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Congress Mukt Bharat! What India Wants and What India Needs?

With the win in Assam and the results of West Bangal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala giving clear indications that public has more or less lost faith in Congress Party, BJP’s slogan of “Congress Mukt Bharat” is shaping into reality. With every election, the political space of Congress is shrinking and the party which once ruled almost entire India is looking like a regional party. So is it the start of a long period of political insignificance for Congress and if it is so what does it mean for us? Congress has ruled India for more than 50 years since independence and during that period there was almost no challenge to its power in either Centre or States. Immediately after independence, since it was the only political party connected to the Indian public and because of the presence of leaders like Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and many others, public did not even looked at anyone else. However, if we look into the history, we would also see that

Self Before Others

Ever given it a thought that why do we all want to go back to our childhood at least once in our adult life? Why does the laughter of a baby feels like the most melodious sound that we ever hear in our life time? There is a simple reason behind these feelings. A child is only concerned about his/her own happiness and the sound of his/her laughter has its roots in the innocence that does not know how to think beyond his/her inner satisfaction. Now you may think that acquiring this kind of behavior would make us selfish and would go against all that we have been taught  about the social behavior through out our lives. However, it is here that we need to sit back, relax, compose our mind and radicalize our entire thought process. Ask yourself a simple question, can a bank offer loan to its customers if its own treasuries are empty? Can I offer bread to a hungry man if I do not have a single piece of bread in my own kitchen? Similarly a mind that is not happy and that is not at peace