Who is Driving This Bus?

The next general elections are going to be in 2014. That is far away. The nation is facing so many problems that I don’t know where to begin. Yet with all the problems facing the nation, the UPA’s main focus is to bring down the Modi government in Gujarat. All the other problems not only remain un-addressed but now we have massive corruption scandals involving the Commonwealth games surfacing (we still have not done anything about the mother of all 2G scandal involving the UPA’s own A Raja yet). What we need in the PM’s chair is a man of integrity, courage and steel spine who can take on enemies both internal and external. Instead we have a nice guy who offers nothing else. Economy, which is his specialty, is also not in his control judging by the massive price hikes. To makes things worse (if that were possible!), there are disturbing reports of massive infighting where the PM has been rendered a persona non grata in his own party. We know that he cannot control the non-Congress ministers on the UPA (Mamata Didi is totally out of control, A Raja is stealing with no fear of punishment, Alagiri has never attended a cabinet meeting). To add to this hapless man’s woes, infighting has broken out in his own party. Now we know that the Congress is run like a family owned business (which it is) and they control their people and information about La Famiglia with an iron grip. If they cannot control the infighting, then it must really be serious stuff. We have camps developing in the party where Raj Kumar Rahul’s camp people like Digvijay Singh is sniping at the only man who is trying to do the right thing, P Chidambaram. Rajmata’s coterie probably hates Rahul’s camp because now Madam has moved to NAC bequeathing more power to her son. We have a consummate loyalist like Mani Shankar Aiyer wishing disaster on the Commonwealth games. Reports are that the regular Congress MP’s hate the central government because they are feeling the hate of their constituents over the price rise issue. We have the Home ministry fighting with the External Affairs ministry (as witnessed in the latest G K Pillai vs. S M Krishna debacle in Pakistan). AND what, pray is our leader doing during all this? If you find out please let me know.
If this were UK or the US or any other mature democracy, we would have exercised some constitutional clause to boot these guys out of the government for non-performance. But seeing that this is India, we are stuck with them for the next four years hoping that all are “Eesht Devis and devatas” are working overtime to protect the motherland because the country cannot be trusted in the hands of these elected leaders.
The following are articles on the topic from sources from the entire political spectrum, liberal to the conservative.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575378590961975082.html

http://newsinsight.net/archivedebates/nat2.asp?recno=2018

http://news.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/29/slide-show-1-differences-on-the-rise-within-congress.htm

http://thenethindu.blogspot.com/2010/07/pms-paradox-in-power-because-hes-weak.html