 22 member UP Panel, is he that able? may be my question is wrong,does he belong to the gandhi family or not? the answer is clearly yes "bobs your uncle",thus he has enough qualifications of being a party gs, infact he is being projected as the future prime ministerial candidate, Why not they will even project him as the future Messiah just like other congress leaders were projected once, it seems that Nepotism flows in the blood of members of nehru-gandhi dynasty, and the rest of the congress is proud about it.

2 comments:

suhas kulkarni said...

hey ratnakar, you should have stressed more on sanjay's death. Because most of them dont think that, that was an accident.

pavan said...

Hey ratu,
Today i went thru all of ur blogs and felt really good about it. Among which i liked this concept of nepotism. This by far is a complete story of what the title mentions and keep up the good work :)