PM's candid message on 'Corruption' Spanish series 'Money Heist' ::::::: Nawaz Sharif raises Kargil misadventures -- “I should know why we were ousted in 1993 and in 1999"

The Netflix global hit 'Money Heist' is in news in India, it's rather in 'political news'.

There are other instances too.

On December 8, PM Narendra Modi used a newspaper image of almirahs stuffed with cash. The news report was on the crores of rupees that were seized during the raid on Congress MP Dhiraj Sahu.

Yes, the master communicator, that is Namo, is now using modern symbols and references to highlight Congress party and corruption menace.

One factor could be that 'Corruption' is seen as a normal thing...yeh toh hona hee tha! 

But it's a serious malady that concerns Modi, BJP and their election campaign programme. In 2014, Corruption was one issue that helped Moditva shine and shine in the manner that Indian politics has changed a lot in substance since then.

But Modi believes people should not be left on their own to accept Corruption as an endemic problem. But how does he make people, especially the younger generation, sit up and think seriously about the malady where Jugadu-culture is a national favourite hobby !

"What was interesting to note was the tweet in Hindi was peppered with red cross and banknote emojis. It also had emojis depicting laughing out in tears. This was the second such emoji-loaded tweet by the Prime Minister. Emojis are so common that we use them impulsively to convey our feelings. As with pictures, an emoji too conveys a thousand words," says 'India Today'.  

The Prime Minister perhaps surprised his admirers and detractors alike when he shared a morphed video, created by BJP based on the Spanish hit series “Money Heist”.

“In India, who needs 'Money Heist' fiction, when you have the Congress Party, whose heists are legendary for 70 years and counting!” Modi wrote on social media X while sharing a video posted by BJP featuring stacks of currency notes recovered by the I-T Department and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

The BJP had earlier released the video slamming the Congress after the income tax department seized ₹353 crore during its raids at Boudh Distillery Private Limited, a company based in Odisha. The company is allegedly linked to Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Sahu. The BJP shared the video, terming it Congress’s “Money Heist”.

Earlier, Modi took a took at the Congress, tagging a news report about the I-T department's recoveries in cash from various locations of a business group allegedly linked to Sahu.

"Countrymen should look at these piles of currency notes and then hear the addresses of its (Congress) leaders on honesty. Every penny looted from people will have to be returned. This is Modi's guarantee," Modi had posted. He achieved his goal too.

The Congress party was provoked. Rahul's trusted aide and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh joined the issue with Modi.

“Your close friend Adani siphons out Rs 17,500 crore from India by inflating the prices of imported coal and power equipment. He brings another Rs 20,000 crore back into India via offshore shell companies and inflates his stock prices under SEBI’s eyes. He borrows billions from banks at his service using inflated stocks as collateral. 

He invests the money in projects kindly gifted to him using ED, CBI and IT. He zooms from literally nowhere to the second richest man in the world. Who pays for this unprecedented growth?” Jairam Ramesh said.

Jairam Ramesh said that the PM’s attack was an attempt to “divert attention from the latest twist involving Chang Chung-Ling and the Adani Group”. “It won’t work,” Jairam Ramesh said. 

But has Congress not yet learnt any lesson that every time they attack Modi below the belt, the grand old party suffers bigger electoral humbling ?

Nawaz Sharif 'showing clout' .... turning assertive on eve of polls :: Raises Kargil misadventures -- “I should know why we were ousted in 1993 and in 1999"

Tables are not yet turned in Pakistan. But Nawaz Sharif is showing his growing clout. The army and his other detractors seem to have no alternative other than 'stomaching' the new tantrums of an aging leader. 

Speaking about his party’s three tenures, for Pakistan Prime Minsiter recently said: “Each time, we came and did good work for the country’s development and each time we were ousted.”

“Why were we ousted?” he asked. “I should know why we were ousted in 1993, in 1999.

Gen Pervez Musharraf had staged a coup in October 1999 ostensibly because Sharif had opposed the 'Kargil misadventure' of Pakistani army during the stint of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in India.

"[Was it] because we handled matters the right way? [Was it] because we said the fighting in Kargil should not have taken place? Is this why we were ousted?” he asked, adding that he was “proven right”.

Addressing his party leaders, the PML-N supremo said they should not only be passionate about obtaining tickets for contesting the upcoming general elections but also think about the country’s situation.  “Those who have brought the country to this point, they should also be held accountable. They should be asked how you meted out such treatment with this country.

“Why did you do so, which no patriotic Pakistani can ever even imagine?” the former premier asked. 

His stance has been encouraged by an edit in 'Dawn' newspaper.

"It is encouraging to see that Nawaz Sharif remains committed to a strong civilian government and an independent foreign policy, and he is fully entitled, as a former chief executive, to pursue accountability and push the overreaching arms of the state back into their respective domains," the edit says.