Congress Victimhood Plan

P Chidambaram has been relatively quiet for days. A week since February 25 he tweeted nothing but another of his Opeds. Following the CBI raid at his house and later the break of Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi scams, PC has gone mute. Someone from the CBI/ED has probably been feeding him information of what’s in store. A sealed CBI letter meant for the SC was also found at PC’s residence. A few days before his son Karti was arrested, PC rushed to the SC seeking relief from raids and to a “life of dignity”.  With such an incriminating document found in his illegal possession one has to wonder why raids should stop. And considering the financial crimes being registered what dignity this “Chief Accountant” of Sonia Gandhi is talking about. This Congi who destroyed the lives of many through fake cases, summary transfer of honest officers, torture and extended imprisonment without trial through his ‘Saffron terror” nonsense now wants dignity for himself.

Even before the arrest of Karti or the raid on his residence, PC has been crying political vendetta and now the suspected criminal plays victim. It also says a lot about our judiciary which now hears petitions of Karti on the most urgent basis that it never concluded the case about PC’s 2009 election being dubious and fraudulent. The number of lawyers employed to bail out Karti also indicates how serious it is for Congress to protect their scamsters. They are good at converting their fears to victimhood.

Elsewhere, the Chinese Gandhi family’s eternal duffer, Rahul Gandhi, was up to another round of his stupid utterances; this time in Singapore. I wondered who in hell invites this guy to listen to his ‘Moronic Verses” then I learned that it was all being organised by Sam Pitroda, the head of the “Overseas Indian Congress”. And it is shameful that RG has been going abroad to such shows with no real purpose other than bashing PM Modi, bashing India and peddling all kinds of fake news about India. Someone in Singapore caught this act again and I too had watched this nonsense on video:

Pappu alone is not a “Gaddar” as the tweet indicates – the whole Congress party is an anti-national outfit and has become more so during the ten years of Congress-UPA rule from 2004 to 2014. Then RG ran into another problem which the Congress covered up by clever editing of the Singapore video. PK Basu who tweeted the above has also asked him a question about why India’s per capita income had grown less than the world average whenever the “Gandhi family” held PMship. Predictably, this bamboozled RG and he danced left and right in his best effort to dodge the question. The moderator had to intervene and save him.

After PK Basu accused the Congress of doctoring the video, all the slaves of the party and those in the media started defending him and went on to even glorify the Grand Pappu Nehru – one extreme filth called Sagarika Ghose went into overdrive with her abusive garbage as if RG’s stupidity hasn’t been exposed before. If the Congress had not been stupid enough to doctor the video, the incident would have gone unnoticed but trust their stupidity in the following claim:

Political discourse hitting new lows every day? And who are the ones responsible? A Pappu who has proved repeatedly to be a terrible failure has constantly abused India abroad. Rarely would you see a politician taking petty domestic politics to wrongly and consistently trash the PM abroad and peddle lies about the country. There is neither grace nor decency in anything that RG does. I need not go into various incidents involving him during the UPA regime. He is just an undergrown man-child who blabbers nonsense about Modi and India in any forum with hardly any truthfulness. In India, the moment RG tries to trash Modi, the crowds usually chant “Modi, Modi, Modi” and have booed him at every rally and yatra.

And the PM meeting the Indian diaspora abroad makes some sense as he makes policies that may affect them. What exactly are all these foreign junkets and nonsensical parades for, when Pappu has no connect with India or Indians in India? This was true of Nehru and this is true of the latest Pappu. If anything, RG would possibly only make some countries wonder how India produces such extraordinary, incoherent dolts (video 14 secs):

Seriously, what kind of moron makes statements like “America is powerful, Japan is powerful … they are connected and that is problematic…. Your power is my power”? What in hell does all this mean? And that is just one sample among many statements he has made. I pity the folks sharing the stage with him who have to listen to all this gibberish and still not burst out laughing. Each such interaction abroad by RG is like an episode of a TV series that could be “Why I was born a retard”. And still, the Congis and their slaves want Indians should do “Wah Wah” of this guy because he comes from Nehru’s genes. On the contrary, RG ends up being a reflection of what Nehru really must have been.

