Wednesday, September 13, 2017

An endeavour to communicate with people

Congress Vice- President Rahul Gandhi is on a two-week visit to the US. He addressed there the students of California University, Berkley on 'India at 70: Reflections on the Path of Forward'. Mr. Gandhi spoke on a wide of range of topics. He attacked Narendra Modi govt. at the Centre. His sharp criticism of Modi govt. has unnerved the ruling BJP. He hit the BJP hard. To defend the govt., almost all important ministers and spokespersons of the party came out before the press to blast Rahul Gandhi and called him a failed dynast. Rahul said that Modi govt. failed on all counts. Prime Minister Modi’s hastily taken decision of introducing GST without giving much thought to it and his move of demonetization brought the GDP growth down to two percents. Though Rahul Gandhi candidly admitted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a better communicator than he, his failure on all fronts has caused dismay in the country. On the issue of dynastic politics in India, he rightly said that most of the states' politics is controlled by dynastic politics. So, it will be an exaggeration of the fact on the ground that only Nehru-Gandhi family members represent dynastic politics. Rahul Gandhi rightly said that Mr. Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, Mr. M K Stalin in Tamil Nadu, Anurag Singh in Himachal Pradesh and Abhishek Bachchan in Bollywood, are all dynasts. From the South to the North almost every political family pursues dynastic politics. Dynastic politics plays a major role in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh etc. In almost all states, the CM grooms his son as immediate successor in politics. In Himachal Pradesh former CM Prem Kumar Dhumal's son Anurag Singh has already been trained to take the charge of CM if ever the opportunity came his way. Badals family in Punjab is famous for ruling the state. In Bihar, Lalu's son Tejswi Yadav has been groomed to take over all political assignments of the family. This way, it is wrong to say that only Rahul Gandhi represents the dynatic politics. With the elapse of three years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's govt., vice-president Rahul Gandhi accused him of massively opening up space for the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. Rahul Gandhi has rightly said that when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), led by the Congress, was in power, he had worked with former prime minister Manmohan Singh and senior leaders like P. Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh to resolve the problems facing Jammu and Kashmir for nine years. He blames PM Modi for destroying the hope and aspiration of Kashmiris. The situation in Kashmir is getting worse and worse. Undoubtedly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has failed so far to act to bring the normalcy in the region. It is correct that Narendra Modi govt. has neither given policy nor direction. India's Kashmir policy appears to be directionless. Gandhi would interact with global thinkers and political leaders, and address overseas Indians as part of an outreach initiative by his party, during his U.S. visit.

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