The prime-time anchor couldn’t maintain again his happiness. He wished to know from the anti-corruption crusader precisely the place the “case” stood. The anti-corruption crusader was blissful to oblige. Each had tried and located Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi responsible. The anchor spelled out the decision and the anti-corruption crusader stated there was no want for a money-trail to nail the culprits.
So simple as that. Mainstream TV information channels typically name the anti-corruption crusader to open sesame on 10 Janpath. It’s just like the spiritual police is let unfastened on the unsuspecting citizenry in sure international locations on sure days to vent their ire on the breach of the spiritual code. Different days they stew of their quarters. Similar to anti-corruption crusader does on days when 10 Janpath will not be the headline.
The final couple of days, the Congress has been underneath siege, its headquarters held at bay behind barricades as had been the official residences of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Is that this the way it seems to be, a Congress-mukt Bharat? The police cracking their whip, wanting to do the bidding of thy masters? Police ringed 10 Janpath. And police ringed 12 Tughlak Lane. Apparently, 12 Tughlak Lane occupant Rahul Gandhi wasn’t on the town. He was in Karnataka, basking in being a ‘Lingayat’ within the poll-bound state. Solely the opposite day, Rahul Gandhi had in a Fb publish requested folks to not “panic”, that that they had the Congress’s again.
This, after the ED sealed the Nationwide Herald workplace in Delhi’s Fleet Avenue Bahadurshah Zafar Marg. To inform a coincidence, the final Mughal Emperor additionally needed to face the brunt of the British Raj. It makes one marvel if Rahul Gandhi can also be being subjected to the identical remedy? Makes one ask, does the BJP and the Modi regime think about Rahul Gandhi a menace to its Congress-mukt undertaking?
Just like the anchor requested the courtroom anti-corruption crusader, “Are we within the last leg of Operation Congress-mukt Bharat?” The reply was a high-pitched giggle, however the stays of the day spoke volumes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi couldn’t care much less, the faster the higher. And it wasn’t Nationwide Herald or Younger Indian, it was each Indian with an opinion and a vote.
The query was requested by a information TV channel: “Which social gathering would you vote for if elections had been held immediately”? The reply fetched the BJP 326 seats, and the Congress+ solely 97! However the BJP doesn’t appear satisfied. Gujarat and Karnataka aren’t making the best noises. If the AAP has the BJP tied down by freebies; Karnataka seems to be falling in love with Rahul Gandhi. Scenes there aren’t behind a hijab to flee discover.
You don’t not should be a psephologist to know the BJP could possibly be misplaced to an AAP tsunami in Gujarat, precisely just like the Congress within the Punjab. Now, the Supreme Courtroom has been concerned in a reckoning of the “freebies tradition”. And the rising costs are pinching the BJP in each toes. A lot so, it seems prefer it has employed the companies of the Delhi Police to bail it out.
The Delhi Police, earlier than it despatched platoons of lathi-waving constables to ring 10 Janpath and 12 Tughlak, issued a diktat to the Congress to cancel its August 5 protest on the query of worth rise. How is the worth rise associated to the Nationwide Herald? Even the Enforcement Directorate, which sealed the Younger Indian workplace, wouldn’t have a clue.
The ED questioned Congress president Sonia Gandhi in July and Rahul Gandhi in June. Among the questions had been leaked to the media, however aside from these, up to now no one is aware of what the ED gained from holding to ransom the precious time of busy politicians planning to unseat the present dispensation on the Centre.
All people is aware of the Modi Authorities “owns” the ED, and the Delhi Police. However whereas the ED behaves like police, it isn’t police. The Delhi Police, then again, is the police working underneath the direct management of the Union Dwelling Ministry. And it’s not simply the Congress, even police forces of opposition-ruled states are harassed, just like the West Bengal CID, which got here to research the Jharkhand cash-car affair.
So, that is how it’s: The ED seals the Younger Indian workplace. The Delhi Police writes to the Congress to cancel its August 5 worth rise protest. That is adopted by a police siege of 10 Janpath and 12 Tughlak Lane. The optics match the intention; additionally they converse of brute energy of the police state.
Not less than, that’s the way it seems to be. The August 5 protest included laying siege to the Prime minister’s residence. Who panicked and who’s enjoying dictator are each the identical. The secret is intimidation. We’ll lock you up, within the workplace or behind bars, is the message. India is a nation of the younger and the younger of India are witnessing the antics of a police state, it’s the dividend they get, it’s the dividend they’ve been getting. (IPA Service)
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