Since 1947, India has had Jawaharlal Nehru, Lalbahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Chandrashekhar, Rajiv Gandhi, Indra Kumar Gujaral, Atal Behari Bajpayi, and Manmohan Singh as its Prime Ministers.
How long will Mr. Singh continue, and who will be the next Prime Minister ?
What kind of the Head of State for the Indian Union will be acceptable to the western world, especially USA, and who will be good for the country, India ?
Nehru was groomed and educated in England, fell for joining the British Commonwealth
and really never broke ties with the English masters. He even got his daughter, Indira Gandhi, and grand child(ren), Rajiv Gandhi, educated and groomed in British ways, who eventually took his position as heads of the state after his demise. Rajiv went further ahead and acquired a European spouse in Italian Sonia Gandhi.
Both Indira and Rajiv were killed in unfortunate circumstances by the Sikhs and the
Tamilians respectively. Lalbahadur Shashrti was kind of courageous, who aggressively fought Pakistan in 1965, acquired a vast tract of Pakistani territory, faster than Israel snatched Golan Heights and Gaza from the Palestinians. Shashtri died in mysterious circumstances in Tashkent, then USSR, after agreeing to return all the acquired land to Pakistan without anything in return. How can this be, without any consultation with the Indian Parliament, and Indian Government ? It is said, Indira Gandhi promoted this exchange, and hastened the process to acquire the position of Prime Minsitership. Shashtri’s widow, Lalita Shashtri and their sons, tried but could not succeed in getting any substantial enquiry done into the death of the Indian Premier.
It should not feel strange, if we compare the situations with late John F. Kennedy and
late Martin Luther King, Jr. in our own land, USA, and that of Yasser Arafat in Palestine
few years ago.
Indira Gandhi later fought Pakistan and helped create the new nation of Bangladesh. She freed Goa (from Portugese domination), and Sikkim (from Queen Ms. Hope)
and created animosity with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, which eventually lead to the US-China dialogue, and setting up of China to counteract India in Asia and the world. Mrs. Gandhi, a widow, referred frequently as Iron Lady, in her later years expelled
IBM and Coca Cola out of India, antagonized Sikhs, agitating to form their separate country, Khalistan, as Bengali Muslims did in Bangladesh, and was killed soon
thereafter, when Ronald Regan was US-President.
Much later, came Atal Behari Bajpeyi, who sincerely started a peace dialog with Pakistan, especially Nawaz Sharif, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan. Both started
bus journeys into each others’ territories. If this peace process would have progressed,
a large arms race in Indian Subcontinent would have stopped, but also a huge weapons market would have been lost to the mercenaries. In the meantime Parvez Musharraf as Army Chief of Pakistan attacked India in Kargil, Kashmir, and banished Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia. Bajpeyi and his Hindutva in India were also subsequently replaced with those of Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, and Abdul Kalam as Ruling Party Chief, Prime Minister and President, respectively. Since then, India (and Mr. Musharraf in Pakistan) has become the darling of the western world, with gifts of nuclear material, outsourcing of all kinds of jobs and the like. The fast economic development of India in recent years, will end up making it an economic colony like Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia. But this may alleviate poverty and backwardness in India. Not only the so called high caste Hindus are being replaced from powerful positions, and places of high esteem by people of other religious denominations as well as Dalits in India, but the ideals of Indian Culture is fast changing to become western and alien, by the prominence of of Dalits, in Mulayam Yadav, Lalu Prasad, Mayavati and others. Mr. Prasad recently dropped his Yadav, and may seem being connected to late Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, also from Bihar, in coming years, which advance Mr.Prasad’s political career further. Indira Gandhi took advantage of her last name, Gandhi, especially outside India, in being considered related to Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation. With his Muslim appeasement, friendly trips to Pakistan, denouncing Mahatma Gandhi for his faith in ancient sanatan dharma, and his humiliation of the upper caste Hindus, Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav, should be the perfect candidate for becoming the next Prime Minister of India, which is getting fast westernised. Hence all the hoopla of enormous profits in the Railways, students from Kellog in Chicago running to him in Delhi for lessons, and his being invited by Harvard to preach the intricacies of management, all parts of grooming, to bring India further into the western fold.
Monday, March 24, 2008
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