For India to Progress, Congress Must Dissolve

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Kirtpal Arora · Top Commenter · Internship at Hospital Español Indira Priyadarshini perpetuated immorality in the Nehru dynasty. Intellectual Indira was admitted in Oxford University but driven out from there for non-performance. She was then admitted to Shantiniketan University but, Guru Dev Rabindranath Tagore chased her out for bad conduct. After driven out of Shantiniketan, Indira became lonely as father was busy with politics and mother was dying of tuberculosis in Switzerland. Playing with her loneliness, Feroze Khan having business links in England , son of a grocer named Nawab Khan who supplied wines to Motilal Nehru’s household in Allahabad, was able to draw close to her. Soon enough she changed her religion, became a Muslim woman and married Feroze Khan in a London mosque. Indira Priyadarshini Nehru changed her name to Maimuna Begum. Her mother Kamala Nehru was totally against that marriage. Nehru was not happy as conversion to Muslim will jeopardize her prospect of becoming Prime Minister. So, Nehru asked the young man Feroze Khan to change his surname from Khan to Gandhi. It had nothing to do with change of religion from Islam to Hinduism. It was just a case of a change of name by an affidavit. And so Feroze Khan became Feroze Gandhi. Indira Gandhi had two sons namely Rajiv Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi. Sanjay was originally named as Sanjiv that rhymed with Rajiv, his elder brother’s name. Sanjiv was arrested by the British police for a car theft in the UK and his passport was seized. On Indira Gandhi’s direction, the then Indian Ambassador to UK, Krishna Menon using his power, changed his name to Sanjay and procured a new passport. It is a known fact that after Rajiv’s birth, Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi lived separately, but they were not divorced. The book “The Nehru Dynasty” (ISBN 10:8186092005) by K. N. Rao states that the second son of Indira (or Mrs. Feroze Khan) known as Sanjay Gandhi was not the son of Feroze Gandhi. He was the son of another Muslim gentleman named Mohammad Yunus. Interestingly Sanjay Gandhi’s marriage with the Sikh girl Menaka took place in Mohammad Yunus’ house in New Delhi. Apparently Yunus was unhappy with the marriage as he wanted to get him married with a Muslim girl of his choice. It was Mohammad Yunus who cried the most when Sanjay Gandhi died in plane crash. In Yunus’ book, “Persons, Passions & Politics” (ISBN-10: 0706910176) one can discover that baby Sanjay was circumcised following Islamic custom. It is a fact that Sanjay Gandhi used to constantly blackmail his mother Indira Gandhi, with the secret of who his real father is. Sanjay exercised a deep emotional control over his mother, which he often misused. Indira Gandhi chose to ignore his misdeeds and he was indirectly controlling the Government. When the news of Sanjay Gandhi’s death reached Indira Gandhi, her first question was “Where are his keys and his wrist watch?”. Some deep secrets about the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty seem to be hidden in those objects. The plane accident was also mysterious. It was a new plane that nosedive to a crash and yet the plane did not explode upon impact. It happens when there is no fuel. But the flight register shows that the fuel tank was made full before take-off. Indira Gandhi using undue influence of PM’s office prohibited any inquiry from taking place. So, who is the suspect? The book “The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi” (ISBN: 9780007259304) by Katherine Frank sheds light on some of Indira Gandhi’s other love affairs. It is written that Indira’s first love was with her German teacher at Shantiniketan. Later she had affair with M. O. Mathai (father’s secretary), then Dhirendra Brahmachari (her yoga teacher) and at last with Dinesh Singh (Foreign Minister). Former Foreign Minister K Natwar Singh made an interesting revelation about Indira Gandhi’s affinity to the Mughals in his book “Profile and Letters” (ISBN: 8129102358). It states that- In 1968 Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister of India went on an official visit to Afghanistan. Natwar Singh accompanied her as an IFS officer in duty. After having completed the day’s long engagements, Indira Gandhi wanted to go out for a ride in the evening. After going a long distance in the car, Indira Gandhi wanted to visit Babur’s burial place, though this was not included in the itinerary. The Afghan security officials tried to dissuade her, but she was adamant. In the end she went to that burial place. It was a deserted place. She went before Babur’s grave, stood there for a few minutes with head bent down in reverence. Natwar Singh stood behind her. When Indira had finished her prayers, she turned back and told Singh “Today we have had our brush with history.” Worth to mention that Babur was the founder of Mughal rule in India, from which the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty have descended. Till date, Hindustanis bow to these masters.

http://www.theunrealtimes.com/2014/04/29/priyanka-gandhi-my-familyll-become-even-more-charismatic-in-years-to-come-so-vote-for-congress/

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^ interesting

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^^ one hell of a conspiracy theory .. link plz:hysterical::hysterical:

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^^ one hell of a conspiracy theory .. link plz:hysterical::hysterical:

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[adi B]

Read this a long time back.sanjay was a certified car thief though

[Roshanrocks]

wierd, i thought Feroze Gandhi was Prsi :ohmy: whatever!

