Congress should look in the mirror on democracy

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, during his recent visit to Britain, raised the same old tune that democracy is dying in India. He indirectly requested the western countries to intervene for the alleged restoration of democracy in India. He wants foreign powers to interfere in India’s internal affairs. According to him, since India is the world’s largest democracy, the threat of attack on democracy here will affect the whole world. How surprising that the political heirs of the same party which fought for India’s independence by campaigning against colonial oppression are now pleading America and Europe to interfere in India’s internal affairs. Even more ironic is that all this is happening in the golden age of freedom. Rahul Gandhi’s lying to the academic community, MPs and the media on this tour was equally shocking.

Rahul Gandhi has become a natural critic of the Sangh Parivar and Narendra Modi. This is the reason why his hatred towards the Prime Minister usually sounds in his speeches. In this, he often says such things, which have no connection with the truth. There are many examples of their serial lies. They say GST was passed without any debate. Perhaps he does not know that the idea of ​​GST was first mooted by his party’s government. Parliament approved GST through the 101st Constitutional Amendment. The Finance Minister of all the states are also included in the GST Council. This is a giant leap in the direction of reforming the federal structure of India. In such a situation, there is a lack of honesty in Rahul’s statement on GST. Instead of dismissing it, he should have presented it as an exemplary example of federalism and democracy.

According to Rahul, RSS is a secret organization which is engaged in devaluing democracy. It is necessary to remind them that 3,254 people of the Sangh went to jail during the fascist rule imposed in the country in the form of Emergency by their grandmother Indira Gandhi. According to statistics, the maximum number of 772 leaders were imprisoned from Jansangh. He was imprisoned under the Atrocities Act MISA. In such a situation, the question arises that who is the real fascist in the country? Rahul claims that the voice of opposition MPs is being suppressed in Parliament and the mikes of MPs are being switched off for criticizing the government. This claim is absolutely baseless. According to PRS Legislative Research, Rahul’s presence in the winter session last year was negligible. His attendance has slightly improved to 40 per cent in this budget session. Last year he spoke only once in Parliament. One of his claims is that the Modi government is getting his phones tapped and this did not happen in his government. This claim is being made by a person under whose family rule, many IB officers including Malay Krishna Dhar have presented evidence of phone tapping and other mischievous activities.

His ravings about Modi and Sikhs are worse than all these lies. In Cambridge, he said Modi was “dividing the country”. Pointing to a Sikh present at the event, he said that in the eyes of Modi, minorities are second-class citizens. It is not only misleading, but also full of deceit. This is an attempt to incite divisive tendencies in various sections, which should be strongly condemned. Rahul may try to ignore his party’s dubious commitments to democracy, but he has no magic wand to make millions of people forget the past. The Nehru-Gandhi family has a long list of undemocratic activities during the Congress rule that prevailed in the country for a long time after independence. It started from the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, who imposed ‘reasonable restrictions’ on freedom of expression through the First Amendment of the Constitution. On the suggestion of the then Congress President Indira Gandhi, Nehru imposed President’s rule in 1959 by removing the Communist government of Kerala from misusing Article 356. It contained a sense of unhappiness with the emergence of other parties. Indira Gandhi imprisoned political rivals under the dictatorship of Emergency. Held the Parliament and Judiciary hostage. Wage an aggressive campaign of forced vasectomy, mainly targeting the Muslim community. When Rajiv Gandhi’s name cropped up in the Bofors scam, he brought a repressive law in 1988 to suppress the voice of the media. The list of such undemocratic acts is endless. In such a situation, it does not suit any Congress leader, especially a member of the Gandhi family, to preach about the features of democracy.

Dr BR Ambedkar’s foresight comes to mind when we hear Rahul Gandhi’s request for non-interference in India’s internal affairs. Ambedkar warned the nation and future generations about the consequences of betrayal. He had said that it pains me very much that India not only lost its independence in the past, but this independence was lost due to treachery and treachery of some of its own people. Raja Dahir’s general took bribe from the men of the invader Muhammad bin Qasim and did not fight on behalf of the king. Similarly, keeping the attack on Prithviraj at the center, Jaichand sent a call to Mohammad Ghori to wage war in India. Similarly, while Shivaji was fighting for the freedom of Hindus, some Maratha and Rajput kings were fighting on behalf of the Mughal throne. If the Congress has to win back the trust of the voters, it will also have to keep the modern-day Jaichand calm.

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