11-19-2007, 08:34 PM
<b>Rahul? Opium? Drug Cartel? Future Star Of India?</b>
V Sundaram
In every Congress Session, Sonia Gandhi surrounds herself with a band of drones in her midst, whether they come from the ancient landed aristocracy or princely monarchy or clannish/casteist plutocracy or tycoons from different categories of carefully chosen âMafia Worldsâ or common people with no uncommon backgrounds.
The essential fact of the matter is all of them - regardless of their economic and social status- act like ordinary type of creeping and crawling pub-crawlers.
Such a kind of disgraceful âcrawling sessionâ was held recently in New Delhi when Prime Minister covered himself with everlasting glory when he shamelessly declared: âYoung leaders of the party like Rahul Gandhi can win the minds and affections of our youth and take the Congress Party and the nation to new frontiers and new heights of glory.â
After the Poorna Swaraj Session of the Indian National Congress at Lahore in December 1929 and the Quit India Resolution Session of the Congress at Bombay in August 1942, the most historic session of the Congress took place in New Delhi last Saturday under the inspiring and unmatched leadership of Sonia Gandhi and her band of flatterers.
At the Lahore session in December 1929, Jawaharlal Nehru became the Congress president. In that session Nehru declared: âSuccess often comes to those who dare and act regardless of the consequences. It seldom goes to the timid.â
<b>Ever since Sonia Gandhi became the Congress president some years ago, her unwavering message in spirit to her party men at all levels has been: âSuccess often comes to those who creep and crawl regardless of the consequences to the nation. It seldom goes to the brave and spirited, least of all to the decent, virtuous and honest.â </b>The same message was presented at last weekâs Congress session in New Delhi.
After the Congress session in Hyderabad in January 2006, in these columns I had observed that âthe Indian National Congress today has degenerated into what I call the Servants of Sonia Society (SOSS)â.
In the glorious days of the Indian National Congress, Mahatma Gandhi was the supreme leader. In Biblical fashion we can say: âAt the beginning was Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was with the Congress. Congress was Mahatma Gandhiâ. Today Sonia Gandhi is in the place of Mahatma Gandhi in the same Biblical quotation. <b>Mahatma Gandhi was trying to throw out the foreigners supported by his Congress party, which was fully behind him. Today we have an IMFL (Indian Made Foreign Leader) who is fully supported by the Congress party</b>.
Dr Manmohan Singh is the decorated bugle-boy of the party. After the New Delhi session, the SOSS has been renamed as SOSRS (Servants of Sonia Rahul Society). Nehruâs âTryst with Destinyâ in 1947 has become a âTryst with sycophancy and treacheryâ in 2007. For Nehru, that moment meant âthe soul of a nation, long suppressed, finding utteranceâ. For Sonia Gandhi and her party today it means âThe soul of a wayward, pampered and patted vagrant, not a our nation, finding utterance.â
In this sad and disgraceful situation, I am reminded of what Mahatma Gandhi said: âBad self- government is better than alien good governmentâ.
<b>Dr Manmohan Singh government has reversed this position. Today the collective motto of the UPA government is that a âforeign-led secular government is better than a local/national /saffronised self-government! To quote the words of Anjana Suthan, âRahul has been projected as the âFuture of Indiaâ, in an âorderlyâ fashion by the PM and other elderly leaders of the Congress party. </b>
One really wonders whether these men are âleadersâ or âorderliesâ! The PM had earlier said the same during the campaign for UP assembly. It is truly shocking to see that a qualified and experienced leader like Manmohan is imposing an immature novice like Rhaul on the nation. It shows the level of spinelessness and sycophancy prevailing in the Congress party today. Truly distressing, disgusting and disappointing!
When I look at the way in which Rahul Gandhi with his outstanding and impeccable academic, political, ethical, moral and social credentials has been projected as the political heir of Sonia Gandhi, I am only reminded of what George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) wrote about a budding politician in his âMajor Barbaraâ in 1907: âHe knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political careerâ. Viewed in this light Rahul Gandhi has a glorious future in Indian politics.
