Talk:Indian National Congress

Quote removed from page

The following quote was removed from the page by another editor. Please discuss whether it should be included on the page. Cheers! BD2412 T 20:37, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

• The Congress at the present stage... what is it but a Fascist organization? Gandhi is the dictator like Stalin, I won't say like Hitler: what Gandhi says they accept and even the Working Committee follows him; then it goes to the All-India Congress Committee which adopts it, and then the Congress. There is no opportunity for any difference of opinion, except for Socialists who are allowed to differ provided they don't seriously differ. Whatever resolutions they pass are obligatory on all the provinces whether the resolutions suit the provinces or not; there is no room for any other independent opinion. Everything is fixed up before and the people are only allowed to talk over it... like Stalin's Parliament. When we started the [Nationalist] movement we began with the idea of throwing out the Congress oligarchy and open the whole organization to the general mass.
  • Sri Aurobindo, December 27, 1938, quoted from Sri Aurobindo, ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches. Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). [1]

User:Akhiljaxxn deletions

These quotes by Tavleen Singh were deleted without explanation:

• The 2014 general election marked the beginning of the end of India’s ruling elite. The election whose results came last week marked the end. As someone born and bred in this group of privileged Indians, I speak as an insider. So believe me when I tell you that we controlled everything. Politics, government, business, foreign policy, the police, the military and the media. All this was possible because we were to some degree all courtiers in the court of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty since the British left. We knew that their ‘socialism’ and ‘secularism’ were as fake as their ‘idea of India’.... The truth is that the traditional ruling elite believes in an idea of India in which there are privileges and not rights. This was always a bad idea. Now it is dead.

• This is why it has been so astonishingly easy for the Gandhi dynasty to turn India’s oldest political party into a family firm. And once dynastic succession became acceptable at the highest levels of political power, it became impossible to prevent dynastic democracy spreading like a slow poison into the very soul of India. It spread horizontally at higher levels of leadership in every political party and vertically down to the lowest levels of grassroots democracy. It has now become almost impossible to find a village council that is free of this debilitating disease. ... India’s ‘tryst with destiny’ could more appropriately have been called India’s tryst with dynasty.

You said : refrain from these kind addition if you have no idea what is quote and an opinion

Most quotes are the opinion of somebody, so your argument makes no sense.

Nevertheless, would you agree to a shorter version such as this ?:

• This is why it has been so astonishingly easy for the Gandhi dynasty to turn India’s oldest political party into a family firm. ... India’s ‘tryst with destiny’ could more appropriately have been called India’s tryst with dynasty.

--დამოკიდებულება (talk) 09:34, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Akhiljaxxn, if you have a concern about neutrality, if that is your concern, then selected quotes can be added to achieve neutrality. Please let me know if I can help you in doing that. --დამოკიდებულება (talk) 21:44, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

There has been no reply from Akhiljaxxn for one week. While Akhiljaxxn has been claiming that quotes on dynasty politics is biased, Akhiljaxxn has been writing that Modi is a fascist Nazi. When he such "spreads their hatred" for the Indian Prime Minister, he cannot complain about dynasty quotes.

Comments about dynasty politics in India are very common, so there is no question that they should be mentioned either on this page or on the Indian National Congress page.

Where there is a dispute, and there is no consensus , the status quo ante (the state before the edit war) must be restored. The edit war started with Akhiljaxxn's removal. (actually it started with Akhiljaxxn's removal of the Sonia Gandhi quote, his later removals on other articles followed the same pattern of removing quotes about Congress politicians). That is how a consensus-based process works.

But I also think the quote must not be on both pages, so it should only be on one of the pages. --დამოკიდებულება (talk) 11:16, 10 May 2020 (UTC)