The Curse of the Surname Gandhi

How can the one factor that an individual is most happy with turning into the most important curse for them? An individual’s surname is the particular person’s pleasure. It is the particular person’s id. Coming with a loaded surname in India may give folks an computerized social standing upliftment. This is finest exhibited by the Gandhis of the Congress get together. Just have a look at the Gandhi household. Congress takes pleasure within the surname ‘Gandhi’, however this surname has turn out to be a headache for the Grand Old Party. From Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Indira Gandhi, to her son Rajiv and his spouse Sonia, to their youngsters Rahul and Priyanka – the Gandhi surname has ruined all of them.Such is the luggage that the Gandhis have needed to carry, that even those that seemingly ‘broke away’ from the household and rebelled towards it however refused to surrender the besmirched surname are in the present day counting their remaining days in mainstream politics. We are speaking concerning the likes of Maneka Gandhi and her son Varun Gandhi. Maneka is Sonia Gandhi’s sister-in-law. Varun is Rahul and Priyanka’s cousin. However, Maneka and Varun are within the BJP. But that has in no method stopped the ‘Gandhi’ surname from working its curse on the rebellious duo.Recently, BJP introduced its nationwide government, which proved to be an enormous blow to each Maneka and Varun Gandhi, because the get together dropped them out of the essential physique. It have to be remembered that Varun Gandhi has been making anti-BJP remarks incessantly for fairly a while now, whereas his mom has already earned fairly a fame for herself by abusing nearly any unusual citizen. The identical was not given a miss by the BJP, which is why it dropped the 2 leaders from its nationwide government.The Pride of Being a GandhiManeka Gandhi and Varun Gandhi thought they had been untouchables, and that they might say no matter they wished to, in whichever method they happy. They banked on the famed ‘Gandhi’ surname to protect them from any motion. The duo thought that being ‘Gandhis’ within the BJP would imply that the saffron get together wouldn’t dare contact them. However, pleasure within the redundant ‘Gandhi’ surname has now value the 2 leaders gravely, and each of them now stare on the finish of their political careers.‘Gandhi’ – Ruining Lives Since Times ImmemorialLet’s be sincere. The solely cause the Congress has survived post-independence is due to the present which Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi bestowed on Feroze Ghandy. The Gandhi surname has a darkish historical past related to it from the instances of Mohandas Karamchand himself. Sure, many declare that MK Gandhi performed an instrumental position in India’s independence. They may even be true of their assertions to a sure diploma. However, when it got here to political acumen, Gandhi was a healthful failure, which is finest exemplified by the truth that he agreed to the partition of India solely to present Jinnah and Nehru with private kingdoms for themselves.The Gandhi surname has additionally been besmirched by allegations of the ‘Mahatma’ participating in adultery and blatant womanising. However, all of his misdeeds had been masked by his identify. The ‘Mahatma’ he was known as. And the Congress’ royal household has been milking on his identify ever since. But they haven’t been noticing that the Gandhi surname has been ruining them, slowly and steadily.The Gandhi ClanIndira Gandhi, who occurs to be a non-Gandhi daughter, by the best way – of Jawaharlal Nehru, inherited the ‘Gandhi’ title from her husband, Feroze Ghandy, and issues have been going south ever since. Indira Gandhi broke the Indian economic system. She nationalised every little thing beneath the solar. Indira adopted a hardcore socialist financial coverage whose affect, frankly, India continues to be recovering from.Many declare that she broke Pakistan into two halves – which is an absurd lie. Indira had no alternative however to go for an all-out struggle with Pakistan for the sake of India’s survival again then. It was the armed forces of India alone that broke Pakistan. What Indira definitely did, nonetheless, was a present again over 90,000 Pakistani prisoners of struggle again to the charming Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Despite Pakistan being crushed, Indira didn’t dare to retrieve Indian territories occupied by Pakistan in Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. She was, in fact, killed by her bodyguards for Operation Blue Star, which noticed Sri Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar being changed into a struggle zone wherein 1000’s of harmless civilians misplaced their lives. How Indira Gandhi created a Frankenstein monster like Bhindranwale, in the meantime, requires no introduction.Rajiv Gandhi and his Family“But Rajiv Gandhi brought computers and cars to India,” they are saying. Pray inform, would India be working with out computer systems and vehicles had it not been for Rajiv Gandhi? It is absurd how folks give credit score to a good-for-nothing man based mostly purely on Congress’ propaganda. Rajiv Gandhi did nothing however present employment to his Doon college buddies, aside from giving rise to political storms just like the Shah Bano verdict reversal to the journey on the Sri Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya. And then, in fact, Rajiv is most well-known for having justified the killing of Sikhs after the assassination of his mom, saying that when an enormous tree falls, the earth shakes.Read extra: How Rajiv Gandhi saved the person answerable for the Bhopal Gas TragedyRajiv Gandhi too was killed by an assassination carried out by the Tamil extremist group – LTTE.Rajiv Gandhi’s spouse, Antonio Maino, higher often called Sonia Gandhi, gained some elections for the Congress get together however was by no means actually accepted as an Indian chief owing to her Italian lineage. The Gandhi surname may take her solely so far as heading a shadow authorities between 2004 and 2014 when Dr Manmohan Singh was Prime Minister.Do we actually want to speak about Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi? They are each disasters in their very own proper. They are a residing instance of how the Gandhi surname has ceased to be a standing uplifter and is as a substitute starting to tug them down. Rahul Gandhi is taken into account insignificant in India in the present day, whereas his sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has confirmed to be a failure in politics regardless of all of the tall claims of her being the Congress’ saviour. All in all, for so long as the Gandhis stay in command of the Congress, the Grand Old Party will maintain working itself deep into the bottom.