Actively Inactive - Hail The New Leader

So at last it happens! The scion of the ‘first family’ of Indian politics decides that he is going to play a more active role. Only that this realization or decision happened after spending almost a decade in Indian politics!

May be for Congress, the position of Gen. Secretary or President of Indian youth congress, of course at a ripe ‘young’ age of 42, does not tantamount to playing an ‘active’ role. So was Mr. Rahul Gandhi really so inactive at such important positions.

And in retrospect, I should congratulate Congress for being so daring as to leave the entire UP state elections campaign planning at the hands of a man who was not ‘active’. So should we assume that Congress took the electorate of UP so lightly. Perhaps it did! Kudos!

Does it also speak about the party for playing its role of, living upto the expectations of 10 Janpath before the interests of the nation, to the core? It needs no second thought to guess that yet again the party manifests its undying ‘loyalty’ to a family rather than party democracy forget national interests.

Congress has done it in past, and I am sure it will continue to do in future…at least till the time children of Mrs. Priyanka Gandhi too realize that they are ready to play an ‘active’ role in politics and government.

Coming to the bigger question, is running a government equal to running a personal business that ministry and role are offered to someone just because he ‘feels’ that he is ready for it. Well Rahul can not be blamed for it since he has been made to believe that running the government of this country is his family business.

Who is Rahul Gandhi ? what is his claim to fame?

Isn’t his surname the only claim to fame in his arsenal? Has he done anything worthwhile, till now so as to elevate him in the minds of critics like me to accept hims for his qualities and NOT his surname?

Hasn’t he time and again failed in his missions, his campaigns, his plans , his ideas? doesn’t action speak thousand words …so what great action, does he think he has done, which suddenly prepares him for a role.

Apart from making false promises to poor villagers of Vidharbha and UP and making simply absurd statements on terrorism, what has he done? How many times he has ‘spoken’ in the parliament. My memory fails me because I have never seen him speaking in parliament but just reading and that too only once or twice in so many years and we should look at such a man to ‘declare’ his readiness to head a ministry! Was it his maturity on the anvil when we saw hi comparing people of UP as beggars in Maharshtra? Haven’t we had enough of incompetent ministers already? We can not add one more.

Can any one recall, on their finger tips, at least his ten achievements…has he done anything worthwhile in his constituency? Answer is NO. Can any one share one path breaking idea of his, a person who is looked upon as future of India’s oldest political party! Answer, sadly again, is NO.

Congress and UPA have to answer the nation. It simply can not work on pure whims and ‘feelings’ of an individual even if he has a Gandhi surname!

Rahul has not proved anything till date enabling him to become a MP in the first place, leave alone heading a ministry…and worse is that Congress sees in him our future PM.