The Queen's Poodles Bending The Bunkum

Take a good look at these 2 pics below. It’s not a ‘find the 10 differences’ contest but it would be hard for anyone to miss the major difference. Just so you know the pic on the left is from the time when the Robert Vadra land scam was at its peak in the media and the one on the right is of Narendra Modi in Delhi on June 18.

On the right there is the usual crowd of uncouth, uncivilised reporters and cameramen crowding Modi’s vehicle pushing and shoving for some crumbs. The media refuses to stop this indecent behaviour by their members. Remember, Modi is under ‘Z’ security. Any of those cameramen could be a suicide bomber. And on the left is Vadra (in light grey suit) getting into his car accompanied by a bodyguard. Do you see any reporters or cameramen hounding him? None! This “Daamad” is also under Z security. Times Now captures his images like a thief or a spy from a good distance. No reporter or cameraman was picketing Vadra’s house for soundbites. Have you ever seen vehicles of Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi being mobbed by these mongrels any time? Fact: These people who hound everyone else cannot get within a mile of the Gandhi family. That’s the secret!

So a former NDTV beat reporter Sandeep Bhushan spilled the beans on the fake reports of Sonia’s Unhappiness in the Open Magazine. Sonia unhappy over Digvijay’s remarks over Karkare, Sonia unhappy over Jharkhand governor, Sonia unhappy over Rae Bareli roads, Sonia unhappy over Ashwani Kumar and Bansal. It’s a long list of “unhappy” Sonia. Sandeep Bhushan, as an insider, puts out the dirt on all the fake news about Sonia’s unhappiness that is being spun by the media. I have said before that Sonia may not be a wizard on any topic which is why she can’t directly take questions in the media or from the people. Even during the Delhi Gangrape protests in December 2012 her cronies picked out a group of six to have a “hugs and kisses” session with her to show how unhappy she was. Of course, spinning most of it is none other than the Queen’s first poodle: NDTV. Bhushan has worked with NDTV as also Headlines Today and the Open article destroys a lot of myths about Sonia. Her wisdom, intelligence, compassion and anger are all concoctions by her right-hand man Ahmed Patel and spun by channels like NDTV. That’s it! Nothing more!

Once the Open article was out there were others quick to jump on the spin-doctoring story but in all these 9 years none in the media ever bothered to ask any serious questions of SoniaG and they still don’t. Therefore, it is with great satisfaction that I record that sites like MediaCrooks and other SM sites have been more daring in questioning the media’s role and equations in managing SoniaG’s image as the Queen who can’t be touched. If you haven’t read of these following articles, I recommend you do:

June 2011: All The Queen's Poodles.... How media celebs and their beat reporters report and tweet fake interpretations to protect the Queen.

June 2011: Why Is Indian Media Scared Of Sonia Gandhi? Rahul Kanwal in a public meeting cuts off a question on SoniaG. This is where I started wondering why our media is so scared of the lady and fall at her feet like her durbaris.

July 2011: No wild allegations against Gandhis please – Where Rajdeep shuts out Vishwabandhu Gupta from talking about black money issues concerning the Gandhi family.

July 2012: Sonia's Supreme Sacrifice – The media, without a single question or investigation despite Subramaniam Swamy’s many statements, have concluded SoniaG made a great sacrifice by not becoming PM in 2004. They never bothered to ask if there were other reasons.

October 2012: Flanking The Queen & Protecting Her Secrets – How the media, along with Congress members, acts as a frontline defence force to protect SoniaG from anything and everything that is negative to the Congress or their govt.

October 2012: The Sonia Gandhi travel & health bulletin – On how SoniaG slips out of India in secret aircrafts and slips back in and how the media slaves ask no questions about her health under the garb of “private matter”.

November 2012: Rajdeep on deception lane – In which Rajdeep gladly defends Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald scam and asks “Where is the fraud”?

December 2012: Delhi Protests - When Chickens Run To The Media – On how the media allowed Sheila Dikshit to put up a tearful soap on TV and how Sonia Gandhi was so moved that she met a ‘select six’ over the Delhi Gangrape protests.

