Andhra Pradesh is in mourning after having lost its Chief Minister in a helicopter crash. Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh will be attendees at the funeral. All of this is ok, but I was thinking of something.
YSR was a CM. P V Narasimha Rao was a Prime Minister. When he died a few years ago, I am sure there were no Congress heavyweights at his funeral. In fact he was not given a Delhi funeral and his body was brought to Hyderabad. Today there is probably one road in Hyderabad somewhere that is named after him. On the other hand everything else is named after either Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi - health missions, airport, housing schemes and what not.
So what are we to understand? Only a person who is close to the Gandhi family gets the affection and respect of the Congress? I am not trying to belittle YSR. PVNR was a scholar who knew 14 languages. He was the person who gave India its first stable government after Rajiv Gandhi died and was the person responsible for bringing Manmohan Singh onto the political arena. There was a huge controversy after photos of his incompletely cremated body were published in Eenadu the day after his funeral.
So my question stands, respect and affection for only those who are followers of Madam and her family?
YSR was a CM. P V Narasimha Rao was a Prime Minister. When he died a few years ago, I am sure there were no Congress heavyweights at his funeral. In fact he was not given a Delhi funeral and his body was brought to Hyderabad. Today there is probably one road in Hyderabad somewhere that is named after him. On the other hand everything else is named after either Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi - health missions, airport, housing schemes and what not.
So what are we to understand? Only a person who is close to the Gandhi family gets the affection and respect of the Congress? I am not trying to belittle YSR. PVNR was a scholar who knew 14 languages. He was the person who gave India its first stable government after Rajiv Gandhi died and was the person responsible for bringing Manmohan Singh onto the political arena. There was a huge controversy after photos of his incompletely cremated body were published in Eenadu the day after his funeral.
So my question stands, respect and affection for only those who are followers of Madam and her family?
5 comments:
And you are surprised by that?
good question, just an observation
its a sad fact that Gandhian(not truly Gandhi's) era still runs in our country! n i wonder if it ll ever fade away...
on this note, i would like to give my salutations to PVNR for taking the step to take India to a new phase!
One point I would like to make here is..YSR died on duty and PVNR died after all the internal criticism and the conspiracy of bofors weaponry!! And what you said is right. Had Gandhis been ruling post Rajiv Gandhi's assasination, PVNR wouldn't have faced this after his death.. And after he was off his duties as a PM, he was never into active politics on behalf of congress. The rapport with your higher-ups does matter when it comes to promoting you to the next level !! Probably, same is the case with this.
Unfortunately this is called Politics..!! One who does bootlicking gets more importance. We need a lot of change in India. The people should be given importance, but not politicians..!!
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