Monday, September 24, 2018

Vox Populi Issue 250



  BJP's Many Psychoses Will Cost Them Heavily In The Upcoming Lok Sabha Elections
                               
         
The BJP is suffering from many psychoses. This includes the 'motor mouth' syndrome which we saw at its peak in the first half of this Modi government incumbency and which continues even now with random outbursts. The more recent is the 'spoilt brat syndrome'. In this as we have seen, the BJP leaders are free to call other people on the political scene all kinds of names and make all sorts of comments about them which in civilised society will not be considered acceptable behaviour. This includes Narendra Modi who descends to the depths of intemperance when it comes to a known Opposition party. But when it comes to taking back what they are dishing out to others the BJP leaders will yell foul and claim that the comments have crossed the borders of decorum. This particular comment is being made in the context of Nirmala Sitharaman saying that even when the Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is sick the Congress party is trying to de-stabilise the State government without any compunctions of sympathy. Being a relatively new politician she probably does not know that alls fair in love, war and also politics. This is precisely the  'spoilt brat syndrome' which is when you create nuisance for others you convince yourself and others that you are in the right but the moment the opponents respond in kind, you are not able to take it and cry out in protest. The BJP leaders need to grow up and show more maturity by being able to take as much as they can give. The other thing is, like we have seen the BJP leaders have ever since the win in the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 come across as too full of their own importance. In this ego trip we have seen them say outrageous things and act with ridiculous abandon. The latest being just last week in 2 incidents. The first when a Jharkhand BJP MP's feet were washed and the water was drunk by a party worker and the second when a MLA in U.P.  forcing the railway attendant to open a level crossing and then parking his car across the tracks thus blocking train services for a few hours. Most of the BJP leaders including ministers in the Central government are incompetent or have reached their level of incompetence. All these tendencies arise out of the BJP being new to government. Thus they either have this habit of lecturing the nation believing that all people are the kind who will swallow all that they say or throw their weight around aggressively in trying to suppress contra-opinions. In other context where the BJP have in the past been accusing previous governments of paralysis in governance and decision making, we have them doing the same thing in Goa where with Manohar Parrikar, the Chief Minister being in and out of hospitals since February 2018 with a serious ailment along with at least 3 ministers of his Cabinet being similarly incapacitated, the Goa government is in a 'coma' or suspended animation with nothing moving. The fact of trying to cling to power without delivering in governance and being irresponsive to common man needs is going to cost the BJP heavily in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections scheduled in 2019. 

             Modi's Corruption Robes Are Dappled In Black Akin A Dalmatian 

Just like a skein of wool the Rafale deal is coming unravelled, one thread at a time. The latest is the French ex- President, Hollande's statement that the name of the Anil Ambani led Reliance Aerospace as offset partner for the deal came from India. Diplomatic nicety stops him from disclosing the name of the person from the Indian side who suggested the name of Reliance. With this the scams in this Modi government are bigger than in the UPA I & II. In the Rafale deal the pay-off is almost 10 times that of Bofors as far as scams in defence purchases are concerned. The Defence Minister wanting to collect brownie points had recently made a comment that the Modi government had eliminated agents from defence purchases but she did not say that the conduit is now through crony capitalists as the Rafale deal is showing up. Similarly the Nirav Modi/Choksi fraud is almost double that of the Mallya scam at Rs. 16,000 crore. Where the Modi government wanted to cloak itself in white robes of purity as far as corruption is concerned, it is now being seen that this position is coming unstuck and the pristine white is being dappled with black spots akin to a Dalmatian. The analogy is being used to suit Modi's sartorial style since even clothed in corruption, one is sure that he would like to see himself look good.

                                 Gen. Rawat Should Act More, Talk Less

For a professional soldier Gen. Rawat, our Chief Of Army Staff tends to align himself  and play to the political overtones of military action. Like recently after the mutilation of the Indian jawan at the hands of the Pakistani state and non-state actors, he is getting into the act by saying that we should retaliate and give the Pakistanis a bloody nose, not in as many words though. He should have done what he proposed and then came and told us the results of his action. One would expect thus that he should go about his job of defending our borders quietly and looking after his soldiers with dedication, he more often than not shoots off his mouth. Even during the episode of the surgical strike he had the tendency to wade into the details of it, feeding fire to the subsequent controversy while a professional soldier would have stood quietly on the sidelines and watched the fun and games that his political masters play. In fact when Prakash Javdekar, our Human Resources Minister asked the UGC to send out an instruction to educational institutions around the country to celebrate Surgical Strike Day, Gen. Rawat should have told him that undercover operations be best kept under wraps. That is the way you ensure that they remain effective. When our political leaders are blasé about certain matters it is