Elections 2009 – Khullamkhulla Report 2

Shameful democratic credentials of UPA vis-a-vis a far better NDA record

Never before in the history of India have the institutions that are key to the successful functioning of democracy been so blatantly manipulated, co-opted, and devalued by the ruling class.

Since it came to power, the UPA worked diligently at controlling the office of the President of India, the Parliament, the Supreme Court, the Election Commission, the CBI, the Office of the Governor of States, the Direct Taxes Department, the media, and a whole lot of other institutions. It installed its minions, and Nehru Gandhi family loyalists in these important institutions and they worked as the agents of Sonia Gandhi and her party.


How the office of the President has been devalued

Who is Pratibha Patil? She is allegedly a cooperative bank fraudster, and has been made the president not for her erudition and independent thinking. She is there because she has always been a loyalist, a ji huzuria, and a rubber stamp. It has been amply proved by the way she has endorsed every misdeed of the UPA government with extraordinary alacrity. She is worse than Giani Jail Singh. He still had guts and at some point of time thought of dismissing the Bofors-tainted government of Rajeev Gandhi. Prateebha Patil reports directly to Sonia Gandhi, who is her Geeta, Bible, Quran, and the Constitution of India.


How the highest judiciary has been made an arm of the Congress Party

The Supreme Court judges, including our Chief Justice Mr. Balakrishnan, have very little integrity and credibility left. They have been delivering madcap judicial pronouncements. The recent one is on the suspension of Sanjay Dutt’s conviction where the Chief Justice goes to great lengths in praising the illustrious Dutt family and the acting prowess of Sanju Baba. It sounds as if Justice Balakrishnan was a regular invitee to Sanju Baba’s birthday parties. It also declares that Sanju Baba is no more a TADA accused. Why? The CBI is not going to challenge the bad order of the Mumbai TADA court or what? Even earlier, the judgment to grant bail to this friend of Dawood and Chota Shakeel was a dubious one, delivered to please the Italian queen of 10 Janpath. Don’t we know how Priya Dutt lobbied with Sonia to have her brother released on bail? The 1993 Mumbai Bomb Blast case has been diluted beyond recognition because of Sanjay Dutt. Honest judges and prosecutors have been taken off the case to make things easier for him. Sunil Dutt staked his all to save his wayward son. The Supreme Court judges have also gone overboard and beyond their brief in setting up special courts and SIT in Gujarat riot cases. They have been in collusion with the Congress party to fix Modi. They succeeded because Modi capitulated. He had very little room since he did not want to give any excuse to the UPA to dismiss his government. He can resist the biased attitude of the Supreme Court now. He should have taken a firm stand in the Kodnani case. Kodnani’s bail was cancelled by a High Court judge who was obviously doing the bidding of the Congress party. The language of his verdict is a clear indication of that. The idiot compares communal riots with terrorist attacks. Modi should have dared the UPA to dismiss his government. Not doing so is a strategic error. Look at the contempt with which the Marxists treat the Supreme Court and its judges. And I think they deserve to be treated that way. There is nothing honorable about them since they also act as the stooges of the ruling dispensation. 

The Election Commission

The Congress party has made sure to appoint its favorite bureaucrats as Election Commissioners since the beginning. Barring a few exceptions, every Election Commissioner joins the party after his retirement. The approach of NDA was different since it really believed in appointing men of integrity to such important constitutional positions, following a transparent process. The integrity of the Election Commission stands compromised today by the appointment of minions of the Nehru-Gandhi durbar. This is a dangerous development in these times. This institution should not have been interfered with. However, the Congress Party and Sonia Gandhi cannot understand this since they think manipulating the democratic process is no big deal.

The Parliament

Nehru did not really bother about the Parliament since he had a brute majority. He never considered it more than a kind of a debating society where netas in khaddar kurtas and Gandhi topis delivered colorful and flowery speeches. His daughter Indira Gandhi also treated it with benevolent disdain, so did her son Rajeev Gandhi. Narsimha Rao went still further. He bought MPs to survive a vote of no-confidence and run a minority government. Sonia and Manmohan crossed all limits when they won a vote of confidence after the Left ditched them over the Nuke issue. They lied to the Parliament and kept it out of the loop on critical Government decisions. The record of NDA was far better. Vajpayee did not stoop down to buy MPs when his government lost by a single vote in his second term as the PM. He could have, but that would have meant compromising the dignity and stature of the Parliament. The NDA respected the Parliament and shared every government decision with it.

The Governor’s office

This institution has been most abused and misused by the UPA to dismiss, and browbeat opposition governments in different states. The UPA has done it shamelessly. It was done in Jharkhand, Karnataka, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh, and most recently in Meghalay. If the Opposition did not win an election with a resounding majority, the Governors waited till the Congress party could buy and manipulate a majority using all kinds of underhand methods to form a government. The NDA record was exemplary in this respect, barring one case, i.e., of Bihar, when Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the CM by the Governor with the contention that he was the leader of the single largest pre-poll alliance. The governor used the Bommai case as an example. And it was not so blatant a misuse.

The Congress Bureau of Investigation or the CBI and other institutions

The CBI acts as an extension of Sonia’s cabal. This is open knowledge. It is used to harass political opponents and grant special favors to allies to keep them happy. The biggest beneficiary of this is the mahacorrupt Lalu Yaadav. All the corruption cases against him were dropped by the CBI since he was the most trusted ally of Sonia Madam. The whole nation knows how Ottavio Quattrocchi was allowed to get away by the CBI at the behest of Sonia. Shibu Soren was also saved by the CBI, so was Sanjay Dutt. Most recently, the CBI has given a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler.  The CBI is also used as a handy tool to blackmail or do favours for wily politicians like Lalu, Mayavati, and Mulayam. Likewise, the Congress Party uses the Direct Tax department (Income Tax) to appease its corrupt allies and help those who are close to Madam Sonia. Those who do not fall in line with the party’s diktat are harassed and hounded.


The Media

Those who fervently want Sonia to be in power, the Church and the western powers, control the entire media space today. The NDA also has to fight the media in these elections, especially the Anglo-Indian media. You are advised to see through the blatant bias of NDTV, IBN 7, Aaj Tak, the Times of India, the Indian Express, the Hindustan Times, and others. Many journalists, columnists, and media commentators are on the regular payroll of the Congress Party.  It is a complex web, created with great care, to serve the corrupt ruling establishment. Look at the coverage of the media of Election 2009; it is designed to serve the Congress cause.

These are but a few examples. The Congress Party has always used every government institution to serve its political cause without moral qualms. It has been authoritarian and autocratic since its birth. It has always been run by a cabal that is led by a few autocrats and followed by sycophants.

It is the same party that silenced great leaders like Tilak, and Lajpat Rai just because they wanted to take a tough line against the British over the Swadeshi Movement of West Bengal. It mistreated and forced Subhash Chandra Bose out since he challenged its ruling cabal. India would have gained independence much earlier but for the mediocre leadership of the Congress.

It is the curse of Indian politics and the fountainhead of every malaise our political system suffers from. It nurtures, promotes, and propagates mediocrity and corruption. If we really have to grow holistically, this party must be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Hindustaan ko bachana hai aur aage le jaana hai to Congress naam ke is nasoor ko kaat phenkna hoga.

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