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An Idea Whose Time Has Come

If the caste census is an unstoppable idea now, Rahul Gandhi too is an unstoppable idea. Indeed, he is flying on the wings of a certain special kind of passion which can only arrive once in a lifetime. And the time has come now.

Contrast this with the dark irony of the fake messiah. Not only was he decisively defeated in the last parliamentary polls, he seems to have totally vanished from the scene, including from within the stooge media, who would start crawling at the mere mention of his name.

Rahul Gandhi is once again right. The constant fear and overwhelming terror of the last 10 years seems to have disappeared faster than one could imagine.

And it is not coming back!

In his recent, highly successful visit to America, there were signals which were as clear as sparkling, winter sunshine. That the PM was not biological, but, was a prophet sent by God, proclaimed in Varanasi, was the first transparent sign, said Rahul Gandhi. That revealed his “psychological collapse”. It punctured the “carefully constructed 56-inch persona”.

Talking to students and teachers in Washington DC, he said: “The idea of Mr Modi, 56-inch chest, direct connection with God, that’s all gone; its history now. He realizes it, India realizes it, his partners in the government realize it, three or four senior ministers in his government realize it.”

 “I think early on he had realized this thing is going wrong. We were getting inputs from regular sources, some of the agencies… it was pretty clear that they were in trouble… And we knew when he said, I speak directly to God, that we have actually blown him apart… People think, well, this was the prime minister saying that I am special, I am unique and I talk to God. But, that’s not how we saw it. Internally, we saw it as a psychological collapse,” he said.

Rahul Gandhi’s visit to America is a pointer. Surely, there are powerful forces in the West which want a paradigm shift in India.

For a big democracy, there has been just too much of hate politics, mob-lynching, minority-bashing, bad-mouthing, war-mongering, and infinite injustice. Umar Khalid, Gulfisha, Sharjeel and other brilliant, young scholars are still languishing in prison. Clearly, the Supreme Court, all other courts in the land, and, especially, the current chief justice, who arrived riding on ‘Great Expectations’, have failed to give them justice. This is, indeed, tragic and beyond belief.

The rise and rise of Kamala Harris marks a contrast with the fall and fall of the fake god-send in India. Certainly, there is no love lost among the Democrats for the fascists in India. And, with Bernie Sanders, and his socialist ‘squad’, including Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib backing Kamala Harris, there is little hope left for the Neo-Nazis in India, to get good vibes from most of America.

The clarion call of the PM, ‘Abki baar Trump Sarkar’, breaking all norms and protocol, and sending a clear message to the Democrats, has not been forgotten. Donald Trump, friend and ally of the PM, sharing most of his retrograde views, is on a sticky wicket. The first debate between him and Kamala Harris has proved that all his cards seem to have already collapsed.

The mass murderer of Israel, one of the best buddies of the Indian PM, isolated and discredited in the entire world, and hated by a majority of his own people, is counting his last days in power. Undoubtedly, it is Benjamin Netanyahu, who is blocking all the efforts for the release of the hostages in custody of the Hamas. He simply does not seem to care one bit about them, or, their grieving families. With the genocide still continuing in Gaza, and, now, spilling over in the West Bank, the tragic fate of the condemned Israeli hostages, and their every day suffering, seems to find no end.

Meanwhile, the INDIA alliance too is becoming an unstoppable idea. Only a miracle can save the BJP in Haryana. With world champion, now, a national icon, Vinesh Phogat, contesting from her own homeland on a Congress ticket, the wave has already swept the ‘ground beneath the feet’ of the Hindutva forces. Defeat stares point-blank at them, and not even their non-biological, fake prophet can save them anymore.

The cycle of defeat should inevitably follow in Maharashtra and Bihar. With a discredited Nitish Kumar totally out of focus, and the graph of Tejeshwi Yadav rising, Bihar, once again, as in the past, will show the way. Like that of the PM, Nitish Kumar’s days too are over.

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The defeat in Maharashtra will mark the final political rupture in the fate of the BJP. Not only is it the financial capital of India, the defeat of the BJP in the state will be a clear pointer that all the crony capitalists, who, till now, were eating from the hands of the Gujarati duo calling the shots in Delhi, will now start looking for greener pastures.

With the sold-out, faction-ridden regime led by a discredited Eknath Shinde, and with all the factions fighting with each other routinely, Mumbai will now witness a new power equation. And it will be the rainbow coalition of the Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP which is bound to win the next elections.            

