Stinging Rebuke

Sandipan Deb is a self-proclaimed Leftist and hence would qualify as a friend of the Congress under the present circumstances. But even he could not take what's going on in Congress Plenary in full public view. The absolute and perverse show of sycophancy by Congressmen, young and old, experienced and new, falling all over each other to touch (metaphor) the feets of (their Highness) Rahul and Sonia can almost lead one to, as Deb says, PUKE.

Link Courtesy : Indian Express

Congress leaders and Cabinet ministers were in competition on how much praise could be showered on the Gandhis before they puked. (I am assuming that this collective Uriah Heeping induces some nausea in the bellies of the Gandhis. I sincerely hope it does.)

We saw the same cravenness two years ago when, after the UPA won the elections, hundreds of Congress politicians queued up to implore Sonia Gandhi to be prime minister. This disgusting spectacle of grown men and women — and many of them quite well-educated — debasing themselves shamelessly would have made any decent man’s skin crawl. I remember wondering, as I watched MP after MP jumping through hoops to prove their devotion to Mrs Gandhi, what Manmohan Singh, sitting next to her, was thinking. Because with every ringing eulogy to Mrs Gandhi, every promise that they would slit their wrists right then if she did not agree to be prime minister, they were also insulting and rejecting Dr Singh. Mrs Gandhi was, as usual, inscrutable, but the primary emotion any person with any sensitivity at all would have felt in her situation is contempt for these toadies.



Such a stinging rebuke even if it comes from a Left winger is always welcome.