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MAHAGHATBANDAN & POSSIBLE MAHA PROBLEMS
Indian civilisation dates back thousands of years beyond the recorded history into the unknown. According to historical sources Bharatha Khanda or Bharatha Varsha or something similar was a resourceful country replete with gold and diamond. Hence there were many from other parts of the world including Europe and Asia Minor, parts of which were less fertile, except Babylonian geographical area, where Tigris and Euphrates were flowing, were looking to plunder Indian wealth. Therefore, invasion by foreigners was a possibility which tragically the Kings and Emperors, with their Kingdom and Empire in the Indus Gangetic plain, were blissfully unaware.
Among the earliest to have invaded this part of the world, was the Macedonian horseman, Alexander the Great. Available records inform that Alexander in his hegemonistic ambition invades Punjab, ruled then by King Purushottama also known as Porus. However he could defeat King Porus only after he joined hands with another Indian King Ambhi of Taxila in the battle of Hydapes on the banks of River Jhelum. But WHY AN INDIAN KING WOULD JOIN HANDS WITH AN INVADING FOREIGNER TO DEFEAT A FELLOW COUNTRYMAN!?
This battle happened in the year 326 BC. Alexander’s battle weary army mutinied after years of being on the battle field. Sources inform that Dhana Nanda of the Nanda Dynasty on the gangetic plain had a strong army and army of Alexander was not confident of facing the army of King Dhana Nanda and a disappointed Alexander returned home to Macedonia. Soon thereafter in 323 BC, Alexander the Great died.
It is true that there was no concept of India before the Christian era. If India is conceptualized as a home for those following the Hindu way of life, the Hindu kings had their influence from Afghanistan in the Northwest to Indonesia in the Far East. A recent festival in Mumbai called “International Ramayana Festival” had artists from Buddhist Cambodia, Catholic Philippines and Muslim Indonesia having come together to perform their traditional Ramayana Operas or classical dances.
But why was India colonized, or it came to be ruled by marauding clans from the central Asian countries or even Afghans? There must be a profound selfish streak among kings and emperors of India those days that overlooked the larger good for the narrow personal, family or clan benefit. They were rather busy fighting among themselves or invading each other.
It is an accepted truth and fact of life that the existence of many kingdoms ruled by different kings gave open licence to marauding tribals from across the Khyber Pass as well as Robert Clive and his East India Company, to enter India.
Pages of our history books are full of stories of treachery and pettiness that sold the national honour for some transient but selfish gains.
After the earliest invasion by Alexander the Great in 326 BC, the next one was by Mohammed Bin Qassim in 711, until after more than 1000 years or 1037 years to be exact. He invaded the Sind. However, it was the invasion and loot by Mohammed Ghazni which was the worst until 1027. Between 1000 AD and 1027, Mohammed Ghazni attacked, ransacked and plundered North India, including Somnath temple some 17 times. But neither Mohammed Bin Qassim nor Mohammed Ghazni stayed back in India. Their missions were to plunder the wealth of India and destruction of others’ places of worship.
It was in 1191, after 164 years Mohammed Ghori from Turkey came calling to try his luck for lucre and landed in Delhi, where Prithviraj Chauhan was the king who drove Ghori back beyond the Khyber. Following year, with additional forces Ghori again returns to attack Prithviraj and defeats the Delhi king and establishes himself as the Sultan of Delhi. This marked the beginning of alien rule in Bharatha Khanda. Thus began Delhi Sultanate. But the untimely death of Mohammed Ghori catapulted his slave Qutub-ud-din Aibek to be the ruler of Delhi Sultanate. So, for the first-time a person recorded in the history books as a slave of his master, a Sultan, started to rule Delhi.
To think in retrospect, what a fall for the glory that was Bharat, to be ruled by a slave of a foreign tribal that came to be called Slave Dynasty!
This slave dynasty ruled the Delhi Sultanate for 84 years from 1206-1290. However Delhi Sultanate itself lasted for 520 years, with Ibrahim Lodhi being the last.
During this 520 years between 1206-1526, there were local kings who could have resisted the savagery of Mohammed Ghazni or helped Prithviraj Chauhan to defeat Mohammed Ghori and allowed Khiljis, Tughlaqs, Lodhis to occupy the throne in Delhi. Bharatha Khanda of those days did not have a visionary- a Bismarck or Sardar Patel-to foresee the future mishaps after the relentless onslaught of Mohammed Ghazni during his 27 years’ continuous plundering expedition. There was clearly an air of indifference prevailing in the entire Bharatha Khanda, driven by selfishness, petty mindedness and overriding greed to protect one’s own fief and clan.
