A Person with a heart of Gold - Part 3
Today, India is engulfed by an army of rogues and rowdies employed by BJP whose sole job is to heckle, abuse those who have an alternate view and are opposed to bigotry.
Of all the leaders in India, One leader who is feared by these trolls is Rahul Gandhi. Not only trolls, any statement by RG attracts top brass of BJP who call for press conference, give one on one interviews to friendly journos. Their knee jerk reaction is ample testimony to the awe and fear when RG speaks on any topic. Sometimes, these buffoons allege RG doesnt take any decision himself and is dependent on others, sometimes they allege he takes unilateral decisions and hence it always backfires and therefore he has to adopt a consensus approach.
Any leader be it of a party or an organisation is entitled to take the final call. Sometimes, the decision taken may backfire and sometimes it may work. One will learn from those mistakes committed and rectify but again there is no guarantee in life, the exact opposite decision taken would result in success.
Let us take one example to illustrate on the above point. In my previous post, had written about a state leader from Assam who has now migrated to BJP. Before he met RG, a process was followed by the top leadership wherein views and opinions of grass root workers, MLAs were taken. Subsequently, numerous meetings happened with other stakeholders. The proposal of this leader was debated and discussed at length. Party was split 50:50. Should one compromise on basic fundamental core values and principles and project people who were not completely over board? RG decided he will not compromise on core values pertaining to zero tolerance towards corruption. Decision was taken that this leader and his followers will not be projected and to reject his proposal. When results came in, media, trolls, RW commentators went to town on how foolish this decision was and RG should listen to elderly statesmen in the party and compromise.
In a different scenario, before Bihar polls, party and local leaders wanted a grand alliance. RG himself was not keen due to corruption charges against the former CM. His plan was to go alone , build party at grass root level and in 2020 be a strong opponent to whosoever came to power there. However, keeping in mind the larger interest of state, an alliance was formed and the alliance won. After the win, the usual media and brainless political analysts demanded answer on why the party compromised on its values and allied with a convicted individual. They asked why did the leader of party after promising to not ally went back on his words.
I find this really amusing. When RG takes a decisive call himself, he is blamed. When he goes along the consensus route, he is blamed. The point is it doesn't matter to bigots and media since they have already decided to blame RG for anything and everything.
My personal take and which I have expressed on numerous occasions, is never to compromise on core values related to corruption and go alone. Allying with regional parochial parties has destroyed INC at the local level in many states.
One of the long standing joke expressed by many people on SM is with regard to a statement made by RG. Apparently, out of the blue, they allege, he said power is poison and jobless people created memes on it. Unfortunately, we are in an era where people take out one sentence without the background and twist it according to their convenience. There is an entire background and context to that statement. Discussion was on power and many leaders urged RG to take over the reins. That time, he said clearly, "that power is poison when you chase it for own self but is nectar when you use it to empower others". He also added, ' Power when in wrong hands, can create havoc.'. It means power should not be attained without proper understanding and knowledge. In the end he summed up by saying " Congress party is now my life, people of India are my life. I will fight for people of India and for this party. I will fight with everything I have."
An analogy on power being poison is important here. Lord Shiva during Samundra Manthan drank Poison for the larger good of human kind. Power when used to empower, for larger good is nectar. When used for own self, it is poison.
Again in race for TRPs, media picked out one sentence without context thereby rendering an important speech meaningless. Be it media or people on SM, none of them have ever met RG. Opinions are formed , articles written based on hearsay, rumors and through sources who themselves are discredited.
One oft repeated question posed by people on SM, what is the vision of RG? why doesn't he express those in public? His views, opinions , vision have been expressed on various forums from CII to small groups of target groups like farmers, students on many occasions. Has any one ever put out the entire text of those? No. But, of course , without doing any homework, every tom, dick and harry keeps on asking the same question over and over again.
In the concluding part of this series next friday, will look at the person RG is, and in brief will talk about the vision and core belief's.
Of all the leaders in India, One leader who is feared by these trolls is Rahul Gandhi. Not only trolls, any statement by RG attracts top brass of BJP who call for press conference, give one on one interviews to friendly journos. Their knee jerk reaction is ample testimony to the awe and fear when RG speaks on any topic. Sometimes, these buffoons allege RG doesnt take any decision himself and is dependent on others, sometimes they allege he takes unilateral decisions and hence it always backfires and therefore he has to adopt a consensus approach.
Any leader be it of a party or an organisation is entitled to take the final call. Sometimes, the decision taken may backfire and sometimes it may work. One will learn from those mistakes committed and rectify but again there is no guarantee in life, the exact opposite decision taken would result in success.
Let us take one example to illustrate on the above point. In my previous post, had written about a state leader from Assam who has now migrated to BJP. Before he met RG, a process was followed by the top leadership wherein views and opinions of grass root workers, MLAs were taken. Subsequently, numerous meetings happened with other stakeholders. The proposal of this leader was debated and discussed at length. Party was split 50:50. Should one compromise on basic fundamental core values and principles and project people who were not completely over board? RG decided he will not compromise on core values pertaining to zero tolerance towards corruption. Decision was taken that this leader and his followers will not be projected and to reject his proposal. When results came in, media, trolls, RW commentators went to town on how foolish this decision was and RG should listen to elderly statesmen in the party and compromise.
In a different scenario, before Bihar polls, party and local leaders wanted a grand alliance. RG himself was not keen due to corruption charges against the former CM. His plan was to go alone , build party at grass root level and in 2020 be a strong opponent to whosoever came to power there. However, keeping in mind the larger interest of state, an alliance was formed and the alliance won. After the win, the usual media and brainless political analysts demanded answer on why the party compromised on its values and allied with a convicted individual. They asked why did the leader of party after promising to not ally went back on his words.
I find this really amusing. When RG takes a decisive call himself, he is blamed. When he goes along the consensus route, he is blamed. The point is it doesn't matter to bigots and media since they have already decided to blame RG for anything and everything.
My personal take and which I have expressed on numerous occasions, is never to compromise on core values related to corruption and go alone. Allying with regional parochial parties has destroyed INC at the local level in many states.
One of the long standing joke expressed by many people on SM is with regard to a statement made by RG. Apparently, out of the blue, they allege, he said power is poison and jobless people created memes on it. Unfortunately, we are in an era where people take out one sentence without the background and twist it according to their convenience. There is an entire background and context to that statement. Discussion was on power and many leaders urged RG to take over the reins. That time, he said clearly, "that power is poison when you chase it for own self but is nectar when you use it to empower others". He also added, ' Power when in wrong hands, can create havoc.'. It means power should not be attained without proper understanding and knowledge. In the end he summed up by saying " Congress party is now my life, people of India are my life. I will fight for people of India and for this party. I will fight with everything I have."
An analogy on power being poison is important here. Lord Shiva during Samundra Manthan drank Poison for the larger good of human kind. Power when used to empower, for larger good is nectar. When used for own self, it is poison.
Again in race for TRPs, media picked out one sentence without context thereby rendering an important speech meaningless. Be it media or people on SM, none of them have ever met RG. Opinions are formed , articles written based on hearsay, rumors and through sources who themselves are discredited.
One oft repeated question posed by people on SM, what is the vision of RG? why doesn't he express those in public? His views, opinions , vision have been expressed on various forums from CII to small groups of target groups like farmers, students on many occasions. Has any one ever put out the entire text of those? No. But, of course , without doing any homework, every tom, dick and harry keeps on asking the same question over and over again.
In the concluding part of this series next friday, will look at the person RG is, and in brief will talk about the vision and core belief's.
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