Meanwhile, more pointers are coming from within the Hindutva camp, which are clearly bad signals for the PM. Of all the people, Smriti Irani, an obsessive Rahul-baiter, seems to have turned into an ardent fan of Rahul Gandhi! Look at what she has said recently: “A change has come in the politics of Rahul Gandhi… When he talks about caste, when he wears a white T-shirt in Parliament, he is aware of what kind of message it sends to the youth…We shouldn’t be under any misconception about his actions — whether they seem good, bad, or childish, they represent a different style of politics.”

There is no doubt that the working class and ordinary folks are close to the heart of Rahul Gandhi. From coal miners in Jharkhand, to coolies and mechanics in Delhi, to Swiggy and Zomato workers who stake their lives on motorbikes to deliver quick food to customers, and are threatened by their employers that their meager salaries will be cut if they don’t deliver on time, he has touched their hands and brought their everyday life into media limelight. Hardworking railway drivers, who are driving long distances without adequate sleep, and not even with clean toilets, he has travelled the journey with all of them, sharing their sorrows and smiles.

Not only that. Rahul Gandhi chooses to drop in, here and there, in this town and that city, in this restaurant and that, sharing their food and delicacies. He meets the cooks and the staff, shakes their hands, hugs them, pays his bill, and they are too glad to get a group picture clicked with such an amiable and friendly fellow. A Pune-based school teacher told this reporter that this is an endearing quality in the man, and she too would like to share a meal with him one day.

History teaches us that one day, beyond doubt, all fascists must accept defeat. Adolf Hitler committed suicide in Berlin. Benito Mussolini was shot dead. And so was the inevitable fate Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu.

TheRomanian state television had then announced that Ceaușescu was directly responsible for the mass murder of 60,000 people. After 24 years of brutal dictatorship, he was executed on December 25, 1989. This also marked the end of the totalitarian regimes led by Soviet Union, and its collapse, with Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm in Moscow.

Rahul Gandhi is an unstoppable idea now. In a certain manner, he has touched the soul of India. Undoubtedly, after the 10 years of this nasty and cruel regime, India needs healing. And, as the first nip of early winter arrives with the festive season, this is the time to dream, and dream big.

Small is truly beautiful, but the ‘new India’, which belongs to the young, is full of dreams. Surely, the days of insomnia are, now, finally over.

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Rahul Gandhi Rises To The Challenge

Rahul Rises To The Challenge

Rahul Gandhi’s first speech in Parliament after the 2024 polls, clearly, stunned the ‘non-biological’ man, his best buddy from Gujarat, and his entire political party. Their shocked, crest-fallen faces told a story.

For the fake prophet, who has routinely flaunted his 56 inch chest, ‘red eyes’ and ‘ghar mein ghus kar marenge’ rhetoric, this is truly a fall from grace. Even his objections were so feeble and lame. So much so, his best buddy was seeking ‘protection’ from the Speaker – their own man – with an infamous record of brazen partisanship.

Ideally, Mr M should have gracefully accepted defeat and quit. He and his party have lost the mandate. That he did not point to other compelling factors – and not only the cliche that he is addicted to power. Powerless, one hundred old stories of solitude would have resurrected yet again, and those wouldn’t have been stories of magic realism!

In contrast, the entire Opposition in the INDIA alliance seems full of cheer, upbeat, buoyant. As if they have won the polls.

Indeed, they have, morally, emotionally, and psychologically, and this is no conspiracy theory!

Political observers believe that if the first two round of polling had been authentically accounted for in the Election Commission (EC) data, that is, if the final tally had not suddenly increased so drastically, soon after their initial disclosure – the results would have been quite different. Perhaps, the BJP would have failed to do even a ‘200 paar’!

Undoubtedly, it was the tremendous pressure exerted by civil society groups, the INDIA bloc, and eminent citizens that, perhaps, put the EC on the alert. The case unfolding in the apex court added to the gist. And ordinary folks were openly saying on the streets that Modi can only win if he fudges the EVMs!

Now, each day, there is new social-psychological pressure being exerted on the BJP leadership. Lalu Yadav has suddenly asked all in his party to be ready for assembly polls. He added to the suspense by claiming that this propped-up regime will fall in August. There have been whispers that the government can fall any day. Even Mukesh Ambani’s visit to meet Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, in a season of obscenely lavish pre-wedding indulgences, has made the gossip-mill go on an over-drive.

