As he is a scion of the Gandhi family which has inherited a vast political legacy in the country, Rahul Gandhi was all in his right when he appealed the 1200-odd students gathered in front of him to join politics. Probably he was putting forth his own model as the one who has stepped in the widely perceived murkier field, when he could have easily chased brighter avenues. Add to this two most cruel sacrifices coming from his nearest ones. However, his message does not hold enough merit to attract the innumerable young persons in the country, who throng to in vogue areas like information technology, in a bid to attain the best possible lifestyle which was hitherto a dream for most part of the immediate history when Rahul’s party Congress, or his family members to be precise, ruled the country.
Rahul said, politics can bridge the gap between communities. This is a oft repeated sentence. But unfortunately, like a coin which has lived too long bearing the market forces, it has also worn out of its existence. There is hardly any field in country more divisive than the politics is. Rahul’s own party has consistently showed its preference for minorities, read Muslims, resulting in the alienation of Hindus from it. This gave rise to Bharatiya Janata Party, which enjoyed power for six years and became the only non-Congress party so far to have that long stint in New Delhi. More than that, the most important question one can pose is this – is the political environment in the country conductive enough for new and young entrants? Just recently, Rahul’s mother Sonia got elected to the post of party president. How many in Congress party itself remembered Jitendra Prasad, a politician from Uttar Pradesh, who was only one to challenge Sonia for the same post in 1998-99. He was washed away into the oblivion after the unsuccessful attempt, that nobody again dared to repeat the feat. Sycophancy reigns supreme in all political parties in India, it is the only currency in Congress market. By cashing this currency, the political posts are brought as is seen by almost each level of organization and power occupied by offspring of political leaders.
As Rahul himself admitted, he got so far just because he has Gandhi tag on him. Can the same privilege be claimed by innumerable youths in the country, who, god forbids, wish to join the politics? Can the same youth be ‘inspired’ to follow the path of sycophancy in lieu of their physical progress into realms of power? Unless political and social equality does not take their roots into parties, what logic allows anybody to induce a productive section of population into yoking themselves to one or other form of subjugation? The youths are performing better in whatever they do.
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