The Congress Party spokesman Rashid Alvi’s reported insinuation of the United States propping up Anna Hazare only shows how much the party has become isolated in the Indian public opinion on corruption. This might have been conceived as a good strategy by Indira Gandhi to raise a red herring in the cold war era, to try to disorient the ideological Left but it won’t work in today’s India. Even as Anna Hazare appeared on the horizon, one of the first Indian leaders to hail him was former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan. The CPM’s latest statement on the arrest of Hazare in Delhi has been refreshingly candid and it is in sync with the mood of the people.
Of course, all sorts of forces inevitably get into a popular bandwagon but the cardinal point remains to be that the people are just fed up with the level of public corruption in the country and the government’s prevarication and doublespeak in addressing the problem. Why can’t the Congress Party learn to come terms with this plain truth?
The US indeed has a consistent track record of interfering in other countries’ internal affairs. We don’t have to look far but simply take a look at what is unfolding in Libya or Syria to comprehend that the US interventions violative of the sovereignty of independent sovereign countries is a veritable fact of life. But if anyone had pointed out even 2-3 years back that the Hyde Act that provides the underpinning for the US-India nuclear deal was one such dangerous instrument for US interference with the Indian policies, UPA government would have unhesitatingly called him a die-in-the-wool ‘anti-American’. So, now to turn around and cast a stone at the US is ludicrous.
Has the UPA government (1 and 2) ever raised its voice in these past 7 years and more against continuing US interference in foreign countries? Has it ever criticized the US for its bullying of Iran? On the contrary, it played ball with the US containment strategy toward Iran and allowed the country’s ties with Iran to degrade in the interests of US-India ’strategic partnership’? Therefore, Alvi’s statement stinks to the high heavens as an exercise in political cynicism. It belittles the maturity of the Indian people and it underscores how much Congress is out of touch with the mood of the people.
The entire issue is that the government continues to shove under the carpet the glaring instances of corruption if it somehow has the wherewithal to do so or the public pressure eases. On what account has the the Delhi CM been given such a reprieve by the Congress party? The Congress doesn’t seem to understand that the people know the answer fully well, namely, that the rot has set in deep and from top to bottom of the body polity. Hazare zindabad!
showing growth rates and some numbers and claiming right to corruption is height of idiocy. Congress may no doubt be doing its best regarding economic policies, but it is doing equal or more harm in fostering corruption and using elite central agencies such as CBI to act on its diktats. As a former diplomat, I would like to know your views on tampering the moral space of civil servants with threat or money and what impact it will have on india on a long run. You may kindly consider my request and post a blog on this dangerous trend in indian politics to give elected respresentatives blatantly play with executive arm.
THE GOVT HAS FAILED UTTERLY IN TAKLING THE ISSUE OF CORRUPTION. EVERY BODY IN CONGRESS IS CORRUPT. THEY WANT TO SAVE THEIR FACE IN THSI PROBLEM SO THEY ARE DIVERTING ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC BY SAYING US FORCES ARE BEHIND THE TEAM ANNA. “THE FOX JUMPED FOR GRAPE WHEN IT IS NOT GOT THEN IT IS SOURED” THIS IS THE POLICY FOLLOWING BY THE UPA GOVT.
Is it the same congress which supported and involved Gandhi? Will they have said the same think about Gandhi for his independance movement and support he got?
I think congress is digging there own graveyard by giving senseless and immature statements. When bomb blast take place they see Indian hand into it. When Indian people stand for something they see foreign hands into its. They are ruling the country or doing a joke. They are making a big mistake by not understanding the problem of there own people. They are still in there dream world of supremacy. People are fed up of corruption, inflation and lot of other things. There patience has crossed the limit and if still congress is unable to understand the same than god save congress.
HONOURABLE SHRI Manish Tiwari, a Great Congressman, who had some bizarre news about Shri Anna Hazare which he shared with his “beloved” countrymen IS NOT SEEN in INDIAN TELEVISION Sets for the past 3-4 days……………..
Manish Tiwari showed to the country and world that how the youths etc. of the country use language towards a senior citizen or ordinary Indian……..
what you write is an absolute truth
Congress party has gone mad.
Congress do not see the people who r on street do not belong to any party or religion they all r fed up with current system. We all r fed in paying bribe no mater you go for driving license or passport and many….. this show how much they r cut off from the people of nation. In the defend of JAN LOKPAL BILL they says Parliament is supreme, Parliament is FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE but PEOPLE ARE NOT BY THE PARLIAMENT OR FOR THE PARLIAMENT…. If tommorow they come up with law by saying they will freely procure farmer land….will farmer agree to this….
Rashid Alvi hits two mangos with one stone. Typical Muslim mentality to blame US for everything and insult Anna Hazare to please his boss and Queen Sonia Gandhi.
I havent seen a more apt ’slap in the face’ for Congress than MKB’s here.. Kudos!!