Obama speaketh!

“Rahul lacked aptitude,” says the former president of America, Barack Obama. News media has carried the story as if they have just tripped on a sleazy story of an illicit relationship of a celebrity leading to a pregnancy. No, sirs! The bulge in the stomach neither happens by any divine miracle nor is any sudden. I have been a Rahul watcher primarily because he has been an unmatchable and interesting character on the political canvas of India. 

I do not mean to be harsh, but the Indian National Congress has duped India, by not providing an able and apt leadership to steer India forward with a right government or provide a viable opposition. Only a few sycophants around the Gandhi family could call them great and providing an astounding leadership to carry India forward. The party members, sympathizers and cadres, have all been deceived and defrauded by a clique surrounding Gandhi. They exploited everything from stolen name, to a limitless corruption.

It does not require the intelligence of an American president to deduce what Rahul was, is and could be. When the scion announced that he was ready to be the Prime Minister of India if his party would select him after winning the polls, I had my best laugh. I am no fan of Modi and am one of a kind who loves to search for flaws and slips, often ignoring the greater contribution. But I hate to think Rahul compared with any of the past Prime Ministers, let alone Modi. 

A cleverer scion would have bundled and thrown many corrupt leaders out from the Congress party long ago. To ensure their continued closeness to President Sonia Gandhi, the clique, therefore, enjoys the juvenility and, if I may say so, the stupidity of Rahul Gandhi. All those who question Modi must question the role of these parasites in the Congress party, who have just been electing Sonia or Rahul alternatively when the party is deep down the ditch. Unless another national party provides a viable opposition, what is the use of tirades against Modi or BJP?

Does Rahul even know, he has been the sole reason, his party the sole partner for becoming a dead weight around the neck of Tejaswi Yadav and Mahagatbandhan? If Congress fared just a bit better, things could have changed, and the NDA would have faced an imminent defeat. That was never to be with a directionless and defunct organization of INC, which relied solely on its funds. The time is up!

Two things are bound to happen. 2021 will witness another epoch battle in West Bengal. I seriously doubt if the left will sail with the Congress in the same boat. Chances are they will fight independently, and the Congress will be decimated. The next couple of months will witness an exodus from TMC only into the BJP. There would be still a few claiming that a star is reborn in the northern sky and will churn the fortunes of the Congress party and the history of India. No one would believe these stories then. 

Congress is already reduced as a junior partner in most states and has no political existence in many. The leaders must not wait until they are routed, and their party is grounded to dust. Congress party is any day greater than many parochial regional outfits. The decimation of Congress party will not augur well for India and could promote religious polarization.

Think my friends from the Congress party. I have no axe to grind, to gain or lose, save care for the future of our children and theirs. Grow up and give a deserved political retirement to all Gandhis.

Jai Hind and Happy Diwali!

Sampath Kumar

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