Rahul Gandhi: Stamp of arrogance or calculated moves?

So, Mr Prime Minister has kind of officially announced which I guess everyone knew would happen some day. Rahul Gandhi is the future (read: in some point of time in future, he would become the PM), so support him. Sigh! Politics. It can make sane men like Dr. Manmohan Singh make insane statements like these in PM's role.

Having said that, I have been tracking some of the moves made by Rahul in UP elections. I think the young man is courting controversies. Nothing wrong with that, after all to be a successful politician or even be a 'noticed' one, you need to be involved in some controversies! But it's his whole outlook that makes you wonder whether this young man reinforces the 'Gandhi Nehru Dynasty' beliefs. Notice all his statements - Had a Gandhi been in rule, Babri wouldn't have happened, India won freedom bcoz of Gandhi and the latest one - Pakistan got divided bcoz of Gandhi. Worse, the party also supports all the statements (well, they have no choice). Desperate moves by a man who really wants to prove himself and that too in a battleground like UP.

If he is so keen on giving the credits to the Gandhis, he should also remember, that it was a Gandhi who is also remembered with the darkest period in post independence - the Emergency. It was a Gandhi who held back reigns of economic reforms (thanks to which other Asian countries who were no where in picture at that time in terms of growth, are today miles ahead of us), it was a Gandhi again who was the reason of Operation Bluestar, it was a Gandhi again who could have prevented the worse riots that India had seen post independence (after Indira Gandhi's assasination) but dedided to let India burn & innocent people be killed and displaced - scars of which the present generation is still carrying.

All said and done, the powers associated with the Gandhi legacy means that someday he would surely become a PM. Hopefully a matured one.