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Why this Kolaveri Di?

Anant Chetan
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Why this Kolaveri Di?

Back in 2014, the intellectual class in India came up with a variety of sophisticated connotations for BJP’s overwhelming majority of 282 seats. They said it was “a black swan moment” or “in the era of coalition politics it was a fluke”. And here we are in 2019, with BJP surpassing its own personal record.

Ever since the exit polls started pouring in, I have been enjoying the video analysis by several TV news anchors, panelists and self-proclaimed youtube journalists. You could easily guess who! It has never been so soothing to watch them. But I must appreciate their consistency. They have found innovative ways to justify congress’ abysmal electoral performance. For instance they invented a new theory of “Bhakti Cult” i.e. according to them the first time voters, the young voters, thought that India was a mess before 2014 and whatever happened, happened after 2014, hence they voted for Modi. The older voters on the other hand are communal and voted in favor of Hyper-Hindu-nationalism. How smart! In fact, they started abusing the voters (who voted for BJP) by calling them pliable, uneducated and illiterate.

But, I don’t understand-

Why this Kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri Di? Why this killer rage?

It is not that they did not see this coming. Amit Shah had been saying for last six months that we will get more than 300 seats. In each of his interactions he literally told the reason of his claim as: “Our government has been able to establish a connect with 22 crore poor families via different government schemes“.

Let me tell you why they are so surprised with this kind of mandate.

Super, buddy!
Ready? Ready? 1… 2… 3… 4…

Since India’s independence, the poor and their poverty has been used as a political tool. Pt. Nehru was a pioneer of this art. He in his book “the discovery of India” clearly mentioned that the poor peasants with their limited outlook were very easy to be manipulated or convince. He spoke to them and they simply followed him. On the other hand, the urban population or the middle class was a little more sophisticated, would have a lot more questions and wanted a stronger fare i.e. it was tough to convince them. In fact according to the book he did not support the middle class when they wanted to revolt and overthrow the British government as they felt caged, circumscribed and unable to grow or develop. Nehru apparently wanted to change the system first. I guess he wanted a system where he gets the top post, which anyhow he did get at the end.

Anyway, coming back to the issue at hand, the exploitation of poor. There has always been a lot done in the name of poor, but they still remained poor. Rajiv Gandhi once said only 15 paisa reaches the poor when the government sends 1 rupee. How? Why? More recent, Priyanka Gandhi in one her public interactions claimed that there are no roads in Amethi because we have to bribe the contractors first, what can we do?

Coming from the people who represent India’s oldest and grandest party means only one of the two things or even both the things. First the Indian National Congress lacks the intent to fix these problems or second, they are incompetent in doing so. I believe it as the first one. If the poor gets what he deserves, do you think he would come on streets for sponsored protests? It could be any kind of protests – for caste, religion, reservation or movies. Have your ever seen a rich guy taking beatings from the police in the name of protests? If poor gets some money do you think he would still be a part of any kind of vote bank? Again, it could be any kind of vote bank – based on caste, religion, cult or anything.  We very well know that in India in several places, voters are literally bought by freebies – cash, liquor, smartphones, laptops, sarees or even e-rickshaws. Paying more importance to caste based reservation than reservation based on finances is also a part of the same tactic. Reservation on the bases of financial condition would not create vote banks based on various castes, would it?

This is what changed.

Alright buddy, now tune changes…

This verdict of 303 seats, a vote share of 39%, more than 50% votes in 17 states, reaching as high as 61% in Himachal Pradesh, means that the poor received what was sent to him. Although, BJP should be looking into states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala etc. where it got 0 seats, if the poor did not receive the benefit of the various schemes or they received it but chose to be ungrateful. If it is the second case, government can’t do much but if the people did not receive the benefits, there might be a scope for improvement.

In a country where half of the citizens are poor, the incumbent government if claims to have worked for the poor should always win a clear majority on its own each and every time.

These journalists who are crying foul now, knew about this already. They had been running fact checkers on the government claims. They went to the villages and found out the ones who were left. They knew the 10 crore families that received LPG gas connections and out which 4 crore were free, will vote for Modi. They knew, more than 33 crore account holders who never thought they will ever have a bank account but got one in the form of Jan Dhan account will vote for Modi. And the accounts are not with zero balance, the collective amount deposited in the accounts is quickly inching towards 1 Lakh Crore mark. They knew, the 48.1 million people who got their loans approved under Mudra Yojana will vote for Modi. They knew the number of people who are getting health insurance cover up rs 5 lakh will vote for Modi.

Not only this, they knew the villagers who were living in dark for decades and got a new hope when a transformer was installed in their village for the first time, will vote for Modi. Even though not every house in the villages have electricity, but their is a hope now; the hope that was lost.  When the people see that the current government is building roads at the fastest pace ever, they are hopeful that their village will also have a road even if it is still not there. Hope!!

Also read: Farmers’ woes Part 1: Irrigation and Transportation

They knew all this, they tried to downplay this by means of fact checkers. Even if I suppose the claims are exaggerated or partially true, the number of beneficiaries was big enough to win a clear majority. You can’t defeat that now. Can you?

Cow, cow, holy cow….

This was the only way they could have diverted the attention. In the name of beef, cows, minorities, Dalits and so on. They singled out crime cases where victims belonged to any of these communities in an endeavor to portray BJP in communal light. You could  look at Lynching Whatsapp; In the name of Holy Cow. You might get an idea how cattle smuggling was sold as lynching in the name of Cows.

They blamed social media for a lot of things. Do you know why? Because social media is not moderated, it was the voice of common man, he liked, shared and subscribed to what he believes or rather what he wants to believe in. On the other hand,  news sites, content publishing sites are moderated, an editor accepts or rejects the submission. On these platforms, it was possible to create an anti-modi anti-bjp rhetoric. This is one of the reasons why Quora looks pro BJP, the answers on Quora are not moderated (here I am not talking about Quora Spaces, on Spaces the posts are moderated).

Also read: Congress’ loathing of social media & the strategy to win 2019!!!

Liking and sharing anti-Modi posts or calling him communal was/is fashion, modern and an intellectual thing to do. This why these platform made a lot of money during these five years. These platforms especially the emerging ones on internet improved their bottom lines in the last five years. It was a business strategy for them, as simple as that. This is the reason why they are still going on with the same old communal rhetoric. And trust me, they always knew what they were doing. One way to create fake news is by showing an incomplete picture. They were always aware of the truth, you cannot manipulate unless you have the complete picture available to yourself, otherwise you yourself will fall in that trap. Time Magazine’s Modi is India’s Divider in Chief to Modi United India is a shining example of what they do to gain an edge in their TRPs.

Parties like congress and others already knew they are going to loose. Rahul Gandhi would not have filed nominations from a second place if he had not known that he might lose Amethi. You could have a look at The only reason why Rahul Gandhi chose Wayanad, Kerala. Even the hardened party loyalist were switching parties even before the elections began.

But if not them, then who is the biggest looser after this election?

If not them then who is surprised and lost?

The consumers, readers and viewers who were consuming the content what these youtubers, journalists, e-papers, bloggers were producing. Those consumers trusted them, believed in them and got betrayed. Moreover, the more they consumed content from them, the more was made available at their disposal, thanks to the clever Artificial Intelligence algorithms. You must have noticed the kind of videos you see more, you get more recommendations for the similar videos same with blogs and articles.

Choosing what to read and believe on internet has become the single most difficult thing in today’s digital India.

They chose to believe the lies in the beginning. They ended up in a delusional reality in the end.

Somebody said this “The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”

Why this kolaveri kolaveri ..aa di?
super mama!!
rhythm correct..
maintain please..

English Lyrics for the song Kolaveri Di

Thanks for Reading.

Also Read : The Magician becomes the Hat!!!: The Indian Politician doing tricks

Hindu priests perform same-sex marriages in the US without any provision in the Hindu scriptures, why?

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Hindu priests perform same-sex marriages in the US without any provision in the Hindu scriptures, why?

Just yesterday I was at Kailadevi Temple with my family. While we were doing the Parikrama after Yagya, my dad pointed out towards a section of temple campus which was locked. Recalling his childhood he told me how this was the area where bali (sacrifice) of goat was offered to goddess. My mom also agreed to have witnessed it during her childhood.

I asked him if bali is still offered to which he said that offering bali was stopped years back. He made me recall the Yagya we did an hour ago. We had seen a family offer bali of lemons. Yes, bali of lemons. He told that since the bali of goat has been prohibited by head priest, now bali of lemon is offered.

What am I trying to tell by narrating this incident?

I’m trying to say that traditions and rituals change with time and in accordance with time.

When Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami spoke at the 2014 Permian Basin Interfaith Panel about Homosexuality and Hinduism, he said: “Hinduism doesn’t have a structure where it can come up with one view. It doesn’t have a singular authority that says this is our way of looking at homosexuality. It has many independent groups, some liberal and some conservative.”

There are no defining boundaries in Hinduism, no hard and fast rules. There are even Atheist school of thoughts in Hinduism, viz. Samkhya, Yoga and Mimamsa.

Rigveda, one of the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism says Vikriti Evam Prakriti (Sanskrit: विकृतिः एवम्‌ प्रकृति, meaning what seems unnatural is also natural), which supposedly recognizes homosexual/transsexual dimensions of human life, like all forms of universal diversities.

There are umpteen instances of homosexuality in Hindu texts and religious places which proves that homosexuality (or non-heterosexual to be more general) is not alien to Hinduism. The tale of King Baghiratha also talks about same-sex parenting and same-sex relations.

The question of a priest performing same-sex marriage depends on what ‘marriage’ means to you, how you look at marriage.

