CONGRESS PARTY - On a line-up for landslide!

Indian needs a government. India requires a determined leadership.  India must elect a government that lasts, a government which can forge ahead on matters of national interest with determination and will.  Only then can the nation register an indelible mark of advancement both domestically as well as internationally.  There are teething troubles which call for meticulous management of people’s psychology and a promising vote bank.  Where do we start with?

Congress Party possesses the necessary skill.  It has the necessary input, people of element, people of experience and people with vision.  However, Congress Party has not been registered in the votable minds of the over 1.3 billion people as the only capable people to lead India from the front, out of the mire of corruption and high-handedness, extremism and naxalism/Maoism or petty mindedness and social menaces.

India needs to gain mileage in every aspect like the up-liftment of down trodden, economically weaker sections, the working class, professionals, industrialists, young and old, education, health, medicine, science and technology and of course the diverse faiths all of which need catering.  India has a vast populace accounting for nearly 1.3 billion spread out in over 28 states and 7 union territories.

Patriotism is not everything which makes a nation progress.  It might be a culture that could boost the broadness of our application and mind.  But the core feature and the essence of advancement lies in augmenting that spirit of oneness, that steadfastness of resolve, that attitude to hard work and that devotedness towards our day to day agenda or program which can boost the prospects or our zeal to achieve maximum benefit out of our workable force.

Having a tricolour around cannot possibly bring about reform or development in a country teeming with millions of people with diverse mentality, faith and culture.  There is need to add impetus to the group, the community and people who form the core of our national strength.

Likewise there is a need to go by certain standards.  There is a need to accommodate a particular group of people or body of individuals with capability to vouch for the betterment of the nation through un-stinted efforts and dedicated resolve.  In a democracy a group of people or forum as pointed out above may be termed as a party to whom people owe allegiance to for their own good.

Such a party of people who can be entrusted with the task of looking after their welfare must have the trust of the nation and people.  The country therefore, must repose their trust in these people whose election is effected through a ballot system as demanded by the Constitution which was adopted on 26^th January, 1950.

Congress Party forms the core of Indian polity with widespread influence all over the country.  Congress Party, as a national party, is the offshoot of the original Indian National Congress.  It derived its core strength from the forefathers who fought against foreign rule, suffered deprivation, desolation, passivity, misery, brutality, torture and death. Having put in enormous struggle, endured hardship for centuries and forced that single minded approach to achieving freedom by hook or by crook out of a diverse people of Indian culture, the Indian National Congress finally  hoisted the national flag on 15^th August, 1947 in culmination of the celebrations of India having attained freed from foreign rule. 

India attained freedom exactly 66 years ago and there have been several changes of governments elected through ballot system from different political parties.  Most of these parties having been formed with alliance of regional parties, there have been varying perceptions of people resulting in inordinate delays in passing of legislation or due to toppling of governments for one reason or the other.  As a result of frequent change of governments or on account of lack of numbers in Parliament, the intricacies of management and administration has lacked in the required enthusiasm among people who constantly turn to regional outfits to achieve a victory in terms of power.

Frequent change of governments causing inept handling by people of diverse mentality has made matters worse for the entire political system which has indirectly dragged the national priorities to achieving a mere scrape through to form the government.  India cannot afford to gamble on priorities and the least that ought to materialize is a realization by people that they must compromise on either of the two aspects namely mediocrity or excellence!

There is need for individuals with conviction and righteousness to carry the aspirations of people to heights of excellence.  Without this connect, without a virtuous dedication, without individuals having noble blood within, crowned by dedication, determination, resoluteness and integrity of purpose no gain or breakthrough can be achieved, more especially in a people and era which, immediately after achieving independence, was sinking in to a state of chaos and grabbing mentality.

Fortunately, when all hopes of unifying an invigorated mob of free nation were being dashed in to a state of chaos and decay, India uniquely managed to find a family with noble blood, detached from corruption and more especially capable of monitoring the barbarity and menace of a people who would least have heeded reason and oneness of purpose. 

It was a God-sent gift to a land which had seen scores of battles and bloodshed.  Unfortunately, the evil managed to penetrate deep in to the veins of the common people.  The mean minded crowd vent their venom of frustration at the family (Nehru-Indira-Sonia-Rajiv) and their descendants with invectives which no person, society or nation would tolerate. The result was catastrophic.  And today, the tricolour has had to be managed by a hand which holds the destiny of the nation.

