The Hangama Political Model is now a cherished tool and strategy of the Congress, its crown prince and the idea has been almost endorsed by other opposition parties.
"What happened in Bangladesh.... rigged elections; opposition boycotted. Are we on the same path," says a prominent member of the ecosystem in the Opposition.
The 'intellectual' (more self-style and greatly hyped) has immense blessings from Rahul Gandhi no doubt. These are not simple coincidences !!
Khichhdi is being cooked.
The Opposition may like to get a feel of the same antagonism and street arson as were seen in Bangladesh 2024.
The Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi knows it has no big chance to do well in Bihar polls. So the Hangama over the role of Election Commission suits them. At the same time former Congress president knows the shady area he is walking and hence he has declined to sign any affidavit in his claim about 'Vote Chori'. Normally, no law abiding citizen would be hesitant to do so. All allegations and lies of Rahul Gandhi have stood exposed in the past.
Lies about Rafale was big as he had to tender an apology in the Supreme Court. But he also remains the Crown Prince and hence the continued bravado. The ecosystem is backing him constantly and this is one way of pushing India towards an anarchy.
One self-proclaimed anarchist Arvind Kejriwal has seen his fate yet others will not draw any lesson.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi told NDA leaders during a tea meeting that several young leaders in the opposition, particularly in the Congress, are very talented but do not get an opportunity to speak because of "family insecurity".
Modi further said that the presence of such youth leaders may be making Rahul Gandhi feel insecure and nervous.
But the BJP's headache should not be around what the protagonists of Hangama Model of politics want it.
It must set its own house quickly in terms of getting a BJP president. The RSS too has to be blamed primarily for the delay but now things should be corrected. The Prime Minister should ensure that from the organisation point of view, the Lotus party should try to get a team in futuristic sense.
A team of office bearers who will be seen performing and delivering beyond 2029-30 era of Indian politics.
In this context, it will be relevant to point out that a totally new kind of BJP has emerged in recent past.
The youth leaders of the 1990s have not only grown old. They have faded and a few of them marginalised.
This looking at the 'youth brigade' of the 1990s could be relevant because they will show how things at times move very fast in politics.
In 1998 the duo of Vajpayee-Advani worked on that line and tried to encourage youngsters.
Ananth Kumar was just 39 (that is below40) when he was made a cabinet minister.
Likes of Uma Bharati, Vasundhara Raje Scindia and Muktar Abbas Naqvi were also taken into the council of ministers and made MoS.
Uma Bharati was already BJP's star campaigner for the polls since 1991 and she had also emerged as a chief proponent of reservations for backward castes women within political parties. Her theory was well taken by women in other parties and the 33 per cent women quota bill subsequently got stalled.
Belonging to the Scindia royal family in Madhya Pradesh, Vasundhara Raje Scindia was the youth icon of Rajasthan politics. In 1998 polls, the saffron party did not do very well; but she sailed through comfortably.
Married into the Dholpur royal family in Rajasthan; she was handpicked by PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and made MoS External Affairs. Before she fought her first Lok Sabha polls in 1989, Vasundhara Raje was a member of Rajasthan assembly for five years.
But these two women leaders are marginalised today and no one talks about them when spin masters circulate theories that the saffron outfit may opt for a woman president.
There are many in the BJP and outside who feel she was unfairly denied chief ministership in Rajasthan in 2023 and perhaps the Lotus party paid a price too.
The vital issue is where have these young stars gone.
Ananth Kumar's tale is different. He was the bright star of Advani era from the south but under Narendra Modi era; he never got the importance he deserved. In face, he expired on Nov 12, 2018.
A few leaders came on a later stage stealing limelight. Ravi Shankar Prasad and the likes of Prakash Javadekar. But both lost ministership in 2021 in Modi's shake up reshuffle.
They are visible occasionally as party leaders; but do not get the same limelight they were basking in the past.
This offers a lesson for the BJP to learn.
The Modi-Shah duo should get a team soon - headed by a new party president - who will be young and energetic. They should be disciplined and loyal to the leadership but need not be sheer sycophants.
The new team will have to go cracking as the challenges have increased manifold. They will increase further and turn murkier.
The opposition's politics of Hangama will have to be countered well. The checkmate formula will lie in matured handling of things and not crafting a policy of 'counter-Hangama'.
The party with difference will have to prove themselves as the 'different' stuff they are made of.
Hangama in Parliament is becoming more than a fashion.
In Lok Sabha, the worth functioning hours were reduced to mere 10 per cent for legislative works.
As much as 66.2 per cent of time is consumed by non-legislative business of Parliament, according to latest data. In Rajya Sabha, only 32 per cent was consumed by legislative business.
Around Rs 200 crore has been spent on pandemonium in Parliament. This is pretty serious.
Rahul's Hangama politics must be countered in a matured manner but by a young BJP team of MPs and office bearers led by a young energetic president.
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