CORRUPTION and the GANDHI dynasty

"I would go to the length of giving the whole congress a decent burial, rather than put up with the corruption that is rampant." --- Mahatma Gandhi May 1939

Mahatma Gandhi said these words when he finds corruption in ministry of congress formed in six states in the year 1937. He would not have thought that the congress of his dream will fall so deep in the corruption that it will loose its leader not once but twice. The Gandhi family which has been dominant in the Indian National Congress for most of India's history since independence and has ruled India for most of the 64 years since independence has kept the world's largest democracy in poverty.
Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi have been Prime Minister of India, the latter two of which have been assassinated. Sonia Gandhi is currently Congress President, Rahul Gandhi, a member of Parliament and General Secretary of the Congress Party.


Jawaharlal Nehru , on corruption once said that there is no need to fear from the corruption as the money is in the country and now only the destination is unknown but the corruption is very well known in the Gandhi dynasty. There had not been any term in which corruption issue did not rise while gandhi’s led congress was ruling the nation. It seems like congress and corruption cannot live without one another.
The list is way too large but few to consider are:
Emergency: On 12 June 1975 the High Court of Allahabad declared Indira Gandhi's election to the Lok Sabha void on grounds of electoral malpractice. But Mrs. Gandhi rejected calls to resign and announced plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.
By using her strong parliamentary majority, her ruling Congress Party had amended the Constitution and altered the balance of power between the Centre and the States in favor of the Central Government. She had twice imposed "President's Rule" under Article 356 of the Constitution by declaring states ruled by opposition parties as "lawless and chaotic", and thus seizing control.
Rajiv Gandhi was sincerely trying to change the political system, but he quickly gave-up when the old guard would not budge. The Bofors scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India's 155 mm field howitzer. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before, and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi's ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections. It has been speculated that the scale of the scandal was to the tune of Rs. 400 million.
Corruption cases like Fairfax, HBJ Pipeline, and HDW Submarine deal came up since then.  The famous Bofor’s deal is well known.  Narsimha Rao was the first Prime Minister being prosecuted in corruption charges.  Cases like Rs.2500 crore -Airbus A-320 deal with France involving kickback (1990), Harshad Mehta security scam (1992), Gold Star Steel and Alloys controversy (1992), JMM bribery case, Hawala scam of Rs. 65 crore and Urea scam (1996) also came up during the period of Narsimha Rao Government. 

It looks likes that the DEEDS of NEHRU, INDRA and the RAJIVwas not sufficient in sending the nation to the stone age. The real master stoke by the GANDHI DYNASTY was yet to be showered on the nation in form of CWG and 2G scam. There is a very famous saying in India that EK DIN BACHA MAA- BAAP KA NAAM ROSAN KREGA, which holds true for GANDHI PARIWAR from all angles.
Rahul apparent ascendancy, and uncertain leadership qualities, have raised questions about whether a family political dynasty is compatible with a modern democracy. No one knows whether the Indian politics will ever be able to recover from charisma of the GANDHI’S or not but it is very unfortunate that the Indian National congress is completely dependant on one family; the total surrender of a national party to one person is deplorable.