In Rahul Gandhi's Amethi its Dynasty vs Development

I was seeing various election coverage of different News Channels from Amethi last night. From media veterans like Barkha Dutt and Dibang to more young and fierce Rahul Kanwal and many other reporters of all news channels have lately thronged the much-hyped and much-debated VVIP constituency of Amethi.

When as a viewer you thoroughly analyze the ground details you are bound to be amazed by perceptions and contradictions that this so called Gandhi bastion offers.

Lets first talk about a few takeaways from all these analogies-

The development of Amethi is actually a dream that hadn't been realised in last 10 years.  Their are ofcourse factories and industries in Amethi which largely find their origins in the times of Sanjay and Rajiv Gandhi and as of now maximum of these remain out of function.

If their are potholes on roads everywhere else in the country, Amethi certainly stands a little apart. Actually here you have to struggle hard to find a road among potholes. A popular rhetoric in Amethi is," Duniya mein Sadak lambai mein naapi jaati hai par Amethi mein hum gad-dhon ki gehrai naapte hain".

Amethi tops from bottom in UP when it comes to successful implementation of NREGA, one of the dream project of Rahul Gandhi in India.

If we talk about Rahul Gandhi's other close to heart projects, RTI in Amethi is in the same state as anywhere else in rural India, doesn't matters. As much as Women Empowerment is concerned, according to unconfirmed reports atleast 11 expecting mother's lost their unborn child's due to pathetic road conditions in last 4 months in Amethi region alone.

Rahul Gandhi talks about erecting 55,000 toilets in the area. If you go on ground and try finding one be sure in numbers they won't exceed the population of tigers in India.

So this was a little information of what Amethi has actually recieved after electing Gandhi Family representatives again and again from last so many years.

What saddens me most is the fact that even today lot of people mostly of older age talk about voting for congress. Their reason remain unanimously the fact that they have been doing it since forever and would stick to it. What they don't understand is that by even saying so they are eradicating and insulting the very idea of democracy.

I spotted an old person who said that Amethi should be obliged to Gandhi family because it is because of them that the area has gotten a revered recognition in the country. I indeed beg to differ a little.

 I also come from a small distict of Uttar Pradesh. In Delhi where I live today, hardly people who aren't from that region seem to have heard its name. I love it whenever my district makes it to news. I love it when people get to know about it for one reason or the other. But i would never want it to be recognized as a place of some underdog candidate who failed at delivering even the basic amenties of life.

For me its better to remain unnamed than to make a bad name. We all should remember what Lalu Yadav once did to Bihar. The identity of Bihar and Bihari has become a thoroughly used abuse all across the nation. People from this state has to start hiding their identity and were forced to pass themselves off as residents of bordering districts of UP owing to their dialect and lingo.

Amethi has to think now whether it wants to become another one of such example. Certainly Amethi has a lot more to it than being a Gandhi bastion.

Today it is clearly a fight between dynasty and development and a Gandhi winning this time would be a colective loss to Amethi as well as to an India of our dreams. Preserve it before it gets too late.

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