The words politics and corruption are perceived as synonyms everywhere and especially so in the poor nations. Bharat is and has been a poor nation for the last four centuries.
The corruption for the ten years (2004-14) of the Congress rule (under Sonia Gandhi’s presidency) reached such a staggering scope and magnitude that it has no parallel in any other nation. The Coal, the 2G Spectrum, the Chopper, the CWG and many more scams brought the tally of the seats for the Congress in the Lok Sabha to less than 10% (44 out of 543) in the last general election in 2014. The last week’s State Assembly Election results has left the Congress in charge of six states (3 in north-eastern missionary belt area and tenuous hold in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka) out of the 29 states. Again it is less than 10% 0f the total population of Bharat under the Congress rule.
Is this sorry state for the once mighty Congress due to the corruption only? Yes, corruption is a big contributing factor but there are other factors. Since Swarajya in 1947, there have been different norms for the general public and for the Congress politicians. Mr J Nehru (the first PM of Bharat) not only failed to file personal tax returns but also did not declare holding of a foreign currency account for many years. Such omissions would have put a Joe Bloke behind the bars. The decay of the Congress started then.
Mother and Son duo, who currently hold presidency and vice presidency respectively of the Congress cannot even read let alone understand a single language in its own script from the 22 major languages of Bharat. They can only parrot Hindi written in the roman script. How could they understand the nuances and aspirations uttered and written by the masses in their languages and scripts whom they covet to rule? Their only qualification is that they belong to a dynasty.
Bharat is a deeply spiritual ancient nation. Wearing a Sari and Tilaka does not fool anyone any more in the present information age where most of the population have access to the necessary information to make an accurate judgement.
It seems that the Congress was created by a European Allan Octavian Hume amongst others and it may be killed by a European Antonia Edvige Albina Maino (aka Sonia Gandhi) among others.
Narsibhai Patel
New Malden
