Once upon a time, a tailor came to a King’s court and said that he was the best tailor in the world and he can stitch a special type of royal dress, which ONLY wise men could see. The king was impressed with him and ordered him to stitch one such dress for him. The tailor took measurements and went. The word spread around that the tailor is going to stitch a special dress for the king, which only wise men could see.
The following week, the tailor came with the dress. He opened a bag in the court in front of all and showed the dress. There was nothing in his hands. At first people could not believe their eyes. However, they could not make any negative comments about the dress, since it would have meant that they were not wise. Everyone pretended that they were seeing a dress in tailor’s hands. Even king praised the dress, for fear of exposing his wisdom. Within few minutes, everyone knew that there was no dress, yet they praised the texture, design, fitting etc.
The King, after removing his clothes, hesitantly wore the ‘new dress’ and took out a procession. As the king’s procession began, people on streets started laughing in their minds about the king’s foolishness, yet openly they only praised the special dress. This went on, till a small child from the crowd shouted,” See the king, who is in his Chaddi and Banyan…!”
This triggered the murmurs, which only grew louder that the king was actually not wearing any dress as such. Soon the king also realized that there was no any special dress that he was wearing.
Today, the Congress is projecting Rahul Gandhi as its Yuvaraj. The senior Congress leaders know very well that he does not have the qualities required for a being Prime minister. Yet, the Congress party is giving him more and more assignments, thereby increasing his responsibility. He has not yet won a single election decisively. He has not made any powerful speech in parliament on any grave national issue so far, except the so called ‘game changer’ speech made on the Lokpal issue, which he read out during the zero hour.
He has campaigned for several state elections in the last few years and the list of Congress candidates losing their deposits has only grown bigger.
Currently, he is entrusted with the UP elections. He is touring across UP and making speeches repeating everywhere that the elephant is eating money and that BJP is communal. He is also making some incoherent statements like ‘BJP has sold Ram earlier and now Kushwaha has purchased BJP’. By any stretch of wild imagination or complicated logic, this statement does not make any sense either in part or full. After the Delhi high court blast, he had made a statement that the intelligence agencies in India are preventing 99% of the blasts…!
Yet, the Congress is pushing him more and more into the forefront. If Sonia pushes him, it is understandable, because it is human nature to love one’s son. But what has happened to the other leaders in Congress? Do they really believe that he will win them elections? Are they not risking too much by riding on his shoulders?
The cracks in UPA allies have already started appearing. Mamta Banarjee is challenging the Congress supremacy and daring to part ways at all levels. Sharad Pawar is not having any inhibitions in voicing his desire to review continuation of the alliance with Congress in Maharashtra. DMK is already bruised so much that they are sure to call quits at an appropriate moment. Without these three allies, they would be a poor minority in parliament. In such a scenario, even support from Mulayam and Laloo would not suffice to build up the requisite numbers.
Till how long will the Congress leaders praise the ‘special dress’ worn by Rahul? When will a child shout and say that there is no special dress in reality? Till that happens, the Yuvaraj is going to go berserk with all his amateurish talk and the poor Congressmen will have to keep defending his actions and words.
A small child is urgently required by Congress… who can dare to speak the truth…for its own benefit..!
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