Tera Emosanal Atyachar

Rahul Gandhi

Newly crowned Congress Vice President, Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s first speech as a Vice President was really emotional for Congressmen and ‘Atyachar’ for most of the non-congressmen i.e. Indians in general. If his mother cried befor him because he now have to sip ‘the poison of power’ then most of our countrymen are sipping the ‘the poison of living a miserable life’, ‘the poison of not being listened’ ‘the poison of scary life’ every day and every night. If his mother cried for one night then our moms cry every night for not getting things to cook at reasonable rates, forget things, even the cooking gas on which she is supposed to cook those ‘valuables’ is getting dearer by every month passes by. Such emotional speech may attract, in fact has already attracted, congressmen but I am afraid not people in general have got attracted with it. Smiling faces of congress leaders like Jeetan Prasad and Mani Shankar Iyar will not synonym with Ram Prasad of UP or Krishnan Iyar of Chennai, whose life is getting worse in matching the two sides of income and expenditure. To be very honest, before yesterday, I was ignoring the comments on Rahul Gandhi of only being ‘Rajkumar’ and not attached to public in general, but since yesterday I am now contemplating, joining that bandwagon.

See, the reason is simple his speech may have helped to raise the spirits within the congress party but it has little or nothing to offer for people of India. There were days when people used to vote for Congress by their emotional speeches but not now. Indira Gandhi used to say “I am the daughter in law of Gujarat” whenever she used to visit here. The number of visits was less because Gujarat’s votes were taken for granted but still people of Gujarat used to feel very happy for Mrs. Gandhi being the one which she used to claim and used to vote for Congress. But now the ground has changed, Gujarat is just an example I am sure it is more or less the same in most part of our country. Voters of the states like Maharashtra, MP, Bihar, HP, Chhattisgarh and all four states of Southern India plus my state Gujarat are now looking at development as their priority and not at “whose uncle has done what and whose aunty remained at home.” If your life got disturbed because you came to know that the same policemen with whom you played badminton have killed your grandma more than two decades back, then it is your problem sir. Such statements might have appealed your cadre but not us the public who has suffered tremendously since last decade. If Mr. Gandhi himself is thinking of becoming next PM, first of all he must have to copy + paste the current seat standing in Loksabha for his party, which is right now looking a distant possibility. To make it possible he has to rise above the emotions and needs to throw a blueprint of his future plans in black and white before the people of India ASAP.

Everyone knows that Congress is heavily dependent on Gandhi Family and the family’s word is more or less final. But during yesterday’s speech Mr. Gandhi used the words “from now onwards...”, Many times. He used these words for two or three important issues out of which one was on spending 99 paisa out of 100 rolled out from the center. The question is what was stopping him doing so till now? When his party is ready to die for him and his family, only the position of not being VP was stopping to direct his marshals to spend more paisa on work and do less corruption? This statement of his only vindicates Mr. Narendra Modi’s allegation he made in every election meeting during just concluded Gujarat Elections. Thank god that our main stream media is heavily biased against the main opposition party and giving Mr. Modi a damn, else Mr. Gandhi had to answer so many tricky questions on this ‘99 paisa’ statement of his.

I got only one advice for Mr. Rahul Gandhi. There are many like me who may be, are sitting on the fringe and can still vote for his party, if he comes out clearly on frequent price hikes and well thought out solutions to bring prices down, his clear cut views on Pakistan and ‘bold India’ which has a clear policy on that rogue state and his views on both kinds of terrorism existing in Kashmir and in Naxal affected areas. He is young and that’s why many like me will still vote for him if he is thinking differently then his current party leaders and he has a crystal clear road map for future of India, but if he still wants to continue ‘Grand Old Party’s’ grand old tactics to win my heart by remembering his grandma, his father’s and his mother’s offerings then I am sorry he is on the wrong side of the picture. Indian youth has changed; he wants results, because that is what he asked when he goes on the field every morning. With the emergence of social media and the way it has spread, Indian youth is ready to discuss on everything available on national stage. Social media may not be shadow or real India but it has discussed Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s speech yesterday and has already rejected it with big numbers. I believe too much dependence on the main stream media to help changing Indian youth’s mentality will be the final nail in the coffin for Mr. Gandhi’s party. Still a year before the general elections to happen and Mr. Gandhi, you may get a chance to rule the nation again because no party will get the full mandate and you may ‘manage’ the numbers, but then your current mandate will also be reduced for sure if you do not blow fresh air in your party.

21/01/2013, Monday

Ahmedabad