Launch of a Gandhi

Recently, Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukharjee declared Rahul Gandhi’s candidacy as next Prime Minister of India. Amid the terrorism threats, global recession and warming, the launch of Rahul Gandhi’s career is the foremost important matter for ruling Congress party. The controversies of this new Indian Prince vary from false claims of graduation from top US universities to crediting Bangladesh creation to his family.

In West, most of people confuse this family to be related to Mahatma Gandhi, though unlike Mahatma, Nehru-Gandhi legacy has only one agenda - ruling on country by all the means. Historically, launching of any Gandhi’s career is a painful experience of India. Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru launched his career of Prime minister on the creation of Pakistan and Hindu- Muslim riots in 1947. Millions of people died and displaced, but Nehru got what he desired. Later signing Article 370 with the King of Kashmir is another disaster, country is still paying for. It is irony that Nehru, himself a Kashmiri Brahmin, caused the killings and departure of millions of Kashmiri Hindus.

Indira Gandhi went one step ahead of her father. After the failure of her marriage with Feroze, she concentrated only on playing political games. At least, ambitious Nehru had a vision of India and he worked for establishing IITs and SAARC, a group of countries in Indian subcontinent since he recognized the possible dangers of helping one side on other during cold war. But Indira bargained with everyone to achieve the title of first female Prime Minister of India. The death of her political opponent Lal Bahadur Shastri, then leader of Congress party and Prime Minister, in USSR strengthened her relations with USSR. Communism movements and parties in India established. To get the support of Tamil political parties she allowed them to help separatist Tamil movement in Sri Lanka. The exploitation of democracy was not only limited in the hands of Indira Gandhi, but also enjoyed by her son Sanjay and front liners of Congress party. Her political games in Punjab set the path for launch of her son Rajiv’s career and another shame on Indian history.

The arrival of Rajiv in Indian politics is opened with the blood of Hindus and Sikhs. 1984 riots were the creation of Congress politicians (Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and H.K.L. Bhagat) who cannot think beyond Gandhi family. The richest state of India suffered a lot economically and socially, in next ten years of terrorist attacks on Hindus. Sikh religion was established by Guru Gobind Singh to protect Hindus from the forceful conversion to Islam. But after 1984, the situation was exploited by Pakistani terrorist groups and ISI to threaten the Hindus once again. Rajiv Gandhi’s leadership skills were further restricted. He maintained his right to rule country by ignoring the rising of corruption and encouraging different ‘constitution’ for Muslims (Shahbano case).

Though Sonia Gandhi, wife of Rajiv is not able to achieve the right of ruling on country because of her foreign origin, she got the exclusive rights to decide the future of Congress and India indirectly. Her candidacy for the post of Prime Minister suffered the opposition within Congress and from other parties. Apparently Sonia Gandhi’s next move is to secure the position for her son who suffered serious failures in his education and serious career. Political career for Gandhi family comes natural and without any effort, since Indians are being told from last 60 years that India’s freedom is possible only with the last name of ‘Gandhi’. Recent communal dispute among Hindus and Christians from Congress ruled Orissa led Supreme Court to remind state government about its fundamental duty of protecting citizens. But if Congress party has ever followed that, millions of Indian lives could have been saved. Orissa state government has no interest in either stopping the conflicts or encouraging the economical growth of state. Rahul’s comments such as “If anyone from the Gandhi-Nehru family had been active in politics then, the Babri Masjid would not have fallen" indicates another foul play of Gandhi family to launch a new ‘King of India’.