Shall we call them true leaders of our Democracy- Dr Sushma Dixit

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Dr.Sushma Dixit

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Shall we call them true leaders of our Democracy?

A Leader is a person who has the charisma of making others, his followers. A true leader is an amalgamation of compassion and coordination. But the acts of Jitin Prasad, Union Minister of State, Road Transport and Highways, RPN Singh, Minister of State, Petroleum and Natural Gas and senior congress leader Pramod Tiwari of kicking and beating a youth themselves in the presence of the security men on Monday just before the much publicized rally of Rahul Gandhi at Phulpur, has shaken my opinion of leader and leadership in the contemporary India.

Can they be called leaders, capable enough to lead a mass? Should they be allowed to be a part of the parliament of the largest democracy? Are they worth that?

  What actually were they trying to prove by beating a common man who waved a black flag against Rahul Gandhi, while he landed in Phulpur? Are they trying to be in good books of Rahul Gandhi or they were trying hard to be on number one position in Rahul’s good books. What was there actual intention?

 Had they been the true leaders of people, they would have tried to find out the reasons behind the waving of black flag and should have in-fact tried winning over the youth as recently the team Anna has been doing in different parts of the country. Certainly waving a black flag against any person is an un-welcome gesture but it is a part and parcel of the democratic system.

It is important on the part of the true leaders to find out the real cause of such acts. Leaders must understand the cause and the effect relationship. There must have been a cause on the part of that common man which led him to show the black flag. But these representatives of people chose to deal with a lay man in the most inhuman manner.

Infact, once Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, whom his grandson Rahul is trying to follow and symbolize in his constituency, had himself called a black flag bearer at Phulpur itself and talked to him about his problem and the youth had become his follower.

 But gone are those days, by such acts of few leaders the largest democratic nation is in-fact sometimes seen as the weakest democratic nation. Democracy is for the people, by the people and of the people. But here it looks as if autocratic system prevails in the name of democracy.

No level of explanation can ever justify their act. The step of taking law into their hands shows that they are either not aware of the true democratic values of the country or they do not believe in this. It is unfortunate that in the biggest democracy of the world, such self proclaimed leaders are themselves denigrating the values of the democracy.

A million dollar question is posed by this incident of hooliganism before the Yuvraj of Congress, why did Rahul Gandhi keep mum on this issue? Why did he not take any action against his party leaders involved in the assault?

After all he is claimed to be the future Prime Minister of the nation. If ‘future of nation’ keeps mum on such acts of hooliganism in full public view then only God can better explain the future of the nation!

Not only this, after all why the young Gandhi could not get enough anger to act against his own sycophants in this episode, as he had asked the UPites recently while asking them to rise against the UP Government.