To me, marriage is a bond where souls are connected. And Souls are considered genderless-

नैव स्त्री न पुमानेष न चैवायं नपुंसकः।
यद्यच्छरीरमादत्ते तेने तेने स युज्यते॥

Which means Not woman is He, nor man either, nor yet sexless; but whatsoever body He take, that confineth & preserveth Him.

If souls are considered genderless, how does the gender of body matters? Whether it’s a man-man bond or a woman-woman bond or a man-woman bond, all are equal and accepted.

At the end— our decisions depend on our conscience, so do priests’.

The great siphoning of India

Prakash Bebington
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The great siphoning of India

The 65,000-year-old Secret History
The truth has a strange way of coming out eventually. So, despite the best efforts of our so-called “historians”, most Indians know by now that we are the world’s oldest & continuing civilization. Over the last 65,000 years, the Indian subcontinent became Earth’s most unique melting pot of humans & cultures. India digested & absorbed whoever entered her soil, adding to her infinite diversity in human gene pool & culture unrivaled by none in the universe. This phenomenon, enabled by a tropical climate & natural resources, eventually led to massive wealth creation in this land, which became the envy of the rest of the world.

The Physical & Mental Enslavement of Indians
Naturally, India’s fabled wealth attracted a beeline of foreign looters & plunderers, who themselves got absorbed… eventually. The last looter, the British, feared this assimilative power of India, and set to destroy its source—India’s (Hindu) culture & spirituality. Over 8 generations, they systematically & brutally brainwashed their Indian slave populace into feeling an inferiority-complex about their very own (Indian) culture & to admire their masters’ (British) culture. The goal: “Indian is uncool, British is cool.”

For achieving this goal, India’s ruling class (Kshatriyas) were killed, the spiritual-scholarly-artisan class (Brahmins) were driven underground (along with the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas & other ancient texts of wisdom & works of art), the business-entrepreneurial class (Vysyas) were reduced to mere traders, and the working class (Sudras) were forced into poverty. As part of their “divide & rule” strategy, the British shrewdly proclaimed the self-regulating “class” system (known as Varna) as a forced “caste” system (twisted as Jāti) & sowed seeds of division among their slave population, so they don’t unite as one united Hindu community & revolt. Indians outside the class system (who were banished by the local government for unpardonable crimes & who were living outside the villages) were classified as the “Depressed Castes” & exploited as cannon-fodder by the British.

Our Gurukul education that created great scholars as well as self-sufficient & wealth-generating entrepreneurs was replaced with Macaulayian education that created government-dependent & job-begging clerks. The economic engine of India—her Cottage industry (weavers, potters, goldsmiths, et al)—was decimated to force Indian slaves to buy mass-manufactured & imported British goods. The Panchayat system of local governance was replaced with oppressive district collectors. Caring Indian kings were replaced with tyrannical governors. Their central ruler for India was a dictatorial viceroy. Railways & ports were built to siphon off India’s unimaginable wealth to Britain.

The Remote Enslavement of Indians

However, before they or India could finish their work, the British were forced to leave India. In 1947, the British unwillingly left India physically, but not before they put in place an ecosystem through which they could still continue their divisive & oppressive dominion over the people of the Indian subcontinent, albeit with much lesser cost & much higher profit. This subjugating “ecosystem” is popularly & euphemistically called the “Nehruvian legacy” in India & the “Jinnah legacy” in Pakistan. The very constitutions of India & Pakistan are scripted to keep the former perpetually slow & the latter perpetually unstable.

Knowing full well that East Pakistan & West Pakistan on either side of India would keep both India & Pakistan weak forever, the wily British engineered the Partition, unwittingly championed by the 2 key foot-soldiers of their ecosystem—Nehru & Jinnah.

The Double-Game on India & Pakistan

Much to their shock & dismay, after independence, the British witnessed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel swiftly & decisively uniting the 560+ pieces of India into 1 mega union. The British feared that Patel may re-annex Pakistan & unite all of India to restore her former power. So, using their tried & tested strategy, the slave masters started festering suspicion & hatred between the Peoples of India & Pakistan, setting brother upon brother, with absolutely no risk to themselves whatsoever. In the foreground, the British played the saint & peacemaker, while simultaneously playing the devil in the background, fostering the very enmity they pretended to prevent in public.

Pakistan’s Machinations & Fears

After a couple of wars, Pakistan realized that it cannot defeat India militarily. So, with the tacit help of Britain & her friends, Pakistan started infiltrating key Indian positions with spies & sympathisers. Indian citizens in socially influential positions—such as political leaders, religious leaders, journalists, teachers, artists, social activists, et al—were seduced or blackmailed into submission using sex, money & power. This new coterie of “Brown Slave-Masters” (BSMs) have undermined & still undermining India’s peace & prosperity. Needless to say, the BSM club today is infested with the so-called Leftist “liberals”, art “award-winners”, academic “intellectuals”, social “activists”, et al, brazenly foisting their anti-India agenda as per the diktats of their foreign masters.

Pakistan’s history starts from 1947 because her rulers will not allow their population to know/ accept that their nation was forcibly cut out from India. Pakistani rulers also do not want Indians to know & feel proud of their ancient nation’s history & glory as “Akhand Bharat” (United India). However, Pakistani rulers do want Indians to be brainwashed (again) & feel inferior/ insecure with fake & harmful “historical facts”, specifically religious oppression by Hindus & caste oppression by Brahmins. For Pakistani agents, both these targets are easy to attack.

Pakistani rulers fear only one thing above all else—the reversing of Partition. This will happen if the Peoples of India & Pakistan demand it. This demand will come only when the Peoples of India & Pakistan feel affection for one another as forcibly separated brothers. If Pakistan unites with India, Pakistani rulers (who wallow in billions of siphoned money) will lose their wealth & power. Also, a larger & peaceful India will be a stronger nation, which many foreign powers fear.

Pakistani rulers consciously refer to India as “Hindustan” (i.e., land of the Hindus), contrasting the term with “Pakistan” (implying, land of the Muslims) to emphasize an “Us vs. Them” divide between religious communities. These insecure rulers will rest easy only when India is broken up into several smaller nations (i.e., smaller than Pakistan) & India’s military might split between these nations, so the prospect of reunification & Akhand Bharat does not arise ever again.

The Modus Operandi

India’s war with China added another puppet-master to the table of India’s foreign manipulators. Now, a phalanx of foreign powers lust after India’s (re)growing wealth & are working very hard to siphon off her hard-earned wealth, not militarily, but surreptitiously. The siphoning happens via:

  • Foreign defense equipment manufacturers selling expensive, obsolete equipment & technology. This impoverishes India significantly by eroding foreign cash reserves. E.g., MiG-21, Bofors.
  • Foreign businesses selling costly, wasteful, harmful products to Indian people. This impoverishes & weakens citizens significantly. Hybrid vegetables & expensive pharmaceuticals are but some examples. Note here that allopathy doctors world-over are indoctrinated to generally have zero tolerance for natural/ indigenous treatments.
  • Foreign-funded NGOs preventing infrastructure & people developmental works. This sows the seeds of anarchy among citizens. Governments will keep getting voted out regularly & no major work will get done.
  • Foreign-funded organizations influencing Indians to abandon patriotism & switch their allegiance to a politico-religious authority outside India (in Mecca, Vatican). This helps the foreign powers in times of war with India, as Indians will not support their own nation.
  • Foreign media & entities pushing their culture (i.e., cultural imperialism) on Indians, making them feel inferior about their own history, heritage, culture & customs. This leads to social disruption & even long-term health problems for citizens. Live-in lifestyles, female alcoholism, teen pregnancies, etc. are some symptoms of this foreign inculturation.

This is the Great Siphoning of India. And, incorruptible leaders & strong government in India block the flow in this siphon via national laws & governance policies. The foreign Siphoners cannot tolerate that, indeed.

Manipulating the Prime Ministers

Mrs. Indira Gandhi resisted these Siphoners to some extent, but was eventually assassinated. Subsequent Prime Ministers in India were either assassinated (for not yielding to these Siphoners) or politically weakened to be unable to resist the siphoning.

Even foreign PMs engaging with India were at risk, as was evidenced from the yet unresolved assassinations of Swedish PM Mr. Olof Palme (implicated in Bofors defense deal) & Pakistani PM Mrs. Benazir Bhutto. The escape of Union Carbide’s Mr. Warren Anderson is another case in point.

Dr. Narasimha Rao checkmated these forces with Chanakyan maneuvers, but was shockingly humiliated after demitting office. Dr. Manmohan Singh walked a tight rope, yielding to the Siphoners, but also pushing India forward (to some extent).

Narendra Modi Disrupts

In all this game of thrones, the fiercely nationalistic Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was the disruptive wildcard against the scheming Siphoners. Since pre-Independence, this nationwide organization’s stated goal to unite the Indian population & landmass terrified these foreign enslavers.

So, the sudden & meteoric rise of Mr. Narendra Modi, whose roots are in the RSS, unnerved the Siphoners. His unapologetic Indianism (a.k.a. Hindutva), non-discriminating development via the “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas” governance policy, re-culturation (reintroducing Indian culture & history into education), working to erase caste divisions by uniting all Hindus, attempting to erase all religious divisions by uniting all citizens under the “Indian” branding, etc., have vexed the Siphoners to no end. Scamsters such as Lalit Modi, Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, et al, are being aggressively pursued & prosecuted. Note here how all these anti-India scamsters escape to one safe haven—Britain.

What next…?