TV channels like NDTV owe their existence to “compassion” by the Congress and GOI and naturally by SoniaG. It is not very different for others. The tabloid Tehelka is practically a doormat for the party. The editors who scream and shout about Modi and everyone else probably piss in their pants or skirts when it comes to SoniaG. Such is the grip that the Congress has on their necks. Take a look at Rajdeep Sardesai’s programme over the National Herald newspaper building scam by the Gandhi family. He even asks “where is the fraud”? Sure enough, the media has quietly buried the National Herald scam and no one’s going to talk about it again. At CNN-IBN the beat reporter who was involved in the Cash4Votes sting stated he was made to feel like a “stray dog”. Is that any surprise Sandeep Bhushan now spills the beans on NDTV in similar fashion?

This is not a first for NDTV by any measure. Can anyone forget Radiagate? It will be etched in Indian media history as the expose of the biggest crony journalists who are in fact slaves of the Congress. Prannoy Roy himself has been accused of scams and cases have been filed in 1998 which have mysteriously disappeared. There is also a report on coastal regulations violation by Prannoy Roy in building luxury properties. How does he get away with all this? Crawling helps! Recently Vinod Dua’s public spat with Roy has been the target of much laughter on the social media. Then there is Khadija Ejaz, an intern at NDTV, who filed a damaging report about her experience with them (read NDTV: Train with the beast).

Barkha, Prannoy, Rajdeep, Arnab, Kanwal, ShekharG all claiming to be great champions of journalism must really look deep into their conscience (if they have one) and ask how they became poodles of the Queen and how they killed honest journalism by bending the bunkum for her. 

Nitish, Advani & Avarice

Consequent to the JDU pull out from NDA and parting ways with BJP on June 16, CNN-IBN anchor, Bhupendra Chaube, carved out an interesting graphic on TV. It showed that post-JDU pull out there are 163 members opposed to BJP. To put it more specifically he suggested that these non-Congress 163 members are not with Narendra Modi. There’s only one problem; these are numbers from the current parliament which is precisely what the BJP hopes to change with Modi as campaign Chairman. But Chaubeji won’t tell you that. He would like viewers to believe that with Modi the BJP was already losing the battle. He’s not alone. His co-propagandists at IBN, the Political Numero Unee, as also other pundits and punditayans at NDTV, Timesnow etc were doing a similar analysis.

In the hunting season almost every pundit seems to know Modi far better than he does. Prabhu Chawla writes a school-boy type open letter to Modi. While most of the stuff he writes would have been done better by a Class-8 student there is one line which shows up the foolishness and deception of Chawla. He writes: “But they find the new Modi’s politics a threat to democratic institutions”. Really? Prabhu Chawala isn’t the only liar. This is a lie that the hunters will spread with even greater force in the coming months. Chawla is not exactly a bimbo but he doesn’t pause to think who has been systematically destroying democratic institutions in this country. It started with Indira Gandhi and has now continued with Sonia Gandhi’s Congress. Any institution worth naming has been destroyed. Well, okay maybe not all. I think Congress has left the ‘folk-dances’ of India left untouched yet. Chawla is not the only one. The Numero Unee uses a JDU statement to call BJP a one-man show, authoritarian and imperious. For her and the media slaves the Gandhis are the ultimate symbol of democracy everywhere. They usually overlook the fact that Modi has neither sought to be CM of Gujarat nor has he ever been BJP president. His rise has been purely on performance and popularity and approval by the party. The BJP has proved that even LKA can’t dictate terms like a Gandhi let alone Modi.  

The question now returns to who propelled the JDU pull out. The answer is not complicated except for our blind media. Nitish Kumar is one of those ‘self-preservation’ politicians who doesn’t mind dumping relationships. He has dumped Lalu Prasad in the past, he has dumped George Fernandes and after enjoying the luxury of power with the NDA he has now dumped them too. And what’s his great excuse? Narendra Modi! It’s the same Modi that Nitish once supported, campaigned for and shared platforms with who is now “communal” for him. The motives don’t need further explanation nor does the hypocrisy of Nitish. But he was supported in his endeavour by none other than LK Advani as everyone now knows. Like Nitish, LKAdvani too has been driven all these years by nothing but his personal ambition of being a PM one day. To borrow from my favourite politician RahulG: “Not happening”!