It’s an important election year, with Karnataka and four other states at the year-end. So, India Today and the Congress slave brought out SoniaG for a generous dose of victimhood and glorification. I guess SG must have given a great speech about how she sacrificed her life for India and so on. The Congress is known for drama and theatre. The whole thing was perfected by none other than Indira Gandhi. And Congi bootlicker Aroon Purie grandly certified SG as the “Great unifier” something no one would associate with the “divide and rule” character of the Congress:

At other media platforms, the Congi slaves cooed on how graceful Sonia was and how matured she was. Very laughable stuff. Any Congi insider knows SG to be a ruthless and power-hungry politician. Natwar Singh, a former Congi minister, has publicly stated this.  There is nothing that has ever been graceful about this woman and her desperate quest for power. An article in 2000 explains how savagely any contestant to the party president post was hounded. Of course, people do remember how Sitaram Kesari was locked up in the toilet to install Sonia as the Prima Donna:

 

And the same process was carried out to install RG as the president. Remember, in a public function there is a certain compulsion to be graceful (RG has not even learned that). So, Sonia being graceful at the India Today show is not who she really is. Nor is the description of Sonia as a person who is not crazy for power true. Remember, she ran to the President in April 1999 claiming “We have thoo seventhy thoo” after the AB Vajpayee govt was brought down. In reality, Sonia had no more than 233 and in the elections later that year the Congress numbers fell to 114 from around 150.

Grace? FORGET GRACE! So disgraceful is Sonia that she never congratulated PM Modi on winning 2014 (she grudgingly mentioned BJP but not Modi). In a rare and ONLY instance that I wrote for another website was before the LS2014 election results. I was sure Congress would be thrashed and wrote “The grace challenge for Congress and media”. Although, NitiCentral is since defunct, a blog has reproduced that article. So disgraceful is Sonia that she never congratulated BJP on any of their post-2014 wins. Even after some BJP wins, RG only tweeted “we congratulate the winners” as if the winners were anonymous and not BJP. But some of SG’s statements from the recent show are worth reading for their temerity to peddle falsehoods and victimhood:

Like minded parties must unite in national interest? Pray, who are they? Are these Sickular, corrupt parties not already united in their ostentatious lunch parties with her and the Congress? In the second tweet above, Sonia grandly claims a majority of members in Congress are Hindus. This is the most idiotic statement reflecting a dumb mind. In India, even in public toilet queues, chances are most numbers will be Hindus. What she hides is – her entire coterie was made up of non-Hindus – Azad, Anthony, Oscar, Ahmed and more such non-Hindus. Even the robotic PM she foisted on India was a non-Hindu. And Congress is rightly called an “Anti-Hindu” party, especially after SG has been in charge of the party and when the party was in power. And how anti-Hindu is Congress? Nehru’s failures and incompetence on the economy front was grandly coated with lipstick by some jerk as “Hindu rate of growth” when it rightly should have been called “Nehru rate of failure”.

Oh, and the third tweet is really cute. She didn’t want RajivG to join politics but she jumped headlong into the cauldron with extreme desire for power while calling it “poison”. Such victimhood and deception come naturally to the Chinese Gandhis – from Indira to the latest Pappu. The best of the lot has to be the last quote - Sonia wants flaws in banking system to be fixed. That’s like Al Capone, after his arrest, stating that he wants Prohibition laws enforced strongly. All the bogus loans to Mallya, Nirav, Choksi and many others were “orchestrated” by the Congress and their “recounting minister” and others. Sonia pretends she knows nothing and is innocent and is a “Victim” of Congress being perceived as corrupt. In the yet another tweet, Congress quoted Pappu: 

Fantastic, mamma plays victim and the son follows. This is a fantastic choreographed ploy by someone who is advising the Gandhis on how to gain sympathy and through it win some elections. And all this victimhood over events of decades ago. This won’t work anymore. There is too much SM influence on voters who bring home truths about this Nehru-Gandhi fakery to the public. Imagine, the India Today most has Modi-haters and they bring along more insects like Shehla Rashid, Kanhaiya, Hardik Patel and some more to “campaign” for Congress. Corrupt media want their glory days of corruption back.