Now, a second & stronger 5-year term for Mr. Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India has further stalled the Great Siphoning of India. Let’s hope Mr. Modi continues to reverse the centuries-old damage to the soul of India by:

  • Continue correcting our textbooks to inculcate our ancient history, heritage, culture & customs in students. (The BSMs will promptly scream “saffronization”, as ordered by their foreign masters). See suggestion.
  • Rectifying India’s education system by defocusing on employment & refocusing on entrepreneurship. Making all lower education free & all higher education private will stimulate wealth-creation as opposed to job-seeking. (The BSMs will protest “Where are the jobs?”).
  • Galvanizing the cottage & micro industries with easy loans & tax breaks. Formalizing the informal economy by setting up a national database of entrepreneurs & apprentices could bring back our Gurukul system to generate wealth.
  • Rebranding & marketing India’s ancient culture as “cool” to Indians.  (The BSMs will denounce this as “regressive”).
  • Continue uniting all castes under the “Hindu” label & all religions under the “Indian” label. China has done the latter effectively. (The BSMs will condemn this as “social injustice” & “religious freedom infringement”).
  • Eradicating illegal immigrants by extending the National Registry of Citizenship to all states to reduce wastage & crime. (The BSMs will attack this as “human rights violation”).
  • Nationalising all rivers in India & linking them to increase water security.
  • Implementing the AMUL model for crop & livestock farmers & fisherfolks. Privatising the Food Corporation of India to alleviate agrarian distress.
  • Phased abolishing of all subsidies & implementing a Universal Income Guarantee scheme (to poor families with maximum 2 children) to alleviate poverty & stimulate rural economy.
  • Creating a single web portal & mobile app for all government services (including complaints about individual government officials) accessible via Aadhaar.
  • Strengthening the Panchayatiraj system of bottom-up governance. The People’s Representation Act needs to be amended. (The BSMs will attack this as “murder of democracy”).
  • Reducing the powers of state governments by having state police report to the governor. This will drastically bring down corruption. Currently, chief ministers are despots with absolute power corrupting them absolutely. (The BSMs will condemn this as “decimation of federalism”).
  • Tightening & clarifying the Sedition Law. (The BSMs will attack this as “infringement on freedom of expression”).

Jai Hind!

BJP’s Era begins in Telangana State

Dr. Vinay Goguru
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BJP’s Era begins in Telangana State

The dream of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) federal front and forming a National Party came to an end with the verdict of Lok Sabha elections 2019. The results were a shocker to KCR who won a landslide victory just 5 months back in December 2018.

In Lok Sabha Elections 2019, BJP won 4 crucial constituencies seats against one seat in 2014 elections. But the Telangana state ruling TRS party claims that Modi wave was the effect for TRS loss.

But the ground realities are different. The opposition parties during Assembly elections in December 2018 created an image that KCR is B-team of Modi. Since 2014, KCR supported major decisions of Modi government such as Demonetisation and GST. This made the people think that KCR is in alliance with BJP. The people voted for the pink party in assembly polls and rewarded a landslide victory.

The revolt on TRS party began when KCR failed to appoint full-fledged Cabinet for two months even after assuming the office in December 2018. There was zero governance, bureaucracy defunct and chaos in the state.

In March 2019, another set back for TRS was losing in MLC Elections, 3 candidates it backed lost in MLC elections. Congress and CPI achieved a win with considerable margins and TRS was on rejection mode. The results showed people are looking for a change and TRS downfall has just begun.

KCR launched Lok Sabha campaign on February 17, from Karimnagar constituency. He declared that he wants to enter into national politics and change the face of the country if the TRS won 16 MP seats. Throughout Lok Sabha campaign in different constituencies, KCR abused Modi and Rahul Gandhi.

In an election campaign, KCR claimed UPA did surgical strikes 11 times whereas UPA Chairperson Rahul Gandhi claimed that UPA did surgical strikes 3 times. There was no consistency in the numbers, this video went viral on social media showing the hatred against Modi and lie politics of KCR.

At centre-stage, KCR met the Mahagatbandhan leaders and wanted to form a federal front. He said he had 120 leaders who supported him for the federal front and he would play a crucial role in 2019 government formation. This created confusion in the Telangana people, just a few months back they gave a decisive mandate to rule the Telangana state and now he was talking about ruling the nation. In every campaign, the slogan was to give 16 MP seats to TRS and 1 to AIMIM. There was no clarity on KCR’s Federal Front without Congress and BJP.

To appease Muslim minority votes, KCR made communal remarks insulting Hindus. KCR referred BJP and said “These Hindus are useless and disgusting. They want to stoke the fire in the country & belong in the gutter.” There was an outrage in the Hindu Community. The protest united the Hindu community in the state and Hindus were against KCR.

On 30th March, KCR Election campaign meeting in heart of the city ‘Hyderabad’ in LB Stadium was cancelled due to lack of crowd mobilization and the authorities claimed that poor crowd was the reason. In the same stadium on April 2nd, BJP held its election meeting and the crowd was full in LB Stadium despite the IPL match that day. This shows that people rejected to attend KCR meeting.

On the other hand, on social media K.T Rama Rao (KTR) son of KCR tweeted comments insulting the voters calling them Bhakhts/Chowkidars and made funny comments. This showed his arrogance and people could see true colours of TRS party in the second term.

Congress has traditional voters in Telangana and KTR after winning Lok Sabha elections insulted Congress leaders who lost the elections. KTR compared Congress leaders as soiled currency note which cannot be exchanged in any place. The silent voters were watching the arrogance of TRS leadership.

Kalvakuntla Kavitha daughter of KCR is a sitting MP from Nizamabad. Nizamabad witnessed an outrage on TRS as it failed to keep its promise of the establishment of Turmeric Board and reopening of Nizam Sugar factory in Bodhan.

Nizamabad farmers protested and Nizamabad made history with the highest number of candidates to appear in one polls seat. Total of 179 farmers contested along with leading parties. All eyes of the nation were on Nizamabad as ECI arranged for 12 big size EVMs in polling stations to elect from 185 candidates. This showed the nation a unique way to protest against the state ruling party to contest against the ruling party.

On 23rd May 2019, BJP- the Lotus party bloomed with full glorious victory and the results came as shock to the family that is ruling the state.

The Chief Ministers daughter Kavitha was a shocking defeat in ‘Nizamabad’ to BJP’s candidate Dharmapuri Arvind.

KCR luckiest constituency ‘Karimnagar’ slips out of his hand to BJP’s candidate Bandi Sanjay.

TRS party faced unexpected defeat in Adilabad to BJP’s Soyam Bapu Rao. In Adilabad, this was the best ever performance to BJP since the 1998 parliamentary elections.

BJP retained it’s treasured ‘Secunderabad’ seat which was the only seat won in 2014 elections. Kishan Reddy from Secunderabad makes into Union Cabinet with Ministry of State Home Affairs.

TRS the ruling party is unable to digest this fact of losing MP seats from its previous tally of 11 seats to 9 seats. The party has been criticized by Congress for giving lame excuses for defeat.

The fact remains that people are not innocent and they have understood the double standards of the pink party. The people of Telangana have started to reject the abusing, arrogance ruling of KCR party. The MLC elections and Lok Sabha elections are the testimony to this fact.

Telangana is the youngest state of the country. Telangana state opens its doors to BJP after its stunning performance in the Lok Sabha elections and the BJP’s Era in Telangana state begins.

Why did the opposition find no takers in the 2019 elections?

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Why did the opposition find no takers in the 2019 elections?

Narendra Modi won a second term as the Prime Minister of India and returned to power with an even bigger mandate than he had won in 2014, crossing the 300 seat target that BJP president Amit Shah had set for the party before the elections.

BJP and its allies of the NDA together mustered up 353 seats in Lok Sabha elections which is only 8 seats short of the 2/3rd majority mark in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament.

The results have baffled the political pundits, especially those who are not fans of Narendra Modi and BJP. The exit polls which came out a few days before the elections were received with vehement contempt and almost a sense of mockery by the same people. Even the pollsters who conducted these surveys became a target of abuse for the anti-Modi brigade and were labelled as corrupt and on Modi’s payroll. However, it would be wrong to say that the results didn’t (pleasantly) surprise the BJP and Modi supports too.

The media and pundits got the pre-election analysis completely wrong and completely failed to see the strong wave of support for Modi in the masses.

Any win, in any field, is a result of two factors – what the winner did right and what his opponent(s) did wrong. What BJP did right, from toilets in villages to electricity in all villages to having great election machinery and sharp and precise poll strategy under the leadership of Amit Shah, to above all. having Modi factor on its side, have been discussed at length post the elections.

Lets us look at what the opposition got wrong and why its campaign and slogans failed to impress the voters.

Corruption as the main issue

The slogan heard during the campaign more than any other from Rahul Gandhi was “Chowkidar Chor Hai”. Rahul Gandhi wanted to convince the people of India that Narendra Modi is a corrupt politician and deeply involved in scams, especially during the purchase of Rafael aircraft from France.

The UPA govt. that lost in 2014 was tainted with scams and was widely seen as the most corrupt govt. India has seen since independence. By continually targetting Modi on corruption Rahul Gandhi and the Congress wanted to take away the moral high ground that the BJP has enjoyed in the minds of the voters since 2014.

There was an inherent paradox to the Congress fighting elections on the issue of corruption, given Congress’ own dodgy track record, and making corruption the main election issue, was not the wisest choice.

The message in an election is important but so is the credibility of the messenger. Congress as an anti-corruption messenger failed to cut any ice with the voters.

The ‘Modi is corrupt’ campaign completely lost whatever flimsy steam it had built up once Rahul Gandhi apologised to the Supreme Court for having attributed the “chowkidar chor hai” slogan to the Supreme Court.

