The personal attacks are a result of people's frustation with a national party which cannot stand on its own and needs the crutches of a family with a borrowed name.
Take out the family name and what are we left with?
A reluctant widow forced to come to politics due to sycophants? Till date she has not clarified what she stands for on issues of national importance. Only reads the speeches written by advisors - I am not sure whether she understands what she is saying or not.
An equally unwilling son who suffers from a foot in the mouth desease?
They defended the country against China and Pakistan? Lost POK in 1948, lost Aksai Chin in 1962, lost strategic advantage gained thru sacrifice of our soldiers in 1971? How many soldiers lost their lives due to Rajiv's unholy dabbling in SL affairs? Was it an indian territory at stake? Or Indian lives? At least in Kargil, we recovered our territory and did not concede any strategic advantage. That was a first one!
The list of follies is endless but counting same is also futile. You cannot choose your leaders on the basis of what their ancestors did (good or bad). If that is the case, my dear, I throw my hat in the ring. My father was a freedom fighter and a congressman till 1975. He quit politics the day Emergency was declared. He spent more years in jail than JLN.
Basic issue is not of origin either. No one is bothered where they were born and how?
Real issue is that we are a democracy and if anyone tries to foist a family on us it is blot on democracy. All of us need to resist it.
We need to get out of our slave mentality and choose our leaders from within us. No Avtar is going to come from any family to save us.
