“Proud of the Poor…..” – Rahul Gandhi
I liked the statement made by Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Gandhi family (akin to the Kennedy family in the US) yesterday, namely, “We are proud of the poor of India. We believe in the poor people of India and they (the opposition) are ashamed of them”. We all know that it is election time and that every politician worth his name is trying to be pro poor, secular, patriot, savior of the nation, etc. I liked this statement by Rahul Gandhi because it comes from the heart and he means every word he has said. If it had not been for the Congress, right since Nehru’s time, followed by Indira Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and then various non-Gandhi Congressmen who have ruled India from Delhi for around 55 years of the 62 years after independence, India would not have remained poor you know. The policy of the Congress has always been to keep the poor in poverty, bring in various schemes for poverty alleviation, slogans such as “garibi hatao”, “roti, kapada aur makaan”, etc and then go on and enrich ...