Reading reactions of members from different states of our country, I am afraid congress will have to start its re-building its organization allover again in different states where they will have nothing much left. Or better still they will follow suggestion made by Gandhi Ji to dissolve the party as it has lost it's aim which was to fight against Brits.
This congress is not congress which foght with Brits for freedom. Original congress was divided in 1968 or 1969 it is know as Kamraj Plan.
All India Congress which was formed during Independance years was a committed party and there was a purpose of gaining freedom.But after freedom, the leaders had no such patriotism, instead began looking after their personal interests right from the time Neg hru became the PM.Indira Gandhi went one step further and institutionalised corruption...Only Lal Bahadur Shastri can be remembered as a tall leader and P.V.Narasimha Rao too was good in his own way.But after it came back in the hands of the family and recently after Sonia Gandhi took over it has been steadily taking a single route - downwards, taking the nation with it....
Yes i agree. But I want to see it in a different perspective . Why are the people of India electing the corrupt Government again and again ?
Do we don't have an alternative ?
Are the people satisfied with Congress ruling ?
The first and foremost error was to make Nehru the PM of this country. He was a known corrupt personality right from beginning who knew very little about real India. He behaved like British behaved but kept distance from real measures of progress. He was ignorant of many things but did every thing to make himself popular. His daughter otherwise a brave and shrewd lady made things worse. I think if Sanjay Gandhi was not killed he could have make a better PM than Rajiv. Now wait for next king in making, if you know his rea story you will feel like committing a harakiri.
I am amused. The author of 'discovery of India' did know know India? He is founder of five year plans and he was instrumental in creating infrastructure like dams, electricity, steel, railway for India. Yet he did not know real measures of progress! He gave boost to science and engineering. How he was ignorant?
To give credit to Nehru, Discovery of India written by him indeed is a masterpiece in many ways and even now, one must read it compulsorily to gain an insight into the history of India. But in many ways, he has been dismissive of the most critical and crucial parts of India such as religions, and really tried put various religious leaders, philosophies and especially the Brahmins in an extremely poor light which is not expected from a responsible leader and a person stationed in his position. I also accept that his panchshil philosophy was not doubt brilliant, but was he able to instil those very values of integrity, honesty etc. which he preached about in his followers? Did he himself follow them?
I am giving here a link to critical analysis of the book, I implore everyone to read it carefully! I myself have read the book and have found many of these to be quite true especially the parts the author of the blog says here:
Although the books claims to be a ‘discovery of India‘, South India is almost completely excluded. There are references to the South here and there but nothing much. As if it were not a part of India…
South has so much history and culture. I don’t know why he did not think it necessary or important to write about it.
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There’s just half a page on Tilak and Gokhale. These two persons who were political activities, thinkers, philosophers par excellence and were the front runners in the struggle for freedom, Nehru has found them not worthy of enough mention! :blink:
These and many other facts do question his knowledge and understanding of India, its history, its people and his own perspective about all things Indian!
"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally."
- W. C. Fields :)
