In India/Bharat of 2025; being anti-national is at times also being anti-Narendra Modi.
Now, whether these are virtues or vices will be decided by where do you and what's your 'commitment' or any ideology. There is a large section who can make best out of the two also. As the debate lingers; we may take a closer look at a few newly founded and floated words and phrases.
Sickularism,
Tukde Tukde gang,
Presstitute and
JNU-type
-all four types deserving deep research and possibly separate volumes on each.
 |
| Namo - creating a new India ..... after lambasting Sickularism and Tukde Tukde gang |
Regular patrons of these blogs are aware of my oft-used terminology - Sickularism. It means the "Indian secularism" as propagated by the Congress and Left liberals is actually a 'crazed version' of minority - especially Muslim - appeasement.
It is not without good reason that Congress party's A K Antony panel found that the image of being 'anti-Hindu' had cost Congress party and the UPA such a convincing defeat in 2014 elections. Do not forget; for the Congress the principal face for the polls was Rahul Gandhi - elevated as the party vice president amid some tear-shedding moments by sycophants in Jaipur.
The Congress over the decades is run as a family shop by Nehru’s dynasty and the grand old party is hardly apologetic about it. I know of a former veteran Congressman in east India - who says: "We all know Rahul Gandhi is not a Prime Minister material .... but as long as we have the party we will have the family and as long as we have the Dynasty, we will have the Indian National Congress too".
The bitter truth is Congress has turned complacent and at times highly corrupt.
The gory episodes of Bofors scam in the later eighties and the multiple scandals during Manmohan Singh regime are only examples of how deeply sick the party apparatus had become.
In the 2014 parliamentary elections that brought Modi as the Prime Minister for the first time; the Congress had won just 44 seats – a historic low.
"The slide was swift and brutal," ran a piece in London's 'The Guardian'.
Next, the term “JNU type” refers to leftists of every stripe – from Maoists yearning for the revolution, to moderates who abhor Hindutva and also "urban Naxals" who essentially cherish being anti-Hindu and hence anti-Namo.
Traditionally, JNU has specialised in the humanities, so “JNU types” also came to be scorned for their soft humanism – for their opposition to capital punishment, to the army’s human-rights abuses, or to alleged repressions in Kashmir.
But there is a selective approach in everything. They glorified terrorists who have been convicted by the highest court of the land and even the mercy petitions were rejected.
It’s enough to slot JNU types into the mother category: “anti-national” - is also a refrain. Paradoxically for the Modi Govt; two of its front ranking ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Dr S Jaishankar are from JNU.
Tukde Tukde gang and Presstitute are two others terms any modern Indian should know about.
The TTG - (gang) specialises in raising slogans that they take pride in breaking India into pieces. Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and other BJP leaders used the phrase to accuse certain groups of supporting sedition and separatism.
Jaitley used the term in connection with the 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) controversy. The phrase literally means a gang that wants to divide the country.
In 2019 on the Congress manifesto; Jaitley had said: "Some of the ideas (in the Congress manifesto) are positively dangerous. They are the agenda for the balkanisation of India.... It appears some of the important points have been drafted by the Congress president's (Rahul's) friends in the Tukde Tukde gang".
“Presstitute” is one, applied to liberal journalists to accuse them of selling their coverage for money or influence.
Gen V K Singh (retd), former army chief and ex Minister under Modi and now Mizoram Governor, has used the term on several occasions to express his anger toward the media, typically in response to coverage he disagreed with.
In 2015, Gen Singh courted a controversy by calling the news media “presstitutes” after he stated that “visiting the Pakistan high commission was more exciting than evacuating Indians” from Yemen.
“Friends what do you expect from presstitutes...,” he had said.
Lately, people are also talking about Rahul Gandhi's visit to Columbia and his recent remarks there.
"Tell me one Leader of Opposition who spoke against India's interest in a foreign country. I don't want to comment about Rahul Gandhi Ji's regular personal trip abroad.
But as leader of opposition, we are worried due to his constant India-shaming & India-bashing!" said Minority Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju.
The reality is such remarks especially against Veer Savarkar do not help the Congress party at all.
But they represent a typical mix of all four elements we have highlighted -- Sickularism, Tukde Tukde gang, Presstitute and JNU-type.
How would Congress party and Rahul Gandhi benefit from talking about Hindutva icons and their ideologues outside India ?
One argument is as a 'crown prince'; Rahul is also extremely arrogant an is most often misguided.
He loves to 'dance' to his own tune or the tune set by sycophants and 'friends' in Tuk Tukde gang cherishing Sickularism. Rahul defies pragmatism of vote-politics.
There is plenty to talk about at home: Nitish Kumar's personal health, corruption allegations in Bihar amplified by Prashant Kishor; deletion of nearly 65 lakh names from voter rolls–an issue allegedly close to the Congress leader's heart; and India's precarious balancing act in the China-Russia-USA geopolitical dance. But when it comes to neo-kids "logic" does not matter.
These make Narendra Modi keep smiling.
ends
No comments:
Post a Comment