CONTRADICTIONS IN THE JAIPUR SPEECH BY THE CONGRESS PARTY
VICE-PRESIDENT RAHUL GANDHI (IV)
Rahul Gandhi said while setting the tone of his speech:
In 1947 India was liberated not by arms, but by unleashing the
voice of our people. Other countries fought violently. Other countries fought with weapons. Other countries fought with death. India fought with non-violence and with voice.
Everybody told us that it cannot be done. Everybody told us that if you want to get id of
the British you have to use violence. And the Congress Party said no, we are
not going to use violence. We are
going to use non-violence. And we
defeated the biggest empire of its time and we sent them home. This was energy behind of Freedom
Movement. Voices. Millions
and millions of our voices.
Now Mr. Gandhi, how do you justify your silence on the brutal use
of force by the police on the protesters against the Delhi gangrape?
Mere expressing regret on what happened wouldn’t absolve the
Congress party of this anti-democratic sin.
Sushil Kumar Shinde is not a thinking minister of independent thought process
we all know that. He could not have taken this decision and that too, when the
atmosphere was so tense; when every voice was a raging call against the
ineffective political class demanding it to act pro-people and not pro-power.
The emotional quotient of the masses, reflected by the spontaneous
outpour of the youth in the streets, was not for ‘nothing’. It was there, after
the insensitivity of the political class had tested enough the public’s
patience. But, ironically, the political class is still about sucking the
common man.
Ministers continue to make bizarre comments on issues ranging from
corruption to women rights.
Your government has said to discuss the Justice Verma Committee
report but given the development where the reports say that the Home Ministry is
upset because it thinks the committee has exceeded its brief, is a familiar
ominous sign for the ‘pro-public’ policymaking. It is not about quality of the
report whether it is practical or academic; whether it is narrow in approach;
whether it is just new wine in the old bottle.
Here, it is not about the report, it is about the haste in which
your government reacted on it. That was absolutely uncalled for.
Shall you confirm us that you are going to respond to the youth in
spirit and letter; the youth that was the high talking point of your Jaipur
speech?
Shall you confirm us that you are going to identify and crackdown
on the elements who allowed the use of force on the peaceful protesters?
Tell us, are your own countrymen not dignified human beings, as
you are, for your political colleagues and be treated in a way that imitates
the mentality of the colonialist British who enslaved us for centuries?
Why do you contradict yourself Mr. Gandhi? On one hand, your party
said no to using violent means to oust the colonialist British, while the very
same party mercilessly beats down the peaceful protests when the protesters are
your own countrymen.
Do you have clear answers to this Mr. Gandhi on this Republic Day;
a day to celebrate the rule of the common man in the country?
How ironical!
If you and your party claim to be the apostle of peace and
non-violence in India, how could you allow the brutal act by your police just a
month ago?
Your proclamation falls flat even in other cases like the midnight
Delhi police crackdown on Ramdev and his supporter at the Ramlila Ground or
arresting Anna Hazare under the garb of maintaining law and order or for that
matter, the historic blot of the anti-Sikh riots where the Congress party is to
share the central blame.
If the Congress party is so peace-loving, why it tries to scuttle
every peaceful protest movement as we saw since the anti-corruption movement of
Anna Hazare?
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