The fact that the Congress and the media now find LKA a great darling tells a story by itself. It’s their fear of Narendra Modi. While Congress kept denying Modi is a threat as their own minister Jairam Ramesh inadvertently admitted “Modi is a challenge”. Both LKA and NitishK are guilty of avarice. Exceptional greed! Avarice usually backfires. In 2010 NitishK’s avarice and ego had reached such limits that he wanted the BJP to ban Narendra Modi from campaigning in Bihar for the state elections. A junior partner’s head telling a national party that their member can’t campaign in his state wouldn’t be tolerated by any party; not even a local party. But LKA and the Delhi-4 or D4 as they are known in the social media obliged Nitish. That’s when LKA killed his own party. His philosophy resembled Churchill’s old saying: “An appeaser is a person who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last”. Three years later the crocodile has eaten Advani and broken the alliance. Advani blames the elevation of Modi as the cause of the break-up. He is wrong! He is the one to blame for mollycoddling forces trying to marginalise his party.

There are those who scream “Advani built the BJP, Advani built the BJP” and they don’t tire of it, especially those in the Congress and the media. This is the stupid sentiment of most emotional Indians. LKA may have founded the party but no one can claim having built a political party all alone. It takes lakhs of workers and foot-soldiers. It is these very workers who have now decided LKA’s time has passed and he has proved himself a disgrace in not accepting such verdicts. The awful truth is that LKA has never been as popular as ABVajpayee or Narendra Modi. I also doubt anyone would miss having LKA as Prime Minister. The political life of LKA in the last 15 years has been one of flip-flops. Suddenly Jinnah is secular, he writes regret letters to SoniaG for her name being included in a list of Black-Money hoarders and has become a bigger appeaser of motley elements. It doesn’t seem to occur to him that under his leadership BJP has lost 2004 and 2009 and set the party back by as many decades as he took to nurture it. If the BJP’s stocks have seen a rise then there is only one answer. And the party confirmed that answer in Goa.

On June 15 in a discussion with Shiv Aroor on Headlines Today, the India Today Associate Editor Uday Mahurkar made an observation. He stated that he had travelled and covered Kashmir to Kerala and West to East and had seen a clear ground-swell of popularity of Modi. Let’s see that as a personal observation. But every opinion poll also places Modi far ahead of anyone else as the most popular PM candidate. The important question, therefore, is: if not Modi who in the BJP or any other party can really challenge the ruling Congress party? While it is politically sensible to say parliamentary elections in a democracy shouldn’t be driven by individuals it is also foolish to suggest that political parties win without the face of a strong and inspiring leader. For the Congress regardless of the leader the Gandhi name is the mantra. Regional parties are family-run parties or individual-run parties who stand no national chance of combatting Congress on their own. So the nonsense of Sagarika and others claiming Modi to be a “personality cult” is reflective of their own fears and nothing else.

Let me put out another blunt truth that the MSM will not: No regional leader is really too deeply entrenched with concerns about the nation or its economy or its national issues. This is not to suggest they are not patriots. But the truth is they are merely interested in protecting their fiefdoms and if a chance presents itself then get a share in the Central luxury as well. Whether you take a Bhojpuri Laloo, Nitish Kumar, Naveen Patnaik or MamataB you will see what I mean. None of them can really contest a national election as a PM candidate. They may accidentally become PM like Deve Gowda only in a broken verdict. Nitish Kumar too wants to protect his fiefdom where he senses a threat and this is also driven by his ego and nothing more. It’s only Modi who has often made noises about national interest and spoken across the length and breadth of the country and even abroad. Most other CMs or even Cabinet Ministers go abroad only for holidays or medical treatments.

