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.
2 comments:
hey kapidhwaja, nice to have you here. Mine was the last name in that list :-)
Kaunteya,
Replying to your comment on my blog here:
Let me clarify that nothing in my post suggests that I have taken BJP to task. I dont know why you have not bothered to read my post properly before commenting on it. I should quote one of the lines in the post - "politics of non-issues is an invention of the Congress Party".
But to say the least BJP isnt a all fair party and post Vajpayee hasn't done anything to help the country. There is no double standards in the perceptions of youth - we blame everyone equally and long for an alternative that might be different. Just because you dont support the Congress should not mean that you go ahead and support the BJP.
All the stuff that you write like banning Nathuran Godse's play, Satanic verses or anything else is as irrelevent to the nation as the current Vande Mataram controversy.
Come to think of it - we are 4th in the world in terms of our GDP yet we dont seem to have enough to feed our people!! I dont think Javed Akhtar or anyone else is an all fair-and-square personality but so wasnt Pramod Mahajan, so isnt Advani and so isn't Rajnath Singh.
BJP came to power as a very refreshing party under Vajpayeeji but the Congressigzation of BJP in the intervening years has left supporters of it like me dissapointed. Its the BJP which has shown its double standards to its supporters not the supporters who have double standards.
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