The Revdi Queen

On July 16 PM Narendra Modi made a grand statement about freebies/doles announced during elections or given after elections. He called it the “free Revdi culture” and stated it is harmful for the country’s progress. One cannot disagree with this statement at all. Free Revdi indeed bankrupts the country and turns a good chunk of the population into lazy beggars that contribute nothing. There’s only one flaw in this – considering Modi does so much makeup for photo-ops he doesn’t seem to realise that the biggest “Revdi Queen” in Indian politics since Independence is none other than Modi himself.  

So, what’s Revdi? It is nothing but sugar and white sesame seeds rolled into small oval or round shaped sweets. Sometimes Revdi is also made into small, flat bars. They are intolerably sweet and even a sweet-toothed person cannot eat more than 3-4 pieces. Earlier, political parties gave one-time election doles like TVs, Tablets, Rice-bag, Blenders etc. There are other Revdis that are schemes or subsidies and they usually become permanent in nature – free or subsidized electricity, free annual doles for farmers, free doles for Muslims like Shaadi-dole, salaries to Imams and so on. Recently, Arvind Kejriwal promised Rs.1000 to all adult women in Punjab and free electricity for domestic use to a limited usage. These are more permanent in nature and are difficult to withdraw. Indians are known to riot for freebies, doles, and Reservations. But among all parties there is no bigger doledinger than Modi, the biggest Revdi Queen of all.

In August 2015 Modi campaigned at Arra in Bihar and the speech he made there is probably by one who thinks the tax-payer money is for his abuse. He does a grand gesture to the native Biharis and asks them how much of a package they want for Bihar as a “special case”. He asks them: “How many crores do you want”? … 50K, 60K, 80K and then like a Queen talking to her lowly subjects he asks them to hear carefully and announces 1.25 Lakh Crores. You would think all this money is coming from his own pocket and without any real calculation or plan behind it. This horrible ploy should tell you that Modi has nothing but doles and appeasement as his only policies and cannot think beyond that. Watch the video (1.35 mins):

Naturally, the coolie-media grandly announced that this package of 1.25L crore was a “game-changer”. But as fate would have it, despite this monstrous Revdi that Modi doled out, the BJP lost to the JDU-RJD-Congress combine in 2015. Of course, a couple of years later the JDU broke away and joined the BJP-NDA alliance. But the fake Revdis of Modi never came to Bihar:

It seems an RTI query revealed that till 2019 there was no such Revdi of 1.25L crore planned or proposed for Bihar. Modi is the biggest liar in any election campaign. We have hindsight from his 2014 campaigns of how many “Jhumlas” this thoughtless liar has made consistently in all campaigns:

Let’s say somethings are not entirely under Modi’s control or GOI’s control. But creating special courts for the corrupt was surely in his hands. Number of special courts created? ZERO, NONE! Number of jobs created? Not even half the number promised. Never mind that. Number of Bangladeshis deported? NONE! The problem of illegal Banglas has now spread to places like TN, Delhi and was already a big problem in Assam and Bengal. Modi, the liar of the fist water, has no qualms in all the bogus promises he makes because he has no clue what he’s really talking about. He survives only because his nearest rival is a Pappu and nothing else. Here’s another video where Modi grandly claims he will create jobs in every nook and corner of India so that people need not go to other states and will probably within a 1 km radius of their homes. Laughable clown talking (Video: 51 secs):

Ever since he became PM, Modi’s extraordinary appeasement of Muslims has exceeded all appeasements in the past. From increased funding for UPSC coaching to many other doles, he has exceeded all other parties in his spurious abuse of taxpayer money just to win laurels from Islamic countries to wash his image of being anti-Muslim. His second preference is women-vote bank; something the late J Jayalalitha had started. Luring women votes through doles. For UP, Modi had the highest doles for women just before the 2022 elections. The figures are simply mind-boggling and may become permanent in nature. This is the dole the Revdi queen delivered:

But the biggest Revdi of all was announced by Modi in the LS2019 campaign. An amount of Rs.6000 to all farmers holding 2 acres of land or less. Although the election promise was to farmers with 2 acres land, in June 2019 Modi extended it to ALL farmers. This is now doled out to over 10cr farmers in 3 installments a year:

This Revdi has no logic or reason to be given to ALL farmers. In reality, the instalments are managed in such a way that they are given before every round of major elections across India. In short, this Revdi is nothing but an election-BRIBE. Although 6000 doesn’t seem like a big amount, when you see it’s given to 10cr farmers it does make a sizeable chunk. The annual burden of this Revdi to the taxpayer is 63000 crores and this is irreversible and PERMANENT. No govt now or in the future will ever be able to reverse it. The Revdi Queen should sometimes look at the mirror and realise he is the BIGGEST doledinger India has ever seen and only keeps the taxpayer burden increasing every month and every quarter in one way or another.

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