In Steven Soderbergh‘s Ocean’s Twelve, there is this brief interlude between Linus Caldwell and Rusty Ryan (played by Brad Pitt) at the railway station:
Linus: Hey, can I ask you something? You ever notice that…
Rusty: If you’re gonna ask if you can ask me a question, give me time to respond. Unless you’re asking rhetorically, in which case the answer is obvious – yes.
Rahul Gandhi may be no Pitt, but he seems to be mastering the art of asking questions for which the answer seems to be obvious to everybody but the heir apparent.
Exactly five months ago, upon his debut at the AICC, he said that if the Congress needed to become a party that represents the youth of the country, it needed to do two things, the second of which was to build a “meritocratic organisation“—oblivious to the fact that a first-time MP wouldn’t have made it to the AICC in a meritocracy.
Mystery repeats itself. During his visit to Chamarajanagar yesterday, he said:
“When there is democracy in the poll booth, why does it not exist in political parties?”
Of all the people, when Rahul Gandhi asks this question, should we laugh or cry?
If he is being sincere, then Rahul is only demonstrating his ignorance and lack of intelligence. But then his father too delivered a famous speech in the 1985 Congress centenary celebrations in Bombay decrying corruption.
Still as questions go, this is an easy one to answer.
But who will tell Rahul Gandhi that the Nehru-Gandhi family is primarily responsible for the death of intra-party democracy in Congress, which has proven to be the paradigm for all the other political parties.
Funny. If only Congress had enough democracy to allow its leader to be told that his family is responsible for some of the ills that the party and the nation suffer from!
churumuri 
People should be held accountable for their statements they made. If Rahul does seem to stifle intra party democracy in order to facilitate himself to become the prime minister or some other minister, people should remind him of his own statements. The problem with most politicians is that they do not stand by their own statements once they see the power and money. Past statements are disqualified by merely categorizing them as quoted out of context in the press or media.
As long as we do not see any politician standing by their own statements in the past you can not trust them and you might as well disregard any statements they are making right now.
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All of them will disown statements they made, calling it misrepresentations of the media.
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Congress and democracy is like “enne-seege kaayi”.
Congress Party is a nehru family owned private limited company.
All these discovery etc are drama enacted by nehru family chamchas. If they are for democracy in the party, y not promote young leaders like sindya, sachin pilot, naveen jindal etc?? y this buddhu rahul??? only.
It is just crocadile tears infront of inocent people. Media is also promoting nehru family by shamelesly calling Rahul gandhi as “hair apparent”, “prince”etc.
Looks like english media has forgotten that ours is democratic country!.
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Who is Rahul Gandhi? what is contributon to Indian Politics? why is he getting such a gand reception?Is this because of media?
I feel it funny when people with a expereince of 35/50 years of public service like Kharge, Dharm Singh bow infront of Rahul Gandhi:-)
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Rahul to promote Dalits, not sure about Kharge !
Indian Express yesterday reported an interesting question-answer session that Rahul had in Chamrajanagar. Rahul said ” if there ia young and bright dalit youth i will push him in any position”. The media then asked Rahul: If its comes to power will Congress would make Kharge, a dalit, the CM ? Rahul was non comittal and said ” This is a Delhi issue and i do not want to come between Delhi and Karnataka”.
What does one make of Rahul reply ?
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look at the media attention a L-BOARD wannabe politician who happens to be a gandhi , is getting. even kannada media is going ga-ga.
jinke , kaadu kona nodi yuvaraja nige romaanchana
soligara kunitha nodi my maretha yuvaraaja
koli maamsa chapparisida dore maga. list goes on.
his statement on KHARGE clearly shows congress ‘s intent, they treat dalits,sc st as votebank only. this will lead to mass rejection of congress by dalits and jd s ,bsp will gain from it.
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come on hallu doctor,of course JDS will benefit. no one else. all dalits will join JDS and do Mudde Gowda’s domestic work. for a moment pl spare the polititian other than Niddhe Gowda
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Hey I am also Gandhi, Can I rule the countyr?
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the sanjevani assholes called this rahul guy ‘naadaprabhu’.. im disgusted
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Yaro Obba Gandhi,
Nimmathavru election nithre, tevaninu ulisikollola.
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Dr. Ramesh,
Nimma listu sogasagithu. I cant help but cut and paste it again:
jinke , kaadu kona nodi yuvaraja nige romaanchana
soligara kunitha nodi my maretha yuvaraaja
koli maamsa chapparisida dore maga.
Please give us the full list!
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Daktre,
You left out the piece where he ate Ragi-Mudde in a soligara haadi
:)
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Daktre,
Correction, it was Ragi Rotti with Jenuthuppa
:)
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Mr. Yaro Obba Gandhi– you are Gandhi as you say or Gandy as Feroz was!
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mayura,
avaru yaake ragirotti tintaare, avaru yeniddru fulll non-veggu,
ragi-rotti namma DEVE GOWDRU tintaare.
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dr.,
Deve gowdru, Kumaraswamy non-vegu yaavaga bitbitru?
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K. Haida —
My disgust was no less intense than yours when I saw that line in Sanjevani. Isn’t it a paper owned by Tamils but run by Kannada journalist coolies?
Dr. Ramesh–
For once we agree on something. The adulation, using feudal metaphors, is clearly an indication that even those among us who can read and write have little self-respect. We saw the same kind of behaviour when Sanjaya Gandhi came to visit.
Indira Gandhi kicked Devaraja Arasu in the face; her son dismissed an ailing Virendra Patil. Nothing can happen with the Karnataka Congress unless the bili doresani and her council of Shakunis command Krishna and company to do this and that. The very phrase, “High Command,” is nauseating.
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Shobhi–
Shorten your name to a more pronounceable one. I think a Kannada equivalent would be heartwarming.
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