Speaking to the media after filing his nomination in Amethi, Rahul Gandhi had said, “Supreme Court has said Chowkidar ne chori ki hai”.

The reason Rahul Gandhi had to lean on the Supreme Court for the Chowkidar Chor hai assertion was that coming from him and the Congress, “Chowkidar chor hai” was failing to make a mark on the public and wasn’t being taken too seriously.

So Rahul Gandhi brought in the Supreme Court, with a sense of, see even the Supreme Court says Modi is corrupt. Ab to maan lo (At least now believe it). However this was a lie, and the Supreme Court had said no such thing.

Naturally, the Supreme Court pulled up Rahul Gandhi for this and he had to apologise. After this apology, Rafael was effectively finished as an election issue.

Modi = Hitler Campaign

The opposition continually labelled, either directly or indirectly, Modi as the second coming of Hitler. Former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah during the campaign described Modi as “Second Hitler”, National Conference President and former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah too did the same during one of his rallies in Khayar.

Godwin’s law on internet debates/arguments states that is an internet debate goes on long enough, then eventually someone will compare someone or something to Hitler or his deeds. On some forums that is considered the end of the discussion and whoever resorted to the Hitler analogy first is said to have lost the debate.

This ‘X’ is Hitler is a well-known phenomenon, where the desperate try to reduce the object of their dislike to Hitler, and has been called Reductio ad Hitlerum or Argumentum ad Hitlerum or Ad Nazium.

Largely the comparison is made on the ground of ‘X’ does ‘this’ and Hitler also did ‘this’, therefore ‘X’ is Hitler. For instance, Hitler was against smoking tobacco and X is against smoking tobacco, so X is Hitler.

Farooq Abdullah in his Khanyar speech said, “Like Modi says—Sab Ka Saath, Sab Ka Vikas—, Hitler too, used to say the same things back then in Germany.”

Terms like ‘fasciwadi’ (Fascist) and ‘fasciwad’ (Fascism) were not uncommon references made to Modi and the BJP on TV debates by the opposition spokespersons. That the opposition had to repeatedly fall back on an argument that is usually the last resort of those losing an online debate shows how bereft of ideas they were during the campaign.

This was an election campaign of the most vibrant democracy of the world, not some typical internet debate, and the opposition could have surely done better than to have Modi = Hitler, as a serious election issue.

More than the few overt instances outlined above, there was constant subliminal messaging to this effect from the opposition on this. They said that the election is about the idea of India. Ashok Gehlot, the Rajasthan CM said that if Modi wins there won’t be any more Lok Sabha elections after 2019. The opposition constantly tried to raise the issue of ‘institutions being in danger’.

The message that the opposition constantly tried to give out was that Modi is this demonic Hitler like figure out to kill democracy in India.

The picture on the ground was completely different. As recently as December 2018, BJP lost the election in three key states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and the transfer of power happened as smoothly as possible.

There was no violence, no crying foul over EVMs, no protests, nothing. Isn’t that what democracy is all about, respecting the will of the people! BJP quietly accepted the verdict and bowed out of office.

If anything it was the opposition that was involved in activities that seemed to threaten the democratic values of India.

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, an ally of Rahul Gandhi’s Congress Party, recently went after cartoonists saying, “What do you think of politicians? You think that we are so easily available to be mocked? Who has given you powers to present everything sarcastically? You think we’re jobless? Do we look like cartoon characters to you? Whom are you trying to favour by belittling us among the masses? I feel the need to bring in a law.”

Where does this fit in with the “idea of India.”?

Mamata Banerjee the West Bengal Chief Minister, and one of the potential top contenders for the Prime Minister’s post if Modi was defeated, jailed an individual for making a meme of her, and circulating it online. Is this protecting democracy and democratic values?

This wasn’t the only instance of the WB CM going after dissent. In 2012 Mamata Banerjee jailed Prof. Ambikesh Mahapatra for forwarding a cartoon which made fun of the WB CM, to his friends.

We all saw the pictures of widespread violence was unleashed in West Bengal during polling. Is that protecting democratic values? Is what protecting democracy looks like?

The opposition has made constant attempts to discredit Indian democracy by constantly questioning EVMs and the voting process, ever since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in 2014.

In light of all this, the message from the opposition that Modi was the one who was a threat to democracy was hard for the voters to buy.

Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi running away from the fight

There may have been political and strategic reasons for Rahul Gandhi choosing to contest from Wayanad, but the optics around that decision were less than flattering for Rahul Gandhi and the Congress.

Rahul Gandhi seemed to run away from the fight in Amethi after having been given a run for his money in the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 by Smriti Irani of the BJP.

Similarly, Congress shot itself in the foot by initially hinting that Priyanka Gandhi could contest from Varanasi against PM Narendra Modi, and then backing out.

While no one from the Congress party actually said on the record that Priyanka Gandhi would or could contest against PM Modi, but enough hints were given out to that effect to whet the appetite for a heavyweight clash.

For instance, when her party workers asked her to take the political plunge and contest an election in 2019, Priyanka Gandhi in response asked her workers whether she should contest from Varanasi?

Naturally, this set the speculation through the roof, and when she was pressed on the issue by the media she later said “You will find out. If my Congress President tells me to contest, I will be happy to contest.”

After all this when it became clear that Priyanka Gandhi would not contest against Modi, the optics were again against the Congress Party, and Priyanka Gandhi was seen to have backed out fearing electoral defeat.

If Priyanka Gandhi didn’t mean to contest against Narendra Modi then the possibility of Priyanka Gandhi contesting against Modi should never have been teased by the Congress, to begin with. Secondly having teased it and built up the hopes in her workers of a high profile clash, Priyanka Gandhi should not have then backed out.

Contesting and losing would have been a far better decision than what eventually transpired. Both top Congress leaders were deemed to have run away from the contest, which naturally didn’t win them favours with the voters.

Nepotism and Rahul Gandhi’s credibility

Nepotism has been a hot topic of debate in the media in recent years, largely in the context of Bollywood and its footprints can be seen on the political landscape of the country.

In politics, it goes by the name of Dynasty. Congress is by no means the only party which is run like a family enterprise. There are the Thackerays in Maharashtra, the Lalu family in Bihar, Mamata Banerjee and her nephew in WB, the Badals in Punjab, DMK in Tamil Nadu, etc. The fact is both within and outside of NDA there exists Dynasty politics.So why then do the Gandhis bear the brunt of the critics of dynasty politics more than any other party?

The answer is that people eventually want to see merit come to fore and are willing to give even those coming from an elite background the chance to shine. If that merit remains eclipsed by the family name despite repeated opportunities, then that person is rejected.

Be it Bollywood or Politics people want to see consequences for failure. If an actor doesn’t do well, or they don’t like his work, he will be rejected and will stop getting films.

Rahul Gandhi’s party has seen a horror run in elections since December 2013 and in whatever sporadic success the party has seen in that period, the contribution of Rahul Gandhi has been questionable.

Congress’ win in Punjab was seen as being down to Capt. Amarinder Singh, while the wins in Chhatisgarh and Rajasthan were seen as having more to do with discontent against the incumbent govt. than anything else. Every election besides a select few has seen the Congress be defeated and defeated resoundingly in many.

Rahul Gandhi’s handling with kid gloves after electoral defeats did not impress the public. Rahul Gandhi was seen to get undeserving credit after whatever few electoral successes the Congress have had, while others got the blame for the failures.

The Congress may try, but the Voters know why an election was won or lost, and where the credit lies. The voters always know. You cannot fool the voters.

Almost everyone either has a boss at work or knows someone who does, who steals his workers’ credit and passes on to his team the blame that lies at his door. These traits signify the worst kind of leadership, and in their overzealous efforts to shield Rahul Gandhi from blame, the Congress harmed Rahul Gandhi’s image.

Rahul Gandhi was always responsible for all the Congress’ victories and never responsible for any of its multiple and continuous election debacles.

Sycophancy is not ideal in a democracy and while the voters don’t like it, but at least they understand the existence of sycophants around a successful leader. Sycophancy around an unsuccessful leader, purely because of his family name alone, made Rahul Gandhi’s leadership almost undesirable.

Ab Hoga NYAY (Now Justice will be done)

The first questioned that popped up in the voters’ mind was why wasn’t justice done till now? The Congress has after all been in power for a substantial chunk since India’s independence, and during most of that, it was an ancestor of Rahul Gandhi who was the Prime Minister.

Was Rahul Gandhi saying that they all failed to do justice? And secondly in that whole family across all those generations, is Rahul Gandhi the most capable person that he will accomplish what all his far more illustrious ancestors could not and finally deliver justice.

The wording of the slogan should have been chosen more carefully and even then there would have been the question of Rahul Gandhi’s credibility as a messenger.

When Rahul Gandhi says he will do X and Y for the voters, they don’t believe him. His leadership has no takers.

Additionally, the way NYAY was advertised was very poorly executed. Most of the rural voters who would be the chief beneficiaries of NYAY didn’t know anything about it, while most of the urban voters who would be the ones to bear the tax burden of this plan, did.

Nationalism

The Congress so frequently shot itself in the foot on the issue of nationalism that by when the elections rolled around, it had shot both its legs off and thus had no leg to stand on. The Congress and the opposition, in general, was always seen to side with those aiming to harm the nation, instead of siding with the nation.

Congress was overzealous in siding with the accused in the JNU agitation and could have made the point about freedom of speech and expression without actually sharing the stage with the accused.

