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Rahul Gandhi and the ongoing winter session of Parliament | Height Of Irresponsibility | | Neha Jammu, Nov 30: Believe it or not, but it is a fact that AICC general secretary, Sonia Gandhi's son and the Congress' prime ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi has no respect for the Indian Parliament. He rarely goes to the Lok Sabha. Even if he goes, he doesn't speak and whenever he speaks he doesn't make his presence felt. He only courts controversies in and outside the Parliament whenever he opens his mouth, with the henchmen of the AICC president coming to his rescue each time he speaks. He just reads out and even then he commits this faux pass or that faux pass. It is an entirely different story that all the Congress ministers, Prime Minister included, and all the Congress MPs hail and eulogize him and describe him as a great statesman and politician of a very high caliber and stature. It is understandable. After all, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi constitute the Congress party like Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah constitute the National Conference. The Congress sans Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka is no Congress as the National Conference sans Farooq and Omar is no National Conference. That Rahul Gandhi has little or no respect for the Lok Sabha could be seen from the fact that he has not attended the ongoing winter session of Parliament even once. The session was started on November 22. The day the session started, he undertook five-day-long tour to Uttar Pradesh to mobilize public opinion in favour of his party, which, like the National Conference, is mired in several controversies and involved in corruption from head to toe. He didn't attend the Lok Sabha even after his returned to New Delhi. Instead of going to the Lok Sabha, which has been made dysfunctional by the Congress party itself to avoid humiliation and defeat at the hands of the united opposition and its own alliance partners, including Trinmool Congress, the DMK, the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party, the All-India Muslim League, the Kerala Congress, the Rashtriya Janata Dal and some Congress MPs, he remained busy in organizing a convention of national-level elected office-bearers of youth Congress. UP Chief Minister, Mayawati, took cognizance of the indifferent attitude of Rahul Gandhi towards the Parliament and ridiculed him saying the Congress Yavraj, instead of attending the Lok Sabha, was vitiating the atmosphere in her state by making controversial statements, including the one that dismissed those seeking jobs outside the state as "beggars", a statement that created a sort of furore across the country. Her counsel to him was that he should represent his constituency in the Lok Sabha, instead of poking his nose in the UP politics. One may or may not endorse the view of Mayawati, but one cannot question her suggestion that Rahul Gandhi would do well to participate in the Lok Sabha debates and highlight the problems the people of his constituency face. Not only Mayawati, Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev also took on Rahul Gandhi, jeered at him and stated that Rahul Gandhi is not a prime ministerial stuff. He said he is just not qualified for the position. On the contrary, he suggested that Mayawati could be an effective Prime Minister. Rahul Gandhi would do well to take note of the Mayawati's sane counsels and attend the Lok Sabha. He can undertake political activities and political tours after the winter session is over. He just cannot take the Parliament for a ride. |
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