My being pro-BJP is incidental ; whereas my being anti-Congress is permanent

If there was one impending doom that could be called as the greatest to befall on Independent India, that could be called as ‘congress’. That was one baggage we could have done without. Instead of disbanding it for good as per the aspirations of the Mahatma, it was left to stay. The lust for power knows neither principles nor ethics. It triumphs everything else.

But, why such animosity against such a ‘great’ national party which did so many ‘sacrifices’ for the nation you may ask. Well, the issue under discussion merits at least the scope of a full book. The ills inflicted on the nation, the aspirations of the people cut short, the number of hopes betrayed, and it will be too long to even mention all the sins committed by congress.

The best test would be to list all the problems distressing the Indian populace and the problems plaguing all the political parties across the nation. I can take a bet that a phenomenal number of them can be traced back to congress, its ideology (does it have one?) and its misrule. From falling over backwards for minorities to dynastic politics to dividing on communal and caste lines – everything – has its roots in the congress party.

To start with, when Congress got the mandate to rule the country after independence they inherited a great number of traits from the erstwhile rulers, the British. They continued to despise the people and their aspirations, they continued to see how they can hold onto the seat willy-nilly, and the worst them of all: they continued to Divide and rule. In fact, congress has mastered this strategy of dividing the country into smaller and smaller pieces in the name of language, religion, castes and whatnot!

If the country is divided into umpteen number of pieces, if one faction is at war with the other, if regionalism has triumphed over nationalism (and a large number of people have sympathies for regionalism than nationalism) think that there is a grand wicked hand of congress at work. In fact, congress not only represents a party but it stands for a culture – a culture that now has been imbibed by many other small parties. It’s a culture of settling scores of political rivals, corruption of gargantuan magnitude, legacy of betrayal, sycophancy (most important), keeping the people in perpetual poverty and ignorance, needless reverence of one particular family (dynastic politics, in other words), rendering of constitutional institutions into the state of powerlessness, killing free speech – in short, killing democracy inch by inch.

Although the hegemony of congress over the nation has dented over a period of time, it takes some more time for its abject decimation. India and congress are like two mutually exclusive events – For India to progress, congress has to go with all of its manifestations or should congress stay, India can never be on the path of progress – that’s a given. To be more straightforward, I consider congress to be akin with a cancerous tumor which has to be removed should the person needs to survive. Here, the person is India.

On the contrast, with all its problems and squabbles - BJP in the national level -- is something you can still entrust your hopes on. Although the original ideology of placing nation above the party and self has definitely deteriorated over time, it has still not died completely. Still, there are leaders who can selflessly dedicate themselves for the task of nation building. Besides, should I have to choose other party than the BJP or the congress there is not a single party which can throw a real challenge to congress other than the BJP at a pan-Indian level. So, it’s also the deprivation of choices that makes me vote for the BJP. With its many obvious flaws, if you consider BJP to be evil, it is much lesser evil compared to congress and all of its manifestations – any day! That’s why, my being pro-BJP is just incidental but my being anti-Congress is something permanent.

Anna, Ramdev and anti-corruption movement

When the likes of Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev started their crusade against corruption, the ordinary citizen sensed a ray of hope and supported them irrespective of language and religion. But when Baba Ramdev got arrested in an undemocratic way, all that hopes were dashed and the common citizen was again thrown to the deep pit of cynicism. In the current day India, it seems quite natural to be cynical where nothing is going well and where every single person in power wants to loot the nation.

          There is no doubt that most of the people in politics are corrupt irrespective of parties. In one sense, parties are no more a barrier to the politicos. Gone are the days where people stood for some ideologies and remained in the party which adhered to that ideology. Today there is no ideology in any party though every party talks about it in a vivid way. The idea of ideology has become just rhetoric. The ideologies for today are money and power.

Coming back to the issue of corruption; when one is against such big shots of the nation, one has to be ready for all the kinds of mudslinging. No matter which party is in power, the primary aim of all the parties is to save power. It will do it willy-nilly. It can go to any extent to save the power. What we are witnessing today is different facets of the same underlying intention.

          The support that the civil society members got from the people of India is something unprecedented. There was an unseen ire in the minds of the people of India about corruption that was just waiting to get erupted. They were just waiting for the platform and a good leader with a strong character whom they can rely upon. In Anna and his movement, they found all these, so they wholeheartedly supported him. In the world which is networked, it did not take too much time to get the whole nation together. This would have given the government tremors.

          Even the government was supporting the issues raised by Anna, truly speaking it was obviously not interested in implementing them. The reason is so simple and blatant. But the government had understood that this movement can’t be scrapped so easily like some other movements because the whole nation had come together for the issue. It clearly understood the gravity of the issue. But somehow it had to dent the momentum of the movement but it could not do it in a direct way. So the state chose another way: mudslinging.

We have to remember that the party which is in power in the center is congress which has a history of more than a century and which has ruled the nation for more than five decades. So, it has got all the tricks in the bag. It is releasing the cat as and when it is required. This mudslinging is just one of its tricks. The effective way to counter the civil society members is to dent their image, the moral one because that is the core strength of the members. So, every effort was made by the people of the government to do it. The paid up media also supported the government in this cause.

          But the fact was that every member of the civil society had an unblemished history and was very successful in their respective fields. They did not have any individual interests or personal agenda. They were truly working for the nation’s good. So it did not take the people of India to see the ploy of the government and they did not heed to the fake issues raised by the government. Government was pushed to the back seat again. But it was not ready to give up.

          Now the government is coming with all guns against Anna and his team and even going to an extent to link Anna with RSS and to say the whole moment is sponsored by RSS. That’s a dodgy move from the government. Against Ramdev, it is more or less successful in damaging the image. When someone is fighting against a party like congress, one has to understand that they are fighting against a shitty behemoth. It is impossible to fight, let alone win without getting dirty.

CBI : Congress Bureau of Investigation!

CBI,as we all know is an autonomous body.But there is no denying of the fact that, it will be controlled to some extent by the party which is in power at the center. But the congress handles CBI in a way that makes mockery of the very institutional existense. If ever people had complete faith in one investigating agency, that was CBI. Now the CBI out of that belief, people are not in a position to trust any investigating agency.

Congress, time & again has used CBI to meet its selfish ends.We can take innumerable examples like those of Lalu Yadav,Mayavati etc. They are using the CBI literally like dogs. The latest entry to this is Mr.Shah of Gujarat.I am not commenting about the role of Mr.Shah in Sohrabuddin murder case but just observe the timing of this.

When Indo-Pak talks have failed miserably and when the prices have reached the peaks, congress had this old weapon of CBI.They wanted the whole attention of the Indian people to shift from those burning issues to the issue which was less significant. And they made that insignificant issue to look like a very significant very successfully. The "SICKular" English media always backs up congress without any exception.

If one looks at present day India, one can say even god would find it difficult to rule it!!!