I am optimistic person and not many times in life ,I feel disappointed with the system to such an extent but these days news pouring in from all quarters is leaving me disappointed.

Chidambaram’s son’s name came into picture in Aircel-Maxis deal as parliament was rocked by allegations. Chidambaram read his son’s written statement!!!!!!!!!!…

The government called UPA-2 is most disappointing government that I have seen in last 20 years. Yes third front attempt in form of v p singh, chandrashekhar, gujral,deve gowda was disaster in form of giving stability but this government is worst and dare i say shameless.

If elections are held today , congress led upa can win elections only on one card and that is playing communal card in name of secularism. No self respecting , patriot individual can vote for this government unless he/she is emotionally motivated either by legacy of mahatma’s congress or by religion.

Unfortunately opposition parties lead by BJP doesnot give me enough faith either. Minning scams in karnataka, madhya pradesh shows capacity of BJP in corruption is not lesser than Congress. BJP in having political alliance with non other than shibu soren!!!!!!!!

Now no matter how much right wing guys love BJP , BJP needs to get its act right otherwise it gives feel too low confidence and I am sick of argument that BJP is less evil than congress…It can be said as truth considering how corrupted congress has always been since days of Indira Gandhi but dont give me choice of worse or bad…I need choice between worse and good!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately the system has become too corrupted and any party which comes to power would have to cleanse the system in big big way but to do that , elected party must have political will and must be ready to pay price and make hard decisions.

What we have currently in all political parties are politicians. What India needs is leader. I guess we should run a full page ad . Wanted : Leader For India!!!!!!!!!!

Would we see leader in future?…In that I am optimistic . We all are leaders in our way and when our collective consciousness would ignite , we might choose some one from us to be prime minister of India. It would happen , may be in 2014.

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Is congress secular party or is it communal party?.On periphery congress looks like secular party who thinks about all communities but is it really secular party or does it use secularism as selling tag line?

Recently I was viewing youtube video of leading journalist of Pakistan. He was invited by a television channel of pakistan to discuss about topic called distorted history of Pakistan. In that question he was asked what was ideology for pakistan in 1920 and what it is now…He replied in way which most pakistanis would disagree…He said there was no ideology at that time and there is no ideology now.

He being well versed in Pakistan’s history might be right . Coming to India we did have ideology.Ideology what religion wont form nation. Ideology that irrespective of faith,creed,gender every person living in India would have fundamental rights. Every citizen would be protected,given justice and environment to grow.

Whether we achieved it or not is debatable but we did manage to maintain the rich culture of India which allows allowed all faiths to co exist since thousands of year. Congress was synonyms of this Indianess which had always been place where freedom of choosing whom to worshiped always existed.

As congress mastered art of winning elections , it somewhere lost what it really stood for. It started wooing left,right,center any one and every one who could be used as fodder to win elections.

Secularism which meant separation of state and faith and non interference of faith in governance and governance in faith , became tool to win elections.

Is congress of today really a secular party?. Well does secular party try to woo muslims in name of reservation?. Does secular party coming in way of supreme court judgement as in case of shah bano case?. Does secular party open gate of Mandir ?

Does secular party tie up with communal party as seen in kerala?. Does secular party make statements insulting martyrdom of inspector manu sharma?. Does secular party’s minister become lawyer of terror group like simi?

Word Secularism has been most distorted in present day Indian politics..It has been misused to get votes , it has been misuse to form alliance and important real issues like corruption, poverty, terrorism , inflation take back seat in name of communalism and secularism.

From where I see , congress is right now neither secular nor communal party but opportunist party. Congress tries to play any card which makes them get vote. Be it be rahul gandhi calling himself brahmin or digvijay singh calling batla encounter fake or salman khurshid fighting elections for simi.

Jab kurshi becomes context , principals mean little as seen as congress.

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Nirmal Baba

Nirmal Baba is in news these days. Not only in news he is sort of first of rising stars in world of web as well as world of controversies. Nirmal Baba , the spiritual guru claimed to have healing powers is business man turned spiritual guru.
Before we move further let us see who NIRMAL BABA IS ?
Nirmal Baba’s real name is Nirmaljeet Singh Narula. His ancestors belong to Pakistan and his family came to India after partition. Nirmal Bab’s brother in law says that nirmal baba’s father was murdered and he on request of nirmal baba’s mother tried to settle nirmal baba as business man. Nirmal Baba started business as brick kiln owner.

