Rashtriya Swabhiman Manch [National Self-Esteem Forum] FIGHTING againstCongress High Command Structure2 Political system creating Desperate Destitution at every level 3 Sons of Indira Gandhi as Successors 4 Mini Demonarchies of India: Who was Rajiv Gandhi?:

The Rashtriya Swabhiman Manch [National Self-Esteem Forum] was founded. I( Yogesh Saxena Nee  Yogrekha alias Swami Yogrekha Anand) am a member along with Govonda Acharya Ji,  Uma Bharti Ji , Sanjay Nirupam Ji, Jaya Jaitely Ji  and P.A. Sangma Ji.

Congress High Command Structure:
 The structure of the one and only one organization, the Indian National Congress, under whose banner diverse groups fought the British, had only one controlling command center called “High Command” which was totally undemocratic not unlike the Soviet inner cabinet. The leaders at the top in Delhi including, Gandhiji, Nehru, Patel and a few others controlled the party. There was no grass roots democracy. The party commanded from top to bottom. While the High Command was justified to fight the enemy, the British, it was never intended or justifiable as a model for democracy. The continuation of this structure led to idolatry of the then freedom fighting self-sacrificing leaders evolving in the current dynastic rule. Later the high command was replaced by the Congress Working Committee. There were no organizational elections in the congress party for the last 25 years. The Working Committee acting as High Command virtually rules the party and the Country. The power is so concentrated in a few hands that from one State, U.P., 9 of the 13 Prime Ministers were elected.

To contest for an election either at the level of State legislature or at the Center (parliament), candidates are selected at state level and approved at the center which retains the tight-fisted overall control. The selected candidates are given “tickets”, a process unheard of in the U.S. or other democracies. There were charges that these tickets were sold and the state congress party leader in Andhra Pradesh made millions in 1995. By this practice, if one party is in overwhelming majority it can control the entire leadership of the country. There are no primaries to select or elect the candidates freely nor re-runs when multiple candidates contest. Democracy is “just in name” and if not a “farce” in the Democratic Republic of India.
 Political system creating Desperate Destitution at every level:
 The so called Socialist Government of India by planned economy is almost a sole monopolistic employer commanding the power to distribute jobs as political patronage with very little free enterprise as an alternative.  What little free enterprise was there had to submit to the control of the State and thus the politician in power directly and indirectly controlled all private enterprises for they had to obtain licenses to start and operate a business. Even after liberalization, one cannot open a gas station without a Government license.
Early on, the political patronage controlled and interfered with all employments as well as business permits and even college admissions. Once employment is obtained, the person was still subject to the control of the state since he could be at will, without any reason, be transferred from place to place, a process reversed by begging his benefactor for whom he and his family is expected in gratitude to vote his/her way or bribe in cash or kind.  Such large-scale transfers were started during British days, un-heard-of in any free country, which affect every employee top to bottom, teachers, doctors, clerks, and bankers, except mailmen.  The consequences of “dislocation” are that the affected person can never establish lasting social or even family relationships or own investments or a home in any community. Children of such transferable job-holders developed only superficial relations with their peers, which is unhealthy psychologically during the formative period of their personality. In the U.S people forgo a job promotion in order to avoid moving for their school-age children.
This kind of control on a citizen breeds desperate destitution (“laachari” alluded to in Part I of this article on www.sookta-sumana.com) and sense of servility (“dasyu vritti”) stripping man’s dignity, leaving the helpless feeling in him/her that the only way to survive is to beg on ones knees.  Such laachari or desperate destitution is so endemic and ubiquitous in the British and post-colonial India that it has become an inherent ego-syntonic feature of the Indian National Character to the point that it is confused with humility (Namrata). Obsequiousness is thus seen as a virtue while it is a symptom of a toxic political system afflicting every individual in India in some measure, through unconscious cultural internalization, whether he/she knows it or not. Such “Dasyu vritti” seen in the blood and bones of majority of Indians stemming from “laachari” must not be confused with “Vinaya” or “Namrata.”
 Sons of Indira Gandhi as Successors:
 When Indira Gandhi was defeated after the emergency, Sen. Patrick Moynihan exulted in praise of Indian Democracy. That excitement was short-lived because of an inept Government that succeeded her. She came back to power and got an amendment to the constitution altering the preamble to the constitution stating that “Republic of India shall have a Socialist Government with a purpose to distribute wealth.”  In actuality no sane Indian would be opposed to the slogan of “Gareebi Hatao” or “eradicate poverty.”  By implication she created an illusion for her psychological warfare with her political rivals to make them look like they obstinately preferred to keep India poor. Indian constitution was thus on a course to be amended 94 times by the Congress government in 58 years after the birth of the Republic. Her earlier amendment exempting her election to the office to judicial review was rejected by a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of India which stated that a right to amend did not include destruction of the constitution and the amendments should conform to the preamble! So she cleverly decided to change the preamble itself to make “socialism” as the over-riding governing principle of the constitution and subject to interpretation to suit the ruling congress party. 
“Socialism” a buzz word slogan, used by her father, was thus included in the Constitution without defining it just as the buzz word “Secular” was used in the Indian Constitution without defining it, subject to being interpreted variously and indeed entirely idiosyncratically on the Indian political scene. 
Harold Laski, the author of the “Grammar of Politics,” will not recognize any true “socialism” in the Indian democracy, nor will he recognize “democracy” as the form of government in India, although Jawaharlal Nehru is said to have chosen Laski as his idol.  Indira Gandhi practiced socialism by nationalizing banks and capitalism by financing her son’s unsuccessful adventures into free enterprise, including Maruti Car manufacturing.  Unable to raise private sector capital Sanjay made a run on the banks and obtained unsecured loans after nationalization of banks.  He vindictively retaliated against those who previously questioned the loans.  In short he terrorized the bureaucracy at the Center.             
Nothing said herein needs to be interpreted as the authors being opposed to pristine socialism or secularism which are essentially lofty guiding principles if not corrupted by the politicians and the judiciary.

