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Rajiv Gandhi: The Worst Prime Minister India ever had

Atul Kumar Mishra
by Atul Kumar Mishra
20 August 2015
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While the debate around the best prime minister of India mostly converges around three names – Lal Bahadur Shastri, PV Narasimha Rao and Atal Bihari Vajpayee but there are simply too many contenders for the Worst Prime Minister Trophy. There is Jawaharlal Nehru, There is Indira Gandhi, There is VP Singh, Manmohan Singh, HD  Devegowda and IK  Gujaral. But all of these gentlemen (and ladies) had done at least one thing in their regimes that neutralized their misdeeds to some extent or were simply too inconsequential.

Like Nehru is accredited for some development work (obviously because he was the first PM and the scope was immense), and IITs and Universities,  Indira Gandhi is praised for the 1971 war. VP Singh quit before getting sacked, the stints of Gujaral and Devegowda didn’t last for too long to consider them worthy contenders. Manmohan Singh‘s biggest sin was that he was a lackey, a puppet of the Family.

So that, leaves us with just one name. Shri Rajiv Gandhi the name that finds its occurrence in almost every government schemes, state varsities, edifices, bridges, Airports and of course Congress manifestos. Shri Rajiv Gandhi is arguably the worst prime minister of India and inarguably the most overrated prime minister of India. If Rajiv Gandhi’s achievements were to be documented, the back of a postal stamp would be enough and if his failures were to be documented, well, there could be one massive book.

Here are some of Rajiv Gandhi’s failures as the Prime Minister of India:

Shielding culprits: Bhopal Gas Tragedy is certainly the biggest industrial mishap of India and one of the biggest in the world. Rajiv Gandhi allowed safe passage to Warren Anderson, the key accused in Bhopal gas tragedy case in exchange for the release of his childhood friend (?), who was serving a 35-year sentence in the US.

Read: Who is Adil Shaharyar?

Scammer: Rajiv Gandhi literally inaugurated the congress led mega scam festival with the help of his wife Sonia Gandhi and her Italian accomplices. The Bofors Scandal was first mentioned on Swedish Radio. It was alleged that the equivalent of sixty crores of Indian rupees were paid as bribes to Indian officials and Congress party members to secure the contract for the 410 howitzer guns to Bofors company of Sweden in face of stiff competition from a French gun company. It is also said Rajiv Gandhi rigged Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections of 1987 to favor its ally, National Conference. Leading political pundits ascribe the rise of Mujahiddins in the valley with the rigging of the ’87 elections.

Pseudo Secular: Rajiv Gandhi took Congress’s tried and tested strategy of Minority Appeasement to a whole new level by overruling a court judgement and enforcing an archaic law which took the right to alimony for Muslim women from their former husbands. He snatched the basic rights of Muslim Women in order to appease the Muslim clergymen who had and still have a domineering presence over the minds of Muslims. This is popularly known as the Shah Bano Case. Rajiv Gandhi cemented his position as the champion of Minority rights in India by getting Salman Rushdie’s book “Satanic Verses” banned.

Cold and Cruel: More than 8000 Sikhs were murdered in cold blood in and around Delhi as a retribution for the assassination of Indira Gandhi. He famously remarked “When a big tree falls, earth trembles”.

Here’s he uttering the infamous words:

Terrible Strategist: Rajiv Gandhi sent more than 100,000 soldiers (Indian Peace Keeping Force – IPKF) to Sri Lanka amidst the LTTE crisis. The IPKF had been mandated to disarm LTTE. He sent troops to Sri Lanka without even informing the Cabinet. It was a part of some masterplan which could never take off. The Indian army bore the ire of the locals and close to 1200 armed men ended up losing their lives. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE later on.

