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| Congress is deadly poison for Bharat | | | Hari Om
The election process in the five states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Manipur is on and in full swing. New governments would be in place immediately after December 8. The very crucial general election, which will be undoubtedly presidential-type between BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and the Congress's undeclared prime ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi, is also round the corner. The Election Commission can announce the poll schedule anytime after February 15, 2014, as the new government has to be in place latest byMay 21. It was on that dark day in the political history of India that the AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi invoked the pernicious 19th centuryKimberley clause and appointed Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister of the great country, Bharat.
This was the time for the political class to highlight achievements and failures of the governments in the poll-bound States and the Congress-led ragtag minority and minority appeasing UPA Government at the Centre and mobilise public opinion on issues of governance and matters of national import. But it was not to be. Contrarily, all the pseudo-secular, fundamentalist and divisive forces, which had no attractive wares of their own to put in the electoral arena for the cheated and badly let down people, ganged up against the BJP and the RSS in general and Narendra Modi in particular. The leader of this gang of minority appeasers and pro-terrorists and separatists is, of course, the Congress.
The Congress which was founded in December 1885 by the British imperialists with the help of 72 English educated Indians, mostly pliable and opportunist, to puncture and defeat the ongoing very strong nationalist movement. Most of the Indians who came forward to become part of the conspiracy hatched by the canny Britons were those who not only believed in the British sense of (in)justice and wanted London to misrule the Indians and exploit, loot and plunder the country's natural resources to enrich England. Retired British civil servant AO Hume, who successfully took the initiative, had convinced the Governor-General and Viceroy ofIndia and the Secretary of State for India that the formation of a political party inIndia was needed to avert the impending disaster. In fact, he had told them thatIndia was in to witness a revolt against London which would be far more dangerous than the first war of independence the British witnessed in India in 1857. It may appear preposterous, but it is a fact that as late as in 1905 and 1906 many top-ranking Congress leaders used to say, and openly and brazenly, that if London really wished to end unrest in India or neutralise the influence of freedom fighters, it had no other option but to accommodate the "educated" Indians in the British scheme of things. Just look at the proceedings of the 1906 Indian Budget debate and you will find some top Congress leaders urging the Governor-General ofIndia to "conciliate the educated classes to end the disorder in India". "There is but one way in which this conciliation can be secured and that is by associating these classes more and more with the government of their own country" (Gokhale, Gopal Krishan, Speeches, Budget Speech, March 1906, PP. 187-188).
Earlier in December 1905, the political Guru of Mahatma Gandhi and president of the Benaras session of the so-called Indian National Congress, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, had, inter-alia, said, "For better, for worse, our destinies are now linked with those of England and the Congress freely recognises that whatever advance we (read Congress leaders) seek must be within the Empire" (Report of the Indian National Congress 1905, Presidential address, P. 13). Remember, this was not only the part of the presidential address but this statement was at a time when the tempers were running very high across the country in the wake of the communal partition of Bengal in 1905 and Swadeshi Movement in the partitioned Bengal was in full swing.
Not that there were no outstanding nationalists in the Congress. There were many and some of them included Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Bipin Chandra Pal and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. They wanted to give an Indian orientation to the Congress, but they couldn't because those who controlled it hatched conspiracy after conspiracy against them to render them unreal and ineffective in the party. The 1907 Surat split was nothing but the outcome of a conspiracy hatched by the British loyalists against the Indian nationalists, and the manner in which the Congress amended its constitution at Surat was proof that those committed to liberating India from the British yoke had no place in the party. The circumstances under which Subhas Chandra Bose had to leave the Congress in 1939 after winning hands down the presidential election at Tripuri for the second consecutive time defeating Mahatma Gandhi's candidate Sitaramayya and form Forward Block are too well-known to the students of Congress history. But there are numerous examples which indicate the domination of loyalists and marginalisation of committed nationalists and public-spirited Indians.
The fact of the matter is that the chief factor in the Congress was London, which not only ruthlessly employed its policy of divide and rule to consolidate the British rule in India but also indoctrinated many Congress leaders who were more than willing to play similar devious games for the sake of personal power and profit at the cost of the Indian citizens. And the Congress and the power-hungry, unscrupulous and communalist politicians who came out of it from time to time after 1947 continue to play the same devious and divisive games even today to fulfill their insatiable lust for power, money and other worldly gains by accentuating caste angularities and widening the gulf between communities. The truth, in short, is that the Congress and similar outfits, including the JDU, SP, the BSP, the RJD, the TMC, the CPI, the CPI-M, the NCP, the NC, the RLD, to mention only a few, represent the same force that did not allow the process of nation-building to take place pre-1947 India.
Narendra Modi only makes a valid point when he says day in and day out that if India is to survive as one nation, regenerate its socio-economic and political life and attain a status in the comity of the self-respecting nations, it has no other alternative but to liberate India from the "Congress of termites".
The upshot of his whole argument is that the Congress is not really a party of India and he appears absolutely correct. It is the sacred duty of each and every Indian to see through the ulterior game plan of the secular fundamentalist outfits and work with a single-minded devotion for a Congress-free India. The Congress is not an elixir as far as the Indian nation is concerned. Indeed, it is a deadly poison.
Courtesy:www.niticentral.com |
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