The exit polls after the recent round of
elections in 5 states aren’t showing great results for the Congress. While only
final results on December 8 will confirm if these predictions are accurate
there is every reason to believe that the Congress internally knows the
outcomes may not be very encouraging for them. Here’s a summary of what the
exit polls have generally indicated (this may change a bit here and there for
Delhi):
Democracy is considered a better form of
government and life because it promises equality of all citizens and justice
for all. In India, though, this is far from reality and neither are citizens
equal nor is there justice for all. Since the British were fond of divide and
rule we have inherited the same principle in almost every party whose mother
has been the Congress. While calling
others “divisive and polarising” it
is actually Sonia Gandhi (earlier
IndiraG and RajivG) who has been the most divisive politician. It’s a guiding
principle for the Congress party and executed by SoniaG and her foot-soldiers.
Correspondingly, this same party has no respect for law and corrupt operators
flourish under its rule. The laws and policies the party makes are basically “survival”
measures to retain power. Most of these laws and policies have nothing to do
with real progress, development, growth or justice.
There is a concept in accounting called
“materiality concept” which any book-keeper or Accountant will tell you
about. While this mostly refers to what is reflected in a financial statement
we can also apply it to simple purchases and how we treat them. For instance, a
normal office stapler costs between Rs.80 and Rs.500. Though the stapler is
physically an asset it is treated as an “expense” because of the materiality
concept and not as an asset that gets depreciated every year. Someone owing you
Rs.1000 but has assets worth Rs.1 crore is not going to bother you much but the
reverse would definitely bother you. I read a DNA report about a Postman who lost his job in 1984 accused
of embezzlement. He was finally acquitted in 2013, after 29 years. During this
period he lost 3 children, another one has a heart ailment and survived doing
odd jobs with the tag of “thief”.
The amount he was accused of embezzling? All
of Rs.57.60! From the same period no big criminal was punished for the
slaughter of Sikhs. No major criminal was punished for the loot of 64 Crores in
the Bofors scam.
In most of the campaign or speeches of
Congress leaders there isn’t really any materiality involved. Lame nonsense
like “roads and airports cannot feed you”
by Rahul Gandhi is the kind of
statement people are not buying anymore. So when bragging “we brought RTI for you” is Congress claiming people can “eat the RTI” and fill their stomachs?
Does any law fill anyone’s stomach? Saying “we gave you FSB” in places where
the PDS system and food systems are better is equally immaterial. In parts of
Chattisgarh people refer to CM Raman Singh as “Chawal wale Baba” (Rice-provider) indicating he has done
much better than Congress in managing food distribution. Raman Singh doesn’t brag
about some FSB or PDS innovation, people believe he “delivers”. Another myth that is being repeatedly busted is the fake
claims of Congress on secularism. If airports and roads don’t feed the poor, as
RG stupidly claims, secularism doesn’t feed
anyone or deliver water to anyone. The baking of Muslim and minority votes
also seems to be under threat. Muslims are also wiser having been fooled by
Congress and other “sickular” parties all these years.
It is evident that Narendra Modi is setting the agenda and the Congis are all at sea
on how to combat him. Modi’s appeal is not restricted to urban classes but also
extends to rural folks. In the recent elections the middle class in Delhi too
turned up in large numbers. Of course, according to wiseguy Wagle, the middle
class who vote for BJP are idiots without IQ. This is the language in the media
that the Congress also uses. Sheer
arrogance and contempt for people! Their top 2 leaders, the Gandhis, simply
do not possess the grip on various issues to combat Modi. This just leaves the
foot-soldiers to indulge in name-calling. Someone described the reason for the
massive turnouts at Modi rallies. He speaks a language that ordinary people
understand and connect with. He rakes up issues without fear and he makes a
mockery of this fake secularism. Media cronies of Congress like Kumar Ketkar
and Vinod Mehta like to believe there is no Modi-wave but it’s the “non-performance” of Congress that is
working against them. That is a worse indictment which doesn’t dawn upon these guys.
Fighting Modi might still be possible
but fighting a perception among people of “non-performance” is tougher. The
media is blind to the danger of their own lies.
Lately Modi even brought up the Article
370 which seems to have upset a whole lot of people. The BJP is right in
claiming that A370 needs a relook and debate. Arun Jaitley writes “Article 370 has nothing to do with Secularism. Its an instrument of oppression against citizens of India”.
Here are some excerpts:
“The Nehruvian
vision of a separate status has given rise to aspirations for the pre-1953
status, self-rule and even Azadi. The desire of proponents of these three ideas
has weakened the constitutional and political relationship between Jammu &
Kashmir and the rest of the country. The journey of separate status has been
towards separatism and not towards integration. It would be incorrect for anyone
to interpret BJP's challenge for a debate on this issue as a softening of stand
on Article 370… The State laws in Jammu & Kashmir were consistently
interpreted for over five decades to mean that a daughter in Jammu &
Kashmir would lose her status as a permanent resident of the State as also
special rights and privileges available to her if she married outside the
State. This was based on an erroneous belief that a wife followed the domicile
of the husband. A large number of women in Jammu & Kashmir questioned the
constitutional validity of this provision. A Full Bench of the High Court of
Jammu & Kashmir by a judgement dated 7th October, 2002 re-interpreted the
law and by a majority judgement held that a daughter marrying outside the State
would not lose her status as a permanent resident”.