If you share a platform with those who chant ‘Bharat tere tukde honge’ (India you shall be broken up into pieces) then you lend credence to the agenda. The anti-nationality of these slogans can be questioned, but I think we can all agree that it was definitely not a pro-national slogan.

I am sure even the most ardent of BJP supporters will refuse to believe that the Congress truly believes in the message of splitting India apart in pieces, but no one liked the fact that a mainstream political party was giving credence to slogans which had made every Indian’s blood boil.

When one saw the Congress and other opposition leaders on the same platform as those who chanted the slogans, one couldn’t help wonder how the slogans did not make their blood boil.

These sloganeers deserved to have been ignored and the best punishment would have been to let them remain confined to anonymity. However, because the Congress jumped on their side, these dissenters became public figures.

Congress could and should have handled its role in the whole episode better.

The Congress and the opposition repeatedly placed themselves on the wrong side of issues of national security. Be it questioning the validity of claims of surgical strikes conducted post-Uri attacks or questioning the claims of Air Strikes conducted by the Indian Air Force in PoK on terror camps.

For the first time since Pak supported insurgency became an issue in Kashmir, India had taken pro-active steps to hit back at Pakistan in their own house, and at a time when the Indian govt. had reset and rewritten the terms of engagement with the enemy, and the move was being celebrated by the people of the country, the opposition was busy questioning the army and asking them to show proof of their valour.

It was a ludicrous stand to take, to say the least. The opposition went so wrong on the issue of nationalism and national security that today BJP’s (and NDA’s) position as the vanguards of nationalism is unchallenged in the minds of the voters.

Is it any wonder that Modi and BJP made it the chief election issue.

Negative Campaigns No Longer Win Elections

There was a time when negative campaigns worked, and you could convince the voter not to vote for your opponent, and thus by default voting for you.

Negative campaigns no longer work, and merely telling the voter why he should not vote for your opponent isn’t enough. You now also need to give the voter reasons why he must vote for you.

The US presidential elections of 2016 was a great example of this when the Democrats focused on Donald Trump the person and not on his issues. They said, he was a womaniser, a misogynist to downright calling him and his voter base stupid and thought that was enough to win them the elections. We all know what the results were.

In the context of India, BJP committed the same mistake during the Bihar assembly elections of 2015, when their entire strategy was focused around telling people not to bring Lalu Prasad Yadav back to power and reminding the voter of the ‘jungle raj’ that existed during his 15-year rule in Bihar.

BJP never really laid out a roadmap of what they would if voted to power, and their negative campaign found no takers in Bihar. The result was a rout against the BJP, and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s party got the most seats in the assembly elections.

The opposition made the same mistake in 2019. The message from the opposition was the Modi is a tyrant, he is corrupt so don’t vote for him and we can go back to the way things were before Modi was Prime Minister. What they forgot was that going back to the way things were, was not very attractive to the voters.

If the voters liked the way things were in 2014, why would they have reduced the Congress to 44 seats and the Mahagathbandhan to 5 out of 80 seats in UP and voted Modi to power in the first place.

The focus should have been on telling the voters how they will make things better than 2014 after voting Modi out. However, there was a deafening silence from the opposition in that regard.

Even on the issue of unemployment, Congress failed to lay down a concrete roadmap. Congress merely quoted figures and said they will provide X no. of jobs. But how? Merely quoting figures seemed as if they were pulling out whatever number came into their heads. It made the announcement seem insincere.

Congress should have gone to the voters with a concrete roadmap and plan to explain how those jobs would be generated and what they would do differently from 2014 when unemployment was an issue too.

Absence of Issues an Endorsement of Modi’s work

I would like to end by discussing a silent factor that led to Modi’s win and that is the absence of traditional ever present electoral issues. Some staple issues that the opposition has raised in every election were conspicuous by their absence.

Electricity in the villages has traditionally been a key election issue in all elections. The absence of this issue lent credence to PM Modi’s claims that all villages in India now have electricity.

The issue of lack of roads in villages has been another staple election issue that was completely missing from the debates during this election. This lent credibility to Nitin Gadkari’s claims that his ministry has built more roads and at a faster pace than ever before in India.

Petrol-Diesel prices were never an issue in this election. If you look at history then at the start of April 2014 the petrol prices were Rs 72.26 and the petrol prices at the start of April 2019 were Rs. 72.86.

However this is not the full picture, and petrol prices did rise to a high of Rs 84 per litre in October 2018.

To fully understand the issue, it needs to be stated that shortly after the UPA 2 took over, in July 2009 the Petrol prices were Rs 44.72 and when UPA 2 left they had jumped to 72.26.

UPA 2 saw an increase in petrol prices by Rs 27.54, while the most Petrol price jumped during Modi’s tenure was by Rs 12 and even that was reigned in to return to what the prices were when Modi took over by the time his term finished.

(All petrol prices mentioned refer to Delhi petrol prices).

In general, the price of commodities, food products, etc. was not an election issue. The absence of such staple issues from the political discourse silently reinforced the voter’s belief that Modi was doing a fine job.

This coupled with the other issues outlined above led to the Tsunamo that India witnessed in the general elections of 2019.

In conversation with Nehru: On Savarkar’s mercy petitions

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In conversation with Nehru: On Savarkar’s mercy petitions

28th may 1883 was the day when a true son of mother-India was born. A controversial figure for many but a nationalist for the rest, he was the true amalgamation of sharp intellect and bravery. His contribution in freedom struggle has many admirers but few in the ideological opposite extremes have been very critical of him. Hence, It was though not shocking but definitely disappointing, to see congressmen regularly hurling abuses to Savarkar and went to an extent of removing a part of chapter from textbooks in Rajasthan.

I was deeply hurt and wanted to know, why so much hatred for a man who sacrificed a major part of his life serving a jail term, which was so rigorous that it fills nationalists with anger. Not everybody in congress hated Savarkar, Indira Gandhi was full of praise for a man who was an inspiration to every revolutionary India produced in the 20th century. In a note to Pandit Bakhle she wrote “…. veer savarkar’s daring defiance of the British government has its own important place in the annals of our freedom movement. I wish success to the plans to celebrate the birth centenary of this remarkable son of india.” *

He was also the only man who gifted Indians the saga of 1st war of independence from an Indian point of view [The Indian war of independence of 1857 by an Indian nationalist] at the age of 24. He had so many layers in his life, yet the liberal gang paint him as traitor and a coward because he wrote so-called mercy petitions. Debating with a congressman is a useless attempt, so, I thought it would be better if I ask the man himself, whose words carry more value than the deeds of a true nationalist.

This conversation is only an attempt to present the comparative study of jail terms served by both Savarkar and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Me: – it’s an honour sir to have a conversation with you.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – Good morning my dear, now can you tell me why you wanted to talk to me?

Me: – Sir recent developments in India are troublesome…..

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (cutting me in between) Yes, I know, the fascist govt. of modi has created lot of trouble for liberal free voices. Are you also one of them? My sympathies.

Me: – No sir, on the contrary, modi’s government is doing just fine, especially on the matters of internal security and your favourite foreign affairs.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (understanding the sarcasm) Ok, then tell me why are you here?

Me: – I came here to inform you that your admirers are accusing Savarkar to be a traitor and a coward.  I would love to know your views about him. Do you also think that he was a coward and a traitor?

Jawaharlal Nehru: – I have hardly any views about him, but I remember my father once advised me not to go near India house (where Savarkar stayed) during my stay in London.(1)

Me: – That’s not entirely true, you did have some reservations against him. Even Savarkar was pained by your attitude towards him, let me quote what Savarkar thought of you “I have no grudge against the British atrocities inflicted upon me in London, Marseilles and Andaman for I had vividly foreseen them as early as a boy of 14 when I took an oath at the feet of our family deity ashtbhuja devi in bhagur. My anguish deepens as I recall the sufferings and humiliations, I received in free India at the behest of the then supremo” (2) what kind of humiliations was he talking about?

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (after a long pause) I am not aware of any atrocities I inflicted upon him post-independence.

Me: – Well that’s a different matter and I need to dig deeper to know what actually he was referring to. You said, you hardly have any views about him, but let me remind you sir, the first reaction when you received the news of Gandhi’s assassination was “implicate Savarkar in Gandhi’s assassination” (3). It was Ambedkar who calmed you down, when you said the same to him. He said “Jawahar, I am sorry to hear this (Gandhi’s assassination) but let me warn you that you cannot even touch him. He has learnt to play this game of legal hide and seek with the British Scotland yard for many years in london, and you know they dared not do anything. Desperate and frustrated even Winston Churchill had to deport him to India, some day here also he will go scott-free”(4) Soon after this conversation B R Ambedkar called upon president of all India Hindu mahasabha, L B Bhopatkar and apprised him of yours vindictive intentions.(5) why this vindictiveness sir?

Jawaharlal Nehru: – I have nothing more to say other than, he was a communal man and Godse was his prodigy.

Me: – Is that why you call him a traitor? I mean because u assumed, he was the culprit of Gandhi’s assassination

Jawaharlal Nehru: – No, he sided with British and wrote mercy petitions after his imprisonment.

Me: – That’s quite ironical. Nobody in Indian polity was as close to britishers like you were. You had personal relationships too, but let’s not go there. That charge doesn’t stick to him. When you were exchanging pleasantries with governor generals, he was busy fighting them. Its laughable to the point that, you sir, who were “fighting the britishers” were jailed in cosy prisons with all basic amenities while he was thrown to a cellular jail in Andaman.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – Wait. He sided with britishers when he gave assurance that he will not involve himself in any political activity and was then released.

