“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”- Theodore Roosevelt, American President 1901-1909
Rahul Gandhi has again asked as question as to why the Soldiers martyred in the cowardly attack of the Chinese in the Galwan Valley did not carry weapons (ignoring that the treaty signed by India in 1993 and 1996 prevented that), alluding to either incompetence of soldiers or the intentions of their superiors. Rahul Gandhi is a readily
excitable and curious young man. It is probably because of this very reason
that he remains a young man even after spending half a century on this planet.
He is not concerned about responsibility and not bothered about the truth, his own or
other people’s. When it comes to China, his enthusiasm knows no bound. His
interest in China is not new and is not specific to this Government. He has
always been very interested in China. While under his leadership Congress has
slipped into the category of one of the most hated political party, even
replacing the Communists who was so hated even by his great grandfather under
whose leadership the party was banned and party worker were even shot at in
cold-blood in a Chennai prison; he seems to be building Congress which was
hitherto called Indian National Congress into some kind of international mafia,
with offices in Turkey and such places. We don't know if Rahul Gandhi is targeting to become the next Caliph through his Turkey office.
Rahul Gandhi was
very excited when the Chinese Army was in an eyeball-to-eyeball contact with the Indian
Army at Doklam. Thankfully that episode passed off without any loss of life as
the Chinese, once they realized that Indian Army under the new Government with
much attention and support from the government lacked neither intent or the courage. Now, this
crisis in Galwan Valley with China has given the old Rahul Gandhi with his new
wavy hairstyle a new lease of life as he has presented himself before the
people with his supremely cynical and infinitely stupid questions. “Why did the
Chinese attack Indian Soldiers?” asks the prince. Valid question, but he must
know the answer as well. They Chinese attacked because they are frustrated.
They are frustrated that while building all the infrastructure on their side of
the Line of Actual Control, they had seen that on Indian side there was scant
development as the leadership under UPA was possibly busy working out the cuts
and commissions for the first family. Now suddenly in last three years they
find bridges being built, railroads to the border posts, airfields being
constructed, and roads being built in difficult border terrain. To make things
worse even new generation Aircrafts are being procured in three decades even
after much roadblock from Rahul Gandhi and his party. Even the Supreme Court
says there is no corruption in the deal and suddenly the Chinese are staring at
an India they find stranger.
I do not know as
many things as Rahul Gandhi does. After all, Rahul Gandhi has been to China in
2007 and eventually the whole family was in
China in 2008 to sign some kind of MoU with the Chinese Communist
Party, terms negotiated with Xi Jinping, who is now the lifetime President of
China and some say is under pressure after mishandling of COVID Crisis
(assuming it is not a part of biological warfare by the Chinese). Why would an
Indian Political party which intends to fight and hopefully, win elections in
India want to increase influence in China or say Turkey (Congress opened its
office in Turkey days after Turkey took an aggressively Anti-India stand in the
UN). The new release said that the office will ensure improve bilateral
relation between India
and Turkey. Since Independence, even the Party in power has been
kept out by the Governments of the day out of Foreign relations parlay, but Congress
has in a bold step made lobbying for foreign power an open and accepted art. No
wonder, Rahul Gandhi wants to know. Wayanad MP has reason to seek information
from Narendra Modi Government on what it is planning to do with the Chinese.
After all, that could be a part of the lobbying agreement his party had signed
with Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping.
No wonder, Rahul
is so excited and is asking questions every day. But should we not ask that
when Rahul Gandhi is not in power and not head of even the notionally principal
opposition party, he wants to know everything, but why he was so silent when he
was not only a part of Government, rather was influential enough to be tearing
off the ordinances approved by the then Prime Minister. His party has claimed
that India has ceded 60 kms of Indian Territory. They must be taking inference
from their rule. In 2013, a report submitted by National Security Advisory
Board to the PMO claimed that China
occupied around 640 Kms by frequent incursions, over the period of
few months. They must have presumed that old ways must be prevailing even now
and decided to attack the present government. National security has never been
an issue for this man whose nationality has also been under cloud. He might
have in 2013 felt that losing territory must be a part of MoU his party had
signed with CCP, as an effort to improve bilateral relation. I do not know what
Constitution says about private political parties getting into formal
engagements with foreign parties to better or worsen international relations of
India. Maybe, Rahul had good intentions and he simply was following his great grandfather’s
track as far as handing over the territory to foreign adversaries is concerned,
in order to win over foreign press. Didn’t under Nehru India announced in 1954
that it will support China on Tibet even before the negotiations began and
waived off payment China was supposed to make towards the handing over of India
assets (Telephone, telegraph and such) in Tibet as a goodwill gesture?
Rahul Gandhi has so many
questions, but as the citizen of India, I have only one- Do we have to live
with such an opposition in India? On a day when we have lost Twenty bravehearts
defending our boundaries, do we need this forever-adolescent middle-aged man
with shady credentials and wavy-gelled hair to come question if they ceded the
territory? I don’t even want to ever ask him about the 680 Kilometers his
Government ceded to China and Siachen
his Government wanted to cede to China. I wanted to only ask him if
he even understand the meaning of basic human decency? Not that Rahul Gandhi would ever pause to think about what is doing to the moral of India and Indian army. He and his gang of sycophants will call this buffoonery another one of his arrivals in Indian politics. After all, as Napoleon said- "In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." It is however for us as citizens to decide the kind of politics we want to see in our country.
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