The Nehruvian brand of secularism prevelant in India has now taken much firmer root than it started with. The Hindutatva brigade after some delayed protest , starting early 90s has caved in.
The combination of Leftist media + Congress + Communists + Socialists + ISI finally won.
I realised this when Mulla Mulayam Singh, UP's CM, stopped short of calling SIMI a patriotic organisation in his speech to UP assembly. The other Yadav, Lalu prasad, routinely pokes fun at Hindus. He even asked his appointed judge - justice chatterjee - to call the Godhra massacre as an accident.
For all practical purposes Shiv Sena is a dead organisation now. And so are Bajrang Dal and VHP. BJP may continue to have political relevance for a few more years, winning some states here and there. But if it is not dead already, it will be soon.
Must congratulate all the BJP haters for contributing to this win. This includes a lot of my friends and relatives too and other social aquaintances.
By and large, brand Sonia has remained unaffected and so has brand Manmohan and brand Rahul. If at all they are on a rise.
While brand Advani,Vajpayee,Jaswant etc have taken a beating.
For a right-wing conservative like me, these are certainly not happy times. When you are loosing battle from all ends, even the foot soldiers of BJP [like me] have very frustrating times motivating ourselves to fight the battle [in whatever form we do fight].
I do not want to sound Cassandra-ish when i say that these people - meaning the Barkha Dutt,Rajdeep Sardesai,Mahesh Bhatt ilk - will be largely responsible for the dire consequences the next generation of Indians face at the hands of the Lalus,Sonias,Mulayams of the nation. For they had the power to drive the nation's opinion in right direction. Or atleast convey the views of the "right" side.That they only promoted the Congress/Left views and suppressed the counter points will almost always be never known to anyone.
As the nation continues it's downward slide, I can only hope that Dawood Ibrahim and Abu Salem do not get a Padmashree some years down the line after Baba Rahul Gandhi becomes the PM. That would be like salt rubbed vigourously on the wounds of Mrs. Joshi who lost her only son in the Mumbai train blast.
