If Congress ever were worried to know the reasons for their rapidly thinning political footprint since 2014, or rather in last ten years, they may just have found the answer from the state of Kerala, which they rule in alliance with the Left. For a moment, I presume, the debates and discussions on how and why
Congress is losing its political battle everywhere should be arrested, for we,
seem to have found the exact reason for it. Post the debacle of 2014 general
elections Sonia Gandhi constituted a team headed by A.K. Antony to dig deep and
find the reason/s why people so savagely rejected them. In no uncertain terms,
Mr. Antony, in his report, admitted how the general public's perception towards
the party has been that of a party that is overtly anti-Hindu. And it should be
told here; he in fact put that as the reason number one for the Congress
devastation. The interesting point here to be noted is the use of the word ‘Anti-Hindu’.
Today being pro-Muslim in the name of secularism is practiced by many political
outfits, not just Congress and people largely have come to term with this fact,
though dirty. The difference between Congress and other political parties is
that no party till date has flared up their abject ‘Hate Hindu’ syndrome as
openly as Congress has achieved in last decade and half. Haven’t the powers
that be in Congress learned anything from Mr. Antony’s report? Unfortunately it
appears, they haven’t. Forget about the much needed learning, from what
happened yesterday in Kerala I doubt if anybody in Congress would even have
studied the report in its entirety, let alone doing any kind of introspection.
Now one wonders which event Rahul Gandhi is talking about. Though
many of my readers may not want to listen it but RG, for a change, appears to
be convinced on what he is saying. For a change that is. For the first time I find
the Gandhi scion not mincing his words in condemning the event which
unfortunately his own party’s youth wing orchestrated in Kerala to protest the
latest ‘Cattle Sell’ prohibition orders of the central government. As RG
suggested, the event was a naked display of thoughtlessness and barbarism and certainly not expected
of humans. Just one qualm – RG should have named the event in as many words. By using general phrases like 'What Happened' sounds like an evasive tactic. Nonetheless, as I said, I appreciate RG for coming out and thrashing the deplorable act of his party men in clear and crisp avowals. Killing animals for food is still justifiable but to kill an
innocent animal as a token of protest not only sounds gory but it also is a
criminal conspiracy towards humanity. What kind of teaching and human ethics
would allow one to kill an animal for fun? Just to make a point, which very
well could have been sent across in many other ways, you can’t kill an animal
and RG is bang-on on this point. Now for those who still are wondering on the
event that led RG to lash out against his own youth wing members, here is the
story in short – just to protest the ‘Cattle Sell’ prohibition, the youth
Congress of Kerala culled a calf in broad daylight and made a video when they
were at their heinous act. They made their youth Congress office a makeshift
butcher stall. They too organized a beef festival post their barbaric act. And
all this was just to oppose the latest legislation and to probably insult the
Hindu sentiments in one go. For the first time I am feeling sorry for RG. With
such youth party carders you really don’t need an opposition to defeat you.
But this is just part of the story. The larger part is the
impunity at which irony evades the Congress party and that too quite regularly.
The history of Congress vis-Ã -vis cow and cow slaughter makes one wonder, how
this party has long lost its charisma in remaining in sync with the ground
realities. Not only that, it also reflects how badly the party today is totally
out of sync with the public sentiment. Out of all the states that now have ‘cow
slaughter’ ban, 18 of those were imposed by Congress party. This is not all.