During and after the emergency, Indira’s youngest son Sanjay Gandhi was next to her directing the Government. Politicians from different states courted him. When he came to Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) a Congress M.P.  and later Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (K. Raghuramaiah) introduced him to a public gathering saying, “I served your father, I served your mother, and I am ready to serve you the rising son of India.” Such was the Indian sycophancy, an illustration of “laachari.” Sanjay Gandhi was shoe-in for the post of P.M. But fate had it otherwise. He died in reckless adventures with aircraft flying. Also, Indira Gandhi, soon thereafter, was assassinated.

After Indira’s death the most capable successor to the post of P.M. in the cabinet was P.V. Narasimha Rao. He was a poet, an author, linguist, statesman, and a diplomat of considerable experience. He was, however, not to succeed Indira Gandhi as it would break the succession to dynasty. The cronies of Indira Gandhi, within hours of her death, while her body was still warm, before her cremation was complete, inducted her other son Rajiv Gandhi to the position of P.M.
 Who was Rajiv Gandhi?
 Rajiv Gandhi, who along with his brother went to England to study, married an Italian and was content to be a pilot. Although he was the older of the two, he was initially not a candidate for the throne. He was, in stark contrast with P.V. Rao, a mediocre student and showed no signs of any distinction. In the records of Government of India listing of the Prime Ministers of India, it is stated (with some pride) that Rajiv never was interested in “studies”- which were defined in this document as “mugging for the examinations,” disparagingly implying that sincere students interested in studies are “muggers” and the elite chosen to rule the country and hold the helm of the national affairs was a cut above them during his formative years for neglecting his “studies.”  Obviously, his concept of education and learning was limited to “Mugging.”
Two of the remarkable tragedies during his brief rule were interfering in the free elections in Kashmir sparking years of terrorism, and another, sending troops to Sri Lanka to control the Tamil Freedom Movement in which effort several Tamils were killed and which finally resulted in his assassination. He was also accused of promoting the retaliatory killings of Sikhs in Delhi after his mother’s assassination.

