Welcome again Lord Clive

When the British landed in India as traders, no one gave them a chance in hell that they would achieve their goal of ruling this vast land. India was an amazing labyrinth of castes, creeds, colour, religion, illiteracy, ritualism, occult, a bit of learning and a lot of bluff.
The learned men said the British would just not be able to play the game well enough to keep a sizeable number of people with them. After all the British, a tiny shipload, could not have fallen back on what is commonly called the strength of numbers.
Amazingly enough one astute Lord Clive, a robber and ruffian more than an officer, for whom India was a punishment posting managed to do it.
Yes India always was a punishment posting and if you are not convinced please rent a DVD of the Mel Gibson starrer ‘Patriots’ and see for yourself where the British Viceroy is sent after Gibson’s ragtag US Army defeats the pompous redcoat.
Sometimes in a land of vast differences remaining focused on the goal is the only way to success, all affiliations and biases be damned.
I’m coming to this because for every Indian who says the days of one-party rule in India are over, and coalitions are the only way out, there is some egg waiting to hit their faces in probably under a decade’s time.
The Congress will steamroll every party in sight in the next few years to emerge as the sole ruler of this vast land, like the times of Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Their Lord Clive of course would be Rahul Gandhi.
My conviction stems from the fact that it is the only party that has mastered the art like the British of running with the hares and hunting with the hounds.
Look at how its government has been slowly using the Naxal movement to first wipe out the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram which gave strength to the BJP in the tribal pockets of India, and then used the red rascals to demolish the Left in West Bengal. The fact that a Red Rascal could tomorrow become Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and do to the present Congress leadership what his Sikh band did to Indira Gandhi is no worry to the Congress. That is called focus.
In Maharashtra, it allowed the MNS to tear into the Shiv Sena. Never mind if the MNS comes to the table with the kind of venom that could poison an ocean.
Never mind that migration is an accepted fact and more and more north Indians will come into the state.
Never mind the fact that when these north Indian bands get organised into stronger political groups, they would also come out to fight the MNS and other sons of the soil brick for brick, knife for knife, turning Maharashtra into some of the villages of Assam where Bodos, Asoms, Bangladeshis, Islamists and Biharis carry out bloodbaths like civic corporation anti-malarial fumigation.

Because the Congress knows that as long as the Sena is in a process of going downhill and the MNS’ fortunes are on the rise, the Congress will never lose a general election in this state. And that could be a minimum of 25 years.
To break whatever little stranglehold the BJP may be having on the Hindu votes- very negligible- the Congress is allowing largescale secession of castes and sub-castes and tribes from the mother religion.
Look at how it allowed missionary activity in Orissa, Jharkhand and the north-east to build up its own base there. In Assam to counter the Asom students’ movement, it allowed the entry of lakhs of Bangldeshi Muslims, enough to change the demographics of some of the areas there. Which is the biggest party in the north-east?
It is playing the same games to divide the Sikhs in Punjab and Hrayana? Who won the recent elections in Haryana?
The BJP does not know whether to be a right of centre progressive party or a left of reason Hindu party.
The Communists do not know why they are opposing the naxals when the naxals are just doing with force what the bhadralok leadership in Bengal have been doing with talks?
The Samajwadi party does not know why Maulana Mulayam’s charm is not working anymore?
The Shiv Sena any which way you looked at it was always a party made by a man who went from drawing cartoons to becoming a cartoon.
The MNS is too thin on logic and the problem with goonda parties is that they prosper only till the victim is a lamb. Remember how the Samajwadi Party lost its teeth, brains and limbs when its goondagardi was matched man to man by behen Mayawati? To day the SP cannot get a hundred people if it wants to organise a rasta roko fearing how devilishly Mayawati’s administration will come after them.
The Nationalist Congress Party is just an apology of a party which runs on the whims and fancies of Sharad Pawar and the promise that there is lot of money to be made from Maharashtra, so staying together means the loot can be theirs and staying away from Congress means they do not have to share the loot.
The Karunanidhi led DMK will soon lose out because the old man’s love for his large brood means sooner or later the mercurial people of Tamil Nadu will bring the party to its knees. Plus none of the old man’s brood has his charisma.
Jayalalitha is too arrogant to be a national player.
That leaves Mayawati and it would take at least another quarter of a century for the party to gobble up the votes being shed by the BJP and the other mainstream parties. Which leaves us with just one party and its Lord Clive. Enjoy