Legends are always kept alive. But why?..... is a difficult question to answer. Each legend stirs a specified emotion in the hearts of the people. The legend of rani of jhansi fighting British army with baby tied to her back represents dexterity and ferocity of an Indian lady who is able to act both as mother and a soldier of the nation. The 10000 attempts of Thomas Edison represents never say die attitude. And students are made to read about them ,so legend will be alive. Not only text books, the statues , naming the streets or cities after dead people will do the same work on our minds.
But what the statues of Indira Gandhi represent? or naming of India's territorial north and south ends after her? so many projects and airports , an open university named after her represents?
Her ability to use Govt employees on election campaign? her greediness to declare emergency just to save her PM seat? her shrewdness to change the institutionalized age-old party into a group of sycophants? for letting her son run the govt in the time of emergency? for arranging forceful vasectomy and tubectomy operations on the poor during emergency? for arresting who ever criticizes her? for her incapability of running the economy of the country which forced her to nationalize banks to get money? for the removal of fundamental rights? for signing 1974 Indira–Sheikh accord which made J&k to be treated separately for ever when compared to rest of India ,which will make J&K never a part of consolidated India? for operation blue-star? for massacre of all most 3000 Sikhs after the assassination of Indira Gandhi by the congress party people with the help of population of statistics to find Sikhs addresses? answer is NO. These things wont be printed in text books....after 4 or 5 generations, the citizens of india will see the elegant statues all over India and listen her name a lot and then will start thinking that she must be a great person !!!
We see a statue and then think that he/she must be a great person.We dont actually try to know about them...and more over india is like a nation of Gajinis....we forget everything after sometime. Our politicians know about it very well. The late justice from supreme court has to remind us about the bhopal victims...till that time we forgot about them and are busy watching reality shows !!!
Congress leaders during election campaign say that they will bring indiramma rajyam...what they mean by that? Emergency?? With all the statues over the nation this generation thinks that she must be a great leader, and indiramma rajyam is something like golden age of chandra gupta.
same thing happened with rajiv gandhi .......i dont think coming generations will remember about bofors.
Now is the time for birth of next legend. YSR. For one week long after his death, every death in andhra pradesh is reported as the death of YSR fan who got heart failure after listening to the shocking news of YSR death. The death toll is around 140. And govt of andhra pradesh declared money for who is ever is attempted suicide and died due to heart attack. Later it is found that 60% of the people who died are between the ages of 60 to 80. So natural deaths are converted into shocking-deaths. And the family members of the victims got the money. And the news channel and newspaper 'sakshi' which is owned by YSR's son trying desperately to make him a legend. Flowers are falling on the image of YSR in sakshi tv ever since he died. In the news paper there is column about goodness of YSR everyday and a daily quote by him. I am not sure if all the quotes are said my YSR. After his death, even before his funeral speculation about his son jagan becoming the next CM have started. And they quote example of rajiv gandhi becoming PM after death of indira gandhi. Well, one thing congress party leaders usually forgets is india is democratic country. Its not monarchy which allows offspring to become the rulers after death of the ruler. Not only congress party most of the people before our generation believe that. They cherish the idea of monarchy, being loyal to a family line.
There has been a lot of nonsense after death of YSR. A group wants his son to inherit the CM seat of YSR and other group oppose it. And then they started a competition on who is the better psychopathy of YSR.? The sycophants wanted to celebrate his birthday by postponing assembly sessions, forgetting that they are elected legislate the govt but not to arrange lavish birthday party of dead CM's. And there is this jagan yatra, it looks as if jagan wants to check his image popularity with that yatra. And guess who is the solo broadcaster of that yatra....saaxi tv. You open saaxi paper and you will find "jagan sena" , what they are for, to invade congress party if jagan could not inherit his father's CM seat. Now govt of andhrapradesh wants to name YSR district i.e kadapa district as YSR district. Why not rename andhra pradesh as YSR state and change the name of India to indira gandhi??
What the govt sponsored legends of indira gandhi and YSR will tell the coming generations?? about the sycophancy in the congress govt? No, they will be legends of great leaders of congress to those people who dont usually care much about politics. All these statues are like the permanent election campaign!!
of course I agree that when it comes to statues ...congress party is better than BSP.
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