Bikash
Choudhury
UPA chairperson & Congress President before leaving abroad
exhorted her Member of Parliament and party cadres to be offensive against
opposition or more specifically for BJP with their vocal cord; rootless,
listless and leaderless Congress Party in Odisha understood that for blanket
mandate for violence for which their leader would remain answerable at a later
point of time. 6th September
2012 Congress rally at Bhubaneswar
turned violent and poor police men and women were at the receiving end of their
fury in full public view and camera glare. The timing and scale of violence
perpetrated by Congress activists proves violence were pre-meditated, planned
and incited by their leaders to present the union Govt. with a law and order
situation to clamp Presidents’ rule; however, Congress managers failed
miserably and measurably with pants down as the National media peaked up their
entire antiques and telecasted in the prime time news. Odisha Police managed to
keep their cool and restraint in the face of great provocation which put paid
to, otherwise Congress plan to sacrifice the lives of innocent workers; who
would never come to know the design of their leaders. As the Congress leaders
would have understood by now; that, this unruly incident would not go
unanswered in the court of people of Odisha as and when next election takes
place. UPA II led by Congress has lost the mandate by half to rule at the
centre and in the State of Odisha it would have lost mandate to remain the
principal opposition by larger than half or little more; it just remains to be
seen, how many Congress candidates would loose their deposits. The forward
looking socio-economic policies of Naveen Patnaik Govt. and its emphasis on
tribal up-liftment in north & south Odisha would certainly rob Congress of
its traditional support base further down hill leaving the party high and dry.
Therefore, the entire Congress leadership in the State is deeply frustrated and
entirely clueless. There is a need of an active opposition in the State as an
oversight mechanism over the Govt.; I wish to offer two suggestions to State
Congress. One, they should choose a young, thinking leader and a man of letters
for themselves and two, they should think of a constructive program to gain the
confidence and trust of ordinary voters. Congress, which swears in the name of
Gandhi and Nehru, certainly can’t regain its lost laurels with the help of
senseless violence and rowdies in the State.
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