Sometimes the people you run into have
interesting things to say, sometimes intriguing things. In autos, buses,
trains, ships, planes and balloons. I too run into a lot of people. I remember
that one time I was in bed and flying from Dindigul to Delhi and a co-passenger
got chatting with me. Based on this mid-air encounter here’s what I tweeted on
March 16, 2006:
That guy spoke the truth. Rajdeep Sardesai did get a Padma Shri
in 2008. But seriously, how credible is a Padma award from Congress govt? By
Rajdeep’s logic, since the SC, the SIT and the lower court are spurious where
Gujarat 2002 and Narendra Modi are concerned the Padma given to him has no credibility. I could conclude by RS’s
logic that the award was given to him was for Gandhi-family services (as my flight co-passenger told me) and not
for any journalistic achievements. Fair enough?
Over the years you would have heard many
such claims of strangers dropping juicy stuff into ears of media folks and
other “specialists”. The pioneer has to be Shekhar
Gupta. Almost every person, famous and ordinary, runs into Gupta and gives
him juicy stuff. Read a sample here:
“Over the past three weeks I have been stopped by
ordinary people at airports, in shopping malls, at a petrol pump, in a spiritual
ashram, at the national athletic games in Bangalore and so on with a question
that seems to have become a clamour: why are you in the media so scared of the
Gandhis”? Oh yeah! Why? I’ve been asking this question for long. Why do
they piss in their pants and skirts when “Gandhi” is mentioned? Even folks at
spiritual ashrams are confounded it seems as ShekharG tells us. But he has
still not managed to answer the question though.
Then there used to be a guy called Markandey Katju who used to often rant
against Modi through extensive sky-research. Read this: “I was flying from Delhi
to Bhopal recently. Sitting beside me was a Gujarati businessman. I asked him
his opinion of Mr. Modi. He was all praise for him. I interjected and asked him
about the killing of nearly 2,000 Muslims in 2002 in Gujarat. He replied that
Muslims were always creating problems in Gujarat, but after 2002 they have been
put in their place and there is peace since then in the State. I told him this
is the peace of the graveyard, and peace can never last long unless it is
coupled with justice. At this remark he took offence and changed his seat on
the plane”. So you see, such crap is the foundation of a whole article
where an individual’s unverifiable
gossip is peddled as the basis of a commentary on the entire state of
Gujarat and Modi. Splendid! Of course, I don’t have to tell you that Katju is
lying when he claims 2000 Muslims were killed. Well, I also suggested why not
claim 10000 killed if you had to throw up a “Worli Matka” number? This is what the media has been doing
for a long time, haven’t they?
The twisted Rajdeep claims someone told
him about dictatorship on a flight. The same practice also continues in interviews
with people. Anchors throw all kinds of questions with no evidence or basis. When
the motive of an interview is to peddle a pre-set agenda of the anchor, it
becomes plainly obvious to even the casual viewer. Rajdeep still claims the SC
rejection, SIT findings and the lower court rejection of petitions trying to
hold Narendra Modi responsible for Gujarat 2002 are unacceptable to many
critics. Are court rulings subject to
acceptance of critics? And who the hell are these critics? Well, members of
the same filthy Hammam that Rajdeep represents; his anti-Modi, anti-Hindu gang.
So it stands to reason that RS’s Padma award is also corrupt and purchased. There
are many critics who question if he deserved it at all. How many of you agree this cheap propagandist deserved a Padma?
Naturally, Rajdeep’s hatred takes it further when he is angry that a Muslim
like MJ Akbar has joined the BJP
after criticising the party and Modi for many years.
In an interview of MJA on March 24
Rajdeep asks him many questions which have no basis or are at best
hypothetical. He asks MJA “Are you today giving Modi a clean chit”? Oh! So
MJA is authorised to give clean chits? And is that even acceptable to a
Gandhi-family poodle like Rajdeep? MJA explains that for 10 years Modi was
scrutinised by every legal authority and that too under a non-BJP govt and they
still couldn’t find any linkages to the riots but that is hardly acceptable to
Rajdeep. Then RS asks MJA “So you were mistaken”? And MJA tells him bluntly “We were all
mistaken in putting personal linkages. We should have the ability to accept the
facts”. Unable to digest the truth RS then says “There have been
many question marks over the SIT inquiry”. What are those questions?
