If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?

Congress has been an integral part of Indian politics since ages.

I represent the educated middle class of my country and I believe Congress has neglected me….for ages.

Congress is the farmer’s party, the village simpleton’s party. Party that lives by an age old agenda! Party that has reached a stagnancy in reforms. Party that is afraid to venture into the new realm of reforms. Reforms that don’t necessarily start in the villages. Reforms that demand a revolution. Reforms that demand a dynamic and fast thinking government. Reforms that cannot be implemented in a tried and tested manner but reforms that have to be implemented in a learn as you do manner. Though people of India have immovable, immense faith in congress leadership, what they fail to see is that the leadership is not really leading them anywhere, it is just running your country like say your mom runs the kitchen, no innovation, no experimentation, no breakthroughs, no progress but one day follows the other and everyday we get a meal on the table.

This is where I advocate that we need a BJP like alliance to govern us once in a while. To help come out of the shadow of the old man called congress. The last term that the alliance had at office it brought us a little revolution, a little dynamism, a little life, a little glimpse of the dream of progress. Remember the golden quadrilateral, taking mobile connectivity to villages, e-chaupal, improving the quality of education in the country, asserting India’s stand at world assemblies, giving it a sense of identity as a progressive nation in the world. That is the kind of progress that affects me directly. That’s the kind of progress congress has neglected! Though where BJP lost was on utilizing the “rural” votebank, a votebank upon whose sympathies congress has been playing for ages.

Congress has always been a party of votebank politics. And it puts so much effort into appeasing its vote banks that sometimes I feel the party has no spine. It has to appease the SC/ST, Dalit vote bank hence it will grant them more reservation, It has to appease the minority vote bank, hence it will mollycoddle them, grant them special privileges, It has to appease the huge north Indian vote bank in Maharashtra, hence the party refused to stand up for the rights of Maharashtrians!

Congress also has traditionally been the party of showman ship. Rahul Gandhi staying in a Dalit village, traveling in a local train, Priyanaka Gandhi waving to the crowds and believe it or not Congress pulls in votes based on the showman ship of these Gandhi kids! People who are not even officially a part of the official Congress leadership! Oh and the actual leaders that congress has provided….our madam president for example…come on….couldn’t they at least give us a president we could be proud of ?!

I m not saying I m anti congress. Congress has always been the party to bring about fundamental reforms in the country. Make judicious economic policies, handle crisis efficiently. But that is what congress is a disaster management technique not a progressive one, for that we need a BJP like alliance.

For ever 5 years of congress governance, 2 years of governance by BJP to balance out the kinds of progress that the two governments make.

Again, I am not anti congress. I am just pro progress.