A Shameless Polemic Against the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty

One of the most pathetic sights in India today is to watch various Congress party officials beating their breasts over secularism and the rise of Hindu nationalism.

How else can you view the risible sight of these men fawning over the Gandhi progeny, a family that is genuinely convinced it has been written into the soil of India that their bloodline has the right to rule the nation for eternity? I would like to make it clear that this diatribe is born as much out of frustration as it is out of malice. The arrogance of the Gandhi-Congress mafia has stunted Indian democracy and by mangling the development of the Congress party it has meant that the right wing Bharatiya Janata Party does not have a credible opposition to keep it on its toes. Democracy requires robust alternatives to ensure that it does not degenerate into one- party feudalistic impudence, where it becomes rotten and cultures of impunity and lack of accountability arise.

I believe that the rise of the BJP was not only due to the rabble rousing rhetoric of the Hindu nationalism that it propounded, but also because it offered a full alternative to the decrepit arrogance of the Congress Party led by the Gandhi family caucus which believed they were like the Emperor-Gods of pre war Japan. This had lead to a bloated culture of one party rule, upon which sat, at the top, the Nehru-Gandhi leader, dispensing licences and fiefdoms and sewing the seeds of India’s degradation in order to preserve its own power.

The catastrophe of the 1980’s in the Punjab was all due to Indira’s planting of the seeds of communal disharmony by propagating Bhnideranwale to split the Akali Dal vote. It led to a decade of suffering that is only now being healed, slowly. The games she played there led to her own death, but what is much more important is that it also led to the death of thousands of innocent people in the terrorism and state oppression which this bloody game engendered. To see Congress people talk of the obscenity of Gujarat when their own party sheltered and abetted communal massacre in 1984 is an irony which is lost on most of these eunuchs, who exclaim their holiness from upon high as though the Congress party has never utilised divide-and-rule and communal politics whenever it suited them.

Every time I see Sonia Gandhi or other functionaries of the Congress party talking about how much the people of India love them I want to puke. Has there ever been a more clueless set of people cosseted in their Ivory Towers? The most hilarious thing I hear is that they believe that Priyanka Gandhi is their “secret weapon”, as if the Indian people are a billion strong confederacy of dunces, who will melt as soon as Indira’s granddaughter deigns to bless them with her Godly leadership.

My sarcasm is strong and my polemic is bitter because I am suspicious of the BJP and my natural home should be with a genuinely secular minded party. But what has happened to the Congress party is enough to make you despair that it will ever recover and be in a fit state to take power again. The obsession with preserving the throne of leadership for anyone from the bloodline has meant that new leadership has not been able to flourish within the Congress party. It has been unable to bring in fresh blood, fresh ideas, fresh people, with fresh visions. Instead, all we have is a single ineluctable law that mirrors the rhetoric of Indira Gandhi and her hubris at its most ambitious: “Indira is India”. Now, it is “Sonia is India because she is keeping the seat warm for Priyanka, who will then become the leader because, well, she is from the bloodline that is holy and has a God accorded right to be the overlords of Hindustan forever.”

The arrogance is breathtaking, almost impressive in its scale and shamelessness. Independent India is a country that has produced great intellectuals, businessmen, writers, social workers, Nobel Prize winning scientists and economists. In short, the life of the mind and an intelligentsia has grown in the democratic soil of India. Because no matter how tainted that soil has been, the liberal democratic culture has put down roots, even if it is as an aspiration and ideal. But out of this glorious nation of one billion souls, the Congress party has been unable to find anybody with the vision, intellect and ambition to be a leader. Amazing!

The Congress party, warped by the clutch of the Gandhi-Nehru bloodline and their harem of Eunuchs (also known as the Congress party committees and activists and minor leaders who lick Sonia’s boots and think they have done puja), is in the amazing position of having ossified into a feudalistic organisation whose life is the preservation of power of one family. What a descent! From the noble heights of the liberation struggle it has become the private vessel for a Mafioso to take what they deem as their power and due. They have the mentality of Neo-Mughals.

There has been a profound change in the character of India in the last ten to fifteen years since Manmohan Singh opened up the economy and began to unleash the huge potential that lies in the heart of the Indian people and economy. The nation is abuzz with optimism as to what it can do and achieve. This is the spirit that is making India anew: a spirit of opportunity, hard work, an ethic of capitalism in which the creative gales of destruction wipe away the anachronistic practices that hold back the individual from his pursuit of his due. The Congress-Gandhi nexus is completely out of step with the profound changes that are taking hold of the younger generation in India, a confident generation that has no time for the old arrogance of assumed power. In the coming generations this paradigm will repudiate the arrogance of assumptive rule. It is a high irony that this change has come about under the aegis of a political movement that takes as its inspiration the idea that India should be one. It is the pluralism and tolerance this spirit engenders that will make India strong and could blunt the excesses of religious nationalism.

The Congress party needs to ditch the Nehru-Gandhi along with their simpering coteries. It needs to reassess its policies, attitudes and leadership to fit in with the India that will take shape now and in the future generations. And the Nehru-Gandhi family needs to withdraw and never show its face in Indian public life again. You have spilled too much blood and the price has been too heavy for your arrogance. In the words of Oliver Cromwell to the Rump Parliament in 1653;

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!