So a majority of citizens of this
country are being misled. The truth is that A370 was created at a certain time
and a certain situation. That situation has dramatically altered now. The “rulers and maharajas” of J&K
whether the Abdullahs or Muftis have been constantly playing a “Kabhi
haan, Kabhi naa” game on where they stand on issues of terrorism and
separatists. A separatist like Geelani openly calls for violence to separate
Kashmir from India. Therefore, A370 too needs a relook. All political parties
were shying away from it so far and there is no escape anymore. Other princely
states that joined India were allowed privy purses which were to be reduced
progressively. But in a sudden move Indira Gandhi abolished the privy purses.
So there is no logic behind keeping A370 permanently burning. This appeals to
most Indians and Congress has no answer.
With a dying party, with a history of
dictatorial tendencies, in danger of losing power in many states and the Centre,
the only option is to create more fear, more divisions in society, make
draconian laws to ensure “survival”.
This is the only political tactic that Congress has always known: “survival”. So
they bring up the Communal Violence Bill
again which they propose to table in parliament and pass it this Winter
session. There’s an old rule in India: If a cycle crashes with a two-wheeler, it’s
the two-wheeler’s fault. If the two-wheeler crashes with a car it’s the fault
of the car. If the car crashes with a truck, it’s the truck’s fault. If a truck
crash with a train…. That in short describes the CVB. All communal riots or
violence are faults of the “majority”
group. In other words: Hindus. In
many states the Congress has been wiped out for decades. TN, Bengal, UP, Bihar,
Gujarat are all important contributors to the national kitty of LS seats. The
CVB empowers the Centre to act and intervene with forces in case of a communal
riot in some state. Any law that is
likely to be misused WILL be misused. 66A
anyone?
In a debate on TimesNow on December 3
the Congress spokie, Sanjay Jha, made a dramatically foolish claim that went
unchallenged. He cited the plight of Kashmiri
Pandits (KPs) who were driven out of Kashmir around 1989-90 by local and
imported terrorists and claimed the CVB would also protect the KPs. That is
like saying the Sikhs who were slaughtered in Delhi and across India by the
Congis would be protected by the CVB. Such is the silly argument presented by
the Congi. First, the KPs have been driven out in lakhs with hardly any hope of
returning home. They have settled across India and also abroad and the current
situation in Kashmir is hardly encouraging. Most importantly, how the hell does
Jha claim CVB will help them in the context of A370? It is common knowledge
that legislations by our parliament do not automatically extend to J&K
because of A370. So there is absolutely no sense in claiming CVB will protect
anyone in J&K. This is the kind of spurious logic the Congis use. And given
that Muslims are in majority in J&K there is hardly any chance that the
Abdullahs will approve the CVB for the state. Therefore, for all practical
purposes the Hindus are the villains.
Thus, the CVB is another law that the
Congress hopes will drive Muslims rushing to vote for it in the next elections.
This is an act of a loser. It’s a desperate measure by a dying party that
refuses to see the writing on the wall. In a scathing article, former
vice-chief of army and former governor of J&K, slams the entire miserable
rule of the Congress: “Sham secularism, feudal democracy”. What are they going to do? Is Rahul
Gandhi going to next say “we brought CVB”
and that will feed the stomachs of poor minorities? Instead of removing lines
of division and fostering more harmony the Congress is hell bent on further
dividing people and generating hostilities. The most stinging and honest
description of SoniaG being the most divisive politician comes from TheJaggi in
FirstPost:
“Today, she
realises that the same divisiveness her origins generated earlier may stick to
her ineffectual son too, and in order to neutralise this the Congress strategy
is to build up the bogey of Narendra Modi‘s divisiveness so that the Dynasty’s
own inherent divisiveness is glossed over. This project would have died an
unsung death if Vajpayee had won in 2004 and LK Advani in 2009, but fate
decreed otherwise, and it is in Sonia’s interest now to foster further
divisiveness by demonising Modi… Thanks
to 2002, it is not difficult to paint Modi as a “divisive” figure. Let’s assume
for a moment that that is true, but the real question is: divisive for whom? If
you line up all the critics of Modi and his alleged “divisiveness” you will
find that it is the
Congress-Left-Secular Delhi “liberal” elite that finds him “divisive”. If
some of the regional parties are today parroting this same story of Modi’s
divisiveness, it is because it suits their short-term electoral purposes”.
The truth about the recent elections is
that people aren’t just rejecting the Congress, they are rejecting the “Gandhis”.
The Congress must at least acknowledge that Rahul Gandhi is a total flop and
does not inspire people. He might inspire the Barkhas and Rajdeeps but not the
voters. They also need to understand SoniaG needs to shed her arrogance and her
dialogue needs to be one of humility. There is only so much that people are
willing to forgive. If this CVB is the
last straw or the final threat the Congress is hanging on to, it will fail
miserably.
