Dt: 23/5/18
What is Congress?
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
What goes by the name of Congress(I) is totally different from the pre-independence body, since Indira Gandhi take-over of it in 1969 and more so since Sonia of Italian origin made it her and her son’s fiefdom since 1998-since when the presidency of Congress has remained hers unbroken - the longest and unique in the history of multi-party democracies in the world. What the intelligentsia of India and England thought of it can be seen from the following quotes.
2. Sri Aurobindo wrote: “The Congress……..what is it but a fascist organisation? Gandhi is the dictator like Stalin….what Gandhi says they accept and even the working Committee follows him; then it goes to the All India Congress Committee which adopts it, and then the Congress. There is no scope for any difference of opinion. ( India’s Rebirth, P.213)
3. Dr B.R Ambedkar on Gandhiji’s Death wrote: "Mr. Gandhi had become a positive danger to his country. He had choked all the thoughts. He was holding together the Congress which is a combination of all the bad and self-seeking elements in society who agreed on no social or moral principle governing the life of society except the one of praising and flattering Mr Gandhi. Such a body is unfit to govern the country".
(Source: A Reporter At Large ( page 238/239) by M V Kamat)
4. Winston Churchill speaking on the Indian Independence Act; 1947 in the House of Commence said, We are handing (India) the brightest jewel in the crown over to a band of rogues, rascals and freebooters. Those who aspire to rule India are men of straw. They will sell their brethren into penury, the Congress will drive the rupee down to mingle with the dust” .
5. On the occasion of the centenary (1985) celebration of Congress, Rajiv Gandhi said: “Congress is infested with time servers….the party had once again been infiltrated by vested interests. Patronage and graft had affected the national institutional framework ..nothing is considered illegitimate if one marches under the right flag. Power without responsibility, right without duties have come to be their prerogative….(Congressmen ) are handicapped for, on their backs ride brokers of power and influence who dispense patronage to convert the (party) into a feudal oligarchy.. They are self -perpetuating cliques who thrive by invoking the slogans of caste and religion … Congress is their den of avarice. They are reducing the Congress organisation to a shell from which the spirit of service and sacrifice has been emptied. …corruption is not only tolerated but even regarded as the hallmark of leadership; fragrant contradiction between what we say and what we do has become our way of life. At every step our aims and actions conflict. At every stage, our private self-crushes our social commitment. The ideology of the Congress has acquired the status of an heirloom. ….” (leadership inherited).
Elsewhere in the speech he said ( in regard to the regional parties like the TDP, the JDS, RJD , SP. “Those who campaign for a week center (now the TRS, the TDP and the communist parties)..” campaign against the unity and integrity of India; their slogans of welfare are spurious because true welfare comes from growth ( and not from kanukalu, debt waivers) ….which they have been destroying.
6. Gandhiji said now that independence has been achieved; Congress should dissolve itself and convert itself into a social service organisation. Modi’s call for Congress-mukt Bharat is elaboration of what Gandhiji desired but could not realise.
7. The Congress of pre-independence India does not exist anymore. It is converted into the family property of Indira Gandhi since 1969; it has indeed passed into the hands of the family of foreign origin. True Indians must deeply think whether they should support such an organisation, especially in view of it serving the special interests of “minorities” and its willingness to be manipulated by the congenitally India thodo- fodo communist parties. (653 words)
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