gattaca Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 On topic Every Congress leader wants to be a CM of telangana. They could atleast spend money on improving the state.
randomGuy Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Jai soniya mata, maiyya Jai soniya mata Tumko nish din sevat, har kangressi neta... O maiyya Jai soniya mata.
hhunaeh Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 How can people be such big suckups? Don't they have any shame, self respect?
ganeshran Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 How can people be such big suckups? Don't they have any shame' date=' self respect?[/quote'] Congress has cultivated a highly competitive culture of sycophancy where only the champion sycophants move up in the party line. It is like natural selection The only close competition is from Amma down south
Desi Cartman Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 The statue looks more like Rahul Gandhi's face on top of Sonia Gandhi's body. check the expression .. Here is an idea, make Rahul Ganesh and put him next to Sonia ji
fineleg Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 Congress has cultivated a highly competitive culture of sycophancy where only the champion sycophants move up in the party line. It is like natural selection The only close competition is from Amma down south Not just congress. India as a nation adores and worships fellow human beings as God - and not talkin abt the real noble hearted ones who sacrificed their entire life for others such as Teresa - but actors, politicians and cricketers. Temple for kushboo and some idiot may erect one for shradha or shruti.
Muloghonto Posted January 9, 2014 Posted January 9, 2014 A 'Goddess Sonia' temple: Congress legislator's thank-you for Telangana decision A Congress legislator from Andhra Pradesh has taken his devotion to party president Sonia Gandhi to new heights, or nine feet to be exact. That is the height of Shankar Rao's 'Goddess Sonia' statue, depicting her as 'Telangana Talli' (Telangana mother) as a thank-you for the Centre's decision to create a Telangana state. It will be installed at what Dr Rao intends to call the 'Sonia Gandhi Shanti Vanam', in a patch of land near the Bangalore-Hyderabad highway registered in his daughter Sushmitha's name. "I want to build the temple so that people can offer prayers to Sonia Gandhi every day for ending the dominance of Seemandhra leadership over Telangana. I am donating nine acres of my own land and with my own money'' says Dr Rao. "It is not sycophancy. I am a core loyalist of the Nehru-Gandhi family. The Congress gave me a ticket to contest polls seven times and I became a minister twice.'' The statue made of bronze and weighing 500 kg is being crafted by a national award-winning sculptor who, incidentally, belongs to the Seemandhra region that is vehemently opposed to Telangana. Work on the statue began on December 9, Sonia Gandhi's birthday. It also happens to be the date on which then Union home minister P Chidambaram made a midnight announcement on Telangana in 2009. The legislator claims he has the blessings of some Congress leaders at the Centre for his project. "We have shown the prototype of the idol to be installed and got it approved,'' he says. The Congressman's shrine will have Sonia Gandhi join the ranks of prominent faces like Khushboo, MG Ramachandran and Amitabh Bachchan who have temples in their name. http://www.ndtv.com/article/south/a-goddess-sonia-temple-congress-legislator-s-thank-you-for-telangana-decision-468546 :sick: This is the problem with Indian politics: when prominent ministers can make such 'core loyalist' comments with pride, it shows what is fundamentally wrong in Indian politics: it sees loyalty within the power heirarchies of politicians as a 'way to be/natural' instead of it being a 'reluctant reality that must be accepted for now'. The latter is how loyalty to 'powers that be' is perceived in the western mindset: that it should not be so but is the reality. This subtle but critical difference is why political parties in the west tend to be more accountable: they view party as first and foremost as a group of people loyal to each other due to ideology rather than personal loyalties. As such, however corrupt people tend to be ( and in my experience, people are just as corrupt everywhere, some hide it better), there still tends to be an undercurrent of 'this is the right way according to our party ideology' in the west. Whereas in India, parties are formed by ideological commonness amongst only the most powerful & influential politicians, everyone below them is a sycophant of one of the higher ups, to make up the numbers.
Detonator Posted January 10, 2014 Posted January 10, 2014 This is the problem with Indian politics: when prominent ministers can make such 'core loyalist' comments with pride, it shows what is fundamentally wrong in Indian politics: it sees loyalty within the power heirarchies of politicians as a 'way to be/natural' instead of it being a 'reluctant reality that must be accepted for now'. The latter is how loyalty to 'powers that be' is perceived in the western mindset: that it should not be so but is the reality. This subtle but critical difference is why political parties in the west tend to be more accountable: they view party as first and foremost as a group of people loyal to each other due to ideology rather than personal loyalties. As such, however corrupt people tend to be ( and in my experience, people are just as corrupt everywhere, some hide it better), there still tends to be an undercurrent of 'this is the right way according to our party ideology' in the west. Whereas in India, parties are formed by ideological commonness amongst only the most powerful & influential politicians, everyone below them is a sycophant of one of the higher ups, to make up the numbers. Good post. everyone here expects personal favors for a loyality. most mid level politicians always busy digging holes for others, waiting for a moment to move up the ladder. the moment they get a chance, they forget all those loyalities and try to take over the place.
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