Congress Govt. Self Destroying Life Cycle Stages

Having worked with Customer life cycle & product areas, I wish to put my thoughts across on the political area considering the parties as brand. It's commonly know in Marketing area that  Products and brands have a life-cycle. Commonly this cycle progresses as development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. The pioneer of mosquito repellents in India, the Tortoise brand (popularly called ‘Kachchua Chaap’) is still famous but dead. Ambassador car is a dead brand that is being artificially sustained. Across the world brands have been killed by businesses either because they have outlived their purpose and value proposition or they couldn’t survive innovations and competition.

India became independent in 1947 but there is still no reason to believe we don't have freedom. The British left and the Congress party replaced them. Ever since, it has been downhill. After 65 years we must finally accept that the Congress in India needs to die. I believe that congress as not able to outlive it original purpose neither it was able to bring any good value proposition but it's can be considered one of the best political outfit which was able to manage the billion + population with Corruption, violence, destroying democratic institutions, electoral malpractices and a huge black economy all came from the fountainhead called Congress. 

In a history of the Congress party full of bad governance, unfulfilled promises and intolerable corruption the latest attempt to cover up the Coalgate scam is as bad as any crime ever experienced in a democracy. Not since the Mughals or the British has the nation been plundered so badly. When the Emergency was declared in 1975 some newspapers carried black borders in protest and some crawled. Since then, much of the media not only became slaves of the Congress party and the government they have even become traitors of the people they were supposed to serve. What else explains the frequent clean-chits and “honest” title defence of Manmohan Singh? A PM who has watched lakhs of crores worth of scams happening right under his nose was being defended by our media. Shameful! 

It’s more than the massive corruption. Every institution of India’s democracy has been corrupted and misused to serve the security and comfort of the party and one family – The Gandhis. Everyone in the Congress should be wondering how they became such slaves. It even provides for special security for Robert Vadra, Priyanka Vadra and exemptions for them from screening during air travel or travel anywhere in the country.

In the name of fake secularism the Congress party and its supporters have divided the nation through religious reservations and privileges. Every policy of the party smacks of vote-bank politics and nothing more. Instead of moving towards an equitable society and more towards a uniform law for all the Congress has now even set up Sharia courts. Rahul Gandhi campaigns in Karnataka and talks about corruption. With what face does this non-performer talk about corruption? His own personal integrity or commitment to public work is suspect going by his poor attendance and participation in parliament. The same goes for the PM who promises a corruption-free state in his insipid campaigns. All of this, while they represent the most corrupt party in the entire democratic world! What does it say about the slavery of Congress and its supporters who still live a life of slavery to one family which is protected like a royal household? Sonia Gandhi enjoys all the trappings of a queen without the slightest responsibility or accountability for any deeds of the govt or her party.

Wha exactly is Sonia Gandhi’s greatest contribution to India? It has to be that coterie called NAC, an extra-constitutional body that is a private club which drafts laws for the country. Each member of this coterie is from some NGO or the other which has become extraordinarily wealthy through funding and donations from mysterious sources. Most members of this coterie were rewarded for their malicious political campaign against opponents. This is the level to which the Congress has brought politics in this country to. The scams, of course, are too long to list and each time the party members have only acted to cover up the truth and protect the culprits. Naturally! It was rightly pointed out by someone that the first purpose that the Congress party sees while being in power is to accumulate enough money to fight the next election. Everything else is secondary. And then the queen talks about ‘zero tolerance’ of corruption while the ‘Prince of fails’ mocks the nation by stating “power is poison”.

In the attempt to keep its stranglehold on power at any cost the party has destroyed almost every democratic institution in this country. Judges and investigators have landed themselves top postings immediately on retirement for being slaves to the party. Scheme after scheme has been named after some member of the Nehru-Gandhi family as if everyone else in India was just an also-ran in her history. 

