Congress was never a party that grew rooted in any particular ideology or set of principles

After independence, Congress was never a party that grew rooted in any particular ideology or set of principles, nor one that was built toward a clear, deliberate purpose.

Congress was never a party that created space to prepare and inspire its cadres around any ideology, or to grow and be grown with a sense of purpose.

Wherever a place is left empty, snakes, scorpions, termites, cicadas, and dogs move in and graze.

That’s what happened within Congress too — all sorts of things moved in and grazed there.

The BJP and the RSS themselves moved in and grazed within Congress. Only the label on the bottle still read “Congress.”

The vacuum created when Congress forgot to build itself into a party with purpose and principle became a disaster: when everyone isn’t sitting where they ought to be sitting, dogs, rabid dogs, termites, cicadas, scorpions, and snakes move in and take that place.

The BJP, good for nothing, arrived there howling out its hatreds — much like the termite that has infested the nation.

An inevitable termite, indeed.

The faction that has now seized all of India works just like those dogs that fill up the vacuum by creating chaos and filling it with filth.

Doing so easily, by filling a defeated, helpless people — already broken by mountains of ignorance — with lies, envy, and hatred.

Post-independence Congress became, and remained, nothing but a party that was merely a shelter for power that had fallen into its lap.

The parties that rose here and there in opposition to Congress, appearing to be an opposition, also contributed and introduced nothing — no lasting ideology or principle capable of sustaining life and stirring real passion — beyond some temporary, minor tricks for scraps of power.

Everyone played only with the grandeur and arrogance of the crow-king perched atop the coconut tree.

Without noticing or caring that the roots below were being completely eaten away by termites. They reveled until the tree collapsed.

Among the ruling and opposition power-parties, including a Congress whose only strength was physical numbers, any dog that could strengthen someone’s temporary hold on power could climb in and settle there.

Thus, both Congress and every other national and regional opposition party became nothing but power-shelter parties, wandering aimlessly among leaders who had climbed in without any real basis.

Every single leader in Congress and the opposition parties was, in truth, nothing but a local bully of their own locality — never truly a “Congress person” or a member of any specific party in any real sense.

None of them held any ideology or principle close to their hearts, and in that sense none of them gave their cadres any sense of purpose or inspired any real passion.

Such local bullies entered Congress and their respective parties only because those parties held power — solely to share in that power and enjoy its comforts.

All such local bullies were upper-caste.

Given India’s historical caste discrimination, only the upper castes could ever become local overlords.

That same pattern continued across the vast majority within these parties, except for token exceptions.

None of those who carried only superstition and caste-consciousness within them had any real regard for secularism, democracy, or socialism.

Nor did Congress or the other opposition parties, as institutions, ever clearly and firmly apply secularism, democracy, and socialism to anyone.

Secularism, democracy, and socialism remained nothing more than the colorful design printed on the outside of the packet — with no connection whatsoever to what was actually inside.

Most of these local bullies were, at heart, upper-caste religious bigots carrying an RSS-BJP-fascist mindset within them.

Congress and the other opposition parties, sleeping only in the comfort and coolness of momentary power, laid out the red carpet for such people to become carriers of that upper-caste religious-bigot, RSS-BJP-fascist mindset.

But none of this ever strengthened any party from within.

Those who had climbed in only for power, once power was lost — once the crow-king’s coconut tree collapsed — migrated to whichever other party still held power.

Nearly all of them ended up in the BJP. India became a country without even a single opposition party that had any real purpose or principle.

Across all seventy-odd years that fell into its lap: Congress never built up its own party, and it never had a leadership possessed of the ideological integrity and sincerity needed to want to build it.

No one ever gave the Congress party the ideological strength needed for survival and resistance.

Congress never had in its hands any ideology or principle with which to teach the people of India.

Perhaps these very same problems are what every opposition party across India faces today as well.

It’s only natural that the children born of Congress carry within them all of Congress’s own hollow, substance-less traits.

Beyond competing for power and desperately trying to hold on to whatever scraps of power they’ve gained here and there, neither Congress nor any of the remaining regional and national opposition parties across India have any ideology or principle capable of convincing the people and their cadres of “what” they stand for and “what for” — or of stirring any real passion.

No one built, and no one possessed, any ideology or principle of their own worth teaching — nothing beyond deceit, fraud, empty words, and rhetoric.

Because of this, no one ever ideologically or morally prepared their cadres.

As a result, neither Congress nor the other opposition parties have cadres anywhere in India who carry that spirit within them.

Neither Congress nor the other opposition parties ever made secularism into India’s religion, or into its emotion — they never filled Indian minds with it as a genuine, felt conviction.