P.V.N Rao, a non-dynasty leader, succeeded Rajiv Gandhi, who for the first time in the history of Independent India led India to liberalizations of economy, partly because of his own political philosophy as well as efforts and partly propelled by the World Bank conditioning the liberalization. With all his brilliance, he was perhaps the most monumental of the P.M.s India has seen. He needs to be given his due credit for initiating the process for Indian “abhyudaya,” but sadly he shared the common trait with almost all other modern congress leaders, that of “corruption.” He was accused of corruption, tried, and disgraced. In this manner the history of India will, we are afraid, deface him rather than recognize him as the father of economically strong modern day India.
 Cronies of Nehru Family, who themselves have no ability for leadership, ganged behind Sonia Gandhi, the wife of Rajiv, and elected her as the Head of the party. Anyone opposed to her was removed from the party for ‘disciplinary reasons’.
 They arranged Darshan (holy viewing) of her by crowds in Delhi. To show that she was the leader, they arranged dancing before her residence. One man stood on a bus and declared that he would commit suicide if Sonia was not elected a premier (P.M.). But Sonia does not or cannot give press interviews or hold a press-conference. When she came to the U.S no press correspondent including any reporter of Indian press was allowed to talk to her for the fear of exposing her.  Her only claim for leadership, - in fact entitlement, - is that she is the daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi and the latter died in her lap! When B.J.P Government fell, she claimed the post of premier but because of certain constitutional challenges she was made to withdraw her application by the President Abdul Kalam, for which he is paying a price of not being supported by her party for the second term.
 Although she is not the Prime Minister, she acts as one, by sitting next to the current Prime Minister.  Virtually she is in control.
 Sonia has a son and a daughter, both of whom are spoken for leadership. A congress leader in A.P. recently called for Sonia’s son to be elected as the leader of the party. That is where the Nehru Dynasty stands at the moment.  The Indian media have been wooing Sonia’s son and daughter for many years now and building for last many years the groundwork for her succession. Thus the dynasty will be perpetuated regardless what the people want or by asserting that the dynasty is what the people actually want.
 Mini Demonarchies of India:
 If the dynasty is acceptable at the center, where, because of the distance from the states mystery can be maintained, the process can be effective in the states as well. In Andhra, N.T. Rama Rao was succeeded by his son-in-law and new attempt is made to induct his son into politics. Laalu Prasad Yadav of Bihar went to jail on corruption charges and his wife kept the court and held the fort until he returned. M.G. Ramachandran was the Tamilnadu Chief Minister succeeded by his wife Janaki Ramachandran and the “other woman” (his mistress) Jayalalitha succeeded the latter claiming that she was the wronged woman (Wikipedia). (Shashi Tarror in New York Times).  We have the other established case of Sheik Abdullah succeeded by his son Farooq in Kashmir, and in Orissa Navin Patnaik succeeded his father Biju.  In Tamil Nadu, Karunanidhi is trying to anoint his son Stalin as his successor and grooming his daughter of a second wife to be a Central Minister. In Maharashtra, Sharad Pawar of Nationalist Congress Party is grooming his daughter by making her a member of Rajyasabha. Even in Shivasena of Maharashtra aspiring to establish national presence two rivaling mini-dynasties have recently emerged.  So the phenomenon of using democracy to build dynasties keeps on going.  This is also the plight of many other fifty some political parties that are emulating the Congress party or UPA.  The phenomenon is also seen on the Bollywood scene.  That brings us to closing the circle by asking the question: Is monarchy in the eyes of the beholder because of the deep-seated fascination for the same in the population of the immature democracies or are there small groups who are exploiting the fascination for monarchy in the immature population to gain and retain the power in some influential families by manipulating the population at large and by manipulating the political system they call democracy?

 The first public rally of the Manch will take place on December 22nd at New Delhi and the second rally will be held in Chennai in mid-- January. The RSS and the VHP have been invited to send their representatives, and I am hopeful that they will participate.
2. The Manch main goal is to unite patriotic Indians who accept that the UPA government is a threat to India’s national security. To understand this, it has to be recognized that UPA Chairperson Ms. Sonia Gandhi has a hidden anti-national agenda. Moreover she has been lying to the Indian public about herself and her family’s past [see “Know Your Sonia” in www.janataparty.org for details] and that she has deliberately reduced the Prime Minister to a dummy to denigrate the nation.
3. As part of her anti-national agenda, Ms. Sonia Gandhi has relied on the advice of a cartel of five Europeans, and used her political stooges who are Union Ministers or Nehru family retainers, to terrorise the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha to take her “most painful decision” to involve the Kanchi Sankaracharya in a murder case on flimsy, tenuous, and contrived evidence. This so that a more pliant Shankaracharya in the North can emerge in the vacuum thus created and legitimize and bless Ms. Sonia Gandhi to lead the nation in near future.
4. Ms. Sonia Gandhi has already shamed the nation’s self esteem by forging her party’s alliance with those parties which praise the killers of Rajiv Gandhi and say his assassination was justified. No Indian widow would ever do that. Kannagi chose to burn down a kingdom rather than tolerate such a thing.
5. In fact, all those who had spewed poison on Rajiv Gandhi have been welcomed to her side. Ram Jethmalani for example took money from Chandraswami [see my letter to MDMA-enclosed] to carry on a campaign of hate against Rajiv Gandhi. But now he is on her side, and was her party’s candidate for the last Lok Sabha from Lucknow.
6. Hence, unless she or her Italian family had contracted the LTTE to kill Rajiv Gandhi, her going soft on that terrorist organization or welcoming Rajiv-baiters to her fold cannot be explained. According my information, Ms. Paola Maino, Sonia’s mother,who contracted the killing has had long term connections with the LTTE, and their family friend Quattrocchi has been selling weapons to the LTTE.
7. Hence, patriotic Indians should join the Manch to save India from a third impoverishing and debasing enslavement by foreigners.

                                                                                                            Yogesh Kumar Saxena

                                                                                                                         Advocate, High Court

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Founder President- World Citizenship Group Foundation, Swami vevekanand world ethical foundation,

Executive Member- World Parliament Experiment conference 2008 at Bonn (germany),

Vice President- Geeta Asharam  International Cheritable Trust, Rishikesh, Pauri Garhwal

Ex Senior  Vice President- Advocate’s Association, High Court, Allahabad