Me: – then released? He kept writing those petitions for 10 years, then too he wasn’t released but was shifted to Alipore jail and was there till 1924 and later was restricted to not move out of Ratnagiri till 1937. And if that logic is to be considered, is there a possibility that you got cosy prisons because you were close to britishers or maybe they restricted your political activity by blackmailing you in the name of cellular jail?

Jawaharlal Nehru: – This is preposterous. Don’t you know how to talk to a PM, you can be put in jail for making such statements. Did nobody tell you I jailed Dharampal and his friend in tihar for merely asking my resignation? (6) He had the audacity to write an open letter (7) to all MPs questioning my leadership, and here you are questioning my legacy. Keep a check on yourself.

Me: – I know sir, as first PM of independent India, you only made sure that complete freedom of speech was undesirable and needed some restrictions.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – Good then, stop asking such questions.

Me: – But sir, under fascist regime of modi it’s a new normal. PM is abused in choicest of words. He can be questioned even about toilets in remote villages. Nowadays, the PM is responsible for everything that happens in India. There is absolutely no restriction, people are free to express their extreme opinions, at least when it comes to PM, yet they are not jailed.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (asking his secretory) What kind of fascist regime is this? Is he being sarcastic?

His secretory: – No sir, he isn’t sarcastic. The feedback I’m getting from our neutral journalists and congressmen is that the modi government is definitely a fascist one.

Jawaharlal Nehru to me: – Strange. If someone had criticised me, I would have made sure they learn their lessons.

Me: – You did make sure that some people learn their lessons. But present PM is busy with fulfilling your daughter’s dream of eradicating poverty. He seldom reacts to his distractors.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (slightly irritated) Ok this interview is over. I need to take my cigarette break. “Menon. Where is my 555?”

Me: – No sir, the question remains unanswered. Pease tell me, why after serving 10 years of rigorous punishment Savarkar is called a coward & traitor and you on the other hand, who served jail terms in cosy places, attended visitors, wrote books, even got your sentence reduced to visit your ailing wife is celebrated as a bold leader. You never faced the kind of ordeal Savarkar went through, yet here you are, the freedom fighter we should respect and Savarkar, a traitor we must abhor.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – Listen, even if I was given such rigorous punishment, I would have never written any apology letter or mercy petition.

Me: – You are wrong sir, allow me to remind you a chapter [“An interlude at nabha”] in your autobiography “Toward freedom”. Will you describe in your own words what happened in nabha?

Jawaharlal Nehru: – Well, see after the deposition of the Maharaja of Nabha by the Government of India. “A British Administrator was appointed to rule the Nabha State. This deposition was resented by the Sikhs, and they agitated against it both in Nabha and outside.” (8)

Sikhs were protesting in jathas and were getting brutally suppressed by British administration, “I had been reading accounts of these beatings from time to time, and, when I learned at Delhi, immediately after the Special Congress, another jatha was going and I was invited to come and see what happened, I gladly accepted the invitation. Two of my Congress colleagues A. T. Gidwani and K. Santanum of Madras accompanied me.” (9)

“On arrival at Jaito, the jatha was stopped by the police, and immediately an order was served on me, signed by the English Administrator, calling upon me not to enter Nabha territory and, if I had entered it, to leave it immediately. A similar order was served on Gidwani and Santanum, but without their names being mentioned, as the Nabha authorities did not know them. My colleagues and I told the police officer that we were there not as part of the jatha but as spectators, and it was not our intention to break any of the Nabha laws. Besides, when we were already in the Nabha territories, there could be no question of our not entering them, and obviously we could not vanish suddenly into thin air. Probably the next train from Jaito went many hours later. So, for the present, we told him, we proposed to remain there. We were immediately arrested and taken to the lock-up. After our removal the jatha was dealt with in the usual manner.” (10)

“We were kept the whole day in the lock-up, and in the evening, we were marched to the station. Santanum and I were handcuffed together, his left wrist to my right one, and a chain attached to the handcuff was held by the policeman leading us. Gidwani, also handcuffed and chained, brought up the rear. This march of ours down the streets of Jaito town reminded me forcibly of a dog being led on by a chain.” (11)

Then we all three were transferred to nabha jail, tied together.

Me:- That’s really bold of you to protest against the injustice done by nabha administration, according to your book you were put in jail for 2 weeks (i.e. the period of your trial)  and the order was passed for you to not enter the territory of nabha. Which you had to sign and comply, Right sir? (12)

Jawaharlal Nehru: – Yes.

Me: – Kindly describe further what happened and throw some light on the condition of jail in which you spent those 2 weeks.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – Well “In Nabha Jail we were all three kept in a most unwholesome and insanitary cell. It was small and damp, with a low ceiling which we could almost touch. At night we slept on the floor, and I would wake up with a start, full of horror, to find that a rat or a mouse had just passed over my face.” (13)

Coming back to the case, after a shoddy trial we were charged with conspiracy. “Meanwhile, we were approached, on behalf of the Administrator, by the superintendent of the jail and told that if we would express our regret and give an undertaking to go away from Nabha, the proceedings against us would be dropped. We replied that there was nothing to express regret about, so far as we were concerned; it was for the administration to apologize to us. We were also not prepared to give any undertaking.” (14)

Me: – Courageous stand sir.

Jawaharlal Nehru:- (feeling proud of himself) After the trial was finished, we were waiting for the judgement but “The judgment was not read out; we were merely told that we had been awarded the maximum sentence of six months for breach of the order to leave Nabha territory. In the conspiracy case we were sentenced the same day to either eighteen months or two years, I forget which. This was to be in addition to the sentence for six months. Thus, we were given in all either two years or two and a half years.” (15)

Me: – Seeing your plight, even your father interfered, right sir?  It’s always good to have an influential father. I think only after his interference you received proper clothes, fruits and eatables. (16)  Not every freedom fighter had similar privilege

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (with an angry look on his face) Yes, so what, it wasn’t my fault that my father was an influential leader, he knew people in places.

Me: – I am sorry for stating the obvious. Please carry on sir.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (sipping his glass of water on the side table and continues) “My father knew something of Indian states, and so he was greatly upset at my unexpected arrest in Nabha. Only the fact of arrest was known; little else in the way of news could leak out. In his distress he even telegraphed to the Viceroy for news of me. Difficulties were put in the way of his visiting me in Nabha, but he was allowed at last to interview me in prison.” (17)

Me: – So did you sign the bond of compliance to never enter the territory of nabha, again?

Jawaharlal Nehru: – Yes, we did. And our 2-week worst nightmare ended.

Me: – So what happened after that? You were active again to participate in the freedom struggle, we fondly remember you for.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – No, after the release “All three of us, Gidwani, Santanum, and I brought an unpleasant companion with us from our cell in Nabha Jail. This was the typhus bacillus, and each one of us had an attack of typhoid. Mine was severe, and for a while dangerous enough, but it was the lightest of the three, and I was only bedridden for about three or four weeks, but the other two were very seriously ill for long periods.” (18)

Me: – So sorry to hear sir, well let me absorb a few things

  • for the first and only time in your otherwise comfortable life, you were jailed in a proper prison, which isn’t even 1% of the cellular jail where Savarkar was kept.
  • Not only your father tried helping you in your release, you ended up signing a bond never to enter the territory of nabha.
  • And after the release you were bed ridden due to typhoid which you caught in jail.
  • All this happened in just 2 weeks and it was a nightmare for you?

Think of those revolutionaries who were in cellular jail, many committed suicides to escape the sufferings. Some were tortured to death and Savarkar, who was given 2 life imprisonment of 50 yrs kept fighting and wrote petitions not only for himself but for others because he wanted to survive, so that he can fight against them, again, yet he is a coward & you are not?

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (speaking angrily) He sided with britishers and was released on a condition never to participate in freedom movement. That was the gist of his mercy petition (19) He became a stooge of britishers.

Me: – Firstly, even after writing many petitions, he was released from cellular jail after 10 yrs and then too kept on a house arrest. Even then he secretly participated in freedom movement. Besides you are calling him a coward for complying with britishers is a bit too rich.

Let me narrate an anecdote of the ceremony that was held on June 8 1986, in which greater London council decorated India house with a blue plaque (the highest social honour) and hailed Savarkar as “patriot and philosopher”. The ceremony was presided over by the veteran politician & statesman Lord Fenner Brockway, in the concluding part of his emotional message he said “……..Savarkar of course I never met, but whatever I have read and heard about him, I have no hitch in saying that when Savarkar was fighting here for his motherland , the Indian national congress had not even thought of it” (20)

Besides you too must be aware, it was ploy to convince britishers for clemency and he had no intention to bow down to britishers (British secret service files) (21).

Never mind, there is a bit more to your nabha story. Kindly continue.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (stood up staring out of window, some thought must have engulfed him or maybe he was feeling regret, nonetheless he continued) “There was yet another sequel to this Nabha episode. Probably six months or more later, Gidwani was acting as the Congress representative in Amritsar, keeping in touch with the Sikh Gurdwara Committee. The Committee sent a special jatha of five hundred persons to Jaito, and Gidwani decided to accompany it as an observer to the Nabha border. He had no intention of entering Nabha territory. The jatha was fired on by the police near the border, and many persons were, I believe, killed and wounded. Gidwani went to the help of the wounded when he was pounced upon by the police and taken away.

