No PM can control his ministers if they try their hand at corruption, the kind of Damage YSR did to A.P is no less than what Yedi did, everyone let him do what he did, until he died and the Skeltons came tumbling out of the closet. No one is doodh ka dhulla sir.
I said it before, congress is corrupt, I accept. I just dont like how BJP handled Karnataka, and others. When congress was removing ministers from power (if I recall correctly, in Maharashtra), BJP was defending all accused party members everywhere. Not just this, in UP even accepted a throw away of BSP during election time. It wasnt just stepping on the axe, it was jumping on it. I can understand Karnataka, Yedi was too strong for them to handle, but how do you explain UP? Party with big difference. No other could replicate that!
The leaders in BJP are good, Arun Jaitely, Sushma Swaraj, LK Adavni and the others are the only ones who will form his core team and I believe they are equally good. Modi will be hard bent to show action, yes but he has been pitching for economical progress. I believe he at least has the experience and has proven many wrong about his worth, the NDA rule under ABV was a good govt. many leaders at the centre were these leaders itself.
Whereas, Rahul can also be seen as a person who has to show his worth if not what is the purpose of projecting him without any experience, what was his purpose of giving a speech on what LokPal should be and do nothing about it? The congress has some good leaders no doubt, why not put them forward?
The congress party has denied the good leaders the chance to run the country, only to make the faux Gandhi legacy remain relevant.. Pranab Mukherjee was pushed off the road with presidency, he was a brilliant politician, why make MMS the PM for a second term, cause he might make them irrelevant. Same with Chidambaram. I want to end this and Frankly, I do not see any leader from BJP except Modi to lead the country.
I don't know about current foreign and home minister, but can you find faults with MMS, Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherji, S M Krishna, A K Antony, Jairam Naresh, and many more? If only these men had not to deal with Mamata, Mulayam, Karunanidhi and all. Except for few matters of importance, I doubt Sonia/Rahul interfere with there work.
You want Modi to lead the country same way as Gujarat? You need to give him same power in centre as he has in his state. You cannot improve railway when your ally is crying over tiniest increase in fare. You cannot improve electric board if you cannot sell it at high price (as far as I know, Gujarat has second or third highest tariff). So much more. So many allies to cater.
As you said, Rahul has to prove his leadership. He could do it without taking any drastic steps, like he has been doing till now. Do all as his advisers told him to do. This option would not be available to Modi. Per chance some of his ministers don't listen to him, he would have to prove his image some other way.
Let us also talk about the draught in MH, it was an engineered draught, by drafting a policy which ran against the law of water allocation in a particular order and guess when this was done, from 2005 and who was the CM then, any guesses?
Adarsh scam, any idea who all were charge sheeted? Why there is no news of it? Coal blocks allegation by the centre? 2G Scam? Mate you cannot tell me the Yeddi story alone and brush every act of congress under the carpet..
Nitin Gadkari was also removed from the party presidency after his scam came to the fore...
My problem is not corruption. All are corrupt, there is no lesser evil. It is as I said above, how the parties handled the cases. BJP waited for the Lokayukt to take action, Congress did it on its own. In UP, the manner in which BJP accepted a tainted ex-minister was disgraceful.
Indra Gandhi, no one stopped her from Congress when she made the 84th amendment, if I remember correctly, it is as you said the democracy so do not tell me Congress can stop and BJP cannot..
Good or bad, Indira was special. Even Nixon was overwhelmed by her. No one from the current batch of politicians, from her grandson to the rusted, brittle 'Iron Man', would stand upto her toes. And she was congress itself. She didn't break the party line. But the way BJP leaders bend down to the rebels...
The infighting for the position of candidature of PM, I am expecting it to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys! Except if we still have a PM in waiting who would probably be willing to go to grave of Afzal Guru to get some more votes..