Annihilation, not decimation is the word you’re looking for. Forget the BJP tally. Forget expert election punditry. Forget everything else. Focus on what just one man has actually accomplished. He accomplished what looked seemingly impossible even a week ago: the annihilation of a party, whose dissolution Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi recommended more than 60 years ago. For all his faults, Gandhi was gifted with a good sense of foresight. In today’s terms it means just this: he foresaw that the party, which was at the forefront of India’s freedom struggle could only be sustained by creating a nationwide ecosystem of slavery. And that party, the Indian National Congress Party, the very party which fought to liberate India from British rule, after 60 years, was headed by an Italian who, just like the colonial British, used deracinated, servile Indians to run not just the party but the entire nation. This one man has reduced it to a state, in a democracy, where even if it desperately wants to, cannot by law become the principal Opposition Party. And this is the same party which was in Government for the last ten years. And it took exactly one man from the selfsame Mohandas Gandhi’s selfsame state of Gujarat to fulfil that selfsame Gandhi’s dream. Except that where Gandhi recommended voluntary dissolution, this man opted for annihilation. Please put your hands together for Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi.
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 08:57:22 +0000
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