The 2004 Congress victory was a fluke helped by two events. One is the complacence of BJP and faulty campaign and, secondly, the number of seats it won in then Andhra Pradesh with YSR. In 2009, the BJP again presented a limp leadership coupled with even better showing by YSR in Andhra. Things are very different now that Congress has been thoroughly exposed as a corrupt, Anti-Hindu party. The media campaigns will be much higher than the party or Gandhis to bring back corrupt Congress to power in many states and nationally. Victimhood by Sonia and Pappu is a key ingredient in this muddled attempt.

 

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Delhi's Broken Windows

(This maxi-post is in multiple parts but carried on single page)

From the poorest family in a slum to the richest in mansions, all Indian families share a common practice; we clean our house every single day. There can be those rare days which are exceptions but we do sweep and mop the floor every single day. We do this routine in our offices too. This is one of the routines of our lives as with other hygiene ones. It’s one thing common between the rich and the poor. If we don’t, dust accumulates. If dust accumulates disease follows or possessions rot. As simple as that! Crime prevention is not very different. Keeping cities free of crime is a daily routine. And when crime does happen we expect justice will follow and swiftly. The recent incident of the Gangrape of a 23-year old woman and her death brought people out on to the streets. The response of the govt and police merely indicate that they aren’t following the daily routines. Lathi-charges, water-cannons, shutting down metro-rail, buses and barricades are all responses in a ‘contagion’. Although this Gangrape acted as a trigger people weren’t really out in anger for that alone. Delhizens are simply fed up to their necks with the frequent crimes in the city-state. This is a long story, in multiple parts, and not to do with the media alone.

The ‘moment of truth’ as I call it is when a guest or visitor first comes in contact with a city or a service. When a flight is cancelled or delayed beyond tolerance, irate passengers don’t call up the Chairman of the airline to scream at; do they?  They usually crowd around the hapless check-in girl and give her a harrowing time (see image and also see video on Youtube). The poor girl has absolutely nothing to do with the aircraft, cancellation, delays or flights except checking you in. Yet, she is the one facing the brunt of public anger. She is the ‘window’ of the airline. She is the ‘moment of truth’, the first point of contact. For most visitors to Delhi that first moment of truth or point of contact is a Taxi or an Auto. The behaviour of some of them is quite uncivil and makes you feel unwelcome. To top it all they don’t run on meters even till this day; 65 years after independence. Isn’t it astonishing, that those who claim to be in charge of law and order, crime-prevention and justice haven’t managed to get taxis and autos run on simple meters? Why in the world should Delhi airport have a system of ‘prepaid’ fares for yellow taxis which should just flag down their meters? This is true for all metros with the exception of Mumbai and for most other large cities in India. Lately, private taxis run on meters and even issue receipts. Crime doesn’t start with tragic rape and murder cases. It starts with failure in daily house-keeping.

As frequent as eve-teasing has been in Delhi, this daily hygiene issue doesn’t seem to be getting the daily treatment in requires. In buses or on the streets, a woman being teased or molested doesn’t seem to be seen as a symptom. Like that poor airline check-in girl who is your first point of contact? Yeah, he’s the nearest cop on the street or at the police station. The lowest one in the rank! Do you want to meet this cop in your worst nightmare? Most people dread the experience and contact a policeman only in very compelling circumstances. If eve-teasing is allowed to pass, it becomes the dust that gathers into a contagion called rape. This poor cop, like the check-in girl, is the lowest rung of the ladder, the Police Commissioner is the lowest rung in the political order and currently the PM and the ministers are the lowest rung of the dynastic order. The same poor cop faces the brunt of public ire during protests. One of them collapsed and died. The pic of PM and his ministers lining up for a guard of honour usually reserved for PMs, Presidents or State-Heads says a lot. And where are you, the people? We are the lowest fish in the whole food chain. Ironically, you should be the BOSS! You are the ones who either vote these people and/or pay their salaries. Yet, you are in a system where you, as the customer, come last.

In Bangalore autos have a picture of the driver, his license details in a large enough frame behind the driver’s seat. It’s something every passenger can read and note and lodge a complaint if the driver breaks traffic rules, cheats or is lawless. It also tell you whether the license is valid and whether the real, licensed driver is the behind the wheel and not a proxy. Now, does that take some extraordinary intelligence or judicial panel to do? We don’t find this in Delhi or many other cities. Why should Delhi autos or taxis which don’t run on meters be on the streets? Why shouldn’t drivers of such vehicles have a deterrent of 5-10 years in prison if they don’t follow rules? Nothing! Unfortunately, it is one such bus which wasn’t street-worthy, which wasn’t licensed to be on the streets in which this terrible Gangrape happened. It’s that window through which the criminals sneaked in. That window wasn’t fixed.

