Congress sycophants are overjoyed that their icon, the young crown prince of the ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, Rahul Gandhi has spoken the mind of the Indian people by publicly rubbishing the controversial Ordinance of his government to protect convicted MPs and MLAs, as "complete nonsense". The fact that the Congress party headed by his mother-Sonia Gandhi-he is its vice-president-and the UPA govt led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, put the final stamp of approval on Rahul's rejection of their Ordinance, seemed not only a slap on the face of the PM, as also his own mother, they implicitly accepted Rahul Gandhi as the new supremo of the Congress and UPA dispensation.
True, there were reports of initial unhappiness and sulk of the PM having been publicly humiliated by the young Gandhi when the former was in New York; several of Dr Singh's supporters urged him to resign in protest in the interest of his self-respect. But, a long-time yesman of the dynasty, publicly admitted that he was "thick-skinned" and, hence, there was no reason to quit his job. His dwindling band of sympathisers tend to forget that only the other day, Manmohan Singh expressed his readiness to work under Rahul Gandhi, nearly half his age. Hence, the bitter reality is that the PM himself is responsible for his own diminution and degradation, thus destroying the key stature of the office of Prime Minister by playing a second fiddle, the first time in the history of independent India.
It is also sad day because the party has got a young leader who is immature, impetuous, undignified, temperamental, unpredictable and unwise. He has shown no vision, no thoughtfulness and sagacity to solve India's complex political, social and economic problems. His dramatic appearance in a press conference to condemn the Ordinance as bad, to be torn and thrown away is a classic case of juvenile mind.
True, there were reports of initial unhappiness and sulk of the PM having been publicly humiliated by the young Gandhi when the former was in New York; several of Dr Singh's supporters urged him to resign in protest in the interest of his self-respect. But, a long-time yesman of the dynasty, publicly admitted that he was "thick-skinned" and, hence, there was no reason to quit his job. His dwindling band of sympathisers tend to forget that only the other day, Manmohan Singh expressed his readiness to work under Rahul Gandhi, nearly half his age. Hence, the bitter reality is that the PM himself is responsible for his own diminution and degradation, thus destroying the key stature of the office of Prime Minister by playing a second fiddle, the first time in the history of independent India.
It is also sad day because the party has got a young leader who is immature, impetuous, undignified, temperamental, unpredictable and unwise. He has shown no vision, no thoughtfulness and sagacity to solve India's complex political, social and economic problems. His dramatic appearance in a press conference to condemn the Ordinance as bad, to be torn and thrown away is a classic case of juvenile mind.
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