Now, Gujarat, has been added to the list. Rahul Gandhi told the BJP in Parliament, that they can take it in writing – they will now lose Gujarat! For a party, which has somehow managed to break the BJP citadel by winning one MP seat this time, this is like promising a utopia. The BJP will be defeated because the “balloon of Modi’s vision has burst,” said the Leader of Opposition (LoP).

By defeating the BJP in Ayodhya, INDIA bloc has defeated the Ram Mandir movement that was launched by LK Advani. “What I am saying is something very big…” he said. “Congress party and INDIA bloc defeated them in Ayodhya… In Parliament, I asked the prime minister as to whether he was a human being, as he himself said that he was non-biological, and has a direct connection with God. If you are directly connected to God, then how were you defeated in Ayodhya?”

“You could not have imagined that BJP will get defeated in Ayodhya or that Modi will win Varanasi by a small margin. They are going to be defeated here in Gujarat like they were in Ayodhya. All you have to do is to ask the people of Gujarat to not be scared,” he said.

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He has added another twist to the tale. He has claimed that Modi wanted to contest from Ayodhya (considering the grandiose hyperbole created around the ‘pran pratistha’ ceremony, and the huge hype by the stooge media), but he was told by his advisers that he will face certain defeat. “That is why, he (Modi) did not contest from Ayodhya, but opted for Varanasi. In Varanasi, we made a few mistakes, or else, we should have defeated him there as well,” he said.

This is like the proverb of both heads and tails of the tossed coin falling in the lap of the LoP. And this LoP is no run-of-the-mill guy!

So, soon after the electrifying speech in Parliament, what did he do? He went to share the life experiences of the working class and skilled ‘mistris’ who build homes and buildings with their bare hands and back-breaking labour, on abysmally low wages. Every picture clicked with them reeks of a certain honesty not seen among the political class in India since decades.

Then Rahul Gandhi went to meet railway drivers and loco pilots from across the country in Delhi, who work in hard shifts, who are over-worked, stressed out and lack proper sleep, and who take rest in not-so-comfortable spaces with lack of washrooms. Despite thousands of vacancies, the railways are reportedly not hiring staffers. Besides, there is a massive privatization spree happening.

The drivers poured their heart out to him. Soon after, railway officials rushed to meet the drivers and their union leaders, promising to do what they have refused to do all these years.

This visit is to be measured in terms of the series of deadly train accidents which have occurred in the recent past. In the last case near Darjeeling, the overworked railway driver has been reportedly blamed. Under Ashwini Vaishnav as Railways Minister since 2021, 329 accidents have reportedly occurred, including the death of 296 passengers in Balasore, Orissa, last year.

In another interview , Rahul Gandhi said that he showed the ‘abhay mudra’ in  Parliament, that most people in India work with their hands, but they get nothing in return. “Instead, we want to give them respect, appreciation and protection. This is our thinking.”

While the PM must have forgotten about Hathras, Rahul Gandhi was there immediately after the ghastly stampede killed around 120 people in an overcrowded show held by yet another ‘godman’. He consoled a little girl, while holding the hand of another, listening to them, sharing their grief, seeking compensation.

In September 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit girl was gang-raped by upper caste men in a village in Hathras. Her body was burnt by the cops in the night in a hush-hush manner. Even her parents were not allowed to do the last rites. The Delhi and UP police blocked all the highways with barricades. Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi braved their lathis, broke the barricades and reached Hathras. The heart-rending pictures of Priyanka hugging a grieving mother became viral — a moment of deep sorrow.

On Monday, July 9, 2024, Rahul Gandhi was back in Manipur. This is the third time he has visited the ravaged state which has lost its peace of mind, with thousands in refugee camps, scores of dead in the conflict zone, and the nightmare of  two women being brutalised, stripped and paraded naked by a mob still haunting the conscience of the civil society. He has now visited the relief camps in Jibram and Churachandpur districts.

Significantly, the PM has not visited Manipur till this day. Why?

No one knows.

The truth is, now, it does not matter. He has lost the game. The game is over for him. And every day, in popular consciousness, his image is sinking deeper into a lower abyss. It seems, ‘acche din’ has finally arrived for Mr M. 

Besides, as he flies to Moscow, its people suffocated by another life-long megalomaniac-dictator, he should analyse the poll results in the UK and France. Left-of-Centre Labour Party and the Left solidarity alliance of the New Popular Front has won decisive victories out there — defeating the Right-wing, including the Neo-Nazis in France. Even in Iran, the hardliner Islamic fundamentalists have lost to a proven reformist.

