Khaleequr Rahman: The nation celebrates the 66th birthday of Sonia j...: Mohd.Khaleequr Rahman and Mrs.Sonia Gandhi at 10, Janpat, New Delhi December 9 is an important day in the history of Indian politic...
Sunday, December 9, 2012
The nation celebrates the 66th birthday of Sonia ji
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Mohd.Khaleequr Rahman and Mrs.Sonia Gandhi at 10, Janpat, New Delhi
December 9 is an important day in the history of Indian politics. This is the birthday of our beloved selfless leader Mrs.Sonia Gandhi's birthday and today she celebrates her 66th birthday and the entire nation in one voice salutes her for her sacrifice for the country and the nation and prays for her long life and wishes her a very happy Birthday. Mrs Sonia Gandhi was born on 9 December 1946 in Italin
City Barsano. She has two sisters who now live in Barsano. Sonia Gandhi belongs
to a Roman Catholic family. In 1964 she took admission in Cambridge School of
Language where she met Rajiv Gandhi. In 1968 she married Rajiv Gandhi. After
Rajiv’s death she became the member of CPP in 1997. She became president of the
Congress in 1998. In 1999 she was elected an MP from Amethi. She was elected
again in 2004 and 2009 from Raibareilly.
She became the best choice of
Rajeev Gandhi, who hailed from the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, the best known family
of India. They were married in 1968. After the tragic death of her husband
Sonia ji led a life of recluse for more than six years. But congressmen looking
for a charismatic personality to lead the party ultimately succeeded to bring
her into active politics and she became the president of All India Congress,
incidentally fifth from the Nehru family, other four being Mr.Moti Lal Nehru,
Jawhar Lal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. In no time she became dual
chief of the Indian National Congress party and its parliamentary party and
thus emulated her husband, her Mother-in-law, Grandfather-in-law, Rajiv ji,
Indira ji and Nehru ji who all held the two posts during their career.
Grand performance and miraculous
achievement by the congress party were the result of Herculian efforts of Mrs.
Sonia Gandhi in the Election campaigning. Having witnessed the hondurous murder
of her mother-in-law Mrs. Indira Gandhi and then loss of her husband Rajivv
Gandhi and after a democracy of a decade she stepped forward to handle the
reins of congress party. Her Road shows extending over every nook and corner of
the country from Shri Nagar to Kanya Kumari, from Kutch to Assam rejuvenated
the congress party. Her efforts accompanied by her diplomatic moves to form
pre-poll alliances steered her way to a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha.
With the spirit of the aforesaid messages, leaders of 19 non-N.D.A parties
gathered at 10, Janpath, the residence of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi on the evening of
May 16, 2004 and unanimously elected her their leader and asked her to form
Government.
Cumulatively, the parties that
represented at the said meeting accounted for 322 M.Ps. far above the required
magic number of 272 needed for simple majority. This was the outcome of the
flexibility which she has shown in forging alliances and accommodating
different parties throughout the Campaign. With promises of support from other
parties the support for Sonia Gandhi led Govt. was bound to be in the range of
350, approximately two thirds majority.
But a silent and dramatic
revolution was in waiting for the country. Indian masses who were forced by the
political scenario during the last decades equate policies with greed and
governance with graft witnessed a unique selfless act of renunciation by the
leading politician of the day accompanied by ascension to the office of Prime
Minister of the most squeak clean person ever to have entered into the
political arena.
By refusing the Prime Minister’s
chair Mrs. Sonia Gandhi has shown the nation that she is the true successor of
the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and that she has acquired the spirit of patriotism of
which her father-in-law Feroz Gandhi and her grand father-in law Pt. Jawahar
Lal Nehru both are outstanding examples in the history of freedom movement of
India alongwith Moulana Mohd.Ali Jouhar and Moulana Abul Kalam Azad. The impact
of this silent revolution can be easily seen. Pre-poll allies of the congress
have sunk their difference and reservation and backed Sonia Gandhi. They did
sop first to accept her as their Prime Minister and again to accept her choice
of Dr. Man Mohan Singh in her place.
