The Curious Case of Missing Accountability

It is that time in India when all political parties will come together to shout at the top of their voices claiming the unimaginable!

As this election is going to give us the Next Prime Minister, I would like to explore The Curious Case of Missing Accountability on the part of INC. For the last 10 Years we have had fortune/misfortune of having a Stable government. When I say “Stable”, I mean 10 Years of the same PM, Same Leader of the Ruling Coalition, Same Leader of Opposition and the same lack of aggression on the opposition’s part to stand its ground on various fronts like FSB, LAB, and Implementation of RTI for Political Parties, etc.

In the beginning of 2013, INC started giving indications that Mr. Rahul Gandhi will lead them into new Glorious future with revolutionary ideas and vision. Slowly and steadily we started seeing “Rahul Gandhi” name being tagged everywhere like RTI, RTE, LAB, FSB, etc. etc. It’s a different story that many parties (including INC) have been promising these Acts/Bills for last so many years. Rahul Gandhi’s accession was complete the day, he “Non-Sensed” the Prime Minister’s Ordinance. This got even further confirmed when Mr. Prime Minister showed his willingness to work under Rahul. After that, the incumbent Prime Minister has been sidelined completely.

These days Rahul has been going across country seeking votes for INC, on some incredible track record they have shown for the last 10 years. Let’s list them: RTI, RTE, FSB & LAB. This is as far as I can ignore facts. These Acts/Bills have been in discussion for long time for any single politician or political party to take credit

But, Mr. Rahul, can take credits for something which he hasn’t even been part of. Why I say so? Please see the facts below

Rahul Gandhi’s Track Record as an MP in Parliament:

1.      Attendance in Parliament: 42.6%

2.      No. of Questions Raised: 0 (Zero) Yes a Zero

3.      No. of Committees he is Member of: 1

  Let’s be fair here, he has been a Member in total 2 Committees

a.      Committee on Home Affairs (times 2)

b.      Committee on HRD (times 2)

4.      His attendance in these committees has been a dismal 13.6%

Given this track Records by Mr. Rahul (The Person with Right to PM Post) I wonder when did he fight for RTI, FSB & LAB, etc… which INC and  their spokespersons are busy crediting him with.

So I ask Mr. Rahul why not be accountable too for all that has gone wrong? Why this Curious case of missing accountability. World is witness to various disastrous events in India in the last decade but the Leader who talks about changing Congress from the core is not ready to be accountable for his party’s mistakes. Rahul has been talking vociferously against corruption, but ends up giving tickets to Bansal, Ashok Chavan and many others. Courts, media & even CAG has brought to the fore the massive losses and corruption in various domains of Telecom (2G) & Mining (Coal), but we are yet hear a word of regret from the revolution-isary Mr. Rahul on the same. Rahul talks against the communalization/caste-ism of the politics, but at the same time is busy talking about reservation in Private sector based on caste & reservation in education & government jobs based on religion. Rahul abuses his opponent for his communal mindset due to 1 riot in the state in the 13 years of Administration, but is not ready to accept his party’s people were directly involved in the 1984 Sikh Massacre which his father justified with most cruel statement that can ever be made, “When a Big tree falls, the Earth Shatters”. Such is Rahul’s arrogance that, given the Golden Opportunity of getting a huge upper hand over his opponent by apologizing for the 1984 massacre, in the most touted 1^st Interview with Arnab Goswami, he chose to beat around the bush and actually ended up bringing the old wounds to the fore.

Coal Mines across the country are not producing Coal due to Supreme Court blockade given the Coal Scam, but there has been no action from Rahul to assure of swift action so that mines lying idle can start producing and the resource most necessary for power generation can start flowing to Power plants. Rahul, why no accountability for coal block allocation disaster

When CAG pointed out to the huge amount of losses that the ex-checkers faced due to the disastrous 2G scam, Mr. Sibal proudly made, & now famous line, “Zero Losses”. But when in latest round of Auctions that took place, coincidentally again it was Mr. Sibal himself who was the first to claim & take credit for the windfall Collection for 61k Crores from the same. Rahul why not have some accountability for this mammoth failure?

  

Sadly INC & Rahul both have been busy targeting and trying to downplay the Success story of Gujarat which has been taken to every nook & corner of the country by Rahul’s opponent. Such has been Rahul’s zeal in exposing his opponent they have now resorted to manipulating data. See below example!

 A single glance at this image shows that NDA government was an absolute failure when it came to Internal Security. I did very little searching and found some data which has been tabulated below

The source of the above data is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_India

Now the important point to be noted here is the source of the data being used by INC. It happens to be satp.org (South Asia Terrorism Portal). INC being in central government for the last 10 years does not even have its own data source? Is this your seriousness to internal security? Even if we ignore the data source, the manipulation lies in the numbers being shown. Have a look

  

What you realize after seeing the above table is that Rahul cannot even copy the data properly. The INC chart says 2542 deaths in 2004, check the table and you see clearly it is 2642. Also the UPA 2013 in the INC chart says 181; I have failed to see that or any other resembling number to substitute for the error.

Rahul also famously talks about Women empowerment. Actually Women empowerment has suddenly become the most important topic for all political parties. But because we are talking about INC, I will limit myself to their hypocrisy. Around 23^rd March the INC Candidate from Meerut, Ms. Nagma was publicly molested by a MLA from her own party. There was an absolute silence from the Women’s brigade which generally takes it upon itself to protect and fight for Women’s prestige and respect. Forget the women’s Brigade; the In-House Big Bindi Brigade too was mysteriously silent. What happened to the Women Empowerment, who is accountable here Mr. Rahul?

In the end all I would like to say is even if Mr. Rahul has good Intentions, (which I am purely assuming here) those are hollow words without the acceptance of the past mistakes and holding the responsible people accountable for the same before going making the same manifestos with changed grammar & terminologies year after year after year!

So before any INC politician, member or a spokesperson questions the curious case of missing manifesto, please spare few moments wondering about the curious case of missing accountability!