So the Government has won the Trust Vote. I have to admit that I had wished it would lose. Not because it would have stopped the N-Deal (My objection to the N-Deal is in its current version that discriminates India and almost makes us a NPT country through the back door allowing us not to do future tests) but I sincerely believe that this UPA Government has not done much for the country, has been highly indisciplined on the economy front and in short its rule has been a disaster.
One of the hallmarks of the Congress rule is that it systemmatically destroys all Institutions. The communists are accused of not respecting democratic institutions. But in reality it is the Congress that has scant respect for any Institution.
Indira Gandhi has the dubious record of suspending democracy and declaring emergency doing irreparable damage in the process. She brought in the concept of 'Committed Judiciary', whereby Supreme court judges were appointed only based on their ability to give favourable judgement to the Congress party.
Rajiv Gandhi was a honest trier. But the offshoot of his regime was Corruption in high places becoming a norm than an exception. The Bofors scandal compromised the military and people ceased to be shy about accepting bribes. The degradation in moral values post during and post his tenure has been alarming.
Successive Congress Goverment has installed puppets in the Rashtrapathi Bhavan and various Raj Bhavans. Governors were posted based on their ability to subvert democratically elected opposition governments and were invariably trouble making congressmen. Less said about the Presidents, the better. V V Giri, who was annointed by Indira Gandhi was a disaster and he set the trend. Zail Singh, openly said that he will wipe Indira's shoes if required and the culmination was the election of the current President, Pratibha Patil, who is a non entity and who with her spouse are known financial frauds, cheats and swindlers apart from her husband being involved in a murder case.
CBI has been damaged beyond repair. It has been used to settle scores with political opponents and today it has become a laughing stock. The premier investigating agency is in shambles.
T N Seshan did his best to make the election commission independant and give it some teeth. But the situation is dangerous now. With Navin Chawla becoming the Chief Election Commissioner, the Commission has also been compromised. Chawla has a history of being a chamcha of the Gandhi family and has been involved in a major scam in 1970's.
Parliament was the only place not hitherto abused by the Congress party. But Narasimha Rao did his best to destroy that also by bribing JMM to get a majority in 1990s. The wheel has come a full circle. With MPs showing up the Congress and its alliance partners in a Camera for paying bribe to the tune of Rs 1 crore and displaying the notes in the well of the house, we have reached the pits. Add to it, the reluctance of the Congress party to execute Afzal Guru, who was the chief conspirator in engineering the attack on the Parliament in 2003 and you know how much Congress cares for the highest democratic institution.