Thus, when Prithviraj Chauhan was attacked by Mohammed Ghori, nobody came to his help, despite there being so many kings and emperors.
That is how the invasion by aliens continued with Mongols led by Babar taking over Delhi Sultanate after defeating Ibrahim Lodhi. Thus the Moghals who are truly Mongols, established themselves from 1526 to last until 1857, when they were finished by the army of East India Company of Queen of England which had come into India in the year 1600. By applying the principle of DIVIDE & RULE, Englishmen successfully took over the entire country in 1857. That is how a nation of 290 million could be controlled by 60,000 Englishmen.
If group dynamics had destroyed the country in the days of yore, the history is all set to repeat itself. The following historical nugget may be of contextual relevance. The German Rev. Fr. Neimellor, in his deposition at the Nuremburg trial had remarked ‘First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for Jews, I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me then there was no one left to speak for me’.
Cut to our own times, family interest, as compared to national interest is set to overtake the larger picture once again. HD Devegowda becomes an accidental prime minister in June 1996, but did not last even 11 months. He consolidated his position by sacking Ramakrishna Hegde from Janatha Dal. Ramakrishna Hegde is no more, but he left nobody as his political successor despite being in politics for over half a century. He was MLA for 6 terms and MP for 2 terms. But look at HD Devegowda, who was more the Prime Minister of Karnataka rather than India during the entire term of 10 months & 20 days. He made his entire family as his successors. Starting from his son HD Kumarswami, Chief Minister of Karnataka followed by another son HD Revanna, a Minister, who is known to be very rude and crude. HD Kumarswami’s official wife Anitha Kumarswami is an M.P. Now comes his two grand children, one is the son of HDK and the other a son of HDR. So you see in the ‘service of the nation’ he has put all his family members. We all know, in a democracy politics gives power and money that is why even at 85 HD Devegowda wants to contest the Loksabha election denying opportunity to others. Power to do good to the electorates, to the society and to the ordinary masses is the opportunity available to elected political representatives. But power can also be used for your own benefit and that of your family, friends and cronies. Most politicians make money which is also in benami form, never accounted. There are stories of Gowdas having made unaccounted wealth. All these politicians are asked to declare their wealth, but never asked what is the source of their income?
Gowda family is only one of the families of ‘nation servers’. The story of Sons & Relatives India Pvt. Ltd is the same all over India. Look at Bihar you have a hero of JP movement Lalu Prasad Yadav. He got embroiled in Chara Ghotala and went to jail. He was Chief Minister, made his semiliterate wife the Chief Minister as he entered the jail. Now there is Misa Bharathi, the daughter an MP and both sons became ministers in Nitish Kumar government, one of them Deputy CM. Here too the whole family is in ‘service of the nation’. He is known to have amassed unaccounted wealth of huge proportion.
If Devegowda owns JD(S), Lalu Prasad owns RJD. When they promoted their family members, were there nobody good enough in their respective parties to be made M.P, MLA or minister?! Is it a surprise that the working president of JD(S) Vishwanath fell very ill and Danish Ali the General Secretary of JD(S) resigned from the party? Both these parties- JD(S) and RJD- are part of Maha Ghatbandan only to stop Narendra Modi, the incumbent prime minister, with no vision for the INDIA OF TO-MORROW. The latest to hit the headline reportedly is the 2nd wife of Kumaraswami is asking for her share of the power from her father-in-law HD Devegowda! She too wants to enter the electoral politics to ‘serve the nation’.
These two -Devegowda & Lalu- are not the only twosome that are worried about and interested only in their family. There is Karunanidhi family with his three wives and their multiple children and his extended family of Marans. They were all, Chief Ministers, Union Ministers, Members of Parliament etc. All of them want to serve the state and the nation. They were also involved in scams of hundreds of crores. Their party DMK too is part of the Maha Ghatbandan. Coming up a little, you have Chandrababu Naidu, son-in-law of NT Rama Rao. He took over Telugu Desam Party of NTR and now busy promoting his son. Not to be left behind in the ‘service of the nation’ Chandrashekar Rao in Telangana, has his own politics of appeasement and promotion of his children and other family members.
Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra is no different. He is the boss of NCP, ever waiting in the wings to be the Prime Minister. He resigns his Lok Sabha seat to make his daughter Supriya Sule an MP, in the name of women empowerment. There could have been so many competent women in Maharashtra, but then they are not Pawar’s daughters, isn’t it! His nephew Ajit Pawar, was already Deputy CM in Maharashtra. Ajit Pawar’s son is reportedly making noise for his pound of flesh. He too is keen to ‘serve the nation’. The family is involved in many scams. Samuel Rajasekhar Reddy died of an air crash, but left his son Jagan Mohan Reddy rich enough to float his own party away from Congress. He too wants to ‘serve the country’, already involved in scams. In Orissa, it is Patnaik fiefdom, from father Biju to son Naveen Patnaik.
Coming up Mulayam Singh Yadav, another hero of JP movement has his Samajwadi Party. He enjoyed being Chief Minister for couple of terms, now given up in favour of his son Akhilesh Yadav, who too enjoyed being the CM of the largest state of India and lost it to BJP of Yogi Adityanath. Samajwadi Party has, Mulayam, his brother, son and son’s wife is a Member of Parliament. So it is another family affair.
Farooq Abdullah was the Chief Minister of J&K. His father Sheikh Abdullah, the so-called Lion of Kashmir, was also the first Chief Minister of J&K. After son, grandson Omar Abdullah became the Chief Minister. So here too serving the State, not necessarily the country is the passion for Abdullah family. Similar is the case with the other family of Mehbooba Mufti, who was the last CM of Kashmir after her father Mufti Mohammed Saeed passed away while being in office as CM of J&K.
All these parties are part of the Maha Ghatbandan with the sole objective of stopping Narendra Modi from repeating his 2014 performance.
Then you have two lady chieftains in Mayavathi and Mamata Banerjee. They too have hegemonistic ambition of bringing their family members into their Bahujan Samaj Party and Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, while being in Maha Ghatbandan.
Then you are left with only two national parties. Indian National Congress, the oldest political party of India with a record of some 40 years of being in office at the centre managing the destiny of the country and another 15 years leading the coalition government. So, in all, 55 years in power! The BJP, the other national party, has a history of some 11 years ruling the seat of power in Delhi including 6 years as head of NDA I with their own Ghatbandan.
As we all know Congress Party has become a family party after the advent of Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister cum Congress president.
After the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her body guards Congress leaders, used to the family culture, made Rajeev Gandhi, as the Prime Minister. Riding on sympathy wave, he had won 414 Loksabha seats in the election that followed. If he had the intention, he could rewrite the constitution for the better of the country. Instead in the Shah Bano case, the leadership under Rajeev Gandhi influenced the party to go with Ulema, greatly impacted the future of the party. It was purely a short-sighted vote bank politics. This faux-pas combined with the Bofors scam cost, Rajeev Gandhi most of the goodwill and couldn’t comeback elected after 5 years term that was over in December 1989. V P Singh, and his Ghatbandan didn’t last a full year, Chandrashekar as PM, with his own Ghatbandan lasted just 7 months and 10 days. Election followed, PV Narasimha Rao formed the first Congress led Ghatbandan government, but deftly managed to survive full term of 5 years from June 1991 to May 1996. HD Devegowda led Ghatbandan followed that lasted 10 months & 20 days. I K Gujral formed the government with his Ghatbandan that lasted 11 months. Atal Behari Vajpayee NDA I came to power with its own Ghatbandan. It lasted 6 years and 2 months. Then Congress government of Dr. Manmohan Singh with its own Ghatbandan lasted for full 2 terms.
Then for the first time, in 30 years, a single party government with 282 seats came to power along with its Ghatbandan seats of about 50. Its term is going to be over this May 2019.
Thus it is very clear, Mahaghatbandan driven largely by greed and selfishness, if manages to get 272 + seats, it is a very scary scenario and unlikely to last even a year and history can repeat itself, unless, it is led by Congress or the BJP, since only these two parties are national parties with national presence, therefore has the potential to win more seats.
However, it is up to the electorate to decide, if they want to support a party which is controlled by mother, son and now the daughter or go for the other national party which does not suffer from such infirmities. It has a leader, at least he is not personally corrupt, he has no family hangers on, works relentlessly, does not suffer from personal failures like women & wine. Has a vision for the country. In his 5 years he tried many experiments, some did not succeed as expected and some are still work-in-progress. But there are positive reports on some aspects of the economy. He has been able to promote a positive image of the country. In the 55 years of Congress government there have been progress but there have been scams as well. BJP had only 11 years and Modi himself got only 5 years and no scam and he surely deserve another 5 years more for the sake of the country.
Dear electorates it is your call, respond positively with responsibility for the sake of the country and its ethos. Choice is entirely yours.
