Posted on: 27-02-11 21:45:37
Indira Khan (or Gandy ??) - A legacy best forgotten
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She is one of the worst things to have happened to India. If she had used her power in proper direction India would be heaven now.
* Worst possible crime. Criminalisation of politics. She started patronising criminals in UP to get elected. And now we have people with worst possible crime records getting elected.
* Not to speak of organized corruption and elaborate patronage network, which hasn't been broken till now
* Sanjay Khan (or Gandy ??) - FORCED sterilization.
* Overturning Democracy - Emergence Rule - trying to get dictatorship
* She left the 93000 Paki POWs without getting anything in return. Kashmir problem could have been solved once for all.
* LTTE was her creation. How can one forget the training camps for tamil seperatists she established in coastal TN. It simply alienated the Sri Lankans from India and in return Indians got bunch of fanatic terrorists.
* To counter moderate Akalis in Punjab, every time she dismissed their government and started encouraging the extremists. Bhindranwale was her Frankenstein. And then she had operation blue star to get rid of him.
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Originally posted by puttoo
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Originally posted by sguk
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Why India is a Weak Power - b/c the top job is reserved for a family??
Why no outrage against Gandhi (Feroze Gandy aka Feroze Khan) family
This family you are talking about has shown more " G mein dum" then any other leader in India.
Perhaps you need a quick lesson on Indian history. In 1971 at the height of cold war - inspite of American presidents warning, Indira Gandhi went ahead and broke Pakistan. She showed the same "G mein dum" when in 1984 she was able to get control of Siachin, which was a stategic victory.
Compare that with the impotence show by out leadership during the Kargil crisis or after the parliament attack. In the first instance it had to rely on American support to have Pakistan vacate the heights. Then again after the parliament attack they mobilized the army and had them battle ready for six months. In the end the leadership buckled under pressure from America and had to withdraw without getting anything in return.
In the recent case of mumbai attack, again the leadership of the country showed maturity and did not do any sabre rattling but instead got involved in serious diplomatic initative. That is the reason today every country from US to Uk to Germany to France are calling on Pakistan to act against the militants inside its territory.
This post was started on comparing between India's and Pakistan's action. To a person who thinks negatively about India, it would seem that India was not strict. But again the facts are there in the open now. Rahat commited an economic offence and he had to pay the fine before he was allowed to leave the country. Pakistan could not say a word ....... On the other hand the way Pakistan has handled the Raymond Davis affair, it has done nothing but earned bad rep for itself. A number of people in Pakistan are begginning to relize this. But then that is a different story ........
I agree with all that you have said. In today's society you have extreme left and extreme right and there nothing that can change their position. However, I think the most valuable or participating segment lies in between who swing their votes based on their direct or indirect interests. I think this segment is growing with every passing day in India and that is the driving force for improvement in India or at least I wish.
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Originally posted by sguk
Indira Khan (or Gandy ??) - A legacy best forgotten
see this points:
She is one of the worst things to have happened to India. If she had used her power in proper direction India would be heaven now.
* Worst possible crime. Criminalisation of politics. She started patronising criminals in UP to get elected. And now we have people with worst possible crime records getting elected.
* Not to speak of organized corruption and elaborate patronage network, which hasn't been broken till now
* Sanjay Khan (or Gandy ??) - FORCED sterilization.
* Overturning Democracy - Emergence Rule - trying to get dictatorship
* She left the 93000 Paki POWs without getting anything in return. Kashmir problem could have been solved once for all.
* LTTE was her creation. How can one forget the training camps for tamil seperatists she established in coastal TN. It simply alienated the Sri Lankans from India and in return Indians got bunch of fanatic terrorists.
* To counter moderate Akalis in Punjab, every time she dismissed their government and started encouraging the extremists. Bhindranwale was her Frankenstein. And then she had operation blue star to get rid of him.
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Manjeet Singh
True that no party should stay in power for too long. Is there something we can do about the corruption by govt servants? The politician can be removed possibly in 5 years but the government servant not till he is 58. Before that he does great harm to the society. There is this scene in Shankar's movie "Indian" about a corrupt govt. servant cursed by Manorama that the fellow was so corrupt and greedy that he wont leave even the food grains (given in last rites) from inside a dead man's mouth. True to this statement, we do find many such employees in government offices and PSUs.
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