Here’s a Sri Lankan Soldier attacking Rajiv Gandhi in a State Event and in full public view:

So we see Rajiv Gandhi’s career is marred with inefficiencies, terrible decision making, dishonesty and general foolhardiness. However he is perceived as a renaissance man by a large section of Indians. The Congress governments left no stone unturned in eulogizing him. There are as many as 16 schemes in the name of Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv Awaas Yojana, Rajiv Gandhi Udyami Mitra Yojana, Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Shashaktikaran Abhiyan, Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana, Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowships for ST students, are among few of the schemes named after him.

History has been very kind to Rajiv Gandhi who in my opinion is the worst Prime Minister India ever had!

With inputs from this Quora Post.

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Comments 26

  1. Avatar Maninder Singh says:
    7 years ago

    Not to forget the The Rajiv Gandhi international airport at Hyderbad. When the state was ruled by congress they changed the name of the airport to RJI. People protested against this and wanted the airport to be named after many of their local heroes, but this didn’t happen. Even national heroes like Bhagat singh and subash chandra bose do not have schemes or airports named after them. All we see is Indra gandhi airport or Rajeev gandhi airport. #CongessFreeIndia.

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    • Avatar Jasprit Singh Bhatia says:
      7 years ago

      Kolkata’s airport is named after Netaji. Punjab government has proposed Mohali airport to be named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh.

    • Avatar Crappy 3 says:
      7 years ago

      I think the point Maninder was trying to make is, by default, everything is named after some Gandhi or Nehru across India… A few cases will be exception here and there like you mentioned…

  2. Avatar munsingh says:
    7 years ago

    Probably one of the other only contribution of his was listening to Sam Petroda and allowing the Computer Education into India in the ISC/ICSE boards.

    I am also for #CongressFreeIndia.

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  3. Avatar Sumit Arya says:
    7 years ago

    What a big gandu this author Mishra is…. Were you born out of your mother’s anus..? The very computer you are using was brought in by Rajiv’s efforts…. The whole IT brigade and digitization that modi is barking about would not have been possible without that.. The Maruti’s and various other to include in that list…. And Aadil was not released in lieu of Anderson… Just because some asshole sanghis like you spread this bullshit, does not means this is truth… Go and get back inside the very anus you came out from… Or keep licking the Modi and BJP ke “tatte” which you biharis are good at…. Mishra #Bhosdi ke

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  4. Avatar Biranchi Sankar Panda says:
    7 years ago

    Totally agree..

    Reply
  5. Avatar Arnab Sarkar says:
    7 years ago

    He may have had his faults but a balanced article should have credited him for ushering IT revolution in India .

    Reply
    • Avatar JumlaMan (Snoop Gate Wala) says:
      7 years ago

      Sanghis do not credit anyone…. They only follow in the same direction where another kaccha dhari is going..

    • Avatar Ashok Singh says:
      7 years ago

      yeah it can be documented on the back of a postal stamp, he said

  6. Avatar gaurav says:
    7 years ago

    The real source of corruption was sonia gandhi and now rahul gandhi.

    Reply
  7. Avatar Remorseless Beast says:
    7 years ago

    Please justify !!! Its your post, which you posted 22 hours back.

    Reply
    • Avatar Atul Kumar Mishra says:
      7 years ago

      I posted it in the satire section, now give me a 5

    • Avatar Remorseless Beast says:
      7 years ago

      High five

    • Avatar Ashok Singh says:
      7 years ago

      Sarcasm bro. :)

  8. Avatar MED says:
    7 years ago

    You shouldn’t have said that it ‘This led to a rise of countless Sikh militant outfits and an era of hatred and vengeance.’ – that leads the reader to believe that there were none before. You should have said that it worsened the conflict.

    Also, I think it would be appropriate to mention that Rajeev Gandhi came to power with the BIGGEST mandate of Indian history, just to contrast with how badly he let people down. And also it is probably relevant to know that today because another guy has become prime minister with, if not as big a mandate as Rajeev Gandhi’s, a big one all the same.

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  9. Avatar कपिल सांचीहर says:
    7 years ago

    Also mention how he become Prime Minister after Indira’s death when there were several competent congress leaders like one our current President.

