The latest incident is from Haryana. There The Congressmen gave oxygen to the BJP without doing anything. Tickets were distributed. People filed the nomination. The date for withdrawal of nomination was over and then suddenly Kumari Selja remembered that her group had got fewer tickets, so she went and sat in the Kopbhavan. Congress high command was more flattered It started. Congress President Kharge himself met Selja twice. Laughing a lot on his birthday, as his photos are not usually seen, sweets He fed me and assured me of the post of Chief Minister.
Shakeel Akhtar
When are satraps born in Congress? When the high command is weak. And what happens when satraps become powerful? Congress starts losing elections one after another. Being a good leader, not being afraid of the government, mingling well with the common people are different things. It is a breath of fresh air but not being able to make your party members agree to your point, bowing down to their small pressures is not a sign of good leadership.
In India, the leader moves around on a horse. He shows himself to be strong by wearing a rein. That is why the groom is also considered to be graceful in our country by sitting on a horse, wearing a sword and a turban and following the baraat. The groom may or may not have the strength but his hand is always on the hilt of the sword. Sword, horse and turban are considered symbols of power.
That is why a leader also has to look powerful. Why does Narendra Modi say that he has a 56-inch chest? And why does Rahul have to answer that he is no more?
The whole political game is based on the personality projection of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the efforts of the Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi to break this. Why does Mamta Banerjee remain a warrior woman? Why does Lalu Yadav roar every now and then despite his poor health? Why does Uddhav Thackeray, who had the image of a gentleman and humble leader, now challenge Modi and Amit Shah in their own language? And why does Akhilesh Yadav in UP have to face the same fate?
Why did you suddenly have to appear in a changed form?
Only and only to appear Dabangg in front of the public and before that in the midst of one’s own party. Dabangg may be being used in a bad sense these days, but it was once used for the indomitable rebels who stood up to the wrong people, Banke! It is not in vogue today.
But sometimes Banke was used instead of Dabangg. Bhagwaticharan Verma’s famous story Do Banke! Many films have been made on this. It is an amazing story. Read it and watch it. Now there is no need to write that Bhagwaticharan Verma was a great writer.
Well, the situation has become such these days that people have been forced to disconnect from reading and writing. No one in the ruling party has any connection with literature. The day Sushma Swaraj, as Vajpayee’s minister, had said in response to a question by CPIM member Sarla Maheshwari in Rajya Sabha as to why Premchand was removed from the course, that Premchand has always been doing Premchand, we had understood that they will not let even literature survive.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee did not say anything. And we remembered that there was a Prime Minister who removed Rajasthan Chief Minister Jagannath Pahadia for speaking about what Mahadevi Verma writes. Yes, Indira Gandhi in 1981. So Congress leaders were like this. Powerful. Today, Congressmen say all sorts of things against Rahul and conspire against him, but there is no one to question them.
That is why the party has become weak. The latest incident is from Haryana. There, Congressmen gave oxygen to BJP without doing anything. Tickets were distributed. People filed nominations. The date of withdrawal of nominations was over. Then suddenly Kumari Selja remembered that her group had got fewer tickets. Hooda’s people had got more. She went and sat in the Kop Bhawan. At a time when she was supposed to go among the public and listen to them about why they were angry with the BJP government, she went to TV studios and started telling them why they were angry with the Congress.
First it was said that Hooda supporters used abusive language against him. Who are those people? A video is being circulated on social media. In which two people are saying something in front of a cameraman. What is their name? What is their position in the Congress? Nothing is known. It is just being said that they are Hooda supporters.
On this very issue, former Chief Minister Khattar invited him to join the BJP. Anil Anand, who was declared as Mayawati’s successor, called it an insult to Dalits and invited him to join the BSP.
Meaning, chaos was created in entire Haryana.
There was a hue and cry that the crow took away the ear. Hooda also had to give his clarification that none of our supporters had done this. And if anything is found out, action will be taken. Now no one knows who he was and what he was. No one knows who says what during the election time. No one even knows who becomes the supporter of whom. So this issue did not work. So Selja and Surjewala brought up the issue of the Chief Minister.
This is what the Congress high command should have asked, Bhaisahab, will you accept only after you bury me in my grave? But on the contrary, the Congress high command started flattering her even more. Congress President Kharge himself met Selja twice. He fed her sweets on her birthday, smiling a lot, as his photos are not usually seen. And assured her of the post of Chief Minister.
Incidentally, photos of Manmohan Singh also used to come without smiling. But his face was emotionless. Kharge ji’s face looks like Modi ji’s. There is an expression of discomfort on his face. Manmohan was able to hide how happy he is after meeting them with a heavy heart. Both of them are so indifferent while meeting. Their faces show that they are in pain.
Well, expressing happiness on meeting someone is a good thing. But indiscipline should not be encouraged in the middle of elections. Prime Minister Modi will hardly meet Kangana Ranaut at this time. And even if he does, he will scold her. What was the need to talk about bringing back the Farmers Bill at the time of this election?
Kangana has caused damage to BJP. But on the same lines where it has been happening since before. The entire election of Haryana has come on the issue of farmers. Whatever damage was to be done in it has been done. Now it cannot happen more than that. But the damage that Selja has caused to Congress is in a completely new area. Among the Dalits. Those who were with the Congress in Haryana. She has sown the seeds of doubt in their minds.
This is how Mayawati uses Dalits. Insult of a Dalit’s daughter. Instead of doing something concrete for Dalits, the Modi government ended their reservation benefits by stopping recruitment in government jobs. The Supreme Court gave rise to a new situation by giving the decision of quota within quota. Till date, the Modi government has not even called an all-party meeting to discuss this. Nor has it resolved the doubts of any party.
But instead of talking about all this, she is busy in inciting Dalit sentiments against Rahul Gandhi. Similarly, the entire episode of Selja getting angry and then agreeing to campaign for the elections from Thursday, September 26 with great gratitude has also unnecessarily raised many questions in the minds of Dalits.
The Congress high command has to think about the impact this has had on its prospects. Factionalism also caused Congress to lose the last assembly elections in Haryana. And Rajasthan was also lost due to this factionalism.
Rahul says that Modi is afraid of me. But if the satraps of Congress are not under control, then that influence will not be as beneficial as it could be. The strength of Congress is not the satraps but the workers and the public. Rahul will have to understand this.