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| A Tale Of A National Party | | Amusing & Disgusting | | Rustam
JAMMU, Jan 19: There is in this country of 120 crore people a party which is termed as the grand old party of India. It has its organizational structure. It has a president who is the supreme leader. No one can dare oppose the president or criticize the president's policies and views. The president chairs the core committee meetings. The president also attends a few other party meetings. The president also has a coterie consisting of half a dozen self-seekers, who, like their president, are also not aware of the people's needs, problems and aspirations. The president doesn't know the people. An overwhelming majority of people also doesn't know this president of the national party. It sees the president only on TV screens and in newspapers and that too occasionally. The president seldom ventures out of the official resident. Nor does the president tour the country to feel the people's pulse and interact with party workers to find what they want. The president visits a few towns and cities only during the election time. The president's speeches are not extempore; the president reads out from the prepared speech. The president doesn't prepare the speech; someone else prepares the speech. The president cannot prepare the speech because the president is not aware of the problems of the people to be addressed, motivated and won over. The President is also a Member of Parliament, but the president never speaks in the Parliament. The president only claps and expresses joy when the president feels that things are not just under control but the president's men in the Parliament are also successful in provoking the opposition through their arrogance or when they brazenly defend the indefensible and the corrupt.
All the leaders of this national party, numbering about 10 to 20, and all others who call themselves pledged members of this national party respect their president to the extent that they call their President a boon for the party and a great asset for the country where even the Army Chief is humiliated; where the number of people living below poverty line is increasing manifold with each passing day; where corruption is deep-rooted; where those earning Rs 26-32 a day are described rich; where over 42 per cent children are under-nourished; where the looters and plunderers of the public money are living likes rajas and Maharajas and the honest struggling for a simple two-time meal; where those challenging the very institutions of the state and the Army are ruling the roost; where those committed to the national cause are at the receiving end; where those at the helm are openly challenging the press, the election commission, and even judiciary and so on. They call their president an embodiment of renunciation and sacrifice.
This national party has also scores of vice-presidents, general secretaries and secretaries, but no one knows them. They know only two general secretaries. They work together; they move together; they refuse to acknowledge the misdeeds of their party; they, instead, blame the opposition for the country's problems; they belong to what people term as the most corrupt party, but they term the opposition as the most corrupt and opportunist; they pit the followers of one religion against the followers of another, but they denounce the opposition as "communal", "anti-minorities" and ardent believers in the caste system; they say we give money to the opposition-ruled states which, instead of using these funds for the public-utility schemes, misappropriate the same; they castigate Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev because they are campaigning for a corruption-free polity and for bringing back to India black money stashed in the foreign banks and term them agents of the BJP and the RSS; they support those who challenge the institutions, but they dismiss the opposition as anti-constitution and anti-people; they want to capture power in the opposition-ruled states, but describe the opposition parties as power-hungry, unscrupulous and divisive; they talk to foreign diplomats and tell them Hindu extremism is far more dangerous than the Islamic terror, but condemn the opposition saying it is "anti-minority; and so on.
This is a small tale of the party termed by the members of this party as the grand old party of India, which doesn't mind sharing power with those whose credentials are extremely doubtful. It is amusing and disgusting. Such things can happen only in India. Is it not a worrisome situation? But the plus point is that the people are slowly but surely realizing that this grand old party of India has outlived its utility and the time has come to discard it. It may take some more time; but it would surely happen. It is hardly necessary to name this party, as everyone knows it and has suffered because of it.
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