No responsibility, only excuses. Will it work?

A panel led by Mr AK Antony, loyal servant of the Congress and faithful follower of the Nehru-Gandhi clan, has blamed the Congress rout in the general elections in May on inflation, corruption, the excessive media focus on Mr Modi, leaving no time for the Congress to get its message across, and the majority of Hindus voting for the BJP because of an assumption of Congress bias for minorities. Perhaps the biggest problem for the Congress is that it is filled with people like Mr Antony, who though personally honest, are too ingratiating to tell the truth to Ms Sonia Gandhi. There was great mirth in the Lok Sabha recently when first time MP from Coimbatore, P Nagarajan started his question saying," My namaskaram to my leader, Puratchithalaivi Tamil Tai Amma and our honorable Speaker known as Hindi Tai ..... Madam with blessings of our leader, Puratchithalaivi Amma, I want to raise my first supplementary question." But is sycophancy for Ms Jayalalitha any different from sycophancy for Ms Sonia Gandhi? If a majority of Hindus voted for the BJP it was not because we label others as heathens or kafirs but because there was a definite fear of persecution by the Congress. The youth of today may not care much about religion but they do care if being a Hindu becomes a crime in itself. Mr Antony blames the media for focusing on Mr Modi, completely forgetting that it was the Congress which put Mr Modi in focus by instigating the CBI to file a series of false cases against him. This gave Modi the opportunity to enumerate all the cases of corruption in the 10 years of Congress rule and to question Mr Robert Vadra's land dealings with great relish. Mr Vadra, son-in-law of Ms Gandhi, was absolved of any wrongdoing by the Congress government in Haryana. The problem with sycophants is that they think that if people do not worship Ms Gandhi, like they do, it must be a misperception because of a failure of the Congress to communicate properly. That suggests that people are stupid and is insulting. That there were a multitude of scams during Congress rule is a fact. When the Prime Minister excuses all cases of corruption by invoking " coalition dharma " then the Congress becomes an accessory to the loot. The indecent haste with which Ms Sheila Dixit, former Chief Minister of Delhi, was appointed the governor of Kerala was seen as trying to protect her from being investigated for the Commonwealth Games scam. The trillions of rupees looted in the succession of scams led to an explosion of black money which is one very important reason for the runaway inflation. The other was the wasteful handouts by Ms Gandhi, creating a massive deficit which led to a fall in the rupee and a rise in the cost of oil. A leader has to take responsibility.