No proceedings in court were taken against him. He was simply kept in prison for the best part of a year when, utterly broken in health, he was discharged. Gidwani’s arrest and confinement seemed to me to be a monstrous abuse of executive authority. I wrote to the Administrator (who was still the same English member of the Indian Civil Service) and asked him why Gidwani had been treated in this way. He replied that Gidwani had been imprisoned because he had broken the order not to enter Nabha territory without permission. I challenged the legality of this as well as, of course, the propriety of arresting a man who was giving succour to the wounded, and I asked the Administrator to send me or publish a copy of the order in question. He refused to do so.” (22)

Me: – Sad episode indeed. But did you defy the order and went to help your friend in need and fight the britishers. This would make a courageous ending to a rather deplorable episode of your freedom struggle and you can shut the mouths of all Savarkar cheerleaders. Please tell the readers that you defied the order and went to nabha.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – (with a grim look on his face, came back to his couch and with a pinch of remorse and started speaking) “I felt inclined to go to Nabha myself and allow the Administrator to treat me as he had treated Gidwani. Loyalty to a colleague seemed to demand it. But many friends thought otherwise and dissuaded me. I took shelter behind the advice of friends and made of it a pretext to cover my own weakness. For, after all, it was my weakness and disinclination to go to Nabha Jail again that kept me away, and I have always felt a little ashamed of thus deserting a colleague. As often with us all, discretion was preferred to valour.” (23)

Me: – (putting up a disheartening smile to cover my pain) Sir just 2 weeks and it instilled a fear in you that, you didn’t even go to help your friend & fight the administration, and your admirers have the audacity to question the patriotism of Savarkar. Why shouldn’t your integrity be questioned? After all, your jail terms were like a hotel stay where u can write letter, eat proper food, meet visitors, read books.

Anyway, I rest my case, thank you sir for giving me your valuable time. I hope you won’t mind if I publish this conversation.

Jawaharlal Nehru: – I wish I could say it was nice talking to you. I have no problem if you publish the interview. I have already described this incident in my autobiography, but I am not sure if my admirers in congress can digest this fact. With this one conversation I will be compared with Savarkar.  Now it’s up to them to either disown both of us or accept Savarkar too as a hero. I can only say take care of yourself, modi may be your PM but I have a functioning ecosystem. They all will come at you. They can’t digest criticism, I can, but I am not alive anymore.

Me: – I am honoured to interview you and forgive me to bring out the truth at a time when you are no more to defend yourself. But we need this truth to be told.

Goodbye sir.

References:-

  1. Harindra Srivastav, 4 stormy trials of veer Savarkar, prabhat prakashan (page no. 17)
  2. Ibid (page 18)
  3. Ibid (page 18-19)
  4. Ibid (page 19)
  5. Ibid (page 19)
  6. Gita Dharmapal, Essential writings of dharampal, publication division ministry of I&B (page no. 6)
  7. Dharampal, Rediscover India, SIDH (page no. 132-134)
  8. Jawaharlal Nehru, Toward freedom, Cornwell press inc. (page no. 97)
  9. Ibid (page 97)
  10. Ibid (page 97-98)
  11. Ibid (page 98)
  12. https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/nehru-s-nabha-jail-ordeal-lost-in-past/story-EBrTBPS8u8UPMHndqThAjP.html
  13. Jawaharlal Nehru, Towards freedom, Cornwell press inc (page no. 98)
  14. Ibid (page no. 100)
  15. Ibid (page no. 100)
  16. https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/nehru-s-nabha-jail-ordeal-lost-in-past/story-EBrTBPS8u8UPMHndqThAjP.html
  17. Jawaharlal Nehru, Towards freedom, cornwell press inc. (page no. 101)
  18. Ibid (page no. 102-103)
  19. https://www.scribd.com/document/166077690/Savarkar-s-Mercy-Petition
  20. Harindra Srivastav, 4 stormy trials of veer Savarkar, prabhat prakashan (page 19-20)
  21. http://anurupacinar.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/British-Secret-Files-on-Savarkar-1911-21.pdf
  22. Jawaharlal Nehru, Towards freedom, cornwell press inc. (page 103)
  23. Ibid (page 103)

Meet an interesting person who succeeds Sushma Swaraj: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

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Meet an interesting person who succeeds Sushma Swaraj: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Here is the person to Succeed Sushma Swaraj as the External Affairs minister, who has the Diplomatic experience of over 3 decades.

  • Joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1977, served as third secretary and second secretary in the Indian mission to the Soviet Union in Moscow.
  • He was part of the team that resolved the dispute over the supply of US nuclear fuel to the Tarapur Power Stations in India.
  • Jaishankar is reported to have helped introduce future Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh when Indo-Japan relations saw a downturn following India’s Pokhran-II nuclear tests.
  • He was involved in negotiating the US-India civil nuclear agreement and improving defence co-operation.
  • Involved with the conclusion of the 2005 New Defense Framework and the Open Skies Agreement, was associated with the launch of the US-India Energy Dialogue.
  • Helped implement CECA with Singapore and oversaw a defence arrangement by which Singapore keeps some of its military equipment in India on a permanent basis.
  • In 2012, he became the first Indian ambassador in ten years to visit Tibet.
  • In 2012, in response to Chinese passports showing Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as parts of China, he ordered visas issued to Chinese nationals showing those territories as parts of India.
  • He was a part of negotiation team, which threatened to cancel Premier Li Keqiang’s scheduled visit to India if Chinese forces did not withdraw during a stand-off.
  • Jaishankar as foreign secretary is credited with helping negotiate the resolution between India and China at Doklam last year.
  • The man behind Modi’s Foreign policy.

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, the man who was behind the curtains since three decades but now he will be the one to deliver from the front.

Should Rahul Gandhi resign?

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Should Rahul Gandhi resign?

Yes absolutely. Election 2019, made an important stand. Rahul Gandhi will never be the PM of India. As we backtrack Rahul Gandhi’s steps, we see how his personality transmutates over time. Since he joined politics in 2004, we mostly see him in his angry epitome. His arrest in 2011 stands for that. Among all these he had failed to revive Congress’s Youth organizations. Post 2014 election, we again observe a stark change. He returned back as an emotional and a humble politician. Slowly we started seeing him lesser and lesser. His comments against Modi had become more individualistic. At this point of time Congress was starting to lose over West Bengal and other major states.

Also during this time, Modi’s Hindutva machinery was at its peak. Stuck in between 2017-18, we see revival of the bold epitome of Rahul Gandhi. Desperate to stand against, BJP think-tank RSS he started indulging in religious politics. During this time he catered to a new social media team under Divya Spanda that envisioned Rahul Gandhi as a fierce and articulate leader. He made 121 domestic trips, 27 temple visits in Gujarat. Soon he became infamous as “Janeudhari Hindu Brahmin.” However perhaps his efforts were too late, Modi had already spun up his “Hindu Bahini” as Yogi Adityanath had quoted. That army raged politically charged warfare throughout the nation, a brilliant and effective strategy. Congress had no counter narrative to this.

Rahul Gandhi’s relentless attack on Modi, started pushing him to marginalized controversies. He chose to push forward old political faces as MPs like Ashok Gehlot, Kamal Nath, etc where he clearly had young minds waiting to unleash as Milind Deora. Modi sold his ideas over Make in India and Vikas, to which NYAY was introduced a bit late. Congress had failed to stitch the Alliances between the oppositions that was key to fight BJP led era. BJP’s humongous success stands on a number of pillars. One being the propaganda. In counter, Rahul Gandhi came up with “Chowkidar Chor Hain” (Watchman is the thief) which was not strong enough to withstand Modi’s ingenious slogans as “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” (Save daughters, Educate daughters).

At present, Congress has no strategy, neither it has a functioning machinery to turn that strategy into a closely knit story, just as BJP did along with RSS. Just as BSP did, uniting all Dalits. Perhaps Congress has still not figured out who they are. The intelligentsia who used to flock around Congress is thinning down. As I go through the comments on each article, it is clear that the majority of people have found their Home in BJP. In such circumstances Rahul Gandhi is no longer a part of their conscience.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on his way to the police station after courting arrest during a protest against CBI director Alok Verma’s removal on October 26, 2018. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Almost more than 2/3rd of Indian population don’t want Rahul. They are happy with their ego being buttered by nationalistic and religious politics. They are happy to fight for beef ban, over providing for basic food that India’s 73 million poverty seek. Then, so be it.

We are in dire need of a strong opposition. With BJP winning about 303 seats on its own and 350 with NDA, the requirement of 2/3rd  majority seats in Parliament has already been nullified. Maybe Rahul Gandhi is not robust enough to suffice for that. Congress needs an ‘ideological overhaul’, someone who is not from Gandhi family, because the repetitive attacks against Rahul Gandhi for being born to a Gandhi family, makes Modi look stronger. Especially him hailing from OBC took a huge toll over 2014 Election. That reasoning lies obsolete in 2019, yet remnants of that image remain.

Rahul Gandhi is an emotionally driven politician. In 2024, there will be no place for emotions, when we stand against a brilliant institution as BJP. Rahul Gandhi, you are a nice person, I will miss you, and also, a break up or a political loss, both will hurt for sometime.

क्या कांग्रेस अब कभी सत्ता में वापसी कर पाएगी?

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क्या कांग्रेस अब कभी सत्ता में वापसी कर पाएगी?

यह सवाल पढ़ने-सुनने में अजीब लग सकता है लेकिन आज लोकसभा चुनावों के नतीजे आ जाने और उन नतीजों पर कांग्रेस पार्टी की प्रतिक्रिया देखने के बाद यह सवाल हर कोई पूछ रहा है. कांग्रेस पार्टी को सत्ता में वापस आने के लिए क्या करना चाहिए, उसके बारे में मैं भी कई बार लिख चुका हूँ और देश भर में और भी कई लेखक-पत्रकार लिख रहे होंगे. कांग्रेस के साथ समस्या यही है कि एक लम्बे समय तक गलत तौर-तरीकों से सत्ता हथियाने और उसे भोगने के बाद उसे यह लगने लगा है कि सरकार चलाने का यही तरीका सही है और जिन नीतियों पर उसने साथ सालों तक सरकार चलाई है, उनके ऊपर दुबारा से विचार करके उनमे सुधार करने की कोई जरूरत नहीं है.