And who are the ones raising those questions. Even that was tested in the lower
court at Ahmedabad and the questions rejected. I would have to say only
predominantly anti-Hindu rogues like Rajdeep are raising those questions. It is
not just because of Modi, it is because they hate the RSS, they hate the BJP
and they hate anything that is remotely connected to Hindutva. To them Hindutva is “evil”.
Then RS asks “Are you saying Modi was a target of witch-hunt
by journalists like you”? It doesn’t occur to the corrupt Rajdeep
that that is a question he should ask his own mirror. And then follows another
moronic question “Would Nehru approve of Modi’s version of secularism”?
(That is India-first, no appeasement and so on). Who the hell is Nehru to
approve of anything today? Would Nehru
approve of corrupt and bribe-taking journos like Rajdeep? That is the
question I would like to ask. A guy fired from IBN had protested, called
Rajdeep a “Dalal” and asked how
Rajdeep got his 52-crore bungalow.
Where did Rajdeep get such money except by corrupt means and bribery? Who are
the ones who paid this corrupt media crook? Any answers Rajdeep? MJA pointed
out to RS that it’s a Congress govt at the Centre that hounded Modi through
various agencies. Similarly, it is a
Congress govt which has protected Rajdeep’s corruption so far. Isn’t that
plausible? And that is why RS rants against Modi and continues his witch-hunt.
Isn’t that true as well? Because a non-Congress govt will prosecute him for
illegal wealth?
And the biggest concern for Rajdeep has
been Muslims, Muslims, Muslims! And
when MJA pointed out Congress has left Muslims impoverished, Rajdeep was not
willing to listen. MJA at one point had to ask him to show the patience to
“listen” as a journalist should. If there are Muslims opposed to Modi, there
are also Muslims in favour of Modi. Rajdeep
believes Muslims should hate Modi as much as he does and that’s his
problem. Muslims themselves have as many opinions as is natural in a large
population like India. But here’s a sample of Muslims:
Rajdeep’s hatred has closed his doors to
all other points of view that Muslims hold. Perhaps he too desires Muslims must
remain a downtrodden community who should not take their chances with another
leader without being prejudiced by corrupt media morons like him. Failure is not a person, failure is a
situation. That applies to a community too. Muslims are not failures. They
have been forced to believe they are but it’s a “situation” they too can
overcome if not led by selfish politicians and parties. Modi has no selfish
motive. If he wants to lead India to a better future he seems to possess the
ideas to do so and he has shown no signs like some dynastic cronies of
personally enriching himself in doing so. This is probably what compels the
likes of Akbar and Siddiqui to reverse their opinions about him. I have pointed
at the corruption of Rajdeep for the simple principle that allegations hurled without evidence or based on hearsay from Salma
or Sabrina on a flight doesn’t count. Anyone can hurl a thousand. The
answer to such nonsense is what is called Hitchens’
Razor:
For 10 years Rajdeep and the other
crooks in the media have hurled any number of allegations against Modi without
any evidence. They must remember, it is easy to concoct Salma-Sabrina stories from flights, it is easy to throw allegations
like Rajdeep’s 52 crore bungalow. Rajdeep was so rattled by the 52-crore
allegation that he pleaded that video be removed (and it was removed from
Youtube). Therefore, it demands that he too be careful on mindlessly continuing
to hurl allegations against others, especially when the courts of the country
have dismissed them. Respect the law,
moron!
But Rajdeep does have one good habit
though. Every night he sings a lullaby for his Twitter followers. But even MJA
told him to complete the song “Chodo kal
ki baaten” which he sang with the second line “Naya daur hai, nayi umang hai”. It’s not just MJA but even others
are telling Rajdeep not to sing “incomplete” songs but to complete with the
second lines which are often more important. Whispers on a flight, “He said,
she said” kind of evidence, motivated pimpernels like Teesta or Sanjiv Bhatt do
not constitute evidence. Teesta in all likelihood will be prosecuted and sent
to jail. Rajdeep may have his fantasy islands of all such evidences and
witnesses. In the end they couldn’t survive. RS claims he is not a Congress or
Gandhi doormat. But if he observes his Twitter feed and comments on his
articles the Congress supporters usually defend him staunchly. And just to tell
him, even though this site is often called a RW site, MJ Akbar (who was very
anti-Modi) was still voted one of the best journalists. Rajdeep must wonder why. Living in fantasy is not a crime, but living in fantasies filled with
hatred will invariably take its toll.
PS:
The first image in this post with tweets of March 2006 is also a fantasy.
Twitter wasn’t launched till July 2006.