Later in 1988-89 he got minning contract and during this period he turned from business man to spiritual guru. He claims to be blessed by god and he resolves people’s dukh and his followers claim that he even heals them.

What is controversy?

Annual turnover of nirmal baba is Rs 235 crores as stated by nirmal baba himself. He is allege to be demanding 10% of salary of his devotees for helping them out of their problems using his special spiritual powers. Nirmal baba though declines any such thing.

Nirmal Baba also charges Rs 2000 per participants for participation is SAMAGAM. Surprisingly Nirmal Baba charges even for kids who are above two years of age!!!!!!!!!!

In his website charges are mentioned , so we can say Nirmal Baba is open as far as such charges goes. Nirmal Baba claims that what ever money he charges is for expenses on halls, advertisement etc.

Nirmal Baba also says that he pays income tax in full and does not claim exemption under 80 c as other baba does.

Our Take :

In one of vivekanand books , vivekanand said that he was approach by some religious promoter in western country with intention of converting vivekanand in his sect. Vivekanand declined but asked the promoter to try it out in India. When promoter questioned as to why when vivekanand didnt get converted himself , he should advise him (promoter) to go to India.

Vivekanand replied that in India , we are open in field of spirituality. It is like restaurant where people can order menu as per their liking and appetite.. Personally I dont believe in getting healed or getting my problem solved through some god man. I dont believe in ability of god mans to create miracles but at same time I cant blame babas when adults who can think for themselves are ready to part from their hard earned money.

As long as people would want short cuts out of their problem or hope for some miracle healing , babas would stay. Be it be nirmal baba or other babas , they would remain in news , making more followers as long as people are ready to entertain this kind of thoughts…

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Anjem Choudary- The Extremist

Dont be shocked with the title and I dont care what Mr Kapil Sibal thinks of this post. The above pic is of man who openly praises terrorist of 9/11, wants sharia to be implemented all over the world (uk being his home turf) , acknowledges training volunteers to fight !!!!!!!!!!!

This man is extremist who was responsible for sticking stickers in uk in some places . The stickers called ‘Sharia Controlled Zone’. In interview to ABC he openly admitted that he is trying to influence muslims in USA to stand up and fight for sharia …

Now this kind of dangerous man is visiting India.. What for?. Well he is organizing rally in delhi on 3rd march calling for ‘Sharia In India’. His website claims that they want ban on political parties , ban on bollywood and most importantly has pic which would hurt sentiments of hindus.

Why the hell is he getting visa?. Have we so spineless that an extremist is coming to hold rally challenging our constitution , our way of life for promoting his hatred filled ideology?.

Sharia for India Movement would be end of India we know. It doesnot help to wake a sleeping lion, does it?. Hindus in India are majority and in spite of so many muslim regimes , India remained hindu majority. The first muslim rule in subcontinent was established in sindh in 712 and it then it took another 500 years for any muslim regime to create in roads.

What is golden age of Islam in India. It is Akhbar’s age , even thought aurangzeb had more area to rule. Why?. Because akhbar was secular and didnt mess with basic right of every human being to worship , whomsoever he/she wishes to. Aurangzeb tried to mess with it and led to downfall of mughals.

In country like India which has been home to all religions since thousands of years , imposing something is recipe of disaster. What makes India such vibrant is its diversity and communal forces like Anjem Choudary would encourage communal forces among Hindus which would led to chaos and end of India we know. It is recipe of disaster.

Personally I am liberal hindu and am not too religious person but if someone messes with my way of life , I wont stand it either. I would never ever stand that…

Coming to this extremist called Anjem Choudary , I wonder what the hell is uk doing?. Britian prime minister david cameron had following things to say about anjen choudary said that Choudary “is one of those people who needs to be looked at seriously in terms of the legality of what he’s saying because he strays, I think, extremely close to the line of encouraging hatred, extremism and violence.”. Now when david knows that why the hell is anjem still free?

Coming to India , what the hell is congress doing for this?. They call them secular , dont they?. Now a secular government allowing extremist like anjem choudary to have rally is against secularism , isnt it?

I encourage all reading this blog to take a stand against this extremist and his communal rally. In our loved country , we have no place for such mindset…

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Challenge For Congress - Sycophancy

During days when kings , nawabs , sultans used to rule India , they use to have state kavis. Many of so called kavis use to invest their talent in writing poems on their kings , nawabs , sultans. By doing so they use to get inaams .

The trend can be seen all across the globe and chamchagiri or sycophancy seems to be trait which has helped careers of many and it seems to be timeless trait!!!!!!!!!!!

World has changed a lot in last few hundred years. Today governance too has changed. We have democracy in most parts of world. The communist still hold ground in countries like china , north korea . Kinghood still holds ground in muslim countries like saudi arabia. But lately saudi too has seen more people centric governance system. Voices of change , democracy were heard in various parts in 2011. People are getting more aware about their right as human being and in all possibility governance would see more people centric systems where rule of law would have people’s view incorporated in it in future.

In such times one thing seems not to change and it is art of chamchagiri or sycophancy. Indian National Congress is oldest party of India and is chief party which contributed most in India’s struggle of Independence.

The party was unique in a sense. It had people from all walks of life , all caste , all community , all faiths. Be it be parsi or hindu or muslim or sikh , you name it and congress had people from that faith. Congress had people from dalits , people from brahmin , people from south , people from north. In era where woman was considered to be responsible only for household activities , congress had women too in it. Congress truly represented India .

After Independence Nehru began prime minister and unfortunately for Nehru ,Congress and India , most of top most leaders like mahatma , sardar patel , didnt live much and with death of maulana azad , nehru lost close guide,friend .

But most unfortunate thing for India was death of lal bhadur shashtri. The event gave India a very powerful prime minister called Indira gandhi but at same time the event laid foundation to new dynasty of India that is nehru clan.

Insecure Indira had group of selected few whom she did trust . Nick named as kitchen cabinet , they had strong say in governance too.  Indira’s rule saw corruption rise . When we seen today people coming on streets to say corruption down down , many dont know that similar banners made their way to streets during 70s too when Indira ruled.

Congress from being party of all voices soon became party with main trait as being loyal to one person and family. Culture of sycophancy entered the great party called congress and today in 2012 the above ad given by some congress man shows how deep rooted the culture of chamchagiri had become.

Challenge for congress if at all it wants to go back to glorious congress ,then challenge would be how it can bring people on merit who can stand upright and whose survival in party in not based on loyalty to one family but on what he/she brings on board.

Challenge for congress would be how they bring in actual representation of people of India . Rahul Gandhi claims to be working for it with youth congress but as long as top seats are reserved for one family , I am not sure how this would work?.

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Anna Hazare

Before I write any thing else first lest us look at brief history of lok pal bill.

The Lokpal bill was first introduced by Shanti Bhushan in 1968 and passed the 4th Lok Sabha in 1969. But before it could be passed by Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha was dissolved and the bill lapsed. The Subsequent versions were re-introduced in 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005 and in 2008, but none of them passed.

If Lok Pal would have been name of some movie we would have had the name of latest version as Lok Pal -11 or Lok Reloaded or The Grand Saga Of Lok Pal!!!!!!!!…governments and governments kept changing but fate of this bill didnt seem to be changed till ANNA HAZARE entered the scene…

Under pressure from people of India , government finally brought a bill which is called as lok pal bill . Government also got parliament session extended and today , this is 27th december 2011 parliament of India is being debating on the bill.

In principal like every Indian , every parliament across the party lines says that they want strong lok pal bill. Only exception here is Shiv Sena who opposes formation of any such body . All political parties involved in the debate claim that they have been fighting against corruption and are in support of strongest possible lok pal bill.

Now what does it mean to be strong?…Every party has different views on it which is their right like every citizen has right to have his/her view. As I was listening to debate , BJP talked about how this bill is against constitution since it interferes in state’s right , JDU objected on perception of all government employees being corrupt , Left too wants amendment while Congress believes this is best bill possible.

Prime Minister did speak on number of aspects including CBI . He believes that independent CBI is needed but it needs to be accountable and not under lok pal.

Lalu wanted and got Minority reservation in lok pal panel which BJP objected. Mulayam singh yadav too opposed government version .

Listening to the debate it seems that LOK PAL DEBATE has become more of party politics than about the bill. The inherent theme behind lok pal is fighting corruption which seems to be more or less missing. Agreeing on principal is one thing while practically?

From debate of parliament it seems clear that parliamentarians are more interested in scoring political points than bringing lok pal . Experts believe that government would make sure the bill passes any how and Rajya sabha where they dont have majority , the bill will fall. This would make government blame opposition and achieve its goal of ‘LOOKING SERIOUS’ about corruption and bringing strongest lok pal bill.

