50 years of Congress rule - A case of the Blind leading the partially sighted. My reasons for saying that: 1) Congress has gradually "erased" the glue that held India together in the 1940s - mishandled the Muslim League, Kashmir. From 1970s onwards, it has mishandled "secularism" and "reservation" to take off some more of the gule that held India together. 2) has "talked" of many noble things: Five Year plans, "Democratic Socialism", "Garibi Hatao", "Aam Aadhmi", "secularism", "unity in diversity", the "sacred" Constitution of India and so on. To "implement" this talk, what has Congress govt's done in those years?: Created a HUGE Babudom, paid them so low that many started taking another salary "under the table", Created a huge body of laws and rules that even the Babudom did not know how to "implement" them. Ram Manohar Lohia and Jayaprakash Narain of the Praja Socialist party saw through Congress very early: That Congress was not serious about any implementation. Created shameful shortages of everything, even food. Starvation deaths were very common. Congress-influenced media shut out news that was bad for Congress. Even today leading media in India serve the Congress. 2) Every party that came after Congress copied its political strategy for India: a) Keep the Hindu vote divided along caste lines, through "reservations" and b) Keep the Islamic community "conservative", to be willing to listen to Mullahs - that vote bank has to be "intact". Analyse, "secularism".
RE:Terrorism and the Congress Party
by Kris iyer on Jun 16, 2008 10:41 AM Permalink
Contd: This damage caused by the Congress will cause India ENORMOUS trouble in the years to come. Appeasement and terrorism are linked. Vote-bank politics will make India ungovernable. That may not worry the Congress, because most of its "secular-socialists" have their family members in the USA and some bank accounts in Lichtenstein or Jersey. When they see India drowning, they will be gone like a shot. But Lady Luck has sometimes favoured the Congress. Wide-spread starvation deaths in the late 1960s were avoided by an Indian scientist and his team - M.S. Swaminathan. The "Green Revolution" was, laregly, his "baby". 3) Education Sector: The most shameful of Congress failures. It really hurts because Congress, perhaps, deliberately kept this sector UNREFORMED, UNDER-INVESTED for electoral reasons - for "reservations to work well". You need some castes with REAL DIS-SATISFACTION and jealousy over what other castes are getting. Keeping the poor, always poor, IS GOOD POLITICS for Congress and her allies, the DMK. Free TVs, free gas-connection must act as bribes for a large number of people. Unless they are poor, the freebies won't work. See the devious thinking. But it is a crucial part of political thinking in India. Don't be shocked. 3) There are many cynical Congress people and also in parties allied to them, who think INDIA WILL BE THE SAME - IT CANNOT CHANGE. So, focus on winning the NEXT ELECTION.