NDTV, CNN-IBN, Headlines Today, Times Now and all other media outlets have become spineless puppies that do not have the guts to address a single question to the Gandhis. They hurl the choicest abuses at all other political parties and leaders. It seems the only truthful media that is still left standing is the Supreme Court.

A company kills a brand at an appropriate time in its life-cycle. India too needs to kill the Congress party which has long outlived its purpose. It doesn’t mean killing the party’s members. There are many good members in the Congress who must free themselves from slavery and reaffirm their true independence and freedom. They must join other parties or create a new formation completely different from this Congress. Not suggesting that other parties are clean but the Congress has been and will remain the Fountainhead of Corruption or the “Congotri” of corruption. Corruption in the air, land, water, fire and earth as someone put it (2G, irrigation, coal, land). Every reform or policy that the Congress makes has a backdoor or a window that provides for massive loot. There is hardly a single policy or action that the party and the UPA have taken in the last 9 years that has not been associated by a scam and loot. That’s not all. Caning citizens, failure in foreign relations, poor handling and religious politicisation of terrorism, tolerating separatists, discriminating between states, demonising opponents, demoralising the police and the army, farmer suicides, stagnant economy, inflation, unemployment, fake cases against political opponents, constantly appeasing enemies of the state and even poor vigil of our borders. Never has this nation felt so sunk. 

Unfortunately, Congress has played so much vote-bank politics that a party planning to oppose it has to fight elections using the same dirty tactics to even have a hope of winning comfortably. The fact is after all these years, caste and religion is a major decisive factor in voting a candidate. There are no debates, no scrutiny or analysis of the candidate's plans if elected etc. by the media or the people in general.

My analysis of this problem by meeting a lot of people and asking my friends is this:

1. A majority of the people in our country are sentimental and vote by heart. They don't think long term - Period. Congress knows this very well and use the media very well to play into this. I hate to say this, but many people in this country are sentimental idiots. A proof of this is the time when many of my friends jumped the Anna Hazare bandwagon purely based on sentiment and hype rather than scrutinizing what the Lokpal is and what it means for the country.

2. Coalition politics is here to stay. Each coalition represents some caste, some religion, some ideology and as a result the opposition to Congress is never united. In the eyes of the common man, Congress is the one party that covers everyone and this myth is further strengthened by the negative connotation of Hindutva for the BJP that is propogated by the media despite the SC ruling that it is a way of life.

3. Free thinking is not being promoted in India. This was the cornerstone of our ancient civilization. The attention spans of our youth are dwindling. Reading articles, thinking and scrutinizing thoughts are all a thing of the past. Rarely do I meet a person nowadays who is keeping abreast of everything by just reading a normal newspaper. Headlines, gossip, TV media circus is where they get the news from. As a result good journalists and good newspapers are dying. Ask a person what is the role of a speaker in our Lok Sabha? No response. What is the current financial condition of our country? Bad but no idea how bad.

4. The majority of people are too busy safeguarding what they have for now by being a good employee, a good student (regurgitating what they read) and put self before country (a filtered down quality of our politicians).

5. Certain sections of society want this current state of India to last. For eg. Government employees under C.Naidu (TDP) and Jayalalithaa (ADMK) lament that they have to "work" for a living compared to the days when Congress and DMK ruled giving them secured jobs, with bonus and no incentive to work or service the public

Having said that it important to note that No country in history has ever progressed with bad governance and excessive corruption as partners. None! The Congress suffers from this twin ailment since decades. Its survival is detrimental to the progress of India. Death is the only cure. The corrupt media protects this corrupt party and its bigwigs. Someone has coined the slogan “Congress-mukt Bharat” like the slogan for “Gutka-mukt rajya”. I wholeheartedly agree with it. For India to progress, Congress must die. And when the Congress dies so will the corrupt media and democratic institutions can limp back to normalcy! There can at least be a new start.

PS: Data is taken from various sources most of it from Ravinar article!!