So what did anna hazare movement achieved so far?. Since march it did make country sit and hope. It did make government atleast show it is serious though symbolic and most importantly it made parliament discuss about corruption at least 3 times in current year!!!!!!!

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New Year Greetings 2012 Anna Hazare Mahatma Gandhi

New Year Greeting 2012 Bhagat Singh

New Year Greetings 2012 Sardar Patel

New Year Greetings 2012 Netaji

New Year Greeting 2012 Rani Laxmi Bai

2011 is getting over in ten days..What a year it was. Year of protest , year where nation stood behind one man. The man known as Anna Hazare. The man who has 40 years of track record of public service and man who took bull by horns.

There are many critics of Anna Hazare . They question his backing, they question his intent , they question his ways . Well one can question many things but one thing which even die hard critic of Anna Hazare must admit is contribution of Anna Hazare is bringing the CORRUPTION issue on center stage and literally forcing the parliament and government to make LOK PAL BILL (weak or strong at least bill pending since 40 yrs might become reality soon).

Year 2011 would go down in history of India as very eventful year. People of India finally said enough is enough and came down to streets. Though UPA claims that anna lacks public support in comparison to MPs , well anna wave saw swayambhu public support and not paid ones as seen in political rallies.

I am not saying that what ever anna team says and believe is perfect but if given a choice if we need to trust , whom do we trust?. There is a man with 40 years of track record of self less service and on other side we have scam after scam being churned out by government…Whom do we trust and back?…

Yes one may disagree with anna but without public pressure lok pal bill would turn out to be like cvc or cag which can make headlines but cant do much.

Yes there are concerns about what if lok pal body itself becomes corrupted?..Fair concern , we can have safe guards for that but if one thing stands between dream of subhash , mahatma, bhagat singh , sardar and thousands of leaders , millions of patriots who sacrificed their lives or career for freedom, that one thing is CORRUPTION.

As we enter 2012 , I invite all nation loving people to have background for 2012 as year of service. It is not about protesting or coming down to streets only , it is taking only one action with context of serving the nation. It may be doing our jobs well or supporting a child in education or any thing.

I hope year 2012 would be year of not just rising India for its rights but also for marching India towards its dream…Jai Hind…

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Sonia Gandhi , the chair person of upa and president of congress party yesterday had defense minister of India , Mr antony read out speech in uttrakhand. Sonia was supposed to address a rally but due to her ill health , she could not attend the event but made sure that supporters to get to know her thoughts.

In speech which A K Antony read Sonia said that corruption cannot be fought by speeches. This statement was made headlines by most news media. Now was she talking about l k advani’s yatra or anna is something which only Sonia Gandhi can explain but as per media she was addressing anna hazare and his team in her speech. She also said that her party and prime minister were committed to have strong lok pal bill . She also said that it was They who brought RTI law.
Now UPA can definitely take credit for Right of Information Act but act was never product of any political party. It was product of long led campaign which started as early as 1990 with Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan which began its movement to have transparent village accounts.

First draft came in 1993 which was prepared by Consumer Education and Research Council (AHMEDABAD). MKSS’s advocacy gave rise to the National Campaign on People’s Right to Information (NCPRI), which was formed to advocate for the right to information at the national level. In 1997 the process fastened and A working group under the chairmanship of Mr. H D Shourie (the Shourie Committee) was set up by the Central Government and given the mandate to prepare draft legislation on freedom of information. The Shourie Committee’s Report and draft law were published in 1997. The Shourie Committee draft law passed through two successive governments, but was never introduced in Parliament. In 1999 NDA minister Mr Ram Jethmalani, then Union Minister for Urban Development, issued an administrative order enabling citizens to inspect and receive photocopies of files. Shourie Committee draft law was reworked into the Freedom of Information Bill 2000. It was passed in December 2002 and received Presidential asset on January 2003, as the Freedom of Information Act 2002. Now freedom of Information Act was amended and what became was Right of Information Act….

So it was long long movement began by civil society , ngos before upa made it law , so logically politicians played last role . Obviously aruna roy or arvind kerjiwal cannot pass the law , it has to be passed by parliament and UPA did that for which they deserve credit  but more credit goes to aruna roy and hundreds of people who made took up the cause of transparency in governance..

