Arrogance, thy name is Congress
In my observation of Indian politics for close to 15 years now, I have never come across a party as arrogant as Congress. (Readers, please don't take me for a BJP activist or anything of that kind, I have quite a lot against them too.) How else, could you describe the way the Congress Governor of Jharkand invited Shibu Shoren to take the reins of the state?
An election is conducted and the results are announced. As is the trend these days, no party gets an absolute majority. The single largest pre-poll coalition NDA falls short of just 4 MLAs. There are about 11 MLAs in the 'Others' category. The horses are bought for a quick price or they express their interest to 'serve' the people - somehow, they decide to join the NDA gang and NDA’s number swells to 41 without any trouble. Suddenly, a picnic was arranged and all the kids were taken for an excursion to Raj Bhavan and were paraded before Syed Sibtey Razi, a man who would be happy to spend all his life dusting Sonia's shoes, but by quirk of fate happen to be the Governor of Jharkand now.
Now comes the time for the Governor to repay his debts to Madame Sonia for whatever reasons. He says that that he would hold discussion with the Independents separately, an euphemism for “I’ll trade with the horses, you don’t have to”. The country has seen many partisan Governors, Speakers & even some Presidents. But never before, has anyone stooped to this level. BJP shouts, screams, calls poor Manmohan and complains about the delaying tactics but is somehow confident that things can’t go wrong – as NDA is the single largest pre-poll alliance and BJP is the single largest party and enough horses have been given enough fodder. Despite the delay, it becomes a common knowledge that sooner or later, a NDA government is about to be installed.
The next day, the Union Coal Minister Shibu Shoren – the same bearded guy who despite being a Central Minister went underground on the face of a warrant from the court few months ago, meets the Governor and impresses him with his record in trading. Guess what, he comes out with an appointment order. Without giving much time for anyone to gasp or react, he is sworn in as the Chief Minister. The irony of the situation is that the 41 legislators (who form the majority) were sitting outside the Raj Bhavan protesting against the Governor even as Shibu took oath.
Now comes the real test. Shibu is in a position where he has to get the horses to his side. NDA is in a position where they have to safeguard their stock. With the entire government machinery (both State & Central), the Raj Bhavan on one side, guess whose job is easier. NDA, in their typical style have started with by stalling the parliament.
It beats me why, why Congress couldn’t stomach an electoral defeat that it goes out of the way to do this. Why does the party never learn its lessons? Where comes this arrogance when it is running the government at the Centre on borrowed strength? I don’t say that BJP is a party of all holy men from heaven. They have lot of ‘records’ to their credit. But never before, the game has been played this badly. Could this ever be checked?
In all, I would like to apologise to the horses for the juxtaposition.
An election is conducted and the results are announced. As is the trend these days, no party gets an absolute majority. The single largest pre-poll coalition NDA falls short of just 4 MLAs. There are about 11 MLAs in the 'Others' category. The horses are bought for a quick price or they express their interest to 'serve' the people - somehow, they decide to join the NDA gang and NDA’s number swells to 41 without any trouble. Suddenly, a picnic was arranged and all the kids were taken for an excursion to Raj Bhavan and were paraded before Syed Sibtey Razi, a man who would be happy to spend all his life dusting Sonia's shoes, but by quirk of fate happen to be the Governor of Jharkand now.
Now comes the time for the Governor to repay his debts to Madame Sonia for whatever reasons. He says that that he would hold discussion with the Independents separately, an euphemism for “I’ll trade with the horses, you don’t have to”. The country has seen many partisan Governors, Speakers & even some Presidents. But never before, has anyone stooped to this level. BJP shouts, screams, calls poor Manmohan and complains about the delaying tactics but is somehow confident that things can’t go wrong – as NDA is the single largest pre-poll alliance and BJP is the single largest party and enough horses have been given enough fodder. Despite the delay, it becomes a common knowledge that sooner or later, a NDA government is about to be installed.
The next day, the Union Coal Minister Shibu Shoren – the same bearded guy who despite being a Central Minister went underground on the face of a warrant from the court few months ago, meets the Governor and impresses him with his record in trading. Guess what, he comes out with an appointment order. Without giving much time for anyone to gasp or react, he is sworn in as the Chief Minister. The irony of the situation is that the 41 legislators (who form the majority) were sitting outside the Raj Bhavan protesting against the Governor even as Shibu took oath.
Now comes the real test. Shibu is in a position where he has to get the horses to his side. NDA is in a position where they have to safeguard their stock. With the entire government machinery (both State & Central), the Raj Bhavan on one side, guess whose job is easier. NDA, in their typical style have started with by stalling the parliament.
It beats me why, why Congress couldn’t stomach an electoral defeat that it goes out of the way to do this. Why does the party never learn its lessons? Where comes this arrogance when it is running the government at the Centre on borrowed strength? I don’t say that BJP is a party of all holy men from heaven. They have lot of ‘records’ to their credit. But never before, the game has been played this badly. Could this ever be checked?
In all, I would like to apologise to the horses for the juxtaposition.
posted by Indian Voter at 7:58:00 PM
8 Comments:
I was also shocked when I saw the events on TV. The audacity of the congress is appalling!!
nice one IV, my first time here :)
congress has been doing this for the past 40 yrs. Indira Gandhi declared emergency when the Allahabad High Court annuled her election from Rai Bareli. thats their track record. this comes as a no surprise for me.
I have nothing to comment except that my heart cries for “Mother India” who has sons who would definitely rent out their mother, given a chance. They would not sell her as the return would be one time, instead they would spend crores on her beauty and rent her daily for a much higher return.
Where are the statesmen and legends in the political circles now. Is this the same Indian National Congress that had leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and many more statesmen and stalwarts in its rolls.
Hari: Rightly said. Mahatma Gandhi wanted the Congress to be dismissed/dispersed after Independence. But his voice was not heeded... what a man he was.. perhaps, he foresaw these things.
Chitra: do you know that even Jawaharlal has played lot of tricks during his time. But they are nothing when compared to what these goons are doing?
Saranyan: welcome here. keep visiting.
PVS: entire country is shocked. presence of men like Abdul Kalam at the top is somewhat comforting.. there is a glimmer of hope that something good might happen.
poor india...cot at the hands of these morons...god save us :(
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