The old adage " A person is known by the Company he keeps" is very true, more so in the case of those who govern/rule us.
Take the case of Duryodhana. Though he had access to extremely sane council in the forms of Bheeshma, Drona, Kripa and Vidura, he chose to surround himself with Sakuni, Karna, Jayadradha, Dussasana et al. which ultimately led to his doom.
We can find a similarity in Ramayana. Ravana chose to ignore the wisdom of his younger brother Vibheeshana, but rather opted to listen to many others who were either psychophants or scared of him to tell the truth. We all know what happened to him.
Indira Gandhi, who was an extremely insecure lady, listened more to her 'Kitchen Cabinet' comprising of her good for nothing son Sanjay, R K Dhawan, Sidharth Sankar Ray, than some of the eminent members of her Advisors, who were either being ignored or shunted out. This led to the imposition of Emergency and the rest is history. Perhaps the downfall of Congress, and India started then.
The current Congress leadership and Government takes the cake in this regard. One of the reasons the country is in such a mess. Sonia has a non constitutional body to advise her called NAC, which comprises of some first class idiots and anti nationals. Any Prime Minister who continues to bank on the advise of a moron like Montek Singh Ahluwalia (of the Rs 32 per day poverty definition infamy) dont deserve to even me a Panchayat head. Congress also took care to have an absolute non entity and chamcha named Pratibha Patil as President. It was only because of opposition parties support that the Presidency was saved with the installation of Pranab Mukherjee, who was the last person Sonia wanted as President. This was the same Government that appointed the super corrupt K G Balakrishnan as SC Chief Justice and had the notorious Navin Chawla as the Chief Election Commissioner. Can any PM worth his salt afford to have grade one idiots like Shivraj Patil and Sushil Kumar Shinde as Home Ministers or a good for nothing Meera Kumar as Speaker of Loksabha? And we are not yet talking about Ministers from Coalition partners yet. Food Prices are spiralling, and we have a disaster called Sharad Pawar as Agricultural Minister for nearly a decade. The less said about the ability of the 'future PM' the better. The guy is plain 'dumbo' and has already started having an influence on all major decisions, without any accountability, just like his mother.
Our only hope is that Congress dont change their ways to ensure they are kicked out for good during the next general elections.
