Mahatma Gandhi- a true leader

sorry sir , Mahatma gandhi was a great visionary but a politican as well. You can go Indepth into the history and in 1919 u will see how Netaji had landslide victory in congress and who was decline behind his popularity . Plus the Idea os swaraj independence was of Mr. Azad. There are lots of painfull facts burried in the South block waiting to be open and that day we shall respect lot of others freedom fighters we neglected.

I am surprised to see so many different views and criticism on Gandhi. May I request all the people who differ with Mr Srinivas to read "My experiments with Truth" written by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

You all must go through a response I received from Sheshank Debabratha, if you people are not convinced, I dont have anything to say
   	   
Response of Mr. Shashank Debabrata

I would like to ask some questions.
1. Did Gandhiji lead the lavish life like the so called leaders of the country?
2. Did he hold any lucrative post to earn money?
3. What he gained for dividing the country?
4. Why the leaders of Muslim League and Hindus wanted separate country to live?
Could not they live together under one banner?
5. What would happen if Jawaharlal Nehru accept Jinna as PM of India!
6. Who could ignore that he is the only leader whom the whole India accepted .
7. Any man could not be perfect in all respect but whatever his fault might be he could never be denied as a great leader of India as well as world parallel to him.
It is very easy to say harsh word or criticize anybody without vividly acquainting with him.
Please show a minimum respect to a man who gave up all his comforts of his life for the sake of country. I agree that he also make some mistake denying Subhas Chandra Bose to see as a leader of congress party etc. etc.who first call him as father of the nation. But his honesty and love for the country could not be ignored in any way.
Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Mr. Murali, i want to say one things only Gandhi ji is not the hero of our freedom, 

Well said... Sharad Gupta...It is also sad to know that many people do not that 2nd october is not only Shri Gandhi's birthday, it is also the birthday of Shri Lal bahadur shastri who happens to be the second prime minister of India.

Mr. Santhosh, I do appreciate your feelings.  But, we should not forget that Gandhiji soon after getting the independence, not favoured the continuation of Congress as a party.  But, Mr. Nehru thought otherwise. We should also not forget, the Congress of this day, has nothing to do with the Congress of those days.  In the hands of Indira, the Congress as a party saw a sea change. We cant blame Gandhiji for the affairs of Congress today.

So do I said that he and his thought towards life may be significant and very impressive and encouraging, but the tool of Ahinsa and satya against those blood sucking britishers was(is) not making any sense,,,,

and importantly you can not deny that he was totally in favor and having relations with congress....just because of him today we are suffering like hell...sometimes i think it was better to be in britishers governance..than these chameleons (congress).... 

Its not you and some others fault in assessing the character of Gandhiji.  You know about the present day Gandhiji.  He has nothing to do with these Gandhiji.  He is non comparable.  Just go through the books on Gandhiji and his own autobiography "My experiments with truth".  You can come to know what the character of Gandhiji, how he struggled.

I strongly support Sharad and Santosh's view.

Ahaha, Nothing personal Mr. Santhosh.  One should not forget that there are too many armed struggles against Britishers, but they failed each time, because they are nothing before a mighty empire.  Gandhiji's Ahimsa made them to bow their head and left India.  It is the fittest weapon at that time.  The strategies of Gandhiji might look like flaws to us, we should not try to look into the darker side of a towering personality

Also today we could have got freedom from these current Gandhis...and Congress....

and we could have now called up as a developed country,,,

I respect the techings he gave ,,but i strongly believe that those weapons of AHINSA was totally wrong to be used against Britishers the correct weapon was the weapon which Bhagat singh and Chandrashekhar ajaad used ...

why we should get hit by those who are feeding on our resources...why we should ask them hit one more time when they screwing our society, insulting female's/....

i think gandhi ji should have done something else rather than fighting for freedom..at least those superhero's and real Indians would have survived some more years on this holy Hindustan....and could have served some more...

sorry but nothing personnel and please dont keep any grievance,...

This is not matter of Sorry Mr. Srinivas, you will always be my senior, by the ways Thanks again

Sorry, sorry, I just responded to your comment.  Nothing personal about. Yes, I understand your view point.  

i think there was lots of people like Chandrasekhar Azad, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Ravi Shankar Vyas, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Subhas Chandra Bose, Rabindranath Tagore, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sukhdev, Udham Singh, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Purushottam Das Tandon, Ram Manohar Lohia, Mohanlal Pandya, Chittaranjan Das, Aravinda Ackroyd Ghosh, Shivaram Rajguru, Badal Gupta, Surya Sen, Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar and many more..
but we don't know these people even birth day and death day, why?
they all are responsible for India's freedom. please this is my view don't take personally

Yes, I do have respects to those leaders.  When some one ask who built the "Tah Mahal" what would be your response, its Shahjahan.  Why Shahjahan to be credited, who just provided money for building the monument, if someone say that it is a coordinated work of thousands of workers and supervisers, you laugh at him. Are not you? In the same way,   there may be hundreds and thousands of freedom fighters, we consider them as the followers of Gandhiji, who lead the movement from the forefront with his leadership skills.

Thanks Mr. Srinivas for sharing article, but i don't believe in Gandhi, i always think one things why people give whole advantage to Gandhi rather than other freedom fighter. we don't know thousand people who give back support but they couldn't come in light. i always salute those people who deserve for it but not Gandhi...