As someone who believes Indira Gandhi was India’s worst Prime Minister it shocks me when I meet people who think she was the best. Mostly these are illiterate villagers who sometimes think she is still alive because they have just received a house under the Indira Awas Yojana. Or some other sop under another scheme named for her. She was a clever politician,

Mrs Gandhi, and it was in her time that schemes paid for with taxpayers money were named after her or her Daddy. Congress governments have continued the practice because it is a clever way of using our money to pay for their propaganda. Simple, rural people can be forgiven for being fooled but what are we to make of educated young voters who vote online to declare Mrs Gandhi as their Dream Prime Minister?

A poll conducted last week by an English daily found that 13 per cent of those polled said Mrs Gandhi was their Dream Prime Minister. Sardar Patel polled the same number of votes but since he never had the job there is nothing to discuss. As a responsible political pundit who has written about Indian politics since the month in which Mrs Gandhi declared the Emergency I believe it is my duty to explain to young first time voters why it’s time they started reading their history books with a more investigative eye.

Let us examine her political ‘achievements’. Her admirers admire her most for winning the Bangladesh war. Congress Party chamchas rave about how this was the first war India won in many centuries. But, from a retrospective viewpoint all it has done for India is create an endless supply of desperately poor refugees who have come in such large numbers that they have altered the demography of whole districts and in Assam virtually the whole state. If this were not enough of a problem we now have Bangladesh turning into a centre for the jihad with established links to the worldwide web of Islamist terrorists who hate Hindu India.

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