For a larger part of its political existence, Congress had ‘Cow and Calf’ as
its party/poll symbol. In fact Indira Gandhi herself contested her first
election under this symbol. And dare I say such a symbol was chosen for a
reason. Dare I say again that during the earlier times, with all their flaws still
intact, Congress at least was quite aware of the public sentiment. A Hindu
majority country, which revere cow as sacred, can easily be exploited by the
clever use of the animal, though for symbolic reasons. In practice Congress party
may had their anti-Hindu agenda, as pointed out by A.K. Antony, intact back
then but it was largely practiced indoors. There were no open exhibitions of
Muslim appeasement or shameless display of anti-Hindu manoeuvring. Something is
terribly amiss with Congress party of today. Not sure what the thought process has
been within the party in last 10-15 years but all that is coming out of their
stable of late, to put it lightly, is flabbergasting, latest being the culling
of an animal to lodge a protest. I wonder how a political outfit with close to
100 years of administrative experience would churn out such self-destroying
acts without being provoked. Though RG’s words as well as his intentions are
well placed this time, one wonders, what would be his specific actions, now
that he has come out strongly against the shameless stupidity of his own party
men. The man who organized this fracas is a close aid of RG and is seen many
times sharing the stage with him. Will RG act decisively against this moron
of a human who barely qualifies to be called one? This person deserves to be
behind the bar and I am sure RG knows it as well. Will he make sure that this
idiot is first thrown out of the Congress party and then behind the bars for
coming up with such a bizarre idea? If not for anything else, RG must act
against this moron for his own and his party’s good. There are many states which are going to poll in a years time. All the states that are held by Congress at present are having their legislative elections as well. Knowing the veracity of the act perpetrated in Kerala it is bound to be exploited by the opponents. Not only this election, BJP may end up using the same video footage in 2019 general elections too.
RG too need to be told once more that his party’s
domesticated media houses must be shunned out as quickly as possible. They are
adding no value to the image of his party and that of his own. In fact they are
ruining it, if they ever had one. If RG had given a quick glance at A.K Antony’s report he must have
noticed the mention of negative role played by the friendly media houses in his
report. For a prolonged period people have seen through these sold-out outlets
and rarely want to believe them. RG and Congress would be better served if they
get rid of such news channels and stop being prisoners of their own device. A
calf, which was as clear as daylight in the video shared by the youth Congress
workers, actually appears like a Buffalo to the NDTV journalists. That is some
fun ribbing spinning right there. Though NDTV reluctantly settled after
transforming a calf to an OX finally, in the process they possibly could have
injected the worst kind of service to the Congress party. If RG wants to listen, such
abject lie peddling to cover the indefensible crimes of Congress is what that
irate the public more. The belief that people are largely fool to be loitered
around is what makes the situation even worse for Congress. It is no one better than RG himself who can authenticate how persistent skulduggery and spinning
since 2002 has decimated Congress completely. Like the youth Congress head of
Kerala, media houses like NDTV are no friend of Congress and RG. In fact I have
started to have the feeling that channels like NDTV might as well be funded and
used by BJP like a ‘Trojan Horse’ to destroy whatever left of the Congress
party before 2019 general elections.
Jingoism apart, it baffles even more on how the chain of
events leading to this fresh legislation gave a miss to the Congress party. The
said legislation isn’t something that is a brain child of Modi government which our active liberals want us to believe. It
was the output of the PIL that was filed many years back to curtail the cruelty
on animal. Enact an effective cattle legislation, was the guideline issued by
the apex court against the said PIL. As early as April 2017 the Supreme Court had
sought an explanation from the government on the steps it has taken to lay out
the guidelines as suggested by them. The legislation that eventually came out
is something that the highest court of our country has suggested. According to
the premier court – effective cattle protection guideline is the need of the
hour in an agricultural based economy. It should have avenues to both protect
the interest of the farmers as well as the animal rights as prescribed by our
constitution. Calling this legislation as something coming from Modi government
and projected as a move against the minorities (I don’t understand how) is not
only factually incorrect but also a great lot hypocritical. Many intellectuals
who are burning their midnight oil and concocting stories on the timing of the
legislation as it came into force just before the beginning of Ramzan is
not only falsehood but also hilarious. Ramzan has got nothing to do with this
new law and certainly it has got nothing to do with the minorities (read Muslims)
either. It was something the apex court has prescribed and the present
government just enacted it as any responsible government would do. At least I
don’t see anything wrong here.
To Rahul Gandhi – Sir, your words should match your actions
if you want to be taken seriously. If anything, your past record on doing what
you preach is little shoddy and this latest outburst against the shameless
display of barbarism by your party men must not follow the same route. As I
said in the beginning, I for a change see conviction in your words. Let me not
conclude that your concerns were hogwash since you never had any sympathy for
the poor animal but you understood the gravity of this heinous act and the
political optics thereof.
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