Congress or the Indian National Congress (INC) is one of two major political parties in India. It was founded in 1885 and played a leading role in India’s Independence movement. It has ruled during most of India’s independent years and gave the country its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Leadership of the Congress too has been dominated by the Nehru-Gandhi family.
The Congress is a center-left party, and lists on its website democracy, nationalism, secularism, inclusive growth and social justice as its core values. It last ruled India between 2004 and 2014, but has since lost its sway, being reduced to just 52 seats in the 2019 General Elections. INDIA, the alliance headed by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, was an attempt to bring together opposition parties against the BJP government for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Together, the INDIA Alliance secured 238 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. The Congress won 99 of these.
Naseer Husain is a colourful man, a.man of many parts.
He started off with Red – was a hardcore communist, just like Umar Khalid claims to be. While in student politics, he was known for his sexual “exploits” – of course the victims were mostly Hindu women championing woke ideas while sporting Che Guevara t-shirts and spouting communist non-sense. His “prowess” as a sexual predator spread far and wide but he claimed to be a victim of Hindu conspiracy theories – as usual.
Then he had an eureka moment ideologically and joined the Congress. He oiled and massaged his way to be Kharge’s right-hand man. Even here, there were innumerable complaints of corruption and sexual offences – very serious allegations indeed. But again he managed to get away by playing the victim card – victim of Hindu “hatred”.
The SFI tried to capitalise and used him to consolidate the Muslim votes and later he ditched SFI and left with the Muslims. That helped ABVP to win. The first and the only time in JNU. He used his position in SFI and JNUSU and was a serial sexual predator. He quickly joined the congress and was posted in charge of the northeast. There he was accused of taking money for different kinds of corruption including in the illegal felling and sale of teak wood and taking money for seats. He managed to get the Rajya Sabha over hundreds of genuine congress workers. In fact Hussain manifests what the congress is and why it is falling
Isn’t that the case always?
Muslims start off their political careers as Left wing activists and leaders – usually in their student days. By the time they are in their thirties, they become rabidly hardline Islamic leaders – the Muslim face of their respective political parties. They spout Ghazwa-e-Hind nonsense and talk about the imposition of Shariat law across the nation.
That is what the future holds for the likes of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam.