satire: British come back

  

 

Before I come to the main part of this article, tell me what is common between George Yule, William Wedderburn, Alfred Webb, Henry Cotton and Annie Besant? Yes, first is all the above happened to be British.  The second, more important, all of them have been the Presidents of the Indian National Congress. As you may be aware, the Indian National Congress was founded by an English Indian Civil Service officer, A.O. Hume in 1885 AD. Since then, there have been so many changes in the Indian National Congress Party and so many many times it has undergone split that one may have forgotten the count. The funny thing- whenever there was split, the faction that was in power boasted of its being the original and real Congress. Each warned us to be Beware of the  other. The Congress undoubtedly has played the pivotal role in freedom struggle. Before and after the independence, the Congress has been divided so many times that if you sit down to write all about it, your write up will qualify as dissertation and may earn Ph.D. for you.

 

The funny thing- whenever a new Congress was formed it could not completely snap off its umbilical cord from the original Congress. That explains suffixes and prefixes viz. Congress (O) Congress (N) Congress (I) Congress (Urs) Congress A to Z. There once was a division probably the first one into the Liberals/Moderates and the Hardliners (1907) . The number of experiments that have been done with the Congress has hardly been done with any other national political party. But the Congress in power was always considered the real Congress. The rest of the A to Zs either faded away from the political firmament sooner or later or came back to dissolve their Party/Identity with the Congress all over, popularly called 'Home-Coming' You should understand that many parties came out of this Gangotri called Congress. Be it Samajwadi, Lok Dal, Forward Block, Republican Party, Trinamool Congress etc. Shyama Prasad Mukherji was in Nehru's cabinet, later separated and founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1951. The Bharatiya Jana Sangh also took part in the first election of India (1952) and won not one or two but three seats to the Parliament. The founding fathers of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh were Shyamaprasad Mukherji, Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Balraj Madhok.

 

America's main two parties, the Democrat Party (election symbol donkey) was founded in 1828 and the Republican Party (election symbol elephant) was founded in 1854. Remember, America became independent in 1776 AD. Similarly, the two main parties of England, the Conservative Party (1834) Labour Party (1900), did not suffer any major break up. First ever break up rather DOO (Difference Of Opinion) between these parties was an issue-based difference. In America in 1860, the issue was 'slave system'. Back home it is more of a battle for power. You may give whatever name you fancy as a poor cover-up. In heart of hearts we all know the aim is high chair in the Conference Hall.

 

 

The Congress made all efforts on its part but nothing could be done. Now whatever the reason/reasons. The Congress has never lived so power starved. It is famine & wilderness all around for more than a decade. If this depravation continues, they (Congress men)  will forget how to rule. Before they forget, voters are bound to suffer selective dementia. Politica leader or cine actor formula is same 'If you want to sell yourself you have to be seen'  what is seen, is sold. Out of site out of mind. Also  out of E.V.M. panel. Jaishankar Prasad the great playwright says in one of his plays, "The pearl called Ambition lives in the shell called Ruthlessness." So, I believe! you request the British "Brother !!  please come back take care of our Congress, you created. None knows better than you, you know it inside out, just like the one who has created/installed the bank's safety system he also knows loopholes and know how as to how to breach it silently without fanfare. This is how they show in English Bank Heist  films. Just like the manufacturer of the car who is aware of all its nuts-bolts".

 

So send them mercy petition: "Let us forget! In 1942, we had mistakenly launched the 'Quit India' movement. Now we launch the movement 'British Come back to India' No more 'Quit India' now with more vigour (quantitatively) it is 'Quickly Come to India'  We regret 'Simon Go Back' after repentance and due penance it is 'Simon Come Back'