Coming back to statement of Sonia Gandhi that corruption cannot be removed by speeches. She is absolutely right but anna hazare didn’t simply made speeches . He enrolled nation into it. He pitched for strong lok pal bill and made country express their support for it. He did more than what our politicians could do since jayprakash narayan and that is uniting people for single cause. That is far more than giving speeches.

Also yes speeches don’t fight corruption but neither do cosmetic changes. I am not against congress or pro bjp . I have difference on congress and dislike dynasties at same time I dislike many things in BJP too but I am for strongest possible law against corruption and not cosmetic ones.

As nation is fed up by most corrupted government in recent times , it is obvious that to win next election , congress would come up with something that is called lok pal bill but would it be cosmetic like what happened after 26/11?… After 26/11 seeing immense public outrage , upa-1 made shiv raj patil to resign , deshmukh to resign and r r patil to resign..Deshmukh is cabinet minister right now , r r patil is back to same post while shivraj patil is governor..This is called cosmetic changes.

We need strong lok pal bill which would be one of way of fighting corruption and we should not rest till we achieve that.

Lastly I would like to tell Mrs Sonia Gandhi that we get that speeches alone can’t root out corruption but in same lines , neither cosmetic changes can. I hope we get strongest lok pal bill in winter session…

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Anna Hazare

Anna Hazare is no more a name of individual , it has become synonyms of anti corruption. He has become synonyms of stand. Stand against grand loot of India. Stand against culture of corruption. Stand against corrupted system.

In country like India which has huge population of 120 crores , it is natural that there would be highly diversified views on any person. Some would support him , some would oppose him , some would be indifferent , some one would partially support , some would fanatically oppose…

Also in country where system has been corrupted since years , it is also obvious that vested interest wont take things lying down. They would make sure that life of the man who stands against their interest is made hell.

Initially government under estimated anna hazare and his movement. But when it started gaining momentum , they soon formed joint committee.. The joint committee started having differences.

Mean while the politicians which are expert in manipulations tried to make sure the anna wave gets subdued. Leading the charge initially was NCP with one of his leaders trying to attack anna hazare and question his integrity.

But that didnt work. Then came congress spokes person himself who called anna to be sar se paun tak corrupt…Soon he realized that he got wrong name and he was talking about his own party members!!!!!!!…Soon Manish tewari went undergound.

Entered the scene , renuka of congress who was aggressive on day anna hazare was arrested. It was clear the congress wanted to show who is the boss but people for change showed that they are the boss while political parties are mere respresentatives.

Soon congress was seen on back foot and started prasing Anna . Prince of congress too had nice words for anna hazare and pm himself wrote letter. Finally entire parliament debated and with few exceptions link chara lalu prasad most projected themselves to be with anna hazare. Anna finally broke his fast and it was symbolic victory of people (the original masters) over parliament(the place where people’s representative sit).

Manish tewari soon re emerged said sorry to anna and gave written apology . So far so good but congress and upa was not taking things lying down. It was just buying time.

They used tools which they were taught to be used by congress of 70s. Soon Government department asked arvind kejriwal to pay his dues which was due to breaking of his bonds. Prashant Bhushan caused self goal while congress unleashed its weapon against Anna.

The name of weapon was and still is Digvijay Singh who seems to be hit by disease which causes him to comment on daily basis and he seems to be obsessed by Anna Hazare. Diggi as he is known in internet circles never forgets to take dig at anna’s team. Understanding that anna hazare has become Icon , he makes sure that he praises anna for being who he is and attacks anna’s team.

Diggi’s favorite word is RSS , that is after osamaji!!!!!!!!. Diggi uses this word at least ten times in month. No it is not that his astrologer has asked him to repeat RSS mantra but it is his communal politics which makes him use RSS’s name which would inherently divide people according to diggi’s political brain.

According to Diggi , Anna is RSS agent. Now diggi’s logic is that since NIA has unearthed various terror strikes in India and hindu outfit’s role in it , RSS has launched campaigns to distract people from it!!!!!!!!.

