Union Minister of Textiles Smriti Irani on Thursday launched a blistering attack on Rahul Gandhi and his blatant lies. She termed him a congenital liar in her FB blog post. Commenting on Rahul Gandhi and his meeting with CM Parrikar, Irani said, ““Deep concerns” led him to a courtesy visit the Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s residence. He concocted a conversation where he alleged that Manohar Parrikar distanced himself from Rafale. Speaking at the Motion of No Confidence against the Government, he concocted a conversation between him and President Macron of France which the French Government promptly denied. Earlier he had concocted a pleasantry exchange between him and Sushma Swaraj as a conversation with a political slant. He had similarly, in the past, concocted a conversation with Arun Jaitley claiming that the Minister had told him that he knew very little about Jammu & Kashmir. Is he India’s first post-truth politician? From an imaginary Rafale, to a loan waiver scam, he is now into hallucinating conversations.”
On Rahul Gandhi and his lies about Parrikar, she further asked, “What does one make out of this? Does he have a mindset of a college-level election contestant or is he a congenital liar?” On Parrikar episode, she further added, “Yet those who depend on dynasties for their survival find themselves looking the other way even when the above aberrations may well be psychiatric in character. Ordinarily such psychiatric aberrations as hallucinating conversations would rule a person unfit for public life. Persons suffering from them need help and not political rewards.”
Smriti Irani, not only said about Rahul Gandhi, but she also took a dig on Priyanka’s entry and the perpetuation of the dynasty. She said, “This in no way deters those who believe that only dynasties in the 21st Century can save nations. They go on shamelessly. If one dynasty member cannot deliver, keep a back-up ready. That seems to be the current strategy.”
She concluded by saying, “The real strength of democracies surfaces only when persons of merit coming from humble background are able to demolish the myth of dynasties. This was the strength of both the Prime Ministers, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Shri Narendra Modi. They succeeded where others were reluctant to tread upon.”
In her blog titled ‘Is the dynast a congenital liar – India’s first post truth politician’, Smriti Irani launched a strong attack against the practice of dynasty politics. She begins by saying, “I have always believed that the perpetuation of dynasties negates the very concept of Democracy. Dynasties rely on a feudal mindset, personality cults, non-ideological positions and believe that only those belonging to a privileged family are entitled to rule. There is no place for merit, commitment and ability to deliver in a dynastic democracy.” Smriti Irani further added, “The other danger about dynastic parties and dynastic rule is that the aberrations of different generations of a dynasty become a part of the ideological positions of that party.”
Smriti Irani went on to add, “The excessive regulated economy, the Kashmir blunder and the China war disaster during the Nehruvian era are historical events that the Congress would still defend. These aberrations have become a part of their ideology. The less glamorous and non-dynast Lal Bahadur Shastri’s successful leadership in 1965 war would always be played down by the Congress. Imposition of Emergency, the destruction of institutions, the disastrous 1984 during Indira Gandhi’s tenure would continue to be defended by the Congress. Rajiv Gandhi’s passionate weakness for his friends over the party, which led to the corrupt defence deals, witnessed the Congress throwing its weight behind corruption to defend the dynasty. However, the service rendered to India by the economic reforms enabled by the best ever Congress Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao would remain unrecognized in a dynastic party, even though the country would hail them.”
In recent times, it is one of the strongest and most powerful attacks against Rahul Gandhi and the practice Dynasty politics which is rampant in many political parties of the nation.