Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >First of all let me assure you, not all Indians call Sonia Gandhi, a >"painted Italian doll". I call her a capable lady who has dedicated her life >to the murky waters of Indian politics. I fear someday like her husband >and mother-in-law, she shall drown in them.
Yes certainly she is doing a good job of holding the disgruntled congressmen together. Otherwise this party which has so many aspiring leaders they would never have been able to manage the party together and would have drowned it by in-fighting like dogs. Sonia was not a choice of Indian people but became leader by default due to weakness of congress to find suitable heir-apparent to the throne after death of husband Rajiv Ganadhi. It is indeed a national shame that a national party like congress can not find a capable leader and have to depend on Nehru dynasty for its survival which is very detrimental to a democracy. >Lastly, not only does your BJP party take cruel and unstatesmanlike >potshots at Sonia but they go further and try to discredit, Nehru and >Mahatma Gandhi as well. This as an Indian is untenable. I have yet to >come across an America who will openly speak ill of J F Kennedy or >Eisenhower or Roosevelt. These are the great icons of their shared >national history and they are claimed by all Americans to shape and >form their collective national ethos. This is a democracy if eminent leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee whose Integrity and universal acceptability is beyond cloud of ambiguity can be criticized then Nehru is not exceptional who should not be censured for his flaws. In the reprehensible name of 'minorityism' on paper and petty vote bank politics in practice, the Congress party under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, surreptitiously slipped in Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution the effects of which our populace in J&K are still anguishing till today. >It is only when Indians can look past their narrowly defined communal >identities, they will create a common bond of national identity, which >might lead to some sort of national unity. Otherwise we are bound to go >around in circles, battling imaginary foes. This applies to the Congress and Marxist parties who are propagating the twin falsehoods of communalism and minorityism to create a divide in society to stay in power for own selfish means. Vinay
