May 16, 2014 : Red letter day in Indian history after August 15 , 1947. On this day Indians threw away two most powerful political dynasties into political oblivion. While the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty met with the worst electoral defeat of all time with a meagre 44 seats out of 543 ( 8 %), Kalaigner Karunanidhi dynasty in Tamilnadu was eclipsed beyond recognition with ZERO out of 39.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India laid the foundation for the most political dynasty of the country.Indira Gandhi knew that to retain power in a vast nation powerful state leaders should be weakened. She branded the charismatic Kamaraj, Nijalingappa, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy and other leaders as anti-people Syndicate; empty slogans like Garibi Hatao were raised to hoodwink the people ; and split the Congress party to have personal control. In 1975, she declared National Emergency ; arrested popular leaders like Jayaprakash Narayan ; promulgated media censorship ; evicted urban poor from their habitats ; forcibly sterilised men and women of all ages in the name of family planning ; and unleashed fear across the country. The massive electoral defeat suffered by her personally and her party in 1977 was only a temporary shocker. The dynasty manipulated the weaknesses of the opposition, and returned to power with a bang in 1980. Since then, the dynasty has been in direct or remote control of state power for a quarter century. State leaders were made sycophants ; grass root structures became weak or non-existent ; and all decisions were imposed by the dynasty and its High Command. Finally even the exalted position of Prime Minister was made a JOB. Dynasty believe that Party is their fiefdom and even the country is its property. "India is Indira and Indira is India " was a famous or notorious slogan during the Emergeny Era. Absolute control of power by the dynasty wiith total lack of of accountability. Corruption became the order of the day and people were taken for granted. Amitabh Bachan once remarked that "they (dynasty) are Rajalog". The arrogant dynasty became insensitive to the mounting anger of the people and was unprepared for the Electoral Tsunami.
The postmortem of the Congress Party's performance in the elections was on predicted lines. Pre-scripted resignation of the dynasty and the rejection of the same by the weak Working Committee, a creation of the dynasty , was a boring drama . Congress leaders are afraid to take responsibility having enjoyed power by subserving the dynasty. FEAR OF FREEDOM as written by The Brazilian Philosopher and Educator Paulo Friere in his famous book "Pedagogy of the Oppressed ". The party functionaries have all along internalised hegemony of the dynasty from Indira to Rajiv to Sonia to Rahul and Priyanka to Priyanka's children and grandchildren. Dynasties are always optimistic ,and forget that the historic mission of all power hungry dynasties is to wither away over time :through the ballot or bullet.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India laid the foundation for the most political dynasty of the country.Indira Gandhi knew that to retain power in a vast nation powerful state leaders should be weakened. She branded the charismatic Kamaraj, Nijalingappa, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy and other leaders as anti-people Syndicate; empty slogans like Garibi Hatao were raised to hoodwink the people ; and split the Congress party to have personal control. In 1975, she declared National Emergency ; arrested popular leaders like Jayaprakash Narayan ; promulgated media censorship ; evicted urban poor from their habitats ; forcibly sterilised men and women of all ages in the name of family planning ; and unleashed fear across the country. The massive electoral defeat suffered by her personally and her party in 1977 was only a temporary shocker. The dynasty manipulated the weaknesses of the opposition, and returned to power with a bang in 1980. Since then, the dynasty has been in direct or remote control of state power for a quarter century. State leaders were made sycophants ; grass root structures became weak or non-existent ; and all decisions were imposed by the dynasty and its High Command. Finally even the exalted position of Prime Minister was made a JOB. Dynasty believe that Party is their fiefdom and even the country is its property. "India is Indira and Indira is India " was a famous or notorious slogan during the Emergeny Era. Absolute control of power by the dynasty wiith total lack of of accountability. Corruption became the order of the day and people were taken for granted. Amitabh Bachan once remarked that "they (dynasty) are Rajalog". The arrogant dynasty became insensitive to the mounting anger of the people and was unprepared for the Electoral Tsunami.
The postmortem of the Congress Party's performance in the elections was on predicted lines. Pre-scripted resignation of the dynasty and the rejection of the same by the weak Working Committee, a creation of the dynasty , was a boring drama . Congress leaders are afraid to take responsibility having enjoyed power by subserving the dynasty. FEAR OF FREEDOM as written by The Brazilian Philosopher and Educator Paulo Friere in his famous book "Pedagogy of the Oppressed ". The party functionaries have all along internalised hegemony of the dynasty from Indira to Rajiv to Sonia to Rahul and Priyanka to Priyanka's children and grandchildren. Dynasties are always optimistic ,and forget that the historic mission of all power hungry dynasties is to wither away over time :through the ballot or bullet.
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