Is it the end of a dynasty?

India has been a home of many dynasties and empires since she was known to the creation. From Mauryas, Guptas, Sultans of  Delhi, to the Mughals, India has seen it all. She has been plundered, despoiled and raped by these dynasties but it was not over… the real villains of India’s story were about to come, the Britishers!

A boon or curse to the country, difficult to say but they changed our country in every aspect. They were traders but traded the country, exploited to every extent but somehow we survived. There oppression was increasing every day and a mass outrage was building up among the people…future was being written and the time was coming to kick the villains out of the scene, but…when the future of India was being written by the people, one of the Britishers was also writing the future of the country in his own ways. A.O.Hume formed a party known as ‘Congress’ but the leaders of this party stood against the government and later gave a tough fight and paved way for India’s freedom. The party mood was on in India and we became independent but we didn’t know that again a dynasty will emerge in the country and will decide the fate of this country.

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It was the managers of India National Congress…the Gandhis! They were at our service from then till now, their reign continues. Whenever elections were held in India it was an ultimate truth that congress will win, people got accustomed to it. Slowly and steadily the face of government changed and our country was governed not by Congress but by the Gandhis!

A real diplomats and great leaders of India, Gandhis have given a lot to this nation. Their dedication, their devotion, their life was all bestowed to India. Governance was looking so smooth and country was flourishing…..but something went wrong!

The democratic scenario of the country was changing and getting converted into kingship where the ‘royal family’ ruled the nation. People began to feel dominated and gradually corruption began to grow in this nation of billions! 

A word called “scam” became synonymous to congress government or to be more precise ‘the royal family’s government’.

Since the governance of Jawaharlal Nehru scams rocked our country be it the ‘jeep scam’, ‘cycle scam’, ‘Mundra scam’, and the list goes on…..as time passed and India became economically strong, scam didn’t stopped but its value increased, and the worst part was that these scams were largely done under the government of ‘royal family’.

                           

Not making this piece of text too long let me throw light on the scams which took place under the UPA since 2004…., the 2G spectrum scam was a huge blow to the country economically. Satyam, Tantra trucks, Chopper, Adarsh society etc. are the great ‘milestone’ achieved by the leaders of UPA.

                      

From 2G, CWG, CAG to ‘Jijaji’ this dynasty of great rulers have always helped the rich to get richer and poor to become poorer! 

                                                                                                     

    

But as we have seen in the past that every dynasty how good it may be like the Guptas or how bad it may be like the Delhi Sultanate, its empire has come to an end. This is what we have seen in the present elections of 5 major states of India viz Rajasthan, New Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram. Apart from Mizoram BJP won the assembly elections in all other states. The worst part was in Delhi where Sheila Dixit, CM of Delhi since 15years of the royal family loose the elections and who defeated it….a totally new party with less experience than the congress! Certainly it is the end of congress in these states but the climax is still to come…

The Lok Sabha elections which will be held in 2014 would be very challenging for the congress. A new dawn is coming and the political clouds are more towards the BJP this time. Everyone has made it a battle between BJP and Congress or Rahul Gandhi vs Narendra Modi….but I say that it is a battle for real democracy. Whoever win or loose, the democratic feature of our motherland should prevail!

Ashutosh Asthana

Student

B.A In Media Studies

University Of Allahabad