Interestingly diggi’s claim doesnot hold much of water because A RAJA , KALMADI, KANIMOZHI belong to UPA Camp and as far as abhinav bharat terror role is concerned the case in moving in right direction . Court dont need public’s approval to reach verdict to point of distraction doesnot apply here. Yes but political parties too need public voting and so why diggi is trying to claim that Anna Hazare is RSS agent can be understood…

Latest diggi had said is that Anna hazare is with mayawati!!!!!!!!…Now Being RSS Agent as well as being with mayawati at same time defies all logic but diggi never promised to give logic , he simply wants to get minority out of movement and secure vote for congress…

Another Ironical is allegations from BJP supporters on internet. They allege that Anna hazare is congress agent!!!!!!!!. Yes you read it right , there is never influx of posts on internet which claim that anna hazare is congress agent. Logic they give is that anna didnt aske sheila dixit to resign while critized modi. Anna led his first successful movement against shiv sena- bjp’s government in maharashtra…

Now what was anna supposed to do , support corrupted people in shiv sen-bjp govt of those days , just because bjp ruled it?????????…

In latest shiv sena’s bal thackeray has slammed anna hazare , questioning his right to question politicians integrity. It is interesting to see how for some right wing parties , anna is congress agent , for congress’s general secretary anna is RSS agent , for bhukari anti corruption movement is not for muslims (In Islam money without sweat is haram) and how for behn mayawati , dalits have nothing to do with anti corruption movement!!!!!!!!!!!!

When a movement for cleaning system begins , resistance is obvious and when parties with different ideology resists system alterations collectively , that movement can be said to be towards right direction in most cases.

It is ironical that a 74 year old man with track record of 40 years of social service is being termed as various agents just because his movement managed to capture imagination of the people. Ironical , isn’t it?

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Sardar Patel and the Maharaja of Patiala

When India got independent from Britishers , what Britishers left behind was India which had 500 kingdoms in it . This is minus pakistan. It took lot of efforts by sardar patel to make that 500 kingdoms into one nation!!!!!!

What was purpose of that?. Purpose was having one country with democracy . Democracy where common people would elect their own representatives. Representatives mean the people who represent . The people who have been elected by common larger lot of people.

Idea of democracy was to have people’s rule and not dictator rule or rule by kings or queens. If we wanted that then what was use of freedom?

Our Founding fathers made best constitution possible. The constitution which was meant to strengthen democracy and was made keep in view with diversity of India and plural ethos of India.

India is plural and extremely diverse society. It is region where hinduism , buddhism , jainism , sikhism originated. It is country where jews,parsis,Islam, Christianity came in and became part of India.

It is country with strong regional legacy. It is country with strong linguistic legacy and it is also country where we have so many sub cultures.

In such a country which such huge population, inclusiveness is only way it can move forward and grow. Secularism is only option which India can have to continue with its destination of becoming economically thriving country which is home to everyone who is Indian.

As Independent India started its journey, it was represented by political party in parliament which had people from every walk of life , every part of country , every faith. It was party which truly represented India.

But as we entered mid sixties , the ruling party soon started becoming owned by few individuals. As Indira gandhi started growing stronger , she started sidelining powerful people in the party who could have posed threat to her in quest of power.

Indira started weakening congress itself  by destroying system formed by mahatmas, maulana, sardar and likes of them. She became sarve sarva of congress and loyalty to nehru family became the chief criteria to be in kitchen cabinet and have political ambition.

Sudden death of Indira Gandhi did put Rajiv Gandhi on the hot seat.After death of rajiv , gandhi family went on political syanyas but damaj done by Indira was too hard to recover for congress. It too went down in popularity which made sonia gandhi enter politics again. She managed to win back to back elections for congress bringing them to power.

Today we have Rahul gandhi projected as future prime minister of India. We have young leader of congress who inherited politics.

In Dr Ram Guha’s lecture on ‘why India wont be super power and why India should not be super power’ , one of points he rightly made was dynasty politics which was started by congress and duplicated by parties like dmk, shiv sena, akali dal , biju janta dal , to name few.

If way things I going and I dont want to sound as alarmist but we are moving back to situation of 1947 where we had 500 families who were so called kings …This is not right path for vibrant democracy . In democracy politics is one of careers which should be open for every Indian . Every Indian must have right to enter politics and work his way up the ladder.

But if we look at current system of various party , one can climb the ladder only to certain level. Top most is reserved for family. One can have right thought , right ideas , right passion to serve the country but that doesnot matter if one is not loyal to particular family!!!!!!!!!

Recently I viewed ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’ on youtube. In episode of chanakya there is a scene where senapati of dhanand’s regime meets chanakya…Dhanand had died by that time and this sena pati had vowed to take revenge. Chankaya invited him to join chandragupt’s regime instead. Sena Pati said he is loyal to dhanand . To this chankaya said one must be loyal to country and not king. Country is more important than any individual.

