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| Circus, not Congress | | Sonia fields Chaturvedi to counter Aiyer? | | Rustam
JAMMU, July 28: Congress MP and former minister in the union government Mani Shankr Aiyer, who is stauch supporter of Pakistan and who believes in the bogey of "alienation in Kashmir", is an angry man. He had been angry since the day Sonia asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to drop him from the council of ministers sometime back. However, he didn't really demonstrate his anger. He started criticizing the Congress when Sonia didn't consider him fit for a berth in the reshuffled council of minister. He became rather angry when Manmohan Singh obeyed the Sonia's directive and declared after the oath ceremony "this is the last reshuffle in the UPA 2."
It is Sonia and Rahul Gandhi who play all the shots and decide who or who should not be inducted in the council of ministers. The only duty of the Prime Minister, who has also been nominated by Sonia under the 1892 "Kimberly Clause", is to obey the orders of the mother and her son who control the government but who are not accountable and responsible. He has no constituency. He has never won any election. It is Manmohan Singh who is accountable. If Congress wins elections, the followers (read self-seekers and sycophants) of Sonia and Rahul hail the AICC president and her son, who is also Aicc general secretary. If the Congress loses, the followers of Sonia and Rahul hold the Prime Minister responsible for the party's defeat. And, drama goes on like this.
A few words on the origin of the Indian National Congress (INC) here would be in order to put things in some perspective. Indiand didn't found the Congress. Shrewd, canny and committed Britons, including one retired civil servant A O Hume - Hume was District Collector of Jorhat district in Assam -- and the then Governor-General of India Lord Dufferin founded the Congress. Hume functioned as the Congress secretary for years together to ensure that none was able to harm the British interests in India. They founded the Congress, in collaboration with 70-odd Indians, all, baring a very few, ardent supporters of the Britons, in order to check the growth of nationalism in India or to create a "powerful counterpoise" to the just hopes and aspirations of those Indians who wanted to defeat the imperialists and end the British rule in India. So, forget that the Congress was founded to defend and promote the national cause; Congress was founded to defeat the national cause. Those who were committed to the national cause were shown the door at Surat in 1907.
Anyway, Aiyer, who is angry, ridiculed Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on July 25 without naming them. He also spoke contemptuously of 24 Akbar Road, the Congress headquarters in New Delhi. Speaking at the release of Rashid Kidwai's book "24 Akbar Road", he, inter-alia, said: "Those who have got their work done visit 10, Janpath (Sonia Gandhi's official residence), while those with some hope of getting their work done visit 23 Willingdon Crescent (Rahul Gandhi's official residence" and "those who have lost all the hope and are dejected come to 24, Akbar Road…Such people who have lost hope come here, with the belief that meeting up people who have a table and a chair (read a party post) would help them, but little do they know that of the 10 people sitting inside five are trying to reach some higher post themselves, while five others are in a downward spiral…Sometimes people taste success, sometimes they fail. This kind of a fair (mela) and every Congressman has to join this circus."
What Aiyer said could be construed as a strong denunciation of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. It could also be construed as a blistering attack on those who have got something (courtesy Sonia) or who are in the pipeline. In a way Aiyer dismissed the Congressmen as self-seekers, sycophants and as what not.
Since the Aiyer's ire was directed against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, it was expected that the master would initiate action against Aiyer and it really happened. Sonia and Rahul loyalist Satyavrat Chaturvedi, who himself is in the pipeline, took no time in upping the ante and contemptuously dismissed Aiyer as a "joker." Congress national spokesperson Manish Tiwari also took on Aiyer and used very strong words.
It is true that Aiyer is a frustrated man; he is desperate and he wants something which he is not getting. But what he said about 10, Janpath, 23 Willingdon Crescent and 24, Akbar Road was very correct. He didn't cross the line by defining the powers and authority of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi or their status in the Congress party, as also by revealing what goes in 24, Akbar Road and who visit the party headquarters. One needs to appreciate Aiyer and not criticize him for what he said for whatever reasons. |
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