The internal haemorrhage that the Congress party is suffering once again came to the fore in the aftermath of the Galwan clash, in which twenty Indian soldiers were brutally killed by the Chinese. Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, both expressed their grief and solidarity with the armed forces but did not show their solidarity with the government, the nation’s duly elected representative at present.
Rahul is demanding why the PM has not spoken to Sonia Gandhi personally, thinking that his mother and an interim president of the party could be someone too special in India and Indian politics. Rahul and his mother Sonia seem to be living in an imaginary world of their own, she the empress and her son the crown prince, his sycophant supporters their cherished non-existent cabinet members.
Rahul forgets that the legacy of Nehru and Gandhi’s ended with Indira Gandhi, who braved the faction of a syndicate within the party to breakaway and infuse a new life and energy in 1969. The party is tied with two deadweights on its neck, the mother and son duo, from which it cannot release itself. The purse strings of the party is still held tightly by Sonia, who knows any co-sharing of the treasures would end the monopoly of the Gandhi clan.
Congress party members have shown remarkable loyalty to the Gandhi family rarely seen anywhere in the world. The members have tolerated and rallied over most mediocre talents post-Indira, as neither Rajiv, Sonia, nor Rahul matched the intelligence of their elders in the family. As years pass by, instead of becoming more wiser, Rahul is increasingly becoming bizarre and quirky. There have been feeble attempts of dissent, which are ruthlessly silenced like in communist regimes.
BJP’s return to power in 2019 could not have been easy, but for Rahul’s idiocy and indiscretion, doubting the integrity of a politically invincible Modi. Rahul harped on Rafale deal until a strong rap over his knuckles by the judiciary; he doubted the Balakot strikes, without realizing the mood of the nation rejoicing the retaliation of our Airforce deep into POK. They have no grassroots support and not unexpectedly lost heavily in 2019 elections and are now left with a couple of states like Rajasthan or Punjab, neither in which the family has any contribution in the win.
BJP has metamorphosed into ruthless war machinery, battling with its cadre strength, supportive media, troll-brigades, and above all deep pockets. No corruption charges have stuck to the party’s face, Modi and his cabinet colleagues, regardless of attempts by Gandhi family and their overseas sympathizers. The latest has been the transparency of the PM Cares fund post COVID, Rahul again getting into the Rafale pitch. I guess the BJP is letting is playing him to release the details of the expenditures in time, to embarrass the Congress party.
Now comes the information of Congress party receiving funds in trusts managed by Sonia Gandhi from the Chinese Communist Party and even Zakir Naik, a terrorist in the guise of a religious preacher, now in hiding in Malaysia. The Sonia Gandhi managed trusts purportedly have been supported by the then UPA governments as well.
A nation must have a healthy opposition, daring to question and steer the nation ahead. The Congress party may still possess the elements but must dare to unshackle from the stranglehold of Gandhis for the Indian democracy’s sake.
The other option is to carry on and to strike the last one or two nails in the coffin and lay the party to its eternal rest.
Sampath Kumar
Intrépide Voix
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