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    • Avatar BhopaliGandhi says:
      7 years ago

      Oh dont you statrt again. When you have Rahul Gandhi now what is the point of looking for others. Infact, After Rahul Gandhi, Vadra sons are now being projected as Gandhis and there you go.. Continuous flow of leaders as long as they keep f****g.

  10. Avatar superasn says:
    7 years ago

    RAJIV CHOWK, IGI AIRPORT.. Every second place in India has either Indira or Rajiv in it’s name.. We celebrate children’s day because it’s “Chacha Nehru’s” birthday. A simple search for nehru and helena mountbatten reveals what kind of people he was.. so sad.

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    • Avatar BhopaliGandhi says:
      7 years ago

      well given the Childrens day is linked to Nehru, we should rename Children’s day as Production of Children’s day.
      The new Children’s day should be celebrated on APJ Kalam’s bday.

  11. Avatar MVM says:
    7 years ago

    Well, most of the erstwhile leaders glorified today had shades of grey….

    Reply
  12. Avatar Super! says:
    7 years ago

    Sir don’t you think instead of opening old graves you can remind Mr. Modi on his old tweets of Dollar/ onion prices and save him from being another worst PM?

    And as far as comparison is concerned Modi has also been accused of saving Jailed Minister like Yeddurappa/ Amit Shah, saving jailed rioters like Bajrangi/ Kodnani, transferring/ sacking officers who spoke against his cases, like Satish Verma/ Rahul Sharma/ Sanjiv Bhatt. Nepotism towards Andanis Australian deals or promoting close tained officers, Lawyers as ACB or Judges? Like Rajeev, he is also Infamous for irresponsible quotes during riots.

    Also like Modiji judiciary cudn’t prove anything against Rajiv Gandhi aswel. Though I agree as Rajiv G is the most overrated PM, but Modiji still have 4 years and some more court cases to go. And unfortunately his first year itself has not been very pleasant to the country. Lets think.

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    • Avatar BhopaliGandhi says:
      7 years ago

      here we go again.. Aaptards

    • Avatar Super! says:
      7 years ago

      Your intelligence stops here. Tumse na ho payega.

  13. Avatar Viki Vaurora says:
    7 years ago

    dont forget.

    He was responsible for banning ‘GANJA’, A holy-medicinal plant!

    From 1960’s, the US government wanted to ban the most medicinal plant across the world and create a taboo and a propaganda around Cannabis, also known as ganja and bhang in india. They created the first psychotropic meet at United Nations in 1961 and then in 1971 and forced every country to ban and prohibit the use of the plant so that they could establish the pharmaceutical culture.

    India resisted all pressures from the united nations for over 25 years. They said that Bhang is a holy medicine and its written in our veda and ayurveda that its a sacred plant. and india had a strong open culture towards smoking cannabis for recreational and spiritual purposes and many ayurvedic medicines used bhang in it to heal the people completely and remain healthy. India said no to Banning a HOLY plant.

    But not until this idiot came into power! INDIA PROhibited the use of Cannabis in Narcotic Drug and Psycotropic Substances Act of 1985 and included Cannabis as a schedule 1 drug with the likes of cocaine, heroine and Meth and hundred more chemically toxic substances.

    And Ever since, allopathy took a stong firmhold in our country and now they are poisoning millions of people and looting all the money in form of pills, injections, chemotherapy and radiation when in fact Cannabis alone can cure hundreds of diseases including Cancer and HIV.

    The law is highly unconstitutional. he stepped over the ‘Right to Life’.

    a loser of a prime minister indeed!

    Join the ‘GREAT LEGALISATION MOVEMENT – India’ to legalise and give the plant back to our suffering people.

    https://www.facebook.com/GLM.India.2014?fref=ts

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  14. Avatar Harish says:
    7 years ago

    It will be meaningful that let all the new proposed &
    built sulabh sauchalaya be named after Fake Gandhi.
    (as congi quote congress ek party nayi hai ek soch hai) & Vidya Balan quote in her campaign
    jaha soch hai waha shauchalaya hai

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