Loyalty Redefined – The 10 Janpath way!

Loyalty is a very strong word and exudes stronger emotion…it is both individualistic and holistic. When I say individualistic, it can be like loyalty to friends, loyalty to family, spouse, fav singer/actor etc but the loyalty on a holistic level is loyalty for a larger cause or an ideology. Plainly speaking, I mean loyalty to nation and its people.

But, in both the cases, the basic fact remains that it takes a long time to deserve or get the loyalty of someone. Especially so in the case of politicians who have to go back to electorate after every five years.

A politician spends ages to get loyalty of his people, people who trust him and send him to power. We have seen leaders across parties who had earned loyalty of the people because the leaders were loyal to the country and its people.

But having said so, Congress party in last few years have redefined the meaning of loyalty. It has treated those people with higher regards & rewards who have remained LOYAL to 10Janpath ahead of the party, forget being loyal to state, electorate and nation. Though it has been a tradition within the party, this LOYALTY to 10J & getting rewarded for the same has assumed blowing proportions in last few years

Two glaring examples in last 31 days-

Mr. Tarun Gogoi – Mr. Gogoi is an experienced and cunning politician. Man who grew under the shadows of Late Hiteshwar Saikia, has always been known as 10J Loyalist and the inhabitants of 10J came to his rescue when he was targeted by one and all for his callous handling of riots in Bodo areas. Riots which continued for almost a week saw over 1.5 lakh people getting homeless apart from loss of life and property. The reason for the riots has been systematic pogrom of allowing Bangladeshi illegal immigrants who have moved over to the state and acted as precious vote bank for the Congress regime in the state. Gogoi did not do anything to control or contain the problem.

Instead of him being immediately replaced for not being able to control the riots, 10J showered all its blessings and support to ensure he remained the CM.

Mr. Ashok Gehlot – He is the CM of Rajasthan and a known loyalist to 10J. While he achieved nothing great but during his tenure, Rajasthan was in the news for the murder of Bhanwari Devi, a murder in which Congress leader Mr. Maderna, close to CM, was involved. CM did not take any action until media upped the ante and he could feel the heat.

This was followed by Bharatpur riots where again he was found acutely missing in action. Some 13 people lost lives.

In the last three days, Rajasthan has been severing under heavy rains which has already claimed 37 lives but what does the CM do? He refuses to visit the effected areas since  he found it more important to organize the welcome party for Ms. Sonia Gandhi and now he has also refused for a all party meet (demanded by BJP) to address the problems caused by the rains.

Both the CMs continue but did Congress party and 10J think even for a minute about the loyalty of the people of two states who voted them to power? Do they even consider the feeling of the people who feel cheated since they empowered these two people who did everything except delivering their promise to the people of their respective states.

But who cares since Congress has redefined the meaning of Loyalty!