When 'crown prince' Rahul Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "not a problem" and that "Modi mein dum nahi hae": one thing is clear -- he is only sharing out his utter frustration.
The reality is known to most people in the Opposition and also in the BJP that rather is Rahul Gandhi who does not have 'dum' !!
About some leaders, it is often said that they may be megalomaniacal to a scary degree. They do not put in the long years and hard work needed to become a real leader.
In other words, the Congress leader and at present Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha realises that he and his party along with other opposition parties have failed to take the real competition to the Modi camp.
This on the backdrop that a number of sinister attempts and conspiracies hatched by Congress and its friendly parties and other stakeholders including some individuals have failed.
The failure is not the making of the congress party.
The Opposition parties including India's well known Sickular gang have failed because Modi has a strong ring of defence -- Suraksha Kawach.
Modi himself leads the charge in his camp and has successfully eliminated his detractors.
The latest of course is vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar's resignation.
This was like an Operation Gaddar, as a few BJP insiders say.
A dangerous plan was hatched as a result of conspiracies between a section of Congress party and the former vice president. Dhankar was no body till he was made West Bengal Governor but within a few years as he became vice president and also Chairman of Rajya Sabha, he started over estimating his importance as a Jat politician.
By Dec 2024; he thought he can champion even the cause of Sickularism and offer himself as a face to take on Modi himself.
The intent was not only the so called impeachment motion.
They planned a constitutional crisis and thought that this crisis will be suitably made use of to target PM's chair.
Because Congress too is desperate to see the back of PM Modi in the corridors of power; it readily agreed to play a pro active role in pulling carpet underneath Narendra Modi's feet.
The best part of so-called Operation Gaddar is that Modi displayed his political will and the alertness of mind. He acted quickly and on time.
It is argued today that had he been late by one-day to pave the way for Dhankhar's exit, things could have gone out of hands.
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Manipur violence of 2023 was another crisis, -- the Congress and other opposition parties thought will be a good issue to corner both Narendra Modi and Amit shah as the latter is the Home minister.
The Trinamool Congress also extended full steam support in that and their quiz master started shouting 'Manipur --- Manipur' in the House. The Kolkata-based party has otherwise bothered to come to the rescue of those 'outsiders - people from plains and mainland India' when they were (are) targeted by various tribal groups -- from Meghalaya to Mizoram and Nagaland to Manipur.
The release of a video wherein rape victims were shown 'paraded naked' just on the eve of a Parliament session actually made analysts raise eyebrows.
This left the Modi government embarrassed no doubt but it too failed to create any mega crisis for the centre or for the prime minister.
The problems in BJP also revolve around the fact some insiders in the party are not uncomfortable as Modi is finding the going so smooth and comfortable for last 11 years and more.
Dhankhar's exit has given an indication that despite 2024 Lok Sabha polls setbacks; Modi is still strong. Secondly, a few ministers may be dropped sooner than later.
***Pegasus .....
This was also well thought issue that was highlighted in 2021.
But during the monsoon session of Parliament (2021) the opposition flagged off the Pegasus snooping row and disabled parliamentary functioning.
Was it not a case of changing the goalpost? Pegasus brought in other issues on table, one being -- national security etc and this was/is 'Modi's strong point' and not opposition's.
Yet the goalpost was changed ! Reference to Manipur violence and the manner it was hyped by the Opposition did not make much sense.
In the summer of 2021, Imphal was turned into a virtual Conflict-Tourism Capital. In 2002, Ahmedabad was India's riot tourism capital.
The Congress and other 'sickular' parties burned their fingers and yet again they are doing the same mistake.
Over emphasis on Manipur has on the other side of the room brought entire focus on states such as West Bengal - ruled by PM aspirant Mamata Banerjee - or Rajasthan which was then under Congress.
The percentage of crime against women in Rajasthan was recorded as the largest in the country.
**:Targeting of Gautam Adani is also not so much against the industrialist as it was aimed to push the ultimate line against Modi.
The chief target line was that Modi helping corporate captains from Gujarat.
In 2019, the Congress and others targeted Anil Ambani vis-a-vis Rafale and sought to corner Narendra Modi.
Even this game had failed.
Prior to all these, the Sickular gang including Congress did not cooperate with the centre on bringing a land acquisition Bill. In 2015, the debate was around 'Intolerance'.
Most of it was filled in hypocrisy.
The sum and substance of the entire tale is Narendra Modi's biggest advantage is the fact that Rahul Gandhi is his principal opponent.
Take this as a sample: ".... as I watched the protest (in Parliament), I observed, not for the first time, that nearly every Indian Opposition leader is a political prince or princess from a political family. All three members of the mighty Gandhi dynasty joined the protest" -- wrote Tavleen Singh in 'Indian Express'.
Both the columnist and the newspaper are famous for being anti-Modi.
"Protests of the kind we saw over the ‘death of democracy’ are now routine. All that changes is the issue over which our Opposition leaders behave so badly inside the Lok Sabha that it is adjourned repeatedly. This gives the Leader of the Opposition the chance to complain again that he is not allowed ‘to speak inside the House’.
He would be if he made his case less childishly inside Parliament instead of in its courtyard," wrote Tavleen Singh.
Well, a childish behaved-leader cannot fight India's most popular leader.
Tavleen Singh seemingly endorsed Modi and wrote candidly:
"Change can come only when we start electing better leaders. It came for a while in Narendra Modi’s first months as prime minister. There was the Swachh Bharat campaign that transformed rural sanitation and the building of rural roads, but then these efforts got dwarfed by the Hindutva cultural revolution.
The building of temples became more important than the building of the tools that help people living in extreme poverty escape from it".
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