Congress should be dissolved!

Prof. Josh Sreedharan
Mon, 13-03-2017 02:10:40 PM ;

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If I say this, I may be branded anti-Congress. As one who was associated with it for sometime this is certainly not the reason though I am not a Congress follower now! Then you may wonder why I speak against its very existence which is ontological in my approach and not material at all.

 

It is the law of nature that every being, organic or inorganic, should decay and retreat after a point of time. That is mortality every being is thrown into from which nothing can escape! If you add some meaning to your existence, then you can console yourself of having done your job for which you are created and pay way for your exit which is teleology!

 

From this perspective, Gandhi wanted the Congress to be dissolved soon after Indian Independence. Being a staunch Hindu, Gandhi believed in the reincarnation of the divine in different forms in different ages with a specific mission, the avatars, and once it is achieved, one looses the defense of its continued existence and hence has to retreat.

 

Gandhi well applied this philosophy to the ontological existence of Congress Party when its practitioners actually wanted to reap the fruit of the Party's mission to their material advantage in the form of power, wealth, pleasure etc. Because of democracy, Gandhi had to withdraw and Congress flourished under its very capable leaders. The legacy of congress later was used to create cults and the thrust was on family and its coterie than on the welfare of the nation.

 

When one grows beyond senility, it is more than functioning but malfunctioning. When it comes to individuals, the casualty will be the kith and kin of the senile being. When it comes to a system, either it is to be rebuilt or demolished for the beneficiaries of the institution. In the case of Congress, it is the people of India.

 

But the structure of Congress is reduced to no structure, the veins of it have no blood, it cannot be rebuilt. So the only option is demolition which is what I mean dissolution of the party which in other words, is mercy killing. 

 

Unless it is done, we are doing injustice not only to this great avatar which performed its function well in the past, now being reduced to a butt of ridicule but also to Indian society which will never be able to march forward with the changing times.  


josh sreedharan Josh Sreedharan is Professor of English at Department of Studies in English & Dean, Language Faculty at Kannur University

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