After his numerous debacles inside the country which have already proven to be a huge dent on his personal as well as his party’s reputation, Rahul Gandhi is now on a four day tour to the Germany and United Kingdom to give NRIs a chance to witness his mistakes from up close. The tour had been initially planned to lure the NRI audiences and to make Indians and the Indian media houses amazed with Rahul’s knowledge and thoughts on relevant topics. The timing of the tour, could not be worse as Kerala is battling with disastrous floods, but the prodigal son of the Nehru-Gandhi family has managed to top even this act of insensitivity within the first leg of his tour with his foot-in-mouth statements.
The address at Kampnagel theatre at Bucerius Summer School in Hamburg, Germany displayed Rahul’s ignorance to the fullest when he made a shocking statement. He said that lack of jobs led to the creation of ISIS. The Gandhi scion citing example of ISIS, said “If you don’t give people a vision in the 21st century, somebody else will give them one and that is the real risk of excluding a large number of people from the development process. Every country faces this risk, if you don’t embrace people, if you don’t give people a vision, somebody else is going to do it and that vision may not be good for you or good for the world.” In an event which was planned to showcase his prowess, Rahul Gandhi once again managed to mess up his credentials even more by justifying terrorism. There also have been allegations that Rahul’s speech was a copy paste job of Barack Obama’s speech.
This justification of terrorism was followed by another outrageous speech in which he branded the whole India as ‘misogynist’. Rahul Gandhi said, “There is a huge amount of violence against women in India. India needs to change the way the Indian men view Indian women. Men have to start viewing women as an equal and with respect. I am sorry to say that men do not.” Thus, he branded the whole country as misogynist while maintaining careful silence on the numerous charges of mistreatment of women by Congress leaders and workers. Congress itself is not absolved of all sins, from Chirag Paswan a member of the IT cell of Congress on whom charges of misconduct and sexual harassment were levied by a colleague from inside the Congress IT cell to Divya Spandana, the IT cell head of Congress shielding Chirag, the Congress has a lot to answer for.
The timing of the trip to Germany is another key point for which Congress and Rahul Gandhi in particular need to be taken to task. When residents from Kerala and parts of Karnataka were being battered by floods, Rahul chose to leave the country for a thinly veiled vacation. At a time when various state governments both BJP and non-BJP have been chipping in with promises of monetary and other aid, the Congress president chose to flee the country, not bothering one bit about the people of Kerala and Karnataka, even when the Congress rules in coalition with the JDS in Karnataka.
This conduct of Rahul Gandhi in Germany will definitely not help the Congress in the run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the potential allies of the Congress already treat Rahul as a liability and the job to pacify them will become even more difficult now. The Congress will have to accept that Rahul is not the best suited person for the role which is being thrust on him, their allies have long since accepted this and with every passing day Rahul Gandhi seems hell bent on making their convictions more solid.
