Yes To Gandhi-free Congress. No To Congress-free India.

Congress lost the general elections in a big way. Since then every election they have contested even in their areas have resulted in bog losses. Their projected performance the recent Delhi elections have to alarm the most loyal lapdogs of the Gandhi family. That Congress is imploding will be an understatement. We have written many articles on the perils of dynastic rules. We expected that things will go bad for Congress. We took great pleasure in their losses and rightly so. That party has done more damage to the nation than any elected party in any democracy. But their current state is worrisome to any Indian who is concerned about the state of Indian democracy.

The way Modi-Shah combine is working, it is clear that the BJP will become a true blue national party with presence in every state. They are not depending on “friendly regional parties” as did LK Advani and his ilk. That is really good for the health of Indian democracy. After all, parties with regional aspirations with focused agendas are detrimental to a balanced administration because they tend to use their spoiler status to squeeze undeserved funds to run their populist agendas. Central government gets reduced to the status of an ATM in the hands of regional mandarins. So in that regards, a strong BJP presence in any state offers the voters a viable alternative especially if the state BJP has strong and capable local leaders.

Congress was that party. Once upon a time they had a presence in all the states. Their ground level organization was strong and the workers loyal. It was all because the leadership which may have been corrupt and misguided (read socialists) but they were consummate politicians with reasonable to good intellect. After India Gandhi, the rot began because she would not let any other leader come up. It became a family dynasty. After Rajiv Gandhi, the party had a bit of respite and they had their most capable leader since LB Shastri. PVN Rao did wonders for the Indian economy. But the Gandhi family loyalists could not leave well enough alone. We all know what happened after that. Even today, no one is ready to put the blame at the feet of Sonia Gandhi. It is like the Harry Potter series of novels where no one took the name of Voldemort. It is the story of the king without the clothes-no one has the guts to say that she is truly incapable intellectually and every other way to head anything except maybe a household where the major decision is what is for dinner. After the party stands in ruins, people have gathered some guts and have started to question Rahul Gandhi’s decisions when it is Sonia all along. Congress is getting destroyed and they are still not ready to question Sonia Gandhi. If they do not get rid of the mother-son duo, there will not be any party left.

Their faithful in the media have already abandoned them and are already referring to Arvind Kejriwal as the national alternative to BJP. Which maybe be fine except we know that while Arvind Kejriwal may have the intellect and some political survival skills, he is not an administrator. He has not governed any organization let alone lead a national party. Even if and that is a HUGE if, he can somehow run Delhi, it is going to take him ages to become a national party. The BJP in its current avatar took close to 15 years to become a force on the national scene and this when they already had strong roots and Janasangh, backed by the RSS. How the hell can AAP become a national alternative?
What will happen is that BJP will become the only national party and they will be challenged by the regional satraps. That will suit the nation well as long as the BJP wins with comfortable majority. However, if the BJP does not get the majority they how can India expect a strong central government. We will start having elections every other year. We will be reduced to a big banana republic.

We all know that for a healthy democracy we need a strong opposition. That has to be Congress if BJP is in power and vice versa. It cannot be some ego driven rabble rouser or a family dynasty. It has to a viable national party. In the current state, the nation needs Congress. As much as I love Narendra Bhai, I cannot abide with his “Congress Mukt Bharat” campaign. What I would like to see is “Gandhi family mukt Congress”.

We need a strong Congress and BJP to provide India with a two party system and that will never happen as long as Sonia Gandhi and her yes-men are in charge. My appeal to the responsible leaders of Congress is that please, for the nation’s sake, see the light, call the spade a spade and get rid of Sonia, her son and her daughter. They are toxic and are destroying the party and in turn making the Indian democracy weak.

Will that happen? I don’t know. The Gandhi family loyalists have either gotten rid of anyone with any brains or emasculated them. Until that happens, I can hope and pray that Narendra Modi continues to occupy the PM’s chair. God forbid if he loses then that vacuum will be filled by the likes of Kejriwal or Mamata Bannerjee. Are you comfortable with that thought?