It’s been a bad week for the fake messiah and the party he leads with such unilateral and unquestioned power. It’s even more bad news for all his fanatic loyalists, including the fake news stooge media. The point is, they are not going to change. And, since they are not going to change, it’s going to be one bad news after another for them in the days to come.
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As expected, Rahul Gandhi is back after four months. Not only that, his house has been restored to him with dignity. “Sara Hindustan mera ghar hai,” he was gracious in his response to reporters.
While the PM has scored a badly-timed, self-goal in this quick, desperate and unthinking revenge action, soon after Rahul Gandhi’s extraordinary speech in Parliament on the Hindenberg Report and Gautam Adani’s not-so-mysterious links with his best buddy in the BJP, there is no doubt that in the battle of political perception, the young leader has emerged as a winner, which will only help consolidate his current popularity, which is on a high. With he, and INDIA, the Opposition alliance, making no tactical mistake in their fast-forward, consensual strategy of ‘one-step back and two steps forward’, it is once again — Advantage Rahul.
For one, Indians hate revenge politics, except, of course, blood-thirsty lumpens and mobsters who have been recently let loose by sundry Hindutva forces in ‘capitalist’ Gurgaon and Mewat – perhaps one of the most backward regions of the country. Surely, when it comes to bloodletting, loot and plunder, and organized hate politics, the hydra-headed Hindutva fronts make no distinction between a post-modern affluent society and those on the abysmal margins. An eye for an eye, as the saying goes, is not the Indian cup of tea.
There was outrage and shock at the sudden and crude manner in which Rahul Gandhi was removed from the Parliament, and, as quickly, shunted out of his home, compelling him to move to his mother’s house. Several people, thereby, put up placards outside their homes across the country, declaring that their home, henceforth, belongs to the Congress leader, and that their doors are eternally open for him.
The vindictive move has predictably boomeranged, with the BJP getting egg all over its face, especially its one-dimensional leader, now on the last phase of his faded and jaded power and popularity, keeping stunningly silent on crucial issues like a ravaged Manipur, or, a burning Nuh, or, the harassment and hounding of our world champion women wrestlers — while speaking in clichéd riddles which are simply not striking a chord with the masses. Clearly, his speech-writers, too, seem to have lost the plot.
Second, and this is real bad news for the BJP. After the massive success of the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, which created a storm of goodwill for Rahul Gandhi and the Congress across the nation, and led to a decisive drubbing of the BJP in Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi is reportedly embarking on another long march – from Gujarat to Meghalaya. This has been disclosed by a top Congress leader in Maharashtra, which will host the next big INDIA meet in the end of September, with the Shiv Sena playing host.
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It is no one’s guess that the two weakest links in the Opposition paradigm are UP and Gujarat. Both have been lost decisively, again and again, with the BJP scoring big wins. With the incumbent BJP leadership in Gujarat extremely weak, and with the fading charisma of their original Gujarati mascot as transparent as ever, there is no reason that the Congress can’t make a reasonable breakthrough in many parts of the state, especially in its old strongholds, like in the tribal areas. A long march through the state will mark an emotional connect with the masses, rejuvenate the shrinking and disorganized Congress, and send a message that all is not well in the homeland of the ‘great helmsman’.
As for Manipur, apart from allegations of a drug cartel with links to the very top by a former woman police officer who has been awarded the Gallantry Award, the no-trust move against the PM for his uncanny silence on its devastated people, thousands of them homeless and many still struggling for justice, might not be a total lost cause for the Opposition. It will certainly lose the motion, but the message will go loud and clear that the double-engine sarkar has yet again derailed, and this promise is as fake as most other fake promises. Besides, the BJP, not a force in most of the Northeast, barring forming state governments by hook or crook, will, consequently, lose support in most of the seven sister states.
If Chief Minister Biren Singh has been trying to implement the ‘Gujarat model’ replete with relentless revenge, and organized mob actions tacitly backed by the security forces, including the beastly enactment of violence and assault against Kuki women, than this too must boomerang in the days to come. Sadly, the people of Manipur will continue to pay a heavy price for electing a man who so abjectly lacks humanity, compassion and the basic skills of good governance. Indeed, why the PM continues to protect him, like he does Brijbhushan Singh, remains yet another unsolved riddle.
Now, Manipur might be far away. However, Nuh and Gurgaon are so close to the capital of India. The hell-fire, bloodletting and war-cries out there can be clearly heard in Delhi, and, it yet again reflects the collapse of the double-engine regime in Haryana. Amidst this polarizing divide, people from both the communities have suffered huge damage, and there have been cases, when, in the mayhem of loot and plunder, Hindus have robbed Hindus of their precious belongings. Even while communities have chosen to protect each other, defying the mob.
If a history-sheeter like Monu Manesar is the new Frankenstein they wanted to create, and repeat the damned social engineering they successfully did in the harmonious society of Western UP before the 2014 parliamentary elections, it was decisively defeated, once again, by the united strength and collective of the farmers. In huge Mahapanchayats held in Kot and Jind in Haryana, farmers, across the caste and religion kaleidoscope, wowed to defeat the monsters and not allow the social harmony among the communities to be destroyed — come what may.
This was a repeat of similar Mahapanchayats held earlier in UP, Haryana and Punjab in support of the women wrestlers, and the collective chorus in resounding symphony of Allah-u-Akbar and Har Har Mahadev, in a massive, historic and unprecedented rally in Muzaffarnagar, during the farmers’ great and glorious movement against the three farm bills.
In any case, according to locals who spoke to this reporter, the BJP might bite the dust in both the assembly and Lok Sabha polls in Haryana, and Dushyant Chautala’s fledgling outfit might just be finished. The way they treated the ‘Haryana ki Beti’ – dragging the women wrestlers on the streets of Delhi so close to the new Parliament building with the PM presiding over it like a mythical monarch, has resulted in intense anger in Haryana, especially among mothers and daughters. The medalist wrestlers have become a role model and an inspiration in the state, and the cops assaulting them, while continuously protecting a BJP bahubali, will have its serious share of negative repercussions for the Hindutva party.
Undoubtedly, the return of Rahul Gandhi marks a turning point in contemporary India’s brutalized democracy. It’s a sign of enduring optimism amidst the sinister and diabolical shadows of evil which have stalked the nation since the summer of 2014. One only fervently hopes that it will also mark the return of truly ‘new India’ where the deathly fires of hate will give way to the healing serenity of love, compassion and humanism.