I have referred to the SOSRS. I am not using this term out of my wild imagination. Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866-1915) established The Servants of India Society (SOS) in 1905 at Pune. In the prospectus of this Society Gokhale wrote:
âMuch of our work must be directed towards building up in the country a higher type of character and capacity than is generally available at present: And the advance can only be slow. Public life must be spiritualised. Love of country must so fill the heart that all else shall appear as of little moment by its side.
A fervent patriotism which rejoices at every opportunity of sacrifice for the motherland, a dauntless heart which refuses to be turned back from its object by difficulty or danger, a deep faith in the purpose of providence which nothing can shake. ... Equipped with these, the worker must start on his mission and reverently seek the joy which comes of spending oneself in the service of oneâs country.â
The thousands of Congressmen who have assembled in New Delhi last week like flocks of sheep and herds of cattle are imbued with a different spirit. Gokhale believed in spiritualisation of public life. Now, Sonia and her party men believe in the criminalisation of public life. Our great Prime Ministerâs message to our nation at his party forum last week can be summarised as follows:
âLet our public life be Soniaised, Rahulised, Priyankaised with a fervent patriotism for Italy and Quaottrocchi. Love for Sonia must so fill the heart that all else should appear as of little moment by its side. Let us rejoice at every opportunity of sacrifice for Sonia and her family.â
<b>Rahul Gandhi has made himself famous not only in Indian history but in world history through his awe-inspiring and historic pronouncements and messages. In one of his recent messages he made very touching and revealing references to the poppy crop, opium and alcoholic liquor which went down well with most Congressmen of todayâs vintage. The pseudo-secular mafia of mass media which is totally committed to the cause of criminalisation of our politics and public life by Sonia Gandhi and her Party (which means her family only!) completely blacked out the public dissemination of this great message.</b>
Dr.Sub-ramanian Swamy took note of this fact and issued the following statement to the press: âThe nation is today watching with consternation the series of ridiculous firmans being issued by Rahul Gandhi to Congress Party workers.
<b>First, Gandhi told the Congress that growing opium must be made more profitable by the Finance Ministry by fixing a higher price for the poppy crop. Opium can quickly be converted to heroin, which destroys the health of its consumer, besides promoting crime. Second, Gandhi told the CWC that there is nothing wrong in abandoning Khadar cloth, which hitherto was compulsory for the Congress party workers.
Little did he realise that Khadi Gram Udyog, which still provides employment to lakhs of the âaam aadmisâ for whom Congress leaders shed tears in public, would be destroyed by his firman and lakhs would become unemployed.
Third, Gandhi informed the CWC that to drink âa peg or twoâ of alcoholic liquor is nothing wrong. This would naturally boost the liquor industry, and in turn corner future investments from essential goods sector, on the market principle of investments chasing high profits, thereby creating a shortage of essential commodities for the âAAM AADMIâ.
It would therefore now be appropriate for Gandhi to add two more firmans for completeness. Fourth, it is not wrong for a Congress worker or leader to get married to a Colombian girl holding Venezuelan passport anonymously in the island of Tenerife in Canary Islands, and not tell the public about it, even if the girl is a daughter of a heroin peddler. </b>
<b>Fifth, there is nothing wrong for a Congress worker to keep a foreign passport, especially Italian under a modified spelling of oneâs own name for use in emergencies and for anonymous foreign travel to obscure places like Cayman Island for banking operations, and purchasing participatory notes on hawala laundered funds.</b>
This five-point programme of Rahul Gandhi then can replace all the 4-20 programmes of the party of his mother. In the days of Mahatma Gandhi, there was ample room for men of brains and character in the Congress party. Very unfortunately today men who conspicuously lack both brains and character only are able to make it to the apex slots in the Congress.
Only the shallowest and the most ignoble men are able to triumph easily over the most brilliant and high-minded in the party. In other words, the more character and capacity a candidate for office possesses the greater is his handicap. This is the solid message given by the Congress party and its President to the teeming millions of India today.
When mass media in India tries to choke all the sources of truthful information on vital issues affecting our nation, I derive my inspiration to write from the words of Winston Churchill (1874-1965): âIf truth is many- sided, mendacity is many-tongued. History cannot proceed by silences.
The chronicler of ill-recorded times has none the less to tell his tale. If facts are lacking, rumour must serve the larger public interest. Failing affidavits, he must build with gossipâ.
http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=33
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V Sundaram
In every Congress Session, Sonia Gandhi surrounds herself with a band of drones in her midst, whether they come from the ancient landed aristocracy or princely monarchy or clannish/casteist plutocracy or tycoons from different categories of carefully chosen âMafia Worldsâ or common people with no uncommon backgrounds.
The essential fact of the matter is all of them - regardless of their economic and social status- act like ordinary type of creeping and crawling pub-crawlers.
Such a kind of disgraceful âcrawling sessionâ was held recently in New Delhi when Prime Minister covered himself with everlasting glory when he shamelessly declared: âYoung leaders of the party like Rahul Gandhi can win the minds and affections of our youth and take the Congress Party and the nation to new frontiers and new heights of glory.â
After the Poorna Swaraj Session of the Indian National Congress at Lahore in December 1929 and the Quit India Resolution Session of the Congress at Bombay in August 1942, the most historic session of the Congress took place in New Delhi last Saturday under the inspiring and unmatched leadership of Sonia Gandhi and her band of flatterers.
At the Lahore session in December 1929, Jawaharlal Nehru became the Congress president. In that session Nehru declared: âSuccess often comes to those who dare and act regardless of the consequences. It seldom goes to the timid.â
<b>Ever since Sonia Gandhi became the Congress president some years ago, her unwavering message in spirit to her party men at all levels has been: âSuccess often comes to those who creep and crawl regardless of the consequences to the nation. It seldom goes to the brave and spirited, least of all to the decent, virtuous and honest.â </b>The same message was presented at last weekâs Congress session in New Delhi.
After the Congress session in Hyderabad in January 2006, in these columns I had observed that âthe Indian National Congress today has degenerated into what I call the Servants of Sonia Society (SOSS)â.
In the glorious days of the Indian National Congress, Mahatma Gandhi was the supreme leader. In Biblical fashion we can say: âAt the beginning was Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was with the Congress. Congress was Mahatma Gandhiâ. Today Sonia Gandhi is in the place of Mahatma Gandhi in the same Biblical quotation. <b>Mahatma Gandhi was trying to throw out the foreigners supported by his Congress party, which was fully behind him. Today we have an IMFL (Indian Made Foreign Leader) who is fully supported by the Congress party</b>.
Dr Manmohan Singh is the decorated bugle-boy of the party. After the New Delhi session, the SOSS has been renamed as SOSRS (Servants of Sonia Rahul Society). Nehruâs âTryst with Destinyâ in 1947 has become a âTryst with sycophancy and treacheryâ in 2007. For Nehru, that moment meant âthe soul of a nation, long suppressed, finding utteranceâ. For Sonia Gandhi and her party today it means âThe soul of a wayward, pampered and patted vagrant, not a our nation, finding utterance.â
In this sad and disgraceful situation, I am reminded of what Mahatma Gandhi said: âBad self- government is better than alien good governmentâ.
<b>Dr Manmohan Singh government has reversed this position. Today the collective motto of the UPA government is that a âforeign-led secular government is better than a local/national /saffronised self-government! To quote the words of Anjana Suthan, âRahul has been projected as the âFuture of Indiaâ, in an âorderlyâ fashion by the PM and other elderly leaders of the Congress party. </b>
One really wonders whether these men are âleadersâ or âorderliesâ! The PM had earlier said the same during the campaign for UP assembly. It is truly shocking to see that a qualified and experienced leader like Manmohan is imposing an immature novice like Rhaul on the nation. It shows the level of spinelessness and sycophancy prevailing in the Congress party today. Truly distressing, disgusting and disappointing!
When I look at the way in which Rahul Gandhi with his outstanding and impeccable academic, political, ethical, moral and social credentials has been projected as the political heir of Sonia Gandhi, I am only reminded of what George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) wrote about a budding politician in his âMajor Barbaraâ in 1907: âHe knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political careerâ. Viewed in this light Rahul Gandhi has a glorious future in Indian politics.
I have referred to the SOSRS. I am not using this term out of my wild imagination. Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866-1915) established The Servants of India Society (SOS) in 1905 at Pune. In the prospectus of this Society Gokhale wrote:
âMuch of our work must be directed towards building up in the country a higher type of character and capacity than is generally available at present: And the advance can only be slow. Public life must be spiritualised. Love of country must so fill the heart that all else shall appear as of little moment by its side.
A fervent patriotism which rejoices at every opportunity of sacrifice for the motherland, a dauntless heart which refuses to be turned back from its object by difficulty or danger, a deep faith in the purpose of providence which nothing can shake. ... Equipped with these, the worker must start on his mission and reverently seek the joy which comes of spending oneself in the service of oneâs country.â
The thousands of Congressmen who have assembled in New Delhi last week like flocks of sheep and herds of cattle are imbued with a different spirit. Gokhale believed in spiritualisation of public life. Now, Sonia and her party men believe in the criminalisation of public life. Our great Prime Ministerâs message to our nation at his party forum last week can be summarised as follows:
âLet our public life be Soniaised, Rahulised, Priyankaised with a fervent patriotism for Italy and Quaottrocchi. Love for Sonia must so fill the heart that all else should appear as of little moment by its side. Let us rejoice at every opportunity of sacrifice for Sonia and her family.â
<b>Rahul Gandhi has made himself famous not only in Indian history but in world history through his awe-inspiring and historic pronouncements and messages. In one of his recent messages he made very touching and revealing references to the poppy crop, opium and alcoholic liquor which went down well with most Congressmen of todayâs vintage. The pseudo-secular mafia of mass media which is totally committed to the cause of criminalisation of our politics and public life by Sonia Gandhi and her Party (which means her family only!) completely blacked out the public dissemination of this great message.</b>
Dr.Sub-ramanian Swamy took note of this fact and issued the following statement to the press: âThe nation is today watching with consternation the series of ridiculous firmans being issued by Rahul Gandhi to Congress Party workers.
<b>First, Gandhi told the Congress that growing opium must be made more profitable by the Finance Ministry by fixing a higher price for the poppy crop. Opium can quickly be converted to heroin, which destroys the health of its consumer, besides promoting crime. Second, Gandhi told the CWC that there is nothing wrong in abandoning Khadar cloth, which hitherto was compulsory for the Congress party workers.
Little did he realise that Khadi Gram Udyog, which still provides employment to lakhs of the âaam aadmisâ for whom Congress leaders shed tears in public, would be destroyed by his firman and lakhs would become unemployed.
Third, Gandhi informed the CWC that to drink âa peg or twoâ of alcoholic liquor is nothing wrong. This would naturally boost the liquor industry, and in turn corner future investments from essential goods sector, on the market principle of investments chasing high profits, thereby creating a shortage of essential commodities for the âAAM AADMIâ.
It would therefore now be appropriate for Gandhi to add two more firmans for completeness. Fourth, it is not wrong for a Congress worker or leader to get married to a Colombian girl holding Venezuelan passport anonymously in the island of Tenerife in Canary Islands, and not tell the public about it, even if the girl is a daughter of a heroin peddler. </b>
<b>Fifth, there is nothing wrong for a Congress worker to keep a foreign passport, especially Italian under a modified spelling of oneâs own name for use in emergencies and for anonymous foreign travel to obscure places like Cayman Island for banking operations, and purchasing participatory notes on hawala laundered funds.</b>
This five-point programme of Rahul Gandhi then can replace all the 4-20 programmes of the party of his mother. In the days of Mahatma Gandhi, there was ample room for men of brains and character in the Congress party. Very unfortunately today men who conspicuously lack both brains and character only are able to make it to the apex slots in the Congress.
Only the shallowest and the most ignoble men are able to triumph easily over the most brilliant and high-minded in the party. In other words, the more character and capacity a candidate for office possesses the greater is his handicap. This is the solid message given by the Congress party and its President to the teeming millions of India today.
When mass media in India tries to choke all the sources of truthful information on vital issues affecting our nation, I derive my inspiration to write from the words of Winston Churchill (1874-1965): âIf truth is many- sided, mendacity is many-tongued. History cannot proceed by silences.
The chronicler of ill-recorded times has none the less to tell his tale. If facts are lacking, rumour must serve the larger public interest. Failing affidavits, he must build with gossipâ.
http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=20&catid=33
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