Rahul Gandhi tries to teach lesson in ‘magnanimity’, gets reminded of his family legacy of pettiness
Op IndiaFollowing the demise of Tamil Nadu’s former chief minister M. Karunanidhi last night, a controversy erupted over the burial of the mortal remains of the DMK patriarch. Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who had smiled eerily while visiting the ailing Kalaignar a few days back, took this as an opportunity to try and score a political brownie point by asking the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu to be ‘magnanimous’ in this time of grief by letting the Marina beach be the final resting place for Karunanidhi. https://t.co/7hL9h0Ju6L — Dr. Latha August 7, 2018 Former Congress President and Rahul Gandhi’s mother Sonia Gandhi loathed former Prime Minister and Congress President P.V. On 27th December 2004, M D Nalapat, Indian academic and columnist wrote : In fact, despite being a former AICC president and a prime minister, Narasimha Rao was not just excluded from the Congress Working Commitee since the current heir to the Nehru dynasty took charge of the party in 1998, he was not even allowed to become one of the numerous ‘special invitees’, most of whom get selected for their cheerleader skills rather than any other contribution. And the final humiliation of Rao before his remains left for Hyderabad : The next day, December 24, the body of the former Congress prime minister was brought to the gates of the AICC office at 24, Akbar Road and kept there for 20 minutes, ‘to pay homage.’ Apparently, the body was so heavy that it would not have been possible to lift what was left of PV from the gun carriage into the Congress headquarters, which would have been the civilised thing to do.