Congress Is Front Stage And Centre In Fomenting Anti Modi Government Tropes

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi used to invoke ‘the foreign hand’ as an external interference every now and then. It was designed to stir up nationalist sentiment. But in those days, she probably wasn’t aware of the fifth column that operated in her own corridors of power, with high officials and politicians on the payroll of the KGB and the CIA amongst other covert services.

But we know now that her government of nearly two decades was thoroughly riddled with informers, foreign spies, moles. So much so, one wonders why? Was it because she apparently ran a strong government with a leaning towards the Soviets?

What is the scenario in 2024? We have a cheer-leading foreign agency in the form of the Congress Party now. But it is bumbling and gauche. Earnest as it tries to be, the pathetic thing about its open vitriol and lies is that it routinely falls flat on its face. The desperation is writ large. Nothing it does seems to  resonate with the Indian public beyond its band of the already converted. Even the minorities, their traditional vote-banks, have spread out to back other horses in the Indi Alliance.

This issues ominous portents about its prospects in the forthcoming Jharkhand and Maharashtra elections. Their better showing in the 2024 general elections in June seems to have also come at the expense of their allies - a fact that they are now openly grumbling about. Some are saying the Congress is plain arrogant and predatory, and is out to decimate the regional parties.  

The Haryana electorate has, on its part, soundly rejected it, causing the Congress to snatch defeat from the jaws of a widely expected victory in the exit polls. In J&K too, it fared poorly, and the winning National Conference (NC), its pre-poll partner, is disappointed. The likely NC Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said it was quite capable of forming the government with the help of a few independents. Congress was more or less superfluous with its 6 or 7 seats. It was a warning that it should not expect to determine any of the policies.

After the BJP won a majority on its own, with 48 of 90 seats in Haryana, the prime minister gave his customary and congratulatory speech to the victorious organisers, managers, and workers at the BJP HQ in New Delhi. The help received from the RSS was also acknowledged and praised in various quarters. This win gave the BJP an unprecedented third consecutive term in Haryana.

Prime minister Narendra Modi, halfway through his speech, also used it to thoroughly castigate and flay the defeated Congress Party and its leadership. Amongst a slew of substantial accusations, he spelt out how the Congress Party and its leadership is aiding and abetting a foreign conspiracy to malign and target the present Government of India.

It is well publicised that Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader who is the present Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, has been hobnobbing with members of the George Soros organisation and its satellites during his frequent trips abroad. This suggests possible funding as well. George Soros has vowed to bring down the Modi government and what he calls other ‘authoritarian’ governments. A billionaire short-seller that famously shorted the Bank of England in the past, Soros is an elderly Hungarian Jew bristling with a great deal of malice. Somew say he is  a willing instrument of the American deep-state including the CIA. Rahul Gandhi seems to have no difficulty whatsoever collaborating with Soros.

In addition, the entire Gandhi family has signed a secret memorandum of understanding and cooperation with the Chinese at their embassy in New Delhi. The Chinese have reciprocated by investing in the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation which has Sonia Gandhi as its Chairperson. Does China also fund the Congress Party?

In his recent visit to the United States Rahul Gandhi falsely stated Sikhs in India could not wear their turbans and practice their religion in peace. His ridiculous statements, condemned by many prominent Sikhs in India, were endorsed by Khalistani terrorist elements abroad. These included Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a US citizen, who regularly threatens violence against Indians, with apparent immunity and protection from the Americans. India has, in contrast, been accused of trying to murder Pannun on American soil. Again, such elements are Rahul Gandhi’s friends.

The Congress Party routinely incites India’s other minority population including the sizeable Muslim population, Christians, the evangelists that are working with them and in states like Tamil Nadu, Punjab, the North East and Andhra Pradesh, against Hindu gurus, the RSS and its affiliates, the BJP, and the Modi government. Rahul Gandhi himself regularly attacks Prime Minister Modi with a torrent of ineffective lies and slander. The fact that his family is renowned for its storied corruption and its pogrom against the Sikhs in 1984, makes splitting the credibility beam difficult.

When Rahul Gandhi is abroad, he is seen conferring with Pakistani activists, those who are against the Indian hold over J&K, other Islamists, elements with links to the ISI, far-left politicians in Britain, and so on. He aptly illustrates the adage that any enemy of the Modi administration is my automatic friend. And yet, for what he alleges is an authoritarian regime,  he is not arrested for sedition when he returns, time after time, after yet another propagandist turn abroad.

This negative bent of mind is largely thought to be fuelled by the Gandhi family’s bitterness at having been kept out of power at the Centre by the electorate for over a decade now. It demonstrates the considerable toxicity abroad, seething with anger at imaginary wrong-doing. The Congress anger is also palpable in parliament, and on the streets here in India. Why is there no popular revolt amongst the farmers, the poor, the Muslims, they seem to be asking in despair?

To some extent the forces opposed to a ‘Hindu majoritarian’ outlook buy into every lie about intolerance, minority bashing, destruction of institutions, cronyism, lack of opportunity, joblessness, rising inequality, communal law-making, and faked economic data.

However, despite the money and expertise poured in, they cannot seem to unseat the ruling dispensation or engineer regime change as elsewhere, most recently in Bangladesh. This is because the Indian electorate is not convinced, and democracy is thriving in India via its stellar Election Commission. The Indian military is strictly apolitical and a coup is unthinkable.

Congress, on its part, doubts the veracity of the EVMs whenever it suits it. It would even have it that India’s growth rates, lauded by the world, are in fact, not true. When we become the third largest economy in the world shortly, the Congress Party is sure to disbelieve and denounce it.

Fortunately, the people of India, unlike some of its friends abroad, do not believe the Congress Party. Now even portions of the opposition INDI alliance are joining in with their disbelief at the farcical goings on led by its crazed joker in chief.

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October 10^th, 2024

For: Firstpost/News18.com

Gautam Mukherjee