The other spurious argument that media crooks put out is that NDA once had 24 partners and now just has 2 or 3. Well, fact is any alliance at the Centre is valid only when the major party is in power. Parties like DMK, TMC are/were in the UPA and they were also in the NDA. So most regional parties are mere power-chasers and they aren’t in any alliance out of ideology. Even MamataB wouldn’t have quit the UPA had she not won absolute power in Bengal. She can afford to part with the UPA because she too now has her own little kingdom. Of the BJP allies only Shiv Sena and the Akalis can be said to be sharing political ideologies with them. The JDU was never a partner of ideology it was a partner of mere power-share. Another bogus argument is that LKA stood by Modi in 2002. So what? If you are parents would you want your children to be your slaves forever? What kind of parent wouldn’t want his kids to soar to bigger heights than s/he did? This is a telling cartoon that is now floating on the net and I believe describes LKA’s backroom politics quite well:

A long time ago I wrote a post on “The Incremental Fallacy”. The political equivalent of non-incremental change is “reforms”. Major changes don’t happen incrementally, they happen dramatically. When Bengal threw out the CPM they didn’t throw it out by a small margin, they delivered TMC with a huge majority. The same happened to Laloo in Bihar. The same happened to Digvijay in MP. You cannot cross a ten-foot trench in ten equal steps. You have to cross it one leap. Advani has travelled from Ramjanmabhoomi to secular Jinnah to appeasement of forces that run down his own popular CMs. Although it only claims “sources” an article in Mid-day makes damaging remarks about his conditions on acceptance of Modi as campaign head or PM candidate. All these are incremental shifts that have brought LKA down in the eyes of BJP supporters. It is a truth that he will have to understand or he will be given that understanding like a bitter pill. The Congress and UPA are also unpopular not just because of huge corruption but also because of the same old practices of doles, appeasement and division of people through caste and religion. The parties that claim to be “secular” are usually the most anti-secular.

The one mistake that separates Modi from LKA is that LKA wanted to be a darling of the fake “secular” forces and the media. In the process his politics now stinks of avarice. Modi presents that dramatic change and not an incremental one that LKA was trundling all along. While LKA was quick to blame the JDU pull out on Modi’s elevation he has also openly objected to it. It requires him and the BJP to realise that the country doesn’t want any more of the LKA type of politics. Avarice won’t pay for LKA and it won’t pay for Nitish. People want dramatic change and they want it fast.

Hunting Season Hits A Bump

Power corrupts; absolute power…. That saying seems to have gone through a change as Ram Jethmalani reminded the Parliament in December 2011. “Power corrupts but the prospect of losing power corrupts even more”. This briefly sums up many actions of the GOI with support from many in the media in their political witch-hunt of Narendra Modi. This year too, the media had started their hunting season with great spirits. As soon as Modi was elevated as BJP’s poll chairman the CBI was acting with great speed on another front. This gave the media-folks greater fuel to target Modi with the Ishrat Jehan encounter case. Ishrat was killed with three other terrorists in an encounter in Ahmedabad in June 2004. So far all the ‘secular’ parties maintained she was not a terrorist as did the many dubious NGO campaigners for justice. Over 10000 people attended Ishrat’s funeral along with members of many political parties. She had become a great heroine for the secular parties who have also referred to prominent terrorists as “Osamaji” or “Shri Hafeez”. Why not! After all, our human-rights and secular parties have greater sympathy for terrorists.

In its eagerness the CBI had even made an IB officer an ‘accused’ for providing fake intelligence leading to the encounter that killed Ishrat+3 and planting the weapons that were found on them. The accusation was that Rajendra Kumar was frequently in touch with the Gujarat Police and passing on intelligence to them. One would have thought that is what IB people do. When the Gujarat High Court constituted an SIT to probe the encounter it also allowed Ishrat’s mother to nominate an investigator to the SIT (What a luxury!). This was IPS officer Satish Verma who had focused a bit more on IB angle. On June 13, 2013 Verma was removed from the CBI investigating team, which is handling the case since October 2011. On June 14 the Gujarat HC ordered the reinstatement of Verma and advised to keep focus on the encounter and not the IB. Between 2002 and 2007 there have been over 400 encounter killings in India. Naturally, only 2 from Gujarat, one of Ishrat and the other of Sohrabuddin, interest the Congress and media. Because Modi can be hunted with these cases while the other states don’t matter. Of the police officers arrested in the Ishrat case 5 have already got bail. Why? Because in their enthusiasm CBI couldn’t file a charge-sheet against these officers. Considering the investigation is now 9 years old that shows the efficiency of CBI.