The winds of change, cool and soothing, they often arrive, suddenly, quickly, and undetected. However, when they do arrive, they refuse to go away so soon. These days, it seems, they have come to stay.

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Cong Is Capable Of Contesting Elections Alone On All Seats: Hooda

Cong Is Capable Of Contesting Elections Alone On All Seats: Hooda

With the Opposition alliance threatening to fall apart amid rising differences over seat-sharing, former Haryana Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition, Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said that the Congress party is capable of contesting elections alone on all the seats in Haryana.

The West Bengal CM had earlier ruled out allying with the Congress, saying her party was quite capable of going it alone in the state and defeating the BJP-led NDA.

Her nephew and top TMC leader, Abhishek Banerjee, blamed the Congress for the breakdown in seat-sharing talks, saying the grand old party dragged their feet in the matter.

Earlier, on Wednesday, the INDIA parties met in the national capital to discuss the seat-sharing agenda for the Lok Sabha elections.

Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, DMK leader TR Baalu and CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury were pictured leaving Kharge’s residence after the meeting.

Cracks in the INDIA bloc widened with Mamata giving a cold shoulder to the Congress and Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar dealing a further blow to the alliance after returning to the BJP-led NDA.

One of the key architects of the Bloc, Nitish also pulled out of the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) in Bihar as he took oath as chief minister for the ninth time with support from the NDA.

Meanwhile, following Uttar Pradesh Congress in-charge Avinash Pandey’s remarks that the Samajwadi Party is adopting a ‘one-sided’ policy in Uttar Pradesh, the party’s Chief Akhilesh Yadav asserted on Wednesday that there will be an alliance in the state and that the seats will be allocated ‘properly’.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) announced the names of 16 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The SP has offered 11 out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh to the Congress. (ANI)

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Speaker Orders Eviction Of EPS

TN: Speaker Orders Eviction Of EPS, AIADMK MLAs

Speaker Appavu on Tuesday ordered the eviction of Tamil Nadu Opposition Leader Edappadi K Palaniswami and other AIADMK MLAs amid a ruckus in the Assembly.

The opposition leaders continued to create a ruckus even after the eviction orders.
“No one has any right to demand where one should be seated inside the assembly,” Speaker Appavu said.

He added that tomorrow the AIADMK members can attend assembly sessions but not today.

The Speaker had given assurance that he will give time after Question Hour to raise the issue of seating arrangement for the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. As per the present seating arrangement, both EPS and O Paneerselvam (OPS) sit in the front row together in their capacity as the Leader of Opposition (LoP) and Deputy LoP respectively.

“Before today’s assembly session Edappadi Palaniswami and some MLAs met me in my room. They gave four letters to me which they have already sent to me. At the same time regarding AIADMK election case is going on in the Supreme Court. Both EPS and OPS expressed their side to me. But only the Speaker has the right to decide,” Appavu said.

Addressing a press conference afterwards, EPS said: “Over 60 MLAs from the AIADMK do not want OPS to be the Deputy Leader of Opposition. We had given representations to the Speaker on the same. It has been two months since we requested the Speaker to remove OPS from the position but no changes have been made and OPS continues to be the Deputy Leader of the Opposition.”

EPS alleged that “We are not being given chance to speak about this in the Assembly. It seems that the Speaker is acting on the suggestion of the DMK. OPS is someone who has been removed from the primary membership of ADMK.”

Earlier on October 17, when the Monsoon Session of the Tamil Nadu Assembly began, EPS remained absent. As per sources, he “boycotted” the Assembly session because rival faction leader OPS was made to sit as the Assembly Deputy Opposition Leader Chair, sources said.

The former Chief Minister OPS was seen participating in the proceedings of the House seated in the chair for AIADMK deputy floor leader.

Addressing media persons after the session, OPS said, “We are attending the assembly session today as AIADMK MLAs. You should ask the EPS faction why they did not attend the assembly session.”

Earlier on July 11, in the General Council meeting convened, EPS was elected as the interim General Secretary of the party. Before the meeting, supporters of both rival factions clashed outside the party headquarters. Following the violent clash, the headquarters was seized by the Revenue Divisional Officer.

The August 17 judgement by a single bench of Justice G Jayachandran had nullified the July 11 meeting and ordered status quo, as prior to July 11. EPS camp then challenged the single bench judgement to a division bench of Madras High Court which ruled in favour of EPS.

Both factions of the AIADMK have urged the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M Appavu to identify them as real AIADMK. The matter is pending in the Supreme Court. (ANI)

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