இந்திய சுதந்திர தின நாளில் இந்தியாவை வாழ்த்துவது,சந்தோசப்படுவது ஈழத்தமிர்களுக்கு இன்றைய நிலையில் பொருந்துமா?

ஒரு தனிக்குடிமகன் எந்த முடிவையும் எடுக்கலாம். ஆனால், தமிழர் அரசியல் தலைவர்கள் நிதானமாக முடிவெடுக்கவேண்டிய கடமை உண்டு.

தமிழர்கள் எண்பது கோடி என்றாலும் நாம் ஒரு பலமான நிலையில் இல்லை. அந்த நிலையில் 1250 கோடி மக்களை கொண்ட இந்தியா இன்றும் எம்மை பிரித்து அடிமையாக்கவே முயலுகின்றது.

சிங்களமோ இன்றுவரை வெற்றிகரமாக டெல்லியை தனது பக்கம் வைத்து அதேவேளை சீனாவுடனும் பலத்த உறவுகளை கொண்டுள்ளது. நாம் முதலில் இந்த நிலையில் ஒரு மாற்றத்தை உருவாக்க வேண்டும்.

இந்திய சுதந்திரமா .....?

இந்தியா வேறை. இத்தாலி வேறை.

தமிழ்நாட்டார் எதை சுதந்திர தினமாக கொண்டாடுகிறார்களோ அந்த நாளில் அவர்களுக்கு நமது வாழ்த்துக்கள்.

அரசியலில் நேர்மையை கடைப்பிடிக்க, முடியாத இந்தியாவுக்கு சுதந்திரதினம் ஒண்டு தான் குறைச்சல்.

காந்திஜி பெயரைக் குறிப்பிட மறந்த பிரதமர்

புது தில்லி, ஆக.15: சுதந்திர தினத்தை முன்னிட்டு தில்லி செங்கோட்டையில் நடைபெற்ற விழாவில் பிரதமர் மன்மோகன் சிங் நிகழ்த்திய உரையில் தேசப் பிதா காந்திஜி பெயரைக் குறிப்பிடத் தவறினார்.

இது வரை நடந்த சுதந்திர தின விழாக்களில் மகாத்மா காந்தி, ஜவாஹர்லால் நேரு ஆகியோர் பெயர்களைக் குறிப்பிடாமல் இருந்ததேயில்லை. அவர்கள் வகுத்த பாதையில் இந்தியா சென்று கொண்டிருக்கிறது என்ற செய்தியைப் பிரதமர்கள் நாட்டு மக்களுக்கு உணர்த்தும் விதமாக இது அமைந்து வந்தது.

பா.ஜ.க.வின் வாஜ்பாய் பிரதமராக இருந்தபோதுகூட காந்தி, நேரு பெயரைக் குறிப்பிடத் தவறியதில்லை.

இது மன்மோகன் சிங்கின் எட்டாவது சுதந்திர தின உரையாகும். ஆனால் திங்கள்கிழமை நடைபெற்ற விழாவில் உரையாற்றும்போது இந்தியாவின் இரு பெரும் தலைவர்களின் பெயர்களைக் குறிப்பிடாமல் விட்டுவிட்டார். மேலும் இந்தியாவில் பிரச்னைக்குள்ளான பகுதிகளுக்கு ஆறுதல் அளிக்கும் வகையில் ஏதேனும் அறிவிப்பதுண்டு. அதையும் பிரதமர் செய்யத் தவறினார். காங்கிரஸ் தலைவர் சோனியா பெயரும் அவரது உரையில் இடம்பெறவில்லை.

இது உரையாற்றியவர் தவறா அல்லது உரையை எழுதிக் கொடுத்தவரின் தவறா?

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'இப்படியே போனால் இந்தியாவுக்கு சுதந்திரம் வாங்கிக்கொடுததது மகாத்மா காந்தி இல்லை! ராகுல் காந்தி என காங்கிரசார் பிரசாரம் செய்தாலும் ஆச்சர்யமில்லை' - மணி ( கருத்து )

The total population of the world is around 600 billion. India is around 125 billion. I don't think it is 1250 billions. Probably a typing error.

