Democracy comes from ideas.

Counting the present incumbent India has had 15 Prime Ministers since independence in 1947, out of which 7 have been from the Congress and 8 from other parties. Of the 67 years since independence the 7 Prime Ministers of the Congress ruled India for a combined total of about 55 years while the other 8 were in power for a combined total of just 12 years, of which Mr AV Vajpayee of the BJP was Prime Minister for 6 years, from 1998 to 2004. So the 6, who were neither from the Congress or the BJP, held office for a total of 6 years. Only Mr Vajpayee and Mr Modi have never been associated with the Congress while all the others started life in the Congress Party but left it for personal ambition. Of the 7 Congress Prime Ministers, Mr Narasimha Rao was in office for a full 5 years, Mr Lal Bahadur Shastri held the post for 2 years, until his mysterious death in Tashkent in 1966, and Mr Gulzari Lal Nanda was twice Prime Minister for a shameful total of just 26 days. All these numbers indicate that the Nehru-Gandhi family has ruled India for 48 years. You may argue that Mr Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister for the last 10 years from 2004 to 2014 but he kept his seat at the pleasure of Ms Sonia Gandhi who ruled the country as an extra-constitutional authority, with full power but no accountability, with the advice of a bunch of communists in the National Advisory Council. So ineffective was Mr Singh, who boasts a DPhil in Economics from Oxford no less, that he left the country bankrupt, with eye-watering fiscal and current account deficits and a sizzling double digit inflation. Our credit rating was reduced to BBB-, which is one notch above junk status. In the north Chinese soldiers crossed into India at will, Pakistan in the west sent in terrorists and Mr Singh was in Sharm al-Sheikh 6 months later to beg for peace, to the south Sri Lanka arrested Indian fishermen from international waters and invited Chinese submarines to dock in its port and troops from Myanmar in the east crossed our border to harass local citizens. Yet there are journalists who hate Mr Modi and want the Gandhis to come back power. One of these poison pens writes," The fact is that the very issues on which the Congress lost the election are still there. They are the fanciful notion that one man has arrived and saved a nation of 1.2 billion. That honesty and integrity are in the possession of only a single politician. That India has successfully used force to impose its will on Pakistan at the border," and so on. Yes, one man has always made the difference. Through ideas, eg Karl Marx, Buddha and Louis Pasteur. Sarcasm does not need facts. But the writer is right to compare the Gandhis to the Mughals. Both came from abroad to rule us with the help of traitors. Like the writer.