Indian civilisation dates back thousands of years beyond the recorded history into the unknown. According to historical sources Bharatha Khanda or Bharatha Varsha or something similar was a resourceful country replete with gold and diamond. Hence there were many from other parts of the world including Europe and Asia Minor, parts of which were less fertile, except Babylonian geographical area, where Tigris and Euphrates were flowing, were looking to plunder Indian wealth. Therefore, invasion by foreigners was a possibility which tragically the Kings and Emperors, with their Kingdom and Empire in the Indus Gangetic plain, were blissfully unaware.
Among the earliest to have invaded this part of the world, was the Macedonian horseman, Alexander the Great. Available records inform that Alexander in his hegemonistic ambition invades Punjab, ruled then by King Purushottama also known as Porus. However he could defeat King Porus only after he joined hands with another Indian King Ambhi of Taxila in the battle of Hydapes on the banks of River Jhelum. But WHY AN INDIAN KING WOULD JOIN HANDS WITH AN INVADING FOREIGNER TO DEFEAT A FELLOW COUNTRYMAN!?
This battle happened in the year 326 BC. Alexander’s battle weary army mutinied after years of being on the battle field. Sources inform that Dhana Nanda of the Nanda Dynasty on the gangetic plain had a strong army and army of Alexander was not confident of facing the army of King Dhana Nanda and a disappointed Alexander returned home to Macedonia. Soon thereafter in 323 BC, Alexander the Great died.
It is true that there was no concept of India before the Christian era. If India is conceptualized as a home for those following the Hindu way of life, the Hindu kings had their influence from Afghanistan in the Northwest to Indonesia in the Far East. A recent festival in Mumbai called “International Ramayana Festival” had artists from Buddhist Cambodia, Catholic Philippines and Muslim Indonesia having come together to perform their traditional Ramayana Operas or classical dances.
But why was India colonized, or it came to be ruled by marauding clans from the central Asian countries or even Afghans? There must be a profound selfish streak among kings and emperors of India those days that overlooked the larger good for the narrow personal, family or clan benefit. They were rather busy fighting among themselves or invading each other.
It is an accepted truth and fact of life that the existence of many kingdoms ruled by different kings gave open licence to marauding tribals from across the Khyber Pass as well as Robert Clive and his East India Company, to enter India.
Pages of our history books are full of stories of treachery and pettiness that sold the national honour for some transient but selfish gains.
After the earliest invasion by Alexander the Great in 326 BC, the next one was by Mohammed Bin Qassim in 711, until after more than 1000 years or 1037 years to be exact. He invaded the Sind. However, it was the invasion and loot by Mohammed Ghazni which was the worst until 1027. Between 1000 AD and 1027, Mohammed Ghazni attacked, ransacked and plundered North India, including Somnath temple some 17 times. But neither Mohammed Bin Qassim nor Mohammed Ghazni stayed back in India. Their missions were to plunder the wealth of India and destruction of others’ places of worship.
It was in 1191, after 164 years Mohammed Ghori from Turkey came calling to try his luck for lucre and landed in Delhi, where Prithviraj Chauhan was the king who drove Ghori back beyond the Khyber. Following year, with additional forces Ghori again returns to attack Prithviraj and defeats the Delhi king and establishes himself as the Sultan of Delhi. This marked the beginning of alien rule in Bharatha Khanda. Thus began Delhi Sultanate. But the untimely death of Mohammed Ghori catapulted his slave Qutub-ud-din Aibek to be the ruler of Delhi Sultanate. So, for the first-time a person recorded in the history books as a slave of his master, a Sultan, started to rule Delhi.
To think in retrospect, what a fall for the glory that was Bharat, to be ruled by a slave of a foreign tribal that came to be called Slave Dynasty!
This slave dynasty ruled the Delhi Sultanate for 84 years from 1206-1290. However Delhi Sultanate itself lasted for 520 years, with Ibrahim Lodhi being the last.
During this 520 years between 1206-1526, there were local kings who could have resisted the savagery of Mohammed Ghazni or helped Prithviraj Chauhan to defeat Mohammed Ghori and allowed Khiljis, Tughlaqs, Lodhis to occupy the throne in Delhi. Bharatha Khanda of those days did not have a visionary- a Bismarck or Sardar Patel-to foresee the future mishaps after the relentless onslaught of Mohammed Ghazni during his 27 years’ continuous plundering expedition. There was clearly an air of indifference prevailing in the entire Bharatha Khanda, driven by selfishness, petty mindedness and overriding greed to protect one’s own fief and clan.
