At a time when political atmosphere is already tense and volatile owing to the ruling Congress party's acts of omission and commission on the Lokpal bill and other issues, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress and the chairperson of the UPA, after months of silence, has suddenly emerged into a fiercely combative role. She has urged her party MPs to be ready "to fight" the opposition and Team Anna. Thus, the fears of some observers that frequent confrontations between the two sides is essentially the result of the aggressive and non-conciliatory mood of the dynasty-the mother and son duo. As a foreign-born bahu of a combative mother-in-law, with little grounding in Indian ethos and values of consensus and respect for others' views, she is unable to see grave risks involved in such aggressive posture. By ignoring wide-spread public sentiments for a strong Lokpal with its investigating responsibilities transferred from the CBI, the ruling Congress seems to have paved the way for inevitable confrontation with the opposition and Team Anna movement. It has to be seen how the potential conflict will be sorted out, given the half-heartedness and arrogance of the Congress leadership.
Sonia Gandhi's low-witted son, pursuing his own combative style, has already drawn up serious battle-lines in his hyped electoral campaign in UP on the eve of the Assembly elections. In view of the prolonged infighting in the state unit, opinion polls independently undertaken by some media houses recently, do not predict any dramatic improvement in the Congress party's electoral prospects. The forecasts are for a fragmented/fractured verdict with the Congress in 3rd/fourth position, SP and BSP taking the first two positions. During his shrill campaign, Rahul Gandhi has been accusing his opponents of casteism and communalism; but, unfortunately, his own record is not very clean. In an incredible, mysterious act, he revealed that Sam Pitroda, an NRI entrepreneur settled in the US whom his father Rajiv Gandhi had invited to help in mobile phone revolution, was a low caste carpenter. Why Rahul did this to disgrace an Indian innovator who was helping his mother country selflessly? What was he trying to achieve or prove that the Congress was low-caste friendly? Was itn't a most silly, thoughtless and insenstive exercise? Does it behove a potential Prime Minister? Such lack of wisdom and sobriety is aggravating the tensions in the polity because of the small-mindedness and myopia of some ruling party leaders.
Sonia Gandhi's low-witted son, pursuing his own combative style, has already drawn up serious battle-lines in his hyped electoral campaign in UP on the eve of the Assembly elections. In view of the prolonged infighting in the state unit, opinion polls independently undertaken by some media houses recently, do not predict any dramatic improvement in the Congress party's electoral prospects. The forecasts are for a fragmented/fractured verdict with the Congress in 3rd/fourth position, SP and BSP taking the first two positions. During his shrill campaign, Rahul Gandhi has been accusing his opponents of casteism and communalism; but, unfortunately, his own record is not very clean. In an incredible, mysterious act, he revealed that Sam Pitroda, an NRI entrepreneur settled in the US whom his father Rajiv Gandhi had invited to help in mobile phone revolution, was a low caste carpenter. Why Rahul did this to disgrace an Indian innovator who was helping his mother country selflessly? What was he trying to achieve or prove that the Congress was low-caste friendly? Was itn't a most silly, thoughtless and insenstive exercise? Does it behove a potential Prime Minister? Such lack of wisdom and sobriety is aggravating the tensions in the polity because of the small-mindedness and myopia of some ruling party leaders.
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