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JAMMU, Feb 4: The Indian National Congress (INC), which owes its origin to the British conspiracies hatched to kill the Indian freedom struggle, is today the most looked down upon and roundly condemned political organisation. (INC was established in December 1885 at Mumbai by a retired British civil servant A O Hume, in collaboration with Lord Dufferin and the British Government in London. It was not established by the Indians. Of course, 72 Indian delegates drawn from different parts of the country, all product of Western education having full faith in the "British sense of justice", attended the first session of the Congress with W C Bonnerjee, a Christian, as its president. Hume dominated the INC for almost 15 years.)
To return to the original point, all the political parties, including those in the opposition and part of the UPA Government, have been taking on the Congress and dismissing it as insensitive, arrogant, dictatorial, undemocratic, and even divisive. So much so that the BJP, the Janata Dal - United (JD-U), the CPI and the CPI-M are demanding resignation of the Prime Minister, Home Minister, Telecom Minister saying the Congress-led government is the most corrupt government India has seen after independence and that the Congress has no regard whatever for the institutions. The BJP has even gone to the extent of dismissing the Congress as a party with doubtful credentials and accused it of hobnobbing with undesirable elements, including extremists. Not only this, the BJP has gone to the extent of charging the Congress with shielding Afzal Guru, convicted in the December 13, 2001 Parliament Terrorist attack case, and compromising Indian position by pursing wrong foreign and economic policies. The BJP has, in addition, termed its stand on religion-based reservation as a move that has the potential of causing another partition of the country on communal lines and sharpening angularities between social groups. The fact of the matter is that most of the opposition parties want the Congress-led government to be thrown out lock, stock and barrel with senior BJP leader and former Law Minister Ram Jethmalani contemptuously dismissing the Congress leadership as "thick-skinned" and "shameless".
The opposition of the opposition parties to the Congress and the Congress-led government at the centre is not something extraordinary. For, it is their moral and constitutional duty to act as a watchdog and expose the misdeeds of those at the helm. What is extraordinary is the negative attitude of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee, the Nationalist Congress Party of Union Agriculture Minister Shard Pawar, the DMK of K Karunanidhi, the Samajwadi Party (SP) of Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) of Mayawati and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of Lalu Prasad Yadav. While the TMC, the NCP and the DMK are part of the government, the SP, the BSP and RJD are supporting the Congress government from outside.
Paradoxically, in Uttar Pradesh, the SP, the BSP and the Congress are fighting election against each other, abusing each other, letting down each other and communalising the election scene in their desperate bid to capture power. All the three so-called secular formations are shamelessly indulging in competitive communalism and even creating schism within the castes. It's a strange type of coalition. In Delhi, they support each other and in UP, they oppose each other, thus fooling the people and displaying worst form of opportunism. The people understand everything and watch with vigilance their political conduct.
Leave aside the SP, the BSP and the RJD whose slate is not clean. Focus on the attitude of the TMC, the NCP, the DMK, and even the National Conference (NC), which is leading the government in the state with the help of the Congress party and sharing power at the centre as part of the UPA Government. The TMC consistently accuses the Congress of violating coalition dharma; opposes almost all the moves of the Congress in and outside the Parliament, the Union Council of Ministers and the Union Cabinet; and asks the Congress to go out of the West Bengal Government and break ties with it if it so likes saying "the Congress needs us, not we need the Congress". The NCP chief Pawar openly expresses himself against the style of functioning of the Congress leadership and says that there was "perfect coordination between the NDA allies, when they ruled India from 1998 to 2004". In other words, he, like Mamata, says that the Congress is dictatorial in its approach and attitude and that it always wants to impose its decisions on its allies.
About the DMK, less said the better. It may come out of the UPA anytime. Its grievance is that the Congress has treated it shabbily by facilitating the arrest of his daughter Kani Mozi and former Telecom Minister A Raja and ensuring the exit of couple of other ministers belonging to the DMK from the Union Council of Ministers. He refers to the adverse impact of the multi-crore 2G spectrum scam on the DMK, of course, without saying that the Congress was equally involved in this biggest scam in the independent India. According to the Comptroller and Auditor-General, this scam cost the public exchequer loss to the tune of Rs 176 lakh crore. (To be continued)
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