Sometime back Amit Shah, as Home Minister of Gujarat, was arrested in the Sohrabuddin encounter case. That he has also been given bail in the case says a lot for the strength of the CBI case against him. Even the SC had lampooned the CBI for their conduct in the case. Shah is now appointed as Campaign Convenor for Uttar Pradesh. The likes of NDTV, CNN-IBN, Timesnow, Headlines Today had already declared Shah a convicted criminal in their endless coverage of his arrest. The cover of CBI’s real plan wasn’t blown any media outlet but the BJP’s Arun Jaitley who wrote some damaging stuff on his website:

Jaitley doesn’t mince words when he says the CBI officers who made the file-notings and those who allowed them to pass should be sacked. But hey, they’re on a hunt; who would want to sack them? It is this particular document that Jaitley got hold of that has blown the lid off the operation. That the CBI now drags IB personnel to question and treats one of them as accused for murder is a grave danger to the intelligence community. The NIA had the chance to interview 26/11 backroom terrorist David Headley who had also claimed that Ishrat Jehan was a LeT suicide bomber. The LeT too had first claimed her as a martyr and then removed that claim from their website. In a 2010 report the NIA made absolutely no reference to Ishrat Jehan in reporting their interview of Headley. Strange, isn’t it?

The Intelligence Bureau hasn’t taken kindly to being dragged in as a target for investigations or one of them being accused of murder by the CBI. It also seems that the GOI, many of the NGOs that run the anti-NaMo cottage industry and the media wanted to make a hero of Ishrat. Nobody wanted to ask why she was driving around with two Paki nationals and another guy all over the place. According to her mother she was just “selling some Sheikh’s perfumes”. All of this until someone, maybe from the IB or some govt agency, dropped letters and tapes into the lap of the India Today group. On the night of June 13 Headlines Today aired the devastating tapes of conversations between Muzamil Bhat, the Pak terror plotter, and those with Ishrat. A summary of what the HeadlinesToday leaks can be seen in these screenshots from their programme:

This should not have come as a surprise to anyone. The intelligence input on Ishrat and others was shared with all state DGs in April 2004, much before the encounter in June 2004. If the IB is dragged into hunting expeditions there will be dust that is bound to get kicked. The recordings indicate Narendra Modi wasn’t the only target. Other targets included Advani, Bal Thackeray and Praveen Thogadia. All ‘Hindutva’ rabble-rousers in the eyes of ‘secularists’. Former Home Secretary GK Pillai has reportedly even filed an affidavit in the Gujarat HC citing Ishrat as a terrorist.

It’s only fools who would believe that potential terrorists go about telling their mothers and friends they are about to undertake a terror operation or kill a Chief Minister. The portrayal of Ishrat as a simple young student in Mumbai or a perfume sales girl may be her otherwise regular pursuits. But even in the Boston blasts the terrorists were described as quiet, friendly neighbours who got along well with everyone. The one that takes the cake is that of David Headley planning the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai who picked up the gullible son of Mahesh Bhatt for company. I’m sure if Rahul Bhat or any of his friends parted Headley’s hair and looked with a magnifying glass they would have found the inscription “I am a terrorist”. Perfumes indeed! The father of Javed (Pranesh Pillai), who was with Ishrat, also claims his son is innocent. Naturally! Praveen Swami writes a whole deal in Firstpost: “Ishrat Jahan: The inconvenient story no one wants to tell”.

In another development the IB has stated it will petition the Supreme Court against the CBI for dragging its officers into this investigation. The Home Ministry is also now seeking immunity for IB officials from any prosecution given the naturally covert nature of their operations (Deccan Herald). Here’s a damning quote from the Firstpost article I referred above: “Even as the CBI works towards finding out just how Ishrat died, there’s a growing mass of evidence that suggests the United Progressive Alliance government has been economical with the truth about her life and her death”.

Praveen Swami gets it right but misses a couple of important points. He mentions the “UPA govt” which is not very accurate. The CBI is under the Congress wing of the UPA so it’s the Congress that dictates the course of the case. Secondly, why has the media, the Congress and even the CBI turned this into the “Ishrat Jehan case”? Isn’t that odd? There were four people who were killed in that encounter. One seems to be her friend (Javed) and the other two were Paki nationals who were strangers to her. The answer is simple: She’s a woman, was a 19-year old, is a Muslim and that makes for a great “emotional blackmail” story. The others were Muslims too but they don’t make such an emotional story as Ishrat.