The issue of Indian origin or
Italian origin also seems to have been settled for ever. Sonia Gandhi has
proved beyond all doubts that one does not become INDIAN solely by birth.
Indianness can be earned and acquired by following Indian culture and
traditions. It needs love and selfless commitment and the strength of will to
put the interest of the country above one’s own. Sonia Gandhi’s renunciation
and self denial has left the opposition without any agenda. Sonia Gandhi’s
unprecedented move has touched India and more so Hindu India at a much deeper
level because the ideals of selfness and renunciation that guided her action
are embedded in the core of Hindu religion.
Mrs.Sonia Gandhi announced in the
Central Hall of Parliament that in obeyance of the dictates of her inner voice
(conscience) she was not accepting the leadership of the house. Thus, by
following the dictates of her conscience Sonia Gandhi, knowingly or unknowing
has shown her faith in one of the strongest pillars of democracy. By doing so
she has also exposed the hollowness of the intolerance of her opponents who
were advocating about her foreign origin. By a single historic action Sonia
Gandhi has reminded the Indian masses where the true strength of sacrifice
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Khaleequr Rahman: Government wins FDI in retail war in Parliament
Khaleequr Rahman: Government wins FDI in retail war in Parliament: The ruling UPA government got a much-needed boost as it won the vote in the Rajya Sabha on foreign direct investment (FDI) in re...
Government wins FDI in retail war in Parliament
The ruling UPA government got a
much-needed boost as it won the vote in the Rajya Sabha on foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail,
paving the way for Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to press ahead with more reforms,
including freeing up a cash-strapped insurance sector.
Getting support once again from the combination of Mulayam Singh Yadav's
Samajwadi Party (SP)
and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the government won the day in the
Rajya Sabha by 14 votes.
In the house, the opposition-backed motion got 109 votes and the government 123
votes. One member, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, was away playing a match against
England in Kolkata.
While the Rajya Sabha vote was symbolic, the government's victory is a boost
for its push to implement an economic reform agenda that is seen
as crucial to reviving growth and reducing a bloated fiscal deficit.
Minutes before the voting process began, the SP walked out of the house with
its nine MPs, bailing out the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) -- as it
had Wednesday when the Lok
Sabha voted on the issue.
On Thursday, day one of the debate on the issue in the Rajya Sabha, Mayawati
had said in the house that 15 MPs from her party would be voting with the
government.
Both the BSP and SP support the government from outside.
The government had already won a vote on retail reform in the Lok Sabha two
days earlier. The policy will allow global retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores
Inc to set up shop in the country's $450 billion retail sector, and is aimed at
drawing more overseas investment and taming inflation.
Although both votes were non-binding, defeat would have piled pressure on PM to
roll back the measure.
Moreover, the main opposition Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP), having seen its motion to block retail reform
defeated, is likely to obstruct moves to allow foreign direct investment (FDI)
in the insurance sector. The BJP wants a 26 percent cap set on investment,
against the government's proposed 49 percent.
"We will oppose any move by the government against the recommendations of
the standing committee on finance which has said it should be 26 percent,"
Prakash Javdekar, a BJP leader and spokesman for the party, told Reuters on
Friday.
Money has flowed into India's capital markets since, and Goldman Sachs last
week upgraded India's outlook, but formidable hurdles remain to get the economy
back on track.
India's economy is set to grow at its slowest pace in a decade in this fiscal
year, and the government's overspend on subsidies on fuel and food has prompted
global ratings agencies to warn of a downgrade.
FDI win is rejection of politics of BJP: Kamal Nath
The government Friday termed its winning of the FDI vote in the Rajya Sabha as
a "rejection of the politics of the BJP".
"It is a rejection of the politics of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), I
wish they were better losers," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath
told reporters outside Parliament House minutes after the United Progressive
Alliance (UPA) government won the vote in the upper house.
Asked how the Congress managed to work the numbers in its favour in the upper
house where it is in a minority, Kamal Nath said: "The content (of the
issue) was political political parties decided in our favour."
"I appealed to parties to recognise the BJP's political agenda and vote
accordingly, and they did that," he added.
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