[gattaca]

wierd, i thought Feroze Gandhi was Prsi :ohmy: whatever!

Me too atleast they tried to hide the fact. Nehru was pretty much against giving power to jinnah. No wonder he wanted to hide that.

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[Straight Drive]

It's really sad to see that the infrastructure in India has improved at snails pace in most cities. While on my travel to various Indian states, i found the infrastructure to be very very poor. By that i mean the cities of Gujarat, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkota and Mangalore. They are at least 20 years behind Mumbai in terms of infrastructure. Even the public service buses in Chennai were so horrible. They look like buses which haven't been washed for years, no glass windows, just those dirty rods, the autos which are shabby. Even the area near the Chennai airport seemed to be like a village. And i was watching all this while the chaffeur drove through the main road nearing airport. Ridiculous infrastructure in all aspects. I felt for the people living there and the public services they have to use. Hyderabad looked like a developing city with problems of its own. Kolkota too was not impressive. Heck even some bridge nearby the highway had collapsed. A lot is talked about Gujarat infrastructure and Modi. Well, apart form Rajkot airport the last flight from Bhuj to Mumbai is at 5:45 PM. Even in Rajkot the last flight is 8:55 P.M. The Bhuj airport actually closes in the noon. Mangalore too looks like a city which is years behind Mumbai. yet another city with poor infrastructure. The political parties have only taken care of the financial capital of India i.e. Mumbai. Apart from Delhi and Mumbai there is no stock exchange. The infrastructure that i experienced in most cities is years behind Mumbai. The politicians have done nothing to improve the backwards cities. It is about time something changes. All we can do is hope and wait for the ongoing election results. I hope to see better infrastructure everywhere, no matter which party comes to power.

[Sachin=GOD]

