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
1st 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 23rd
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!
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