After having entertained the Indian Diasporas with his antics, Rahul Gandhi crossed not only all seas and oceans but also all his limits, to travel to the United States only to reaffirm our beliefs in him, of him being the one who finally helped India get rid of the Gandhi’s.
Rahul being Rahul, he did not fail to disappoint his audience, when he stated the unstated and spoke the unspoken, creating ripples of laughter and shock simultaneously. While people here in India had a hearty laugh at what Rahul Gandhi had to say, the people listening to him in the auditorium did cringe every time he said something senseless.
Yes, senseless!!
The very same bastions which he so vehemently tried to defend were the cause of collapse of the Congress Party in the 2014, Lok Sabha elections, or the Maharashtra elections, Assam elections, J&K elections or the Uttar Pradesh Elections which have followed since then, only if he’d realise this, the Congress party wouldn’t have fared so badly and be in such desperation for attention and funds. The country chose a chaiwala, who through his hard work and excellence as the CM of Gujarat had risen through the ranks to become the leader of the leaders over Mr. Gandhi, whose only accomplishment in life was to be born in the Gandhi family.
To Mr. Gandhi’s credit, he did try to point out certain degree of hypocrisy and the unfair divide plaguing India, between the commoners and the privileged dynasts enjoying the pleasures and benefits of being heirs to a dynasties, but there too, rather than exposing people like Karti Chidambaram or Mr. Omar Abdullah, he rather raised his fingers pointing them towards the Ambani brothers, who have since taking over the business built by their father, late, Shri. Dhirubhai Ambani, have only expanded it. Mr. Gandhi should realise that while he was comparing himself with the Ambani’s and the Bachchan’s, almost all of them have their own individual identities with their own personal achievements in their respective fields.
Through his whole monologue where Rahul Gandhi tried to justify dynasty over merit and democracy, he seemed to have missed the most essential point that all those people with whom he had just compared himself were engaged in a private profession and had risen to the occasion whenever called upon. Mr. Gandhi forgot that the 21st century India was a democratic country which strove and thrived on merit and excellence and not on the whims and fancies of dynasts like himself.
The BJP were granted a golden opportunity to parade the Indian National Congress Party’s national ambassador of embarrassment and they did. Giving the opportunity to tear open the Congress Vice President, his arch rival from Amethi, Ms. Smriti Irani was behold with the responsibility of exposing the Gandhi’s and she did so by grabbing this golden opportunity with both hands and tore into the Congress and prince Gandhi.
Roaring like a true lioness, Smriti Irani who on her merit and self esteem has climbed the ladder today to become the Information and Broadcasting Minister in the Modi Government, in her press conference (in the capacity of a BJP karyakarta) showed Rahul Gandhi the mirror by calling him a ‘Failed Dynast’.
From having been a salesgirl at McDonald’s to being India’s favourite Bahu (Daughter – in – Law) to being the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Smriti Irani has seen and done it all to assert that India thrives on meritocracy and not aristocracy.
Smriti Irani in her press conference did not mince words when she fired shots aimed at the Congress Vice President, stating “after failing to connect with the people of India, Mr. Gandhi chooses a platform of convenience for berating his political opponents. The fact that he says that dynasts and dynasties is the very fulcrum of India is in itself an anomaly. For today, the hon’ble PM born in a village in Gujarat, to a poor family, is the PM of India after receiving resounding support from the people of our country. The President, born in a marginalised community family today has risen the ranks on his own merit. The VP born in a family of a farmer, after years of activism is being blessed with the opportunity to lead the nation as the VP. These three dignitaries at the highest constitutional positions in our country are in themselves an indication that Indian democracy thrives and gives opportunity to merit and does is not beholden to dynasty.”
Each word uttered by Rahul Gandhi reeked of his dynastic arrogance, while each word uttered by Smriti Irani exuberated the idea of merit and sincerity.
Mr. Rahul Gandhi should know that it is those very people who rose through merit and hard work, that have made India shine of the international platform, be it Swami Vivekananda, Sachin Tendulkar, Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, Milkha Singh, Marshal of the IAF Arjan Singh, Field Marshal Sam Manikshaw or the young and talented PV Sindhu, all these people mentioned herein above and the countless others who have achieved the unthinkable have all come from ordinary and humble backgrounds and have achieved what no one else could because of their talent, dedication and hard work, unlike Mr. Gandhi, who seems to take more vacations than the number of days he is in India trying his hand at politics as a part time career.
Come 2019, we are confident that the populace of Amethi will elect Smriti Irani as their leader who has been visiting Amethi ever since her loss in 2014 and has taken up various initiatives to improve the ground conditions, which under the raj of prince Gandhi had been abysmal.
In fact if the buzz in Media is to be believed Rahul Gandhi might not even contest from Amethi because Smriti Irani looks poised to give him a thrashing of a lifetime, a humiliation that has the potential to sink his barely floating political career.
With the erratic actions and the bemoaning words continuing to flow so naturally through Rahul, a win in 2019 Lok sabha elections for Smriti Irani in Amethi is a very real possibility, keeping that in mind, it is probably the right time for the Rahul Gandhi’s advisors to find him a new battle ground with no opponents to challenge him or to finally realise the fact that even such new battle grounds with no political opponents are going to stop the political down fall of Mr. Rahul Gandhi and the Nehru-Gandhi bastion in-turn.
Jai Hind
