Friday, September 15, 2006
The degeneration of Congress
30 December, 1996
The Editor
The Afternoon
Mumbai
Sir
Mr. Kripa Shankar Singh, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) vice-president, has come out and charged Shiv-Sena for fooling North- Indians. Coming from a party official whose party has been fooling not only North Indians but all Indians, and that too for the last fifty years; this is nothing but sheer audacity. The norms for serving the people too are all self-serving. If a few ministerial posts are given to a certain community, by a party, it does not automatically result in redress to that community’s interests. The ethos of party’s internal politics has been so institutionalized by Congress, that all such appointees are first to serve their own interests by recouping their huge illegal investments in funding the party. Only, then and then, they care for even party’s own private agenda. People’s interests come last, if at all. So the bench-mark in judging any Government’s redressal of any particular community’s genuine grievances is not the appointment of any minister or cabinet official, but the policies and implementation results that the Government produces or is capable of producing. The more the party is dependent on money-power to project itself, the more it is prone to encourage or allow its members to indulge in corruption. If Congress party which enjoyed people’s trust for over a hundred years has not sunk into a vicious circle of illegal money power to keep it afloat, it would not have lamented for the loss of North Indians or South Indians. For all practical purposes, Congress has lost its pioneering soul and all its present leaders are nothing but pall-bearers.
The Editor
The Afternoon
Mumbai
Sir
Mr. Kripa Shankar Singh, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) vice-president, has come out and charged Shiv-Sena for fooling North- Indians. Coming from a party official whose party has been fooling not only North Indians but all Indians, and that too for the last fifty years; this is nothing but sheer audacity. The norms for serving the people too are all self-serving. If a few ministerial posts are given to a certain community, by a party, it does not automatically result in redress to that community’s interests. The ethos of party’s internal politics has been so institutionalized by Congress, that all such appointees are first to serve their own interests by recouping their huge illegal investments in funding the party. Only, then and then, they care for even party’s own private agenda. People’s interests come last, if at all. So the bench-mark in judging any Government’s redressal of any particular community’s genuine grievances is not the appointment of any minister or cabinet official, but the policies and implementation results that the Government produces or is capable of producing. The more the party is dependent on money-power to project itself, the more it is prone to encourage or allow its members to indulge in corruption. If Congress party which enjoyed people’s trust for over a hundred years has not sunk into a vicious circle of illegal money power to keep it afloat, it would not have lamented for the loss of North Indians or South Indians. For all practical purposes, Congress has lost its pioneering soul and all its present leaders are nothing but pall-bearers.