Congress Party alone has the formula to extricate the land out of perilous elements.  There is need to reform people, bring them on the right path and motivate people to lead an exemplary life so that the nation runs smooth not for a term of five years, rather for generations thereafter.  The nation cannot afford to tolerate mischievous and criminal elements manipulating the arena of Parliament and jeopardizing the future of the nation, people and its future.  Rather the country needs people of dedication over whom a dedicated government would function for the sake of their betterment.

True, India has never been free from wars, battles, chaos, turmoil or incidents causing enormous hardships to public, highhandedness, nefarious activities, match fixing, atrocities, brutalities & butcheries, catastrophes, natural calamities, besides murders, kidnap for ransom, hijack, criminal assault, loot, theft, burglary, extremism, cross-border terrorism, civil strife, communal riots, dowry deaths, rape of innocents, plunder by people, tax evasion, snatching and pickpockets, theft of vehicles, arson, labour unrest, hoarding of essential commodities, pilferage of items, marketing day to day items & essential commodities at exorbitant rates – and what have you? 

Nevertheless, India never forsook its development plans, activities and programs. The government did not ever throw up its hands fed up of the anarchy and chaos committed by its own people.  It did not blame the citizens and people who stood to benefit from the progress the nation was making through unstinted efforts of a government that was awake to people’s problems. Today the same nation is capable of hoisting Common Wealth Games, Asiad and like events which project the nation as a force to reckon with.

All the developments took place at the behest of a party nurtured to its existence by people of eminence, dignified people who had a dream to see India on top of the world map.  However, the country was never free from high-handedness by vested interests by people who savoured freedom yet preferred luxury and comfort to commitment and hard work. 

People who lived for more than 60 years – this writer included - and watched the nation progress steadily by huge strides, step by step, are witnesses to a dream being logically fulfilled. Years of yearning by renowned and dignified people of eminence who streamlined a path to climax and had the nation bloom in the horizon of a new dawn, a new age and a new era with minutely planned strategy for development as also reared up noble minds to handle the overall political realm of a free India are never devoid of statistics. 

This trend must carry on and to this end, people must rise up in unison to vote in Congress Party for many more years.

Awake India!  Awake all.  Awake the young. Awake the old.  Rise up to a new age.  Awake with a ray of hope.  Congress Party, the trusted ones of the dignified days of freedom struggle, the elite of Mahatma Gandhi’s chosen guild, the chosen ones of the independent India which stood undeterred to steer the nation clear of hurdles under a charismatic Smt. Indira Gandhi followed by a dignified Shri Rajiv Gandhi and which India made giant strides to this very day under the spectacular guidance of Smt. Sonia Gandhi is beckoning you to assert yourselves forthright.  It was Congress Party all the way from the British era right up to this very day that stood to listen to your voice, to answer your call to rejoice at your deliverance from foreign rule, your call in peril, your call in distress and your call to act which it did to your heart’s content.  Congress Party is the one only voice of sanity and choice of a new age that can best be defined as the independent India.

There are areas within the Constitution which need a re-look.  That can be undertaken only if the party has the requisite majority to deal with dissent.  India has arrived at the portal of a new age, a new era and a new century which must get translated in to action and the action need percolate in to a new life.  A life that should portray a new India of advanced vision. 

You all strengthened the hands of Smt. Indira Gandhi, Shri Rajiv Gandhi and yea – that of Smt. Sonia Gandhi.  You deserved your choice and Congress Party stood the ground to deal out your due, your justice and your vision.  Today the same nation and party is calling upon the teeming millions of an independent India.  Rise up ye people,  Rise with one voice and stay and stand firm with the one only hand that has always been extended to your needy hour – stand with your party at this hour of need to hoist the tricolor with pride now and for all times to come!

You all strengthened the hands of Smt. Indira Gandhi, Shri Rajiv Gandhi and yea – that of Smt. Sonia Gandhi.  You deserved your choice and Congress Party stood the ground to deal out your due, your justice and your vision.  Today the same nation and party is calling upon the teeming millions of an independent India.  Rise up ye people,  Rise with one voice and stay and stand firm with the one only hand that has always been extended to your needy hour – stand with your party at this hour of need to hoist the tricolor with pride now and for all times to come!