Why NO to Congress …

Founded in 1885 by two British Civil Servants and a host of Indian Industrialists, the Indian National Congress did not start out to oppose British rule in India. Its first president Womesh Chandra Bannerjee was a clerk at W. P. Gillanders, Attorneys of the Calcutta Supreme Court… Along with Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Surendranath Banerjee and Monomohun Ghose, the founding fathers of the Congress came together with one purpose, the acquisition of power, or as they would put it “obtaining a greater share in government for educated Indians…” (Read rich upper class). Backed by the likes of the Birla’s and the Bajaj’s this unquenchable thirst for power still runs in the Party. M.K. Gandhi’s thirst lead him to oust twice elected (1938 and 1939) party president Subhas Chandra Bose; What Nehru’s lust for power did to this nation, we all know… Indira Priyadarshini’s thirst for power coupled with her political strong-arming led her break away faction to be called The INC(I), while the original Congress party, was named a new party by the election commission(Congress party “O”; O for original)!!!


India, by virtue of its history and culture continues to worship its leaders to this day… But the only leaders in this nation to have been assassinated in modern times were of the Congress party; have you ever wondered WHY? Who made the initial hero out Bhindranwale? Who funded Prabhakaran in the LTTE’s infancy? It was simply Indira’s lack of foresight… One may not be wrong in saying, that Indira Gandhi was the nation’s biggest mistake.

The Congress party today is nothing more than the “baraat” party of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. (With the Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the party came back riding on the high wave of sympathy votes, and put in place PVN Rao as PM, but soon the party was left begging at the doors of Sonia Gandhi, Rajiv’s Italian widow…) Because without a Nehru-Gandhi at its helm, the party cannot stand, and neither can it hold its own, this is exactly what leads to the birth of Tamil Maanila Congress, Trinamool Congress and Nationalist Congress party… When true leaders within the congress cadre were not given their due, they were forced to form regional parties. No surprise that today the PM, Manmohan Singh calls these parties detrimental to the nation’s growth…

This is a party where Margaret Alva can’t speak out loud about seats being on sale, where young leaders like Pilot, Scindia and Jindal are given less importance than ‘Rahul baba’… where Sonia Madam pulls all the strings and where “Leaders” are actually puppets…

The Congress has from the beginning used mass propaganda to it’s benefit. From portraying itself as the party that gave India her independence; to abusing the name “Gandhi”… Throughout it’s history the Congress has downplayed the efforts of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Subhas Chandra Bose and the likes of Bhagat Singh. Even when MK Gandhi adopted the idea of Swaraj, he refused to concede that the idea was Tilak’s, instead he called Gokhale his guru…

In a party started by the Industrialists, run by industrialists for the Industrialists, how can one expect a vision for India’s holistic growth?