Wednesday 13 January 2010

A Crisis of Names

The Congress has been notorious for sycophancy - there was a Congress 'leader' who once delared "Indira is India" or the other way round. Now what is up with everything being named after Nehru, Indira Gandhi or Rajiv Gandhi? Agreed, these were important political figures. What did Rajiv Gandhi do to confer upon him a Bharat Ratna? It was undoubtedly a tragedy for his family and a slap against India that he, a Prime Minister was assassinated. But that is it.

Whether a housing scheme, an employment scheme, a road, an airport or any thing on God's green earth, it is being named after these three erstwhile leaders. Does the Congress itself have no other leaders to speak of? Was it successful in producing only these three in the over 100 years of its existence? When will this sycophancy end?

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