Fooling the People

A small news item caught my eye,

"Meanwhile, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that she had wanted her son and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi to become a minister.

"I wanted Rahul to be made minister, but he refused," said Sonia Gandhi."

So another renunciation drama. 4 years back there was this big tamasha of Sonia apparently giving up the PM's post as if it is a great sacrifice when she was actually been told off by the then President that she can't legally be the PM.

Now she want us to believe that Rahul Gandhi also made a sacrifice for the party and the people by refusing a ministerial post.

But then why be a mere junior minister when you can be the prime minister. And why be a Prime Minister when you can be the de facto Prime Minister enjoying unlimited power without any accountability.

Some people can have the cake and eat it too.

But it will be wise of her to remember this,

"You can fool some people all the time, all the people some time, but you can't fool all the people all the time"