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The BJP has always been obsessed with the Congress President Sonia Gandhi for various reasons: being a woman leading India’s oldest party; being a White and “foreigner”; and now, with Sonia holding an office of profit while also being a servant of the Govt., probably the servant of the Indian Govt.
Well, at least this time, the BJP have a justifiable reason to shoot at her. Being the real head of the Indian Govt., how could she hold an office of profit in contempt of the laws laid down by the Parliament that she heads herself?
Rather than the BJP, Congress has shot its own foot. A Congress MP in Uttar Pradesh in all his zeal against the State govt. of Mulayam Singh Yadav, registered a complaint against the Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bacchan for the reason of being an MP while holding an official post at a profit-making venture. The Election Commission very duly dismissed her for the same reason. Though our rightly-thought of President took his own time with the decision, he had to go with the law.
Now, the BJP with the ardent support of the Samajwadi Party has raised the same issue against the most powerful woman, nay person, in India – Sonia Gandhi. She is a member of the Indian Parliament while also being the Chairwoman of the National Advisory Council, an “office of profit”.
But Congress betrayed its customary clumsiness and inherent corruption by promulgating an ordinance and seeking to adjourn both Houses of Parliament sine die. This cowardly act has drawn the ire of their own allies including the Communists.
When the BJP raised the issue of Sonia Gandhi in the Parliament, the Speaker Somnath Chatterjee declined to preside as he himself is under fire for holding an office of profit – a commendable decision. But the Govt., it went to the Deputy Speaker crying its woes and asking for adjournment, which he approved without any consultation with the Opposition benches whatsoever. It is now awaiting the President’s consent.
The President should, if he were righteous, not give his consent to this atrocious ordinance. But if he does, which in the light of his many unfair actions remains plausible, the battle will be fought outside the Parliament until it reconvenes at an unknown date in the future.
This is a very ironic situation in India. The law-makers are themselves publicly flouting one of the laws they have made. It remains to be seen if the Congress party will be so impudent as to change the law at this stage to cover their tracks.
It will be a very embarrassing situation indeed, not only for the Govt., but for every Indian, and would quite rightly be the “singularly unfortunate event in the history of Indian Parliament” as described by LK Advani. For, if it were to happen, the situation would be thus: the law-makers first break their own law and then change it to their benefit.
Prakash says: I am delighted to hear about Sonia Gandhi’s resignation. But what bother’s me
the most is that how did we Indians or the Congress in particular allowed her
to take charge of the entire party.
Let me ask each and every individual who loves his country. As an Indian if you
have spent 20 years in India and move out to another country, your loyalty will
be towards which country?
I doubt its anything other than India. Then similar should be the case with
Sonia Gandhi. And if this is the case then how can the control of a country be
passed to someone who’s first country is not India.
And if she loves India more then her birht place then I doubt she can be loyal
to India too.
Either way we should not allow someone from foreign soil to hold the top most
post for the country or be able to influence it.
rohit bhardwaj says: I fully agree with Prakash on the loyality point. It has merit.
abhishek says: Heres another way of looking at the whole office of profit fiasco. Sonia was the only one to resign over holding an office of profit. Our patriotic sons of the soil, who are in a similar position, are still clinging tightly to their ‘kursis’. Don’t get me wrong. I am not a congress supporter. Its no better or worse than the rest of the lot. However this loyalty thing seems to be BS, imo. Primarily because you can hardly generalise. There are enough examples of immigrants who have served their adopted countries to the best of their abilities. These are the same arguments used by white supremacists in the west.
I agree Abhishek. Sonia did do an admirable thing by resigning although all the political mileage gained out of it obscures the goodness of the act.
Abhishek says: lol…ok sooraj i agree with you…yeah she got political mileage..theres no denying that..but consider this…
The other MPs MLAs etc who are in a similar situation chose not to resign…Q. Do they not want political mileage…i dont think so…instead they would rather stick to the chair until someone pries them out of there- hunger for power…my point is that I think its a good thing that ppl resign their posts in case of a situation which entails some sort of a moral responsibilty or conflict of interest etc. Its a good thing because it demonstrates that politics shouldnt become just another vocation. Consider the number of criminals, dons and hoodlums holding parliamentary, legislative or ministerial posts today. They spend insane sums of money to win a n election. That is why this action has so much political mileage…because it is a good example and shuts up all the critics…shes a very intelligent woman…and this was definitely a smart move.
The difference is, Abhishek, these lower and lesser MPs have good reason to cling on to their seats. If they resigned, their constituency and all the Indians would only celebrate and they may never be able to win them back!
What Sonia did is definitely a very responsible and admirable act, the good thing for Congress is that they got political mileage out of it too. Nothing wrong even here, they’re a political party.
okay says: I rather think the Congress party has an obssession with Sonia Gandhi. Because it knows it has no intrinsic strength it can stand on, that its only vote-getter is a Nehru-Gandhi clansperson with a Gandhi surname. Isn’t that pathetic for a party that claims more than a hundred years of heritage?
That’s very true. So India is obsessed with Sonia Gandhi? Ah, well…Fair and Lovely has an original model now…
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Sonia Gandhi and the BJP…
In Indiblog Sooraj writes about BJPÂ’s obsession with Sonia Gandhi and how it loves to bait her. In his long post here, Sooraj writes a very interesting chronology of events.
However he says that this time it is justified. Read the post here and deci…