Hunting Season had started in earnest but the CBI Vs IB tangle has created some serious hurdles for the case as more and more evidence comes out. In a report a CBI official claims “We do not have anything against Modi yet in this case”. Firstpost wrongly headlined the report as “Ishrat Jahan case: CBI says no evidence against Modi…”. FP missed an important word in the CBI official’s statement: YET! They may be trying still but it sure looks like hunting season just hit a big bump.

The Real Fears Of Sonia Gandhi

For the last three days the media gorged on the BJP meet, the differences and infighting in the party. The elevation of Narendra Modi as Chairman of the party’s election campaign has probably rattled more people in the Congress and the media. The usual propagandists Arnab Goswami, Sagarika Ghose, Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Sardesai and others showed up on the screens on a Sunday. The usual bitching went on in the hunting season that has already started. The usual rants of secular vs communal, polarising figure, 2002 etc. figured on all channels. And then again the final question of whether Rahul Gandhi will now stand up and fight Modi. All that is stuff we have heard over and over again in the media with no consequence. The important question is why is media still pitching for a RahulG Vs Modi fight? One thing that is certainly good about the proceedings in the BJP is that you do have to fight and earn your positions in the party. In the Congress you just have to be born in the Gandhi family. But why Rahul Gandhi? Why is it that the media allows Sonia Gandhi a walkover from the fight? She has greater stakes in elections than RahulG. Why is the media shielding her? Clever, isn’t it?

While bragging that they aren’t scared of Modi or his elevation is an internal matter of the BJP none of the major Congress spokies could avoid commenting on the events. The Congress has lost elections in many states including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Bengal among others. None of the leaders in these states bothers Congress or threatens them at the Centre. It is only and only Narendra Modi that poses the most serious threat and challenge to the Congress rule at the Centre. No other single politician poses the level of threat that he does. Therefore, Modi is not contesting or challenging RahulG. His challenge is clearly to Sonia Gandhi and nobody else. If at all Modi even comments on MMS it is simply because he is technically the PM otherwise not just Modi, nobody in India would even think of MMS. It is thus important to remove the veil that the crony media has placed on SoniaG.

On the sidelines of his address to the World Conference of Religions Swami Vivekananda once told an American audience if you put a fish on the most glittering throne in the world it will still prefer dirty water to that throne. That’s the life of a fish. Some people would find their lives unbearable if they were removed from the throne and placed somewhere else. For most of her adult life Sonia Gandhi is used to a kind of throne that would make life elsewhere unbearable. Since her marriage to Rajiv Gandhi she has lived under the cover of power; first as wife of Rajiv Gandhi and daughter-in-law of IndiraG and then as UPA chairperson. In between there were just a few years when Congress was out of power but that hasn’t taken away her life in the comfort of power. Since RajivG’s death she has been mostly on her own and has had to defend her life of power. The few years that kept her out during Narasimha Rao’s tenure and later under the third front govt only pushed her back into the Congress to seize power and become president of the party. President for life!

Media celebs keep asking if Modi is a threat to Congress. He definitely is, even if they publicly deny it. The Congress had sensed this threat from the time they lost the 2002 elections in Gujarat and with their lackeys in the media had carried out, and still continue the most vicious witch-hunt ever in India. Barkha Dutt now asks the sly question if Modi has become bigger than BJP the party. Truth is, Modi has currently become a bigger draw than the Gandhis and that is the worry for Sonia Gandhi. He is not just the most sought after politician in India but even among foreign audiences. The media, which should be the govt’s first adversary, has become so obsessed with the main Opposition party that they churn out fake stories from spurious sources with regular monotony.

