Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah referred to Rahul Gandhi as the leader who has been launched umpteen number of times but each launch event has been a case of unmitigated disaster for the Congress party. I have no problem with Congress party frittering away its resources on promotion of a product that has inherent defects.
My issue is about the ‘product’ being a diabolical human being who is a perpetual liar and the biggest double-faced person in Indian politics today.
I give my ten reasons to support my POV:
1- Rahul aka RaGa talks of #mohabatKiDukaan but exhibits extreme anger in all his speeches. I didn’t see this middle aged man exhibit the mohabat (love) that he claims to sell from his dukaan (shop) in his 30 minute speech in the Parliament, when he spoke in favour of No-confidence motion moved by his party. There was neither ethos, nor logos or pathos in his hate filled speech against the BJP governments of Manipur and India.
2- RaGa talks about #mohabatKiDukaan but his trusted lieutenant #Surejewala uses cuss words for Indians who vote for BJP. Gives श्राप (curse) to those who vote for BJP. Is this how one spreads love/ mohabat?
3- RaGa has tried to create a North-South divide in the past when he spoke to the Southern India audience. Overtly and covertly he suggested that North Indians are a drag on the growth path of South India. It is a well known fact that Southern Indian states are better off than their North Indian counterparts, in terms of overall economic growth. However it is equally true that the large manufacturing and service sectors in South India have found a great and growing market in the rest of India for their products and services.
4- RaGa talks about fighting corruption but is seen making merry with Lalu Prasad Yadav, a convict who is on bail on medical ground.
Lalu was seen indulging RaGa by asking him to get married and RaGa appeared to be happy in Lalu’s company. This banter was carried out in full public view as the two leaders were on stage in the UPA conclave in Patna not too long ago.
5- RaGa tries to pass off as a beacon of democracy but supports stalling the parliament in almost all sessions. Many important bills are passed without discussions as the Opposition parties stage walk outs. He claims to be a democrat but seems to have driven inspiration from Arvind Kejriwal who earned his spurs by his disruptive style of leadership. RaGa has become a copycat of Kejriwal and like Kejriwal, RaGa has stopped wearing khadi kurta-pajamas in public. Just has Kejriwal wears pant-shirt which is one size loose, RaGa wears a trendy T-shirt and a trouser, both one size tighter than his body frame needs.
6- RaGa talks of empathy and patience but either slinks away or stages a walkout from the Parliament after delivering his own speech. Those who operate #mohabatKiDukaan are supposed to listen more and speak less.
7- Instead of working with his opponents to strive for peace in Manipur, RaGa stokes the fire instead by putting the entire blame, covertly, on just one community.
8- RaGa has hopped into the bed with TMC, a party that doesn’t allow rivals to even file nomination papers for panchayat/ municipal elections.
TMC strongmen have unleashed a reign of terror in West Bengal where anyone who is NOT likely to vote for TMC is threatened to stay at home on the polling day.
RaGa’s #mohabatKiDukaan is seen in cohorts with TMC’s reign of terror in Bengal
9- RaGa supports the protests against exclusion of CJI from the selection committee of electing CEC.
He has however never raised the demand for inclusion of High Court Chief Justices in the selection committee of Chiefs of State Election commissions. Classic case of hypocrisy and doublespeak, I say.
10- RaGa talks about Bharat Mata getting murdered! He then clarifies that Bharat Mata’s “soul” has been murdered. RaGa positions himself as a practising Hindu but doesn’t even know that ‘soul is never born and hence never dies’.
Isn’t Rahul Gandhi the Mr double-faced man of Indian politics?