The Broken Window

(This is an edited extract from the Wiki article about fighting crime through the theory of ‘Broken Window’ and how quickly it needs to be fixed). The broken windows theory was first introduced by social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, in an article titled "Broken Windows" and which appeared in the March 1982 edition of The Atlantic Monthly. The title comes from the following example:

Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it's unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside. Or consider a sidewalk. Some litter accumulates. Soon, more litter accumulates. Eventually, people even start leaving bags of trash from take-out restaurants there or even break into cars. Before the introduction of this, Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford psychologist, arranged an experiment testing the broken-window theory in 1969. Zimbardo arranged for an automobile with no license plates and the hood up to be parked idle in a Bronx neighbourhood (in New York City) and a second automobile in the same condition to be set up in Palo Alto, California.

The car in the Bronx was attacked by "vandals" within minutes of its "abandonment". Zimbardo noted that the first "vandals" to arrive was a family – a father, mother and a young son – who removed the radiator and battery. Within twenty four hours of its abandonment, everything of value had been stripped from the vehicle. After that, the car's windows were smashed in, parts torn, upholstery ripped, and children were using the car as a playground. At the same time, the vehicle sitting idle in Palo Alto, California sat untouched for more than a week. Then Zimbardo himself went up to the vehicle and deliberately smashed it with a sledgehammer. Soon after, people joined in for the destruction. It is believed that in a neighborhood such as the Bronx where the history of abandoned property and theft are more prevalent, vandalism occurs much more quickly as the community gives off a "no one cares" vibe. Similar events can occur in any civilized community when social barriers – the sense of mutual regard and obligations of civility – are lowered by actions that suggests "no one cares"

Broken Windows In Our Society

The theory of broken windows above quite explains the phenomenon of the crime culture in Delhi and neighbouring states. Ask yourself a question. If you leave your car in a public place in Delhi and another one in a public place in Ahmedabad, where do you think chances of it being stolen are higher? Anyone can easily guess. Rudy Guiliani and his police chiefs partly used the ‘broken window’ theory and test to fight crime in New York. Guiliani was successful in dramatically reducing crime in NY. How? He didn’t stop with thugs and Mafia-gangs; he also dealt with small offences like graffiti on public walls. Some crimes affect ordinary people directly some don’t. Insecurity in public places affects all. This is the reason Delhizens came out in numbers to protest. At the same time, not only Delhizens but people in many other cities in India do not demand performance from public service operators. The little auto mostly operates on a meter in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. In Chennai the auto driver may run the meter but will have a pre-condition: “20 rupees extra Saar”. Now, that 20 extra varies, depending on the distance you travel. Auto drivers suddenly turn into crooks at most railway and bus stations in India. Some years ago when I was in Kolkatta, even the fully depreciated, run down Trams had two classes: first and second. I couldn’t really tell the difference between the two.

In Delhi it’s not just the public transport but every sphere of public life, be it medical shops, small restaurants, hotels, police stations, govt departments you will find it. Delhi also has the reputation of producing the most number of duplicates of branded products and even pirated IP products. There was a joke once that a Delhi trader was an outcast if he hadn’t bounced at least one cheque in a month. Encroachments, land smuggling, illegal extensions are all crimes and windows that are broken every single day in our cities. Rapes and murders are just a lot more dramatic; some more brutal than the others. Not surprisingly, when 9/11 happened, Rudy Guiliani was among the first-responders. He was with his people and his city. He was managing fire fighters on the ground and also talking to his citizens directly and through TV. In contrast, what did our leaders in Delhi do? They were mostly on TV and some were the ‘last responders’. Having gotten nowhere with justice for 26/11 (except for hanging the captured Kasab) our govt is now playing Cricket with Pakistan. That says a lot, doesn’t it?