Now how does above scene from event which occurred thousands of years ago is relevant today?. Today we have system where first loyalty is demanded towards party leader. Now it is important for discipline of party but loyalty to larger issues makes one more vocal and more expressive rather than taking everything which comes from leader in name of loyalty.

If we wanted some 500 families to rule on us , what was use of freedom then?. Congress projects itself as guardian of secularism but in name of secularism , can we have dynasty rule?.

Unfortunately there are not many who oppose dynasty rule in way they should. We don’t have any rule or criteria which can bar people from becoming party chiefs for third term ,nor we have any term limit for prime minister post.

Dynasty politics is curse for India and unless we realize it , it would stay. I hope we do realize it before it is too late.

When India got independent from Britishers , what Britishers left behind was India which had 500 kingdoms in it . This is minus pakistan. It took lot of efforts by sardar patel to make that 500 kingdoms into one nation!!!!!!

What was purpose of that?. Purpose was having one country with democracy . Democracy where common people would elect their own representatives. Representatives mean the people who represent . The people who have been elected by common larger lot of people.

Idea of democracy was to have people’s rule and not dictator rule or rule by kings or queens. If we wanted that then what was use of freedom?

Our Founding fathers made best constitution possible. The constitution which was meant to strengthen democracy and was made keep in view with diversity of India and plural ethos of India.

India is plural and extremely diverse society. It is region where hinduism , buddhism , jainism , sikhism originated. It is country where jews,parsis,Islam, Christianity came in and became part of India.

It is country with strong regional legacy. It is country with strong linguistic legacy and it is also country where we have so many sub cultures.

In such a country which such huge population, inclusiveness is only way it can move forward and grow. Secularism is only option which India can have to continue with its destination of becoming economically thriving country which is home to everyone who is Indian.

As Independent India started its journey, it was represented by political party in parliament which had people from every walk of life , every part of country , every faith. It was party which truly represented India.

But as we entered mid sixties , the ruling party soon started becoming owned by few individuals. As Indira gandhi started growing stronger , she started sidelining powerful people in the party who could have posed threat to her in quest of power.

Indira started weakening congress itself  by destroying system formed by mahatmas, maulana, sardar and likes of them. She became sarve sarva of congress and loyalty to nehru family became the chief criteria to be in kitchen cabinet and have political ambition.

Sudden death of Indira Gandhi did put Rajiv Gandhi on the hot seat.After death of rajiv , gandhi family went on political syanyas but damaj done by Indira was too hard to recover for congress. It too went down in popularity which made sonia gandhi enter politics again. She managed to win back to back elections for congress bringing them to power.

Today we have Rahul gandhi projected as future prime minister of India. We have young leader of congress who inherited politics.

In Dr Ram Guha’s lecture on ‘why India wont be super power and why India should not be super power’ , one of points he rightly made was dynasty politics which was started by congress and duplicated by parties like dmk, shiv sena, akali dal , biju janta dal , to name few.

If way things I going and I dont want to sound as alarmist but we are moving back to situation of 1947 where we had 500 families who were so called kings …This is not right path for vibrant democracy . In democracy politics is one of careers which should be open for every Indian . Every Indian must have right to enter politics and work his way up the ladder.

But if we look at current system of various party , one can climb the ladder only to certain level. Top most is reserved for family. One can have right thought , right ideas , right passion to serve the country but that doesnot matter if one is not loyal to particular family!!!!!!!!!

Recently I viewed ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’ on youtube. In episode of chanakya there is a scene where senapati of dhanand’s regime meets chanakya…Dhanand had died by that time and this sena pati had vowed to take revenge. Chankaya invited him to join chandragupt’s regime instead. Sena Pati said he is loyal to dhanand . To this chankaya said one must be loyal to country and not king. Country is more important than any individual.

Now how does above scene from event which occurred thousands of years ago is relevant today?. Today we have system where first loyalty is demanded towards party leader. Now it is important for discipline of party but loyalty to larger issues makes one more vocal and more expressive rather than taking everything which comes from leader in name of loyalty.

If we wanted some 500 families to rule on us , what was use of freedom then?. Congress projects itself as guardian of secularism but in name of secularism , can we have dynasty rule?.

Unfortunately there are not many who oppose dynasty rule in way they should. We don’t have any rule or criteria which can bar people from becoming party chiefs for third term ,nor we have any term limit for prime minister post.

Dynasty politics is curse for India and unless we realize it , it would stay. I hope we do realize it before it is too late.

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