It doesn’t take an Einstein to know that Sonia Gandhi is not exactly a wizard on any topic. I can even safely say that she may not have a great understanding of the economy, economics or the other social issues that really concern India. Not choosing to be PM may have other reasons but another one may also be that being PM would mean being a lot in the public eye where her ignorance on various issues would be badly exposed. Consider the number of gaffes that RahulG makes on many occasions even with written speeches. That should give you some idea. It is such ignorance that made Sonia buy someone else’s line like ‘Maut ka Saudagar’ for which the Congress paid heavily electorally. Digvijaya Singh states that his party will fight the next election based on the Congress ideology. What exactly is Congress ideology? If you ask SoniaG to answer that question in one sentence I guarantee she won’t be able to answer. The Congress ideology is simply ‘Gandhi’ and nothing more.

IndiraG, except for about 3 years of the Janata Party, remained PM till her death once she became the PM. When the Janata Party came to power after the Emergency she did what Congress always does; bring down the non-Congress govt by hook or crook. SoniaG did something similar in the first term of AB Vajpayee too. It has been a tradition in the Congress to make all attempts to bring down non-Congress govts in every State and the Centre when they are not in power. Without power they are like fish out of water. This is exactly what SoniaG fears the most. She has earned herself a position of absolute power with no responsibility and no accountability for anything that is done by the UPA govt. Her only work in the UPA is self-preservation. Her travels are a secret. Her illness, if there is one, is a secret. Even RTI applications have not yielded responses on her travels. Nobody knows when she leaves India, where she goes and when she returns and whose aircrafts she uses. Do you think SoniaG would ever want to give up all these privileges? This is what Modi threatens the most.

Her NAC is thus a creation of a durbar which drafts the most populist schemes that can garner votes. As NAC Chairperson she also gets the status of a Cabinet rank minister which she otherwise wouldn’t have. As the NAC Chair she also doesn’t have to answer to anyone or be accountable to anyone. The Congress spokies call others Hitler, fascists, dictators and all such epithets. But the real dictator is right at the top of the Congress pile. SoniaG is reportedly polite and “lenient” as her brilliant son calls her. But during testing times she has shown to get very short-tempered and agitated. This has been seen in the parliament quite often. Take a look at this report after the Chattisgarh naxal attack on May 25:

Even if the situation in Chattisgarh was a calamity she really had no business to be in the meeting of the State govt, the PM and the Governor. She has actually made the PM irrelevant. The arrogance with which she threatens sacking a CM and a state govt “in one minute” says how far she is willing to go. In much the same way all the NAC schemes that are churned out are a burden on the economy and have nearly bankrupted India. The Bharat Nirman is another major dole to the media of around 2500 crores. She is in a great rush to push the Food Security Bill through well before the elections. FSB is another populist scheme with nothing but votes in mind. All these are acts of self-preservation that the media conveniently overlooks.

RahulG has proved over and over again that he is not a threat to any politician or party. In fact he is a big threat to his own party. Where ever he goes the Congress has ended up with a poor performance. SoniaG has had a decade of uninterrupted power without any accountability. It is not easy to let such power go and she will have the Congress turn the world upside down to keep her unique position. As a woman and as a widow of a former PM the politicians and media have shown her far more sympathy and allowed her to go unquestioned on many issues. Any other person would simply not have been afforded such a luxury. She has managed to have others like Mulayam, Mayawati, Karunanidhi and even Mamata Banerjee play along. She has even managed some leaders of the BJP play along on some of her policies. Only one man won’t play along and that is Modi. Is it a surprise that the media and Congresswallahs have suddenly developed so much love for LK Advani?

The only ideology of the Congress is “Gandhi” as someone said. The only other ideology is how to gain and remain in power at any cost. The economy, economics and all other such considerations are secondary. The media keeps asking if RahulG will stand up and fight Narendra Modi. This is their fake wet dream. RahulG can’t even fight small-time politicians let alone a giant. The meteoric rise of Modi threatens SoniaG and this is probably her greatest fear. All the filthy language that Congress politicians use for Modi is used on her behalf. Her self-preservation is more important than any issue for the Congress. Without her the Congress is just a Sibal. If the Congress spokies are so agitated at the rise and elevation of Modi as the party campaign Chairman it is a reflection of the fears of Sonia Gandhi. The Congress political fortunes have been on a downswing and the one person who threatens their power the most is the one most discussed and vilified in the media. These are the fears of Sonia Gandhi manifested in the media’s poor discourse.