The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of the Congress was within the “land of Kamaraj” when Rahul Gandhi met two individuals, a teenage woman of about “12/14”, and a Catholic “father” of no imply controversies. If the woman’s curiosity was a welcome diversion for Rahul Gandhi, the Congress chief’s curiosity was fodder for the Catholic father to brew hate.
The woman requested Rahul “what’s Bharat Jodo Yatra?” Rahul countered with “What’s Bharat?” The woman answered: “Bharat is all of the individuals dwelling in concord” and Rahul’s subsequent query: “Are all of the individuals of Bharat dwelling in concord?”
That in a single query was Rahul Gandhi’s rendition of “What’s Bharat Jodo Yatra?” {The teenager} went house glad, however the many journalists on the presser selected to not press Rahul Gandhi to elaborate. As a substitute they pestered the Gandhi scion with questions concerning the Congress presidency and when would he tackle the mantle?
Rahul Gandhi advised them to present it a relaxation and that he has made up his thoughts, and that he was “very clear in his head”, however that everyone can be made conscious of what it was when the “elections are held”; that, for now, he was too busy with the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, which was being “not led by me” as “I’m solely a participant.”
Spoken like a real Gandhi. However, who was fooling whom? It’s simpler to imagine the weatherman and tomorrow’s rain than a Nehru-Gandhi member of the family and the Congress president’s put up. The sycophancy surrounding Rahul Gandhi wouldn’t let anyone else dare take the put up. On the highway with Rahul Gandhi, it’s clear that that is ‘Bharat Jodo’ for Rahul Gandhi and no one else.
That stated, there are spoilers all over the place, and there’s any individual within the Kanyakumari to Kashmir yatra who’s giving Rahul Gandhi incorrect recommendation. In any other case, Father George Ponnaiah of Kanyakumari wouldn’t have been a “cease” en route. Rahul Gandhi didn’t know George Ponnaiah is a priest who likes taunting Hindus. Additionally, Rahul made the error of asking Father Ponnaiah: “Jesus Christ is a type of God, is that proper?”
With that type of large opening, Father Ponnaiah wouldn’t have missed the woods for the tree. “Jesus Christ is the true God, not like Shakti,” the Tamil priest advised Rahul Gandhi in Tamil, a video clip of which is now going viral. “God reveals him(self) as a person, an actual particular person…not like Shakti…so we see a human particular person.”
For the BJP, this couldn’t be extra welcome. The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has began with a obtrusive drawback for the Congress, and Rahul Gandhi has himself contributed to the “disharmony” in Bharat that he had warned the teenage woman about. Additionally, the BJP could deny as a lot as it might probably, however the ‘Bharat’ of right this moment shouldn’t be one the place all of the individuals are dwelling in concord.
For so long as individuals like Father George Ponnaiah are allowed a free rein, the ‘Bharat’ that was spelled out by Rahul Gandhi to the teenage woman would elude India. Rahul Gandhi shouldn’t permit himself to be led by the nostril by Congressmen who haven’t been vetted by trusted Congress leaders. There are any variety of individuals within the Congress, and out of the Congress, prepared and prepared, ready, to throw a spanner in Rahul Gandhi’s works.
For the BJP, Father George Ponnaiah is simply what the physician ordered. Adept on the form of video games Father Ponnaiah performed, the BJP will match provocative statements with equally provocative statements, dogging the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ all the best way from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. And Rahul Gandhi as an alternative of delivering the message of unifying Bharat can be left defending his personal compendium of fake paus.
Father Ponnaiah was arrested in 2021 for making a hate speech in Madurai, concentrating on amongst others Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union House Minister Amit Shah. There may be additionally groundswell of feeling that Tamil Nadu has turn out to be a haven for Christian missionaries out to “harvest pagan souls” by changing them to Christianity. As soon as earlier than, Ponnaiah was arrested for his comment “I put on sneakers as a result of the impurities of Bharat Mata mustn’t contaminate us.”
Rahul Gandhi’s 150-day 3676 km ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has solely simply begun and has an extended approach to go. A whole lot of younger individuals, tens and hundreds of them who can be voting for the primary time in 2024, can be keenly following Rahul Gandhi on his quest to ship what he preaches. The aspirational younger individuals of India need a greater life, and bagsful of alternatives. You can not have bigots lavatory them in wasteful pastimes by sending the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ on a fruitless errand. (IPA Service)
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