Sheila Dikshit was tear-jerking on TV. Sushil Kumar Shinde was explaining why it makes no sense to meet protesters. Sonia Gandhi meets hand-picked ‘honey-bunnies’ in private. The PM makes a limp statement on TV days later to a comic finish with ‘Theek Hai’. Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party’s super-hero future PM, is the last responder with a typical text-book statement. And Oh, who was the first one with the soundbites? Of course, the intellectual bank of the party, Renuka Chaudhary. She was telling the world rapists shouldn’t be allowed to open bank accounts and shouldn’t be given insurance policies. I suppose banks and insurance companies can easily tell which customer is a potential rapist before opening an account. There are other MPs who found protesting women to be “dented and painted” and media morons who found “lumpens” among them.

And our media? Oh they get all types to give us a running commentary with strange people. They even bring in Bollywood divas. Shabana Azmi was on TV from 6am in the morning on December 29 till about 10 in the night. The most pathetic and filthy response was, obviously, from the filthy ubiquitous Bollywood spokesman in the media, Mahesh Bhatt. He wants temples to be shut down. This comes from a man who regularly produces soft-porn movies and lip-kisses his own daughter. This is the broken window in Bollywood and our media. The response of Kartikeya Tanna (who often writes for FirstPost) quite sums up Bhatt’s stupidity. Even in a tragic crime of rape and murder Mahesh Bhatt spews hatred for Hindu culture or religion. And these are the guttermouths leading protests. You know where security and justice is headed.

Duct-Taping Broken Windows

On the night of December 27, Thursday the Delhi govt suddenly decided to shift the rape victim to Singapore for better treatment. The news broke around midnight and naturally people were suspicious. The woman was critical all through and chances of survival seemed thin. So it was indeed surprising why such a decision was taken. The media was cleared from the Safdurjang hospital. However, around midnight only one media celeb was allowed to report from the hospital area; not hard to guess who. There are now reports that the victim was in an irreversible coma and I personally believe doctors may not have given her long to survive. It just seems the govt didn’t want her to die on their “turf”. That would have turned a calamity into a complete disaster. So they shipped her off to Singapore, brought her dead body back and cremated her quietly in a hush-hush manner. These tweets from Minhaz Merchant, a media consultant and regular columnist, say it all. Instead of handling the truth and showing the courage to face people with reality, our govt was fixing the broken window with duct-tape. How long will that Band-Aid last?

The only person I could see who made any sense in the clutter was Harish Salve, the noted lawyer. He mentioned strongly that there was no need for new laws but that laws simply needed implementation and justice delivered faster. He stated that the punishments need to be the fullest under the law. The media even got former president Pratibha Patil to lament. She is the one who commuted the death sentence of around 35 criminals, some of whom were sentenced to death for rape and murder. Some of their victims were as young as 5-6 year old girls. The police rounded up the rapists in the current case within 48 hours. Compare with Durai Dayanidhi who was absconding for months in a Granite scam case before a court granted him bail. He mysteriously surfaced after he got bail. Compare the Gopal Kanda airhostess suicide case where a witness has jumped bail and disappeared. The political parties are yet to sack any of their MPs/MLAs who have rape or murder cases against them to prove to the people they are willing to act. RPN Singh, the very honourable minister, stated GOI will create a database of rape convicts. I wonder what he will do with it. Aren’t rape convicts anyway supposed to be in jail? All it needs is to sentence for longer terms or to death, if there is murder as well.

Sheila Dikshit blamed immigrants for increased crime in Delhi. P. Chidambaram had made a similar comment in the past. Whether immigrants or not, how they license buses and drivers is Delhi’s own turf. This is not a question of law or making more laws. It’s about really turning public servants to ACT as public servants. They need to do the daily sweeping and mopping to clean the dust. Windows will be broken every day and will need to be fixed every single day. Every politician in the govt who spoke after the Gangrape has shown absolutely no real intelligence on how they are going to clean up Delhi. Nothing! Except for changing the distress call number to 181, which was reportedly busy during a mishap this morning. This is also true for other cities and not Delhi alone. Carried away with all the attention and TRP-getting shows, the media too won’t honestly assess the crime situation. None even protested Manish Tiwari’s threat to curb telecast of the protests. A govt that has been too busy with scams and at election-time dishes out the regular doles is not going to fix much. Duct-taping can only hold for a while. Appeasement of Some and justice for None!