Why Sonia Gandhi is the most powerful person in India

By Sir Mark Tully

Delhi

The sudden announcement that Sonia Gandhi, the president of India's ruling Congress party and head of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, had left for America to undergo an operation has highlighted the extraordinary powers she enjoys and brought to the fore the question of her successor.

Sonia Gandhi shuns the limelight, but still holds great influence in India

Hardened members of parliament in Delhi wept when, after leading the Congress party to a surprise victory in the 2004 general election, Sonia Gandhi announced that she would not become prime minister.

Those tearful MPs need not have worried: Sonia was not about to go away, to leave them leaderless.

And now every member of the ruling party, from the top down, is worried about whether Sonia will recover to continue leading them, and if not, how she will manage the succession.

When Sonia gave up the chance to become prime minister, she made it clear that she would still be the boss by choosing Dr Manmohan Singh to do the job.

He is renowned for his honesty and his knowledge of economics, but has spent most of his life as a bureaucrat and politically he is entirely dependent on Sonia.

Sonia remained President of the Congress party. It is a position without any constitutional authority but she has ensured it makes her more powerful than the prime minister.

In the shadows

Sonia Gandhi's power derives from being the head of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty which has dominated Indian politics since the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister after India gained its independence.

Italian by birth, she became a member of the family by marrying the imperious Indira Gandhi's eldest son Rajiv.

Manmohan Singh has had to find the funds to pay for Sonia Gandhi's policies

Sonia never showed any interest in politics and did not want her husband to go into the family business. So long as he was prime minister, she remained in the background.

For six years after Rajiv's assassination, there was no member of the dynasty in the government or the party, but Sonia refused to fill the vacuum.

It was not until 1997, after the Congress had lost a general election and was falling apart, that Sonia stepped in to hold the party together.

The Congress party has unshakeable faith in the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, but Sonia also owes her immunity from criticism to doing the opposite of what a politician usually does - she avoids the limelight and shuns publicity.

By refusing to become the prime minister, she has left Manmohan Singh to face all the flak that office attracts.

She very rarely gives interviews, she says very little in parliament and she does not intervene publicly when the government faces crises. But Sonia does appeal to the public over the heads of parliament and the press by addressing rallies.

Once again, Sonia Gandhi has shown that, unlike most politicians in democracies, she does not feel obliged to explain herself

At her rallies, Sonia always puts across the message she learnt from her mother-in-law - the message which says: "I am on the side of the poor".

In order to demonstrate whose side she was on, Indira passed a number of radical socialist measures with unfortunate consequences for the economy.

Sonia has demonstrated her option for the poor by forcing Dr Manmohan Singh to establish schemes to guarantee work for unemployed villagers and subsidised food for a sizeable proportion of the population.

The prime minister has to find the money to pay for Sonia's pro-poor policies. But he is a cautious economist, and someone who has worked closely with him told me one of his favourite maxims is "money does not grow on trees". Yet he still has to find the funds for the pro-poor schemes because Sonia has told him to.

Secrecy and succession

Typically, there was no government announcement about Sonia's departure for America. The Congress party issued a bald statement bereft of any information about her illness or the hospital where she was being treated.

This was justified on the grounds that her health was a personal matter and the people of India were asked to respect her family's request for privacy.

Rahul Gandhi ® is next in line to succeed his mother

But India's two leading business papers did not agree to that request. One of them, the Economic Times, said the secrecy was reminiscent of the days of the Iron Curtain when "doddering old leaders of ruling Communist parties ailed, were hospitalised and died, and their countrymen were kept in the dark".

Once again, Sonia Gandhi has shown that, unlike most politicians in democracies, she does not feel obliged to explain herself.

What is more, she has demonstrated that she alone will nominate her successor, and when the time comes, he will be her 41-year-old son Rahul.

The Congress party has issued a statement saying that, while Sonia is in America, its affairs will be run by a quartet consisting of Rahul and three others whose only obvious qualities are their utter loyalty to his mother.

But there is one question which remains to be answered.

When the time comes for Rahul to succeed, will Sonia hand the party to him so that he can continue to exercise his authority in the way she has done, or will she feel that he should become prime minister?

In which case, he will have to explain himself and take responsibility for his decisions.