Tamil Nadu rejects Chinamma; When is India rejecting Congress-amma?

The past week saw the drama unfold in Chennai as the AIADMK leaders decided that they don’t want Sasikala and her family in the party. This decision is of prime importance because it comes at a time when the country is going through another similar dilemma with the Congress party. The party leaders are preparing for the new leadership under Rahul Gandhi after 19 year long leadership of Sonia Gandhi. What is more important is that the party is staging a mock election that would elect him.

The TN AIADMK decision should come as a case study for the Congress party and its leaders that it is high time that they decide in the welfare of the party and its image as the party who earned India’s Independence. The party has been mired by many scams and all this is linked to the family who has tried to stay in power for the past 19 years. The family got its prominence in the party since the death of the iconic leader Rajiv Gandhi. And using the sentiment as a lightning rod for sympathy votes this family paved the way for a total eclipse of the party leadership. They rejected any other leaders in the party who had much better and new ideas. 

The people were fooled into thinking that the family has done a great sacrifice for the nation. The party leaders played using the same theme and continued this drama for the next two decades. Two decades of youth denied any prominence so that this family can have the center piece in the Indian Political scenario. And now the christening of Rahul Gandhi will turn out to be the last nail in the coffin for the Congress Party. It is the time that people of the Congress Party decide for a new leadership, one that doesn’t have the ‘Gandhi’ surname at the end. This brand has seriously been overused and misused.

The freedom fighters of India gave their lives so that we are freed of the clutches of the British Imperialism. But they would never approve of this decision because this is again a sort of imperialism. The fire that breaks the cold wave of imperialism should never turn into an inferno that engulfs lives of people and their freedom. It is time that the party displayed the same magic that it displayed many years ago. It should either change the leadership by putting their foot down for a new powerful leadership or it should change their flags and join a powerful group. There is no disease that is more deadly than hypocrisy. And another term under the Gandhi family will make the party a symbol of hypocrisy.