Rahul Gandhi has repeatedly proved that he is an unconventional politician. His ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ (BJY) has again given ample evidence. He spent little time in States that were going to Assembly polls and more time in States like Kerala and Rajasthan, where the next General Elections will be in 2024.
Now that elections in three North Eastern States and Gujarat are over, he’s planning ‘BJY 2.0’ from North East to Gujarat. We know elections and results don’t bother the “Tapasvi”.
Support from Pakistanis
Tapasvi has now gone international and launched his campaign for the 2024 General election from Cambridge. Sporting a trimmed salt and pepper beard and a dapper suit, Rahul enthralled an audience of “balding senior citizen students” reminding us of JNU.
Accompanying him was Pakistan-born Kamal Muneer, the pro-Vice Chancellor of Judge Business School (JBS). Tapasvi is coming across as a true advocate of the stated motto of RSS, “Vasudhiva Kutumbakam”, and its goal of achieving “Akhand Bharat”. He has had more Pakistanis and Turks rooting for him on social media than Indians. If his JBS speech has struck at the roots of the Modi Government, subsequent press meets have confirmed to the world that the “Democratic Structure has disappeared from India just like that.”
Friendly Militants
Rahul is an extremely honest person. He narrated how he saw some “militants” in Kashmir and how they didn’t harm him because he had no violence within him. That means those Kashmiri Hindus being killed by militants must be harbouring violence within them. Else they wouldn’t have been killed by the “peaceful” militants. He used the word “militant” because we know Congress has always believed “Terror has no religion”.
Hence the term “terrorists” was not used. Rahul is particular about getting his facts right. He said, “The democratic structure has been undone in India and nobody is bothered.” Nobody can deny this fact. We simply don’t have such a structure today. Those who disagree with him must show us where that “structure” is.
Rahul believes there’s more democracy and freedom in China and Pakistan than in India. Even though opponents may disagree, Rahul must be knowing better. After all, it wasn’t BJP but Rahul who signed a party-to-party Memorandum of Understanding with the Communist Party of China in 2008.
Rahul explained to the JBS audience that he could not converse with students in universities of India as he did at Cambridge. Students in Indian universities tend to disagree with him far too often. They had earlier told him that “Make in India” is working when he believed it wasn’t. They were asking out-of-syllabus questions about NCC when he went prepared for RTI. In some places, he was greeted with “Modi, Modi” shouts.
Many of them also call him by his Pappular nickname. Cambridge was refreshingly different because the Pakistanis were so much polite and accommodating. Rahul was fully mindful of senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar previously requesting Pakistan to “Remove Modi” so that India and Pakistan could restart dialogue. With Pakistan having failed to accomplish that after more than seven years, Rahul was broadening the spectrum. He now has placed the onus of restoring the democratic structure in India on the shoulders of Europe and the US—the white man’s burden.
Sycophants Speak
Sanjay Jha, the “outstanding” Rahul Gandhi fan on Twitter, has declared Rahul as the clear winner against PM Modi because he has held press meets in the United Kingdom, which the PM has never done. People from Supriya Shrinate to Sanjukta Basu have praised his “tall and elegant” looks. Sanjukta even likened him to Socrates. Earlier, she had gone gaga over his six packs. Despite lavishing praises on the “Six-pack Socrates”, Sanjukta admitted she doesn’t get paid in lakhs of Rupees as people think. She claims to have been promised Rs 3,000 by National Herald but was only paid Rs. 1000.
Rahul’s concern for democracy isn’t limited to India. He also answered questions about political dynasties in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He was of the considered opinion that dynastic politics was not an impediment to democracy. Rahul believes India had a better “democratic structure” when there was the dynastic rule. He didn’t specifically mention Indira Gandhi. Rahul’s speech was about “Listening to 21st Century”.
But BJP pointed out that he did most of the talking, and when it was time to listen, he didn’t listen properly. He asked, “What is your question?” when one of the persons in the crowd reminded him, “Even Indira Gandhi refused to talk ill about India on foreign soil when she’d gone to London after being released from jail.”
Acting as Puppet
Many people claim Rahul is just a puppet. He’s repeatedly praised the broader Chinese vision. Though he has not said so in as many words, Rahul believes there’s more democracy and freedom in China and Pakistan than in India.
Even though opponents may disagree, Rahul must be knowing better. After all, it wasn’t BJP but Rahul who signed a party-to-party Memorandum of Understanding with the Communist Party of China in 2008. Rahul also claimed BJP had hacked his phone with Pegasus, and he was informed by an “Intelligence Officer” that he was under surveillance. He didn’t elaborate on the reason why he refused to submit his phone for scrutiny by Supreme Court. Perhaps Rahul has seen it all and overcome through “Chinese vision”.
During his BJY, Rahul taught the art of self-defence against RSS by using enemy’s own power to students as well as politicians. But he didn’t teach it to Cambridge students. He knows RSS isn’t strong in Cambridge. That is optimum utilisation of resources and talent. Overall, Rahul’s effort at “Listening to 21st Century” has been a grand success. Alas, people of India will be voting in 2024 General elections, not Cambridge University students.