AFTER THE FAMILY - The Congress’s post-dynastic future

Rae Bareli, Sonia Gandhi’s constituency, went to the polls in this latest phase of India’s interminable general elections. It would be a good thing, from an anti-BJP point of view, if she lost. A majority of over three-and-a-half lakh votes is hard to shift so it’s probably not going to happen but it’s nice to imagine a what-if world where India’s two principal dynasts, Sonia Gandhi and her son, Rahul, lost their seats to candidates from non-feral parties, say the BSP or the AAP. Not because Sonia Gandhi is a bad politician; given the quality of Nehru’s heirs Sonia has been an exceptional dynast. She thwarted the BJP’s bid to become the natural party of government in 2004, declined prime ministerial office and reconstituted herself (with some help from the national advisory council) as the social democratic wing of the Congress. Progressives owe her a debt: the MNREGA wouldn’t have passed without her and the Right to Information Act passed because she took ownership of it. But she shouldn’t be running India’s oldest party merely because she is Nehru’s grand-daughter-in-law. For two reasons. The obvious reason is that India is the world’s largest republican democracy and it’s weird to have it ruled by a succession of increasingly inept dynasts. But the more pressing reason is that the Congress, which historically pioneered the pluralist politics that kept India from becoming Pakistan, has been rendered dysfunctional as a political party because of its grotesque dependence on a single family. This isn’t just bad for the party, it’s bad for the country because it leaves India without a functional pan-Indian party of the non-feral centre. A Congress ‘led’ by Rahul Gandhi and his mother effectively surrenders the middle ground of subcontinental politics to the majoritarianism of the BJP. Perry Anderson is wrong about many things in his angry jeremiad, The Indian Ideology, but he is cruelly accurate (and prescient, given that he wrote this in 2012) about the Gandhis and the Congress: “The dynasty that still rules the country, its name as fake as the knock-off of a prestige brand, is the negation of any self-respecting republic. The party over which it presides has lost any raison d’être beyond clinging to its bloodline — now desperately pinning its hopes, after the flop of Nehru’s weakling great-grandson, on his hardbitten sister, Priyanka Vadra, if only she would hurry up and divorce her too obviously shady tycoon-husband.†The only part of this skewering that’s debatable is Anderson’s dismissal of the Congress as a force in Indian politics. Anderson is persuaded that the dissolution of the Congress is the necessary preliminary to political renewal: “Congress had its place in the national liberation struggle. Gandhi, who had made it the mass force it became, called at Independence for its dissolution. He was right. Since then the party has been a steadily increasing calamity for the country. Its exit from the scene would be the best single gift Indian democracy could give itself. The BJP is, of course, a more dangerous force. But it is a real party, with cadres, a programme and a social base. It cannot be wished out of existence, because it represents a substantial political phenomenon, not the decaying fossil of one, and has to be fought as such. So long as Congress lingers on paralytically, that will not occur.†But the Congress’s problem isn’t the absence of ideology; the Congress’s difficulty is that it hasn’t been able to say for decades now that it offers “…[a] career open to all talents, without distinctions of birthâ€. For the party, this has been politically crippling. Till Indira Gandhi’s death, the Nehru-Gandhi dynast (whoever he or she happened to be) could at least claim that the dynasty served a political purpose: it lifted the political prospects of Congress candidates at election time. Indira Gandhi became, by virtue of long tenancy and victory in the war of 1971, a charismatic dynast; she won general elections for her party. Even — or especially — in death, she posthumously won the Congress an enormous majority in Parliament in 1984. Since then, the Congress has been in secular decline and the dynasty’s reason for being has gradually disappeared. When a political party can’t offer powerful politicians the prospect of the top job because it is permanently reserved for the First Family, and the First Family can’t deliver seats at election time either because the incumbent dynast has had a charisma bypass or because he doesn’t know how to do democratic politics, dynastic politics has run its miserable course. For the last 15 years politically ambitious Congressmen with regional bases have been abandoning the party for precisely this reason. Mamata Banerjee broke away to form the Trinamul Congress in 1998 and Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party seceded from the Congress in 1999. We have seen this pattern repeat itself, most recently in Andhra Pradesh. Why should a provincial satrap remain within the Congress? In a normal party the provincial strongman aspires to pan-Indian glory, perhaps the prospect of becoming the prime minister of the country. No Reddy or Pawar or Banerjee in the Congress can aspire to that. They have the wrong surname. The only other route to the top is the Manmohan Singh route, which requires a kind of self-abasement that doesn’t come easily to powerful politicians with a mass base. In an era of coalitions, a regional heavyweight has more political leverage outside the Congress as the leader of an independent party than he does as a provincial franchisee of the dynasty’s private limited company. Anderson (and other doomsayers) are wrong to think that a Congress minus the Gandhi family would lose its reason for being. Indian politics is crammed with energetic, ambitious and ruthless political actors with Congress lineages. If, for the sake of argument, Rahul Gandhi were to be defeated in Amethi and a diminished, headless Congress were to go into Opposition, it’s very likely that this Congress rump would welcome back someone like Pawar or Banerjee as the returning prodigal. The Congress would go back to being led by politicians who actually enjoy mass politics instead of reluctant dauphins and dowagers (Rajiv, Sonia, Rahul) who entered politics holding their noses and still give the impression that they’d rather be elsewhere. The Congress will do fine without them. It will learn in its time in the political wilderness how to be a campaigning party again; if the Aam Aadmi Party speed-reads its way into political adulthood in a year, the Congress should manage to wean itself off the dynasty and start walking on its own in five. But since Congressmen don’t have the nerve to pull off the palace coup that’s essential for the party’s revival, we must forlornly hope that the electors of Rae Bareli and Amethi do it for them.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140501/jsp/opinion/story_18294440.jsp#.U2GeUMflFCY

[zubinpepsi]

i hope everyone of the Nehru family dies a horrible death and are no more.. sick sick of this sick family.. maybe then congress will get better

[bulbul]

^thats not good wish,even for crooks.

[JaiRamesh2]

congress:finger: mukt bharat Phase One nearly completed.

[G_B_]

lets hold onto our horses. Win and then talk. But one thing is for sure. The congress need a better leader than Rahul Gandhi. Reports coming out from Amethi say that he will fail to cross (50%) . Even through he is 100% nail on to win such a drop in numbers does not bode well. Now if the drop in % is true then the congress really needs to move beyond Rahul. some tough desicions for the congress to potentially make if the BJP do indeed storm away and form government.

[someone]

lets hold onto our horses. Win and then talk. But one thing is for sure. The congress need a better leader than Rahul Gandhi. Reports coming out from Amethi say that he will fail to cross (50%) . Even through he is 100% nail on to win such a drop in numbers does not bode well. Now if the drop in % is true then the congress really needs to move beyond Rahul.

The challenge for Congress is now to tell to who their loyalty lies for. For 60 years, its openly towards the family, but will that change now? Will there be a expulsion

[Detonator]

For India to progress, Indians need to stop destroying the country.

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For India to progress' date=' [b']Indians need to stop destroying the country.

how about Italians? or Bangladeshis or Pakis?

[FischerTal]

Some desperate internet fanboy of the BJP realizing the deep ***** BJP is in and making wishlists so that they can come to power.

prediction of outy back in 2013 :cantstop:

[Sachin=GOD]

Cong doesn't need to dissolve but is most certainly needs to get rid of the Nehru Dynasty (and dynastic politics in general within the party) and try to develop some state level leaders who can take over the party in years to come.

[undisputed chap]

Right' date=' we are a democratic country that tries to move forward by limiting choices.[/quote'] Are you KT :giggle: