Gauzbiz u seem to be obsessed with all that congress did. Can u just for a moment try to be unbiased, or can u think for a moment why two people u and somebody else have so different opinions.
if the same congress which ruled the country for 50 years is to be credited for all the good, and NDA which could remain in power without even a proper majority for just 5-6 years.
I would have beleved you if even one person would have said that first 50 years were the ones when India made the progress, while the last 10 years it failed, and detioriated.
The authors seems to forget that his ideological organization RSS\'s chief himself has said that \"Vajpayee was the worst PM India had ever had\"....that speaks volumes
The author says with a lot of confidence that "CONSTITUTIONALLY SPEAKING" Mrs. Sonia Gandhi does not have any power. He is humbly requested to read the Constitution of INDIA. It is true that the president of a political party was an extra-constitutional authority for quite a long time in independent India under the Constitution as originally framed and did not have much power till recently. But the last Amemdment of the Constitution that was passed through the Parliament by the NDA government without a murmur gives the party president huge powers at the cost of the representatives chosen by the people.
I agree with Rajeev. However strong direct personal attacks on Manmohan or Sonia will not succeed in India, attacks or criticism should be directed at the congress party's soft targets, lalu, communists, the coterie, its state leaders like dharam singh, YSR etc.
RS it is high time you noticed the putting back into the dog-house of the Sangh Parivar elements and the heart burns you hear emitting off and on from the old Fossils therein at being out of business and all their nefarious and anti people plans getting unravelled before their very eyes. They thought they would have a field day when - if the Congress came to power they would latch on to Sonia Gandhi's place of birth issue and berate the Congress. Her opting out of Power has taken their breath away - the wind out of the sails and all sorts on innuendos of Super PM etc does not cut ice with the Indian Nation. Why should it - they are not having problems with dimming eyesight. What sort of real instances where this so-called Super PM has interfered with Government running and changed government policy is yet to be known? Obviously there are not any and because if they were the Sangh Parivar would have been shouting them out from the rooftops. I appreciate some readers comments who have challenged your misinformation with proper facts and figures unlike those myopic ones you bandy around. Your articles may make great `sense' in the `Organiser' to rave reviews of those self traumatised.
Why do most Muslims on Rediff message board write under funny names like Ruxak, Gauzbig, India Lover, etc. Why do they go to such lengths to hide their religious identity? It's really strange.
RE:Your Eyesight - Is it getting dim?
by Ruxak on May 28, 2005 09:13 AM Permalink
The Indian Nation comprises several streams of different races and culture that though different in ways of life, worship or Outlook of life are INDIAN and can and will defend the nation at all costs against enemies both Outside and within. Since you have taken the liberty of labelling me `Arabic' I can only surmise that you belong to the Psuedo nationalist camp with your brand of Perverted Nationalism where Nation has to be one stream only and all other streams must be subjugated to the diktats of the Major stream. Well your perverted thinking is your loss and you can continue to traumatise yourself in your perverted definitions.
Secondly if it has not dawned on you yet - Mme Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of the Coalition that formulates the common minimum programme. She has to convey the decision of the coalition partners to those in government even if they belong to her own party. Do not forget it was SHE who lead the Congress which is the single largest party sitting in Parliament today and it is the people of India who have bestowed their faith in her - Not some rabid fundamentalist floatsam but the real India voice.
RE:Your Eyesight - Is it getting dim?
by Kaushik Das on May 27, 2005 01:16 PM Permalink
It is not the birthplace of sonia that is the concern. It is her place/places of upbringing and education that make her a foreigner. Even after more than 20 years in India, she doe not speak any Indian language, including English, fluently. In this time, many British rulers had mastered Sanskrit (not even spoken) and written papers/books on it. Read the papers, man, and you'll know a lot of "real" instances of impeding governance and reversing policies. This is too short a place to list them out. The self-traumatised are the ones like you who want to live an Arabic life in India with no sense of identity or belonging - judging everything from the point of view of own communities with no regard to the Nation.
Well Well Well.... Its been a year now , and his "summer of discontent" is not over yet.... and when he got a smack on his face , for an ugly Tsumani article , which gave up his pretence of being a Rational IITian :), i was actually thinking that he would give up being so harsh on us mortals! Well, he seems to be doing actually what he used to speak volumes against viz, Negativity of indian media! Probably the Economist has suddenly become a fair non-communist media that he is using its data for his justification of India Dimming(sic). I am 100% sure that had it been "B" in power , we would have had an article "India Shining" .. I would recommend his U-turn about India's Progress in the "Ripley's - Believe it or Not" section ... Have a positive attitude, even if it means that "B" is not in power... Three Cheers for "C" for a good one year of Governance and MS' laying down a solid foundation for India becoming a superpower by 2020. Agreed MS has his share of failures, but atleast he admits it! Which PM has evaluated himself and his cabinet. I havent heard it anytime,and for sure it would be some time to come , till we hear it from someone else again....
RE:Look who's talking ;)
by Kaushik Das on May 27, 2005 01:09 PM Permalink
The point is - when even a communist paper mentions something like that, it has to be taken notice of. There were lots of things under the NDA (not "B" alone) that could be called "progress", unlike anything like it under the UPA, read gandhi family. All congress has done in one year was - negate everything that NDA did in their tenure and carry on with the economic policies, including the divestment they cried foul about.
