Monday, August 17, 2020

Congress has lost not only its glory but the reason to exist !

After their unpleasant or repulsive defeat Congress did an internal survey with AK Antony Committee, which was set to look into the reasons of the party's defeat in 2014, and the alleged finding are that the Congress was increasingly being viewed as a pro-Muslim and anti-Hindu party., and this was a primary reason for a spate of electoral reverses; the findings further suggests INC to rethink & re-strategise the policies at earliest ! But i guess findings of the above committee was nothing more than an eye wash , to an extend to disown than to accept real reason behind decayed support base . The practical reason are far more harsher to be documented, it never speaks of why Sharad Pawar, Mamata or even Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy had to quit or how-come they successfully launched their own political outfit and govern their states ? Why prominent leaders like Pranab Mukherjee , Digvijaya Singh , Ahmed Patel or even Anthony himself failed to save INC or revive it in their home states ? Report blatantly ignored the under lying reason for legislators switchover in gujarat, Assam,Arunachal ,Madhya pradesh and same may be the fate in Jharkhand soon, Anthony's Committee failed to address the real reasons , it overlooked to record that Ashoke Gehlot vs Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan or Kamal Nath vs Scindia scion is result of the fight for political supremacy & control of individuals over camps,party and government ! And coming coming back to their fondness for muslims , I can remind Hashimpur massacre of April 1987 where a PAC platoon rounded up Muslims in the Hashimpur mohalla in Meerut, arrested & allegedly took about 50 from the community in a truck to the Upper Ganga canal in Murad Nagar, Ghaziabad district instead of taking them to the police station and shot them one by one, and threw into the canal. And it happened under Congress Government led by Vir Bahadur Singh instead of any action on him , he was made the Union Minister for Communication by none other than Rajiv Gandhi the very next year 1988 . Another example of Congress’s love for the muslims comes from the Bhagalpur where riots started on 24 October 1989, but continued for 2 months. It affected the Bhagalpur city and 250 villages around it. Over 1,000 people (around 900 of which were Muslims), were killed, and another 50,000 were displaced.It was recorded as the worst Communal riot in independent India before Godhra happened . it is alleged that the then Police Superintendent was fanning anti-Muslim sentiments & was asked by the then Bihar Chief Minister Satyendra Narayan Sinha to hand over the charge to Ajit Datt on the same day. But, on a tour of the riot-affected area, the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi overruled the transfer ! There have been approximately 60 major communal riots since 1961. And Unsurprisingly majority of them were in Congress rules states. But none of INC Chief Minister has been demonised the way BJPs Modi was . What happened in 1984 was a beginning where a particular political party’s members/cadres led mobs in attacks on the Sikh community in alleged retaliation for the assassination of Indira Gandhi. It is imperative to state that 1984 does not fall in the category of communal riots as it was not between communities, it was a direct attack by cadres of a political party on one community. Although 2002 was more lethal as it was an improvised & technically sound attack but even then blaming only BJP and not Congress will undermining the atrocious capabilities of the grand old party. Congress, though ideologically secular, has always followed quite dubious policies and has never made any serious attempt to check communal violence in the state ruled by them . Tall claims of providing secular governance of the Congress lie shattered as looking at history, Congress doesn't fare any better than the BJP in preventing communal riots. And now when everybody who is somebody in the congress is trying to claim the hard work they put in for the cause of Ram Lalla only exposes them further making them look like an ideologically confused party ! Hope they find the real reason why Congress was formed and survived 150 years & on the verge of doom now !