Thus, when Prithviraj Chauhan was attacked by Mohammed Ghori, nobody came to his help, despite there being so many kings and emperors.
That is how the invasion by aliens continued with Mongols led by Babar taking over Delhi Sultanate after defeating Ibrahim Lodhi. Thus the Moghals who are truly Mongols, established themselves from 1526 to last until 1857, when they were finished by the army of East India Company of Queen of England which had come into India in the year 1600. By applying the principle of DIVIDE & RULE, Englishmen successfully took over the entire country in 1857. That is how a nation of 290 million could be controlled by 60,000 Englishmen.
If group dynamics had destroyed the country in the days of yore, the history is all set to repeat itself. The following historical nugget may be of contextual relevance. The German Rev. Fr. Neimellor, in his deposition at the Nuremburg trial had remarked ‘First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for Jews, I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me then there was no one left to speak for me’.
Cut to our own times, family interest, as compared to national interest is set to overtake the larger picture once again. HD Devegowda becomes an accidental prime minister in June 1996, but did not last even 11 months. He consolidated his position by sacking Ramakrishna Hegde from Janatha Dal. Ramakrishna Hegde is no more, but he left nobody as his political successor despite being in politics for over half a century. He was MLA for 6 terms and MP for 2 terms. But look at HD Devegowda, who was more the Prime Minister of Karnataka rather than India during the entire term of 10 months & 20 days. He made his entire family as his successors. Starting from his son HD Kumarswami, Chief Minister of Karnataka followed by another son HD Revanna, a Minister, who is known to be very rude and crude. HD Kumarswami’s official wife Anitha Kumarswami is an M.P. Now comes his two grand children, one is the son of HDK and the other a son of HDR. So you see in the ‘service of the nation’ he has put all his family members. We all know, in a democracy politics gives power and money that is why even at 85 HD Devegowda wants to contest the Loksabha election denying opportunity to others. Power to do good to the electorates, to the society and to the ordinary masses is the opportunity available to elected political representatives. But power can also be used for your own benefit and that of your family, friends and cronies. Most politicians make money which is also in benami form, never accounted. There are stories of Gowdas having made unaccounted wealth. All these politicians are asked to declare their wealth, but never asked what is the source of their income?
Gowda family is only one of the families of ‘nation servers’. The story of Sons & Relatives India Pvt. Ltd is the same all over India. Look at Bihar you have a hero of JP movement Lalu Prasad Yadav. He got embroiled in Chara Ghotala and went to jail. He was Chief Minister, made his semiliterate wife the Chief Minister as he entered the jail. Now there is Misa Bharathi, the daughter an MP and both sons became ministers in Nitish Kumar government, one of them Deputy CM. Here too the whole family is in ‘service of the nation’. He is known to have amassed unaccounted wealth of huge proportion.
If Devegowda owns JD(S), Lalu Prasad owns RJD. When they promoted their family members, were there nobody good enough in their respective parties to be made M.P, MLA or minister?! Is it a surprise that the working president of JD(S) Vishwanath fell very ill and Danish Ali the General Secretary of JD(S) resigned from the party? Both these parties- JD(S) and RJD- are part of Maha Ghatbandan only to stop Narendra Modi, the incumbent prime minister, with no vision for the INDIA OF TO-MORROW. The latest to hit the headline reportedly is the 2nd wife of Kumaraswami is asking for her share of the power from her father-in-law HD Devegowda! She too wants to enter the electoral politics to ‘serve the nation’.
These two -Devegowda & Lalu- are not the only twosome that are worried about and interested only in their family. There is Karunanidhi family with his three wives and their multiple children and his extended family of Marans. They were all, Chief Ministers, Union Ministers, Members of Parliament etc. All of them want to serve the state and the nation. They were also involved in scams of hundreds of crores. Their party DMK too is part of the Maha Ghatbandan. Coming up a little, you have Chandrababu Naidu, son-in-law of NT Rama Rao. He took over Telugu Desam Party of NTR and now busy promoting his son. Not to be left behind in the ‘service of the nation’ Chandrashekar Rao in Telangana, has his own politics of appeasement and promotion of his children and other family members.
Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra is no different. He is the boss of NCP, ever waiting in the wings to be the Prime Minister. He resigns his Lok Sabha seat to make his daughter Supriya Sule an MP, in the name of women empowerment. There could have been so many competent women in Maharashtra, but then they are not Pawar’s daughters, isn’t it! His nephew Ajit Pawar, was already Deputy CM in Maharashtra. Ajit Pawar’s son is reportedly making noise for his pound of flesh. He too is keen to ‘serve the nation’. The family is involved in many scams. Samuel Rajasekhar Reddy died of an air crash, but left his son Jagan Mohan Reddy rich enough to float his own party away from Congress. He too wants to ‘serve the country’, already involved in scams. In Orissa, it is Patnaik fiefdom, from father Biju to son Naveen Patnaik.
Coming up Mulayam Singh Yadav, another hero of JP movement has his Samajwadi Party. He enjoyed being Chief Minister for couple of terms, now given up in favour of his son Akhilesh Yadav, who too enjoyed being the CM of the largest state of India and lost it to BJP of Yogi Adityanath. Samajwadi Party has, Mulayam, his brother, son and son’s wife is a Member of Parliament. So it is another family affair.
Farooq Abdullah was the Chief Minister of J&K. His father Sheikh Abdullah, the so-called Lion of Kashmir, was also the first Chief Minister of J&K. After son, grandson Omar Abdullah became the Chief Minister. So here too serving the State, not necessarily the country is the passion for Abdullah family. Similar is the case with the other family of Mehbooba Mufti, who was the last CM of Kashmir after her father Mufti Mohammed Saeed passed away while being in office as CM of J&K.
All these parties are part of the Maha Ghatbandan with the sole objective of stopping Narendra Modi from repeating his 2014 performance.
Then you have two lady chieftains in Mayavathi and Mamata Banerjee. They too have hegemonistic ambition of bringing their family members into their Bahujan Samaj Party and Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, while being in Maha Ghatbandan.
Then you are left with only two national parties. Indian National Congress, the oldest political party of India with a record of some 40 years of being in office at the centre managing the destiny of the country and another 15 years leading the coalition government. So, in all, 55 years in power! The BJP, the other national party, has a history of some 11 years ruling the seat of power in Delhi including 6 years as head of NDA I with their own Ghatbandan.
As we all know Congress Party has become a family party after the advent of Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister cum Congress president.
After the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her body guards Congress leaders, used to the family culture, made Rajeev Gandhi, as the Prime Minister. Riding on sympathy wave, he had won 414 Loksabha seats in the election that followed. If he had the intention, he could rewrite the constitution for the better of the country. Instead in the Shah Bano case, the leadership under Rajeev Gandhi influenced the party to go with Ulema, greatly impacted the future of the party. It was purely a short-sighted vote bank politics. This faux-pas combined with the Bofors scam cost, Rajeev Gandhi most of the goodwill and couldn’t comeback elected after 5 years term that was over in December 1989. V P Singh, and his Ghatbandan didn’t last a full year, Chandrashekar as PM, with his own Ghatbandan lasted just 7 months and 10 days. Election followed, PV Narasimha Rao formed the first Congress led Ghatbandan government, but deftly managed to survive full term of 5 years from June 1991 to May 1996. HD Devegowda led Ghatbandan followed that lasted 10 months & 20 days. I K Gujral formed the government with his Ghatbandan that lasted 11 months. Atal Behari Vajpayee NDA I came to power with its own Ghatbandan. It lasted 6 years and 2 months. Then Congress government of Dr. Manmohan Singh with its own Ghatbandan lasted for full 2 terms.
Then for the first time, in 30 years, a single party government with 282 seats came to power along with its Ghatbandan seats of about 50. Its term is going to be over this May 2019.
Thus it is very clear, Mahaghatbandan driven largely by greed and selfishness, if manages to get 272 + seats, it is a very scary scenario and unlikely to last even a year and history can repeat itself, unless, it is led by Congress or the BJP, since only these two parties are national parties with national presence, therefore has the potential to win more seats.
However, it is up to the electorate to decide, if they want to support a party which is controlled by mother, son and now the daughter or go for the other national party which does not suffer from such infirmities. It has a leader, at least he is not personally corrupt, he has no family hangers on, works relentlessly, does not suffer from personal failures like women & wine. Has a vision for the country. In his 5 years he tried many experiments, some did not succeed as expected and some are still work-in-progress. But there are positive reports on some aspects of the economy. He has been able to promote a positive image of the country. In the 55 years of Congress government there have been progress but there have been scams as well. BJP had only 11 years and Modi himself got only 5 years and no scam and he surely deserve another 5 years more for the sake of the country.
Dear electorates it is your call, respond positively with responsibility for the sake of the country and its ethos. Choice is entirely yours.
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