केंद्र में 2014 तक जब कांग्रेस सरकार सत्ता में रही, जबरदस्त भ्रष्टाचार में लिप्त रही. कांग्रेस जहां जहां सत्ता में आती है, भ्रष्टाचार एक अभिन्न अंग बनाकर वहां सरकार के साथ ही आ जाता है. इसका सबसे ताज़ा उदाहरण मध्य प्रदेश, राजस्थान और छत्तीसगढ़ में कुछ ही महीनों पहले बनी कांग्रेस सरकारों का है. 6 महीने से कम समय में ही इन कांग्रेसी सरकारों ने इन तीनों राज्यों में इस कदर भ्रष्टाचार मचाया कि कुछ ही महीनों बाद लोकसभा चुनावों में जनता को एक बार फिर इस पार्टी का सूपड़ा साफ़ करना पड़ गया.

कांग्रेस आज भी इस गलतफहमी में जी रही है कि देश के बहुसंख्यकों को उसने आरक्षण के जरिये अलग-अलग जातियों में इस तरह से बाँट दिया है, जिससे वे सब कभी “एकता” का प्रदर्शन न कर सकें और चुनावों में उम्मीदवार की योग्यता के आधार पर वोट न देकर, उसकी जाति के आधार पर वोट करें, चाहे उस जाति का उम्मीदवार उस जाति की जनता की भलाई के लिए कुछ भी करे या न करे. मोदी के आने के बाद से बहुसंख्यक हिन्दुओं ने कांग्रेस की 70 सालों से चली आ रही इस साज़िश को पहचाना है और जाति-धर्म से ऊपर उठकर उस उम्मीदवार को वोट दिया है, जो जनता की भलाई के लिए काम करता है.

कांग्रेस पार्टी ने अल्पसंख्यकों, खासकर मुसलमानों की भलाई के लिए आज तक कोई काम नहीं किया लेकिन पार्टी मुस्लिम तुष्टिकरण इस तरह से करती रही मानो वह मुसलमानों की सबसे बड़ी शुभचिंतक हो. इसका एक उदाहरण पूर्व प्रधान मंत्री मनमोहन सिंह का वह बयान है जिसमे उन्होंने तुष्टिकरण की सभी सीमाएं लांघते हुए कहा था कि इस देश के सभी संसाधनों पर अल्पसंख्यकों (खासकर मुसलमानों) का पहला अधिकार है. इस फ़िज़ूल की बयान बाज़ी से मुसलमानों को तो कोई फायदा नहीं हुआ, हाँ हिन्दू कांग्रेस से जरूर दूर हो गए. अब जब मोदी जी ने अपनी सभी योजनाएं इस तरह से लागू करनी शुरू की हैं, जिनका लाभ समाज के सभी वर्गों को बिना किसी जाति-पाति और धर्म को देखे बिना मिल रहा है, तब कांग्रेस की जमीन खिसकनी स्वाभाविक ही है.

जवाहर लाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय में एक कार्यक्रम हुआ और वहां “पकिस्तान जिंदाबाद” और “भारत तेरे टुकड़े होंगे” जैसे देशद्रोही नारे लगाए गए. कांग्रेस इन नारे लगाने वालों के समर्थन में एकदम कंधे से कन्धा मिलाकर डट कर खड़ी रही. कांग्रेस के हिसाब से यह देशद्रोह के नारे नहीं, बल्कि “अभिव्यक्ति की आज़ादी” थी. इसके बाद मोदी सरकार ने एक के बाद एक दो सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक पाकिस्तान पर कीं, लेकिन कांग्रेस पार्टी इनका सुबूत मांगकर मोदी सरकार की खिल्ली उड़ाने में ही व्यस्त रही. बालाकोट हमले पर कांग्रेस ने जो बेशर्मी दिखाई, उससे यह बात अंतिम रूप से देशवासियों के मन में घर कर गयी कि कांग्रेस कोई राजनीतिक पार्टी नहीं, बल्कि एक आतंकवादियों से सहानुभूति रखने वाला देशद्रोही संगठन है.

2014 तक जिस कांग्रेस पार्टी को सिर्फ भ्रष्टाचार के लिए जाना जाता था, 2019 आते-आते, उसके बायो डाटा में “भ्रष्टाचार” के अलावा “देशद्रोह” की एक और उपलब्धि और जुड़ गयी. इसका नतीजा 23 मई 2019 को कांग्रेस को मिल भी गया लेकिन कांग्रेस अभी भी इन सब बातों को मानने के लिए तैयार नहीं है. लोग अपने जीवन में सफल-असफल होते रहते हैं. कुछ लोग अपनी गलतियों से सबक लेकर दुबारा प्रयास करते हैं और दूसरी बार सफल हो जाते हैं. लेकिन सोचिये कि कोई व्यक्ति अगर असफल होने के बाद भी अपनी गलती को नहीं सुधारे बल्कि और ज्यादा गलतियां करे तो क्या वह दुबारा सफल हो सकता है. जिन लोगों में मैनेजमेंट की पढाई की है, वे जानते होंगे कि एक जीतने का एक सिद्धांत यह होता है कि जब कभी किसी दूसरे व्यक्ति से प्रतिस्पर्धा में जीत हासिल करनी हो तो अपने प्रतिद्वंदी की लकीर को छोटा करने की बजाये जो व्यक्ति अपनी लकीर बड़ी करने की कोशिश करता है, जीत उसी की होती है. पिछले 5 सालों से कांग्रेस मैनेजमेंट के इस बेसिक उसूल के खिलाफ काम करते हुए “मोदी” की लकीर छोटा करने के चक्कर में नकारात्मक राजनीती करने में ही लगी रही और मोदी देश के अंदर विकास और देश के बाहर देश का नाम रोशन करते हुए अपनी लकीर बड़ी करते चले गए.

यह बात मैंने पहले ही लिखी है कि सफल वही सो सकता है, जो अपनी असफलताओं से सबक लेकर उनमे सुधार करने के लिए तैयार हो. कांग्रेस पार्टी और उसके नेता बार-बार हारने के बाद हर बार देशवासियों को यह आश्वासन दे चुके हैं कि वे लोग अपनी नीतियों में कोई बदलाव नहीं करेंगे.इन चुनावों के बाद भी राहुल गाँधी का यह बयान आया था कि यह दो विचारधाराओं की लड़ाई है-हम अपनी विचारधारा पर अडिग हैं. कांग्रेस की क्या विचारधारा है -भ्रष्टाचार और देशद्रोह ! अगर कांग्रेस इन दोनों विचारधाराओं पर अडिग है तो इस देश की जनता भी अपने निर्णय में आने वाले चुनावों में अडिग ही रहेगी और कांग्रेस को तब तक सत्ता से दूर रखेगी, जब तक यह अपनी विचारधारा को “ईमानदारी और राष्ट्रवाद” में तब्दील न कर ले.

कांग्रेस अपनी इस विचारधारा में कोई बदलाव करेगी, मेरे हिसाब से तो यह नामुमकिन है क्योंकि कांग्रेस ने “देशद्रोह और करप्शन” की विचारधारा पर “सेक्युलरिज्म” की पैकिंग चढ़ाई हुई है. 60 सालों तक लोग पैकिंग देखकर जिस “प्रोडक्ट” को खरीदते रहे, अब वे सब सयाने हो गए हैं और पैकिंग के अंदर के असली “प्रोडक्ट” की भी जांच-पड़ताल कर रहे हैं.

Election 2019 myth broken

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Election 2019 myth broken

Mr. Narendera Modi took oath of office along with his cabinet colleagues, exactly a week after, general election results declared.

This election broke lots of myth in Indian politics. Elections can be won by religion and cast calculation was forgone conclusion. Secular leaders are in shock because their loyal minority constituency decided to think differently. Out of 79 minority concentration districts BJP won 41. Secularism was out of menu list of Congress leaders. This election saw temple run instead. Two plus two is not four it could be one or zero also. This happened in UP, Karnataka and Bihar where marriage of connivance failed miserably. Parties cannot transfer their vote share to each other because voters are not part of their corporate business.

Amethi voters showed their might in this election. Message is loud and clear, work to win. Constituency is not your ancestral property to inherit. Now surname does not work. New generation is out of clutches of Gandhi name, they look someone who can provide them better quality of life and by using all resources of governance. Loss of Nikhil Kumaraswami and Mrs. Dimple Yadav or KCR daughter Kavitha shows the maturity attained by Indian voters. Politicians should not claim voter are in their pocket.

Before this election every one could predict easy win for Parth Pawar but he lost and Prajwal was mindful to work in Hassan on the advice of his grandfather H. D. DeveGowda.

The biggest shocker was in store for our liberal secular journalist. 2019 election result has shattered myth “we know everything’. We can create perception and about any person or party, we set the agenda for election, were loss of face. Electorate proved the work is done on ground and ”marketing” the word they are trying put in voters mouth, is not done. Whole lot of journalist got exposed because they were taking their personal line while reporting from ground. They behaved like ostrich, digging head in ground but everyone was seeing them necked. Brokers are out.

Black screen journalist was in utter shock to see the exit poll report and term them as dangerous for democracy. All prime time panelist were no way near the outcome. Were they fooling their viewer when they said it is their ground zero assessment. Myth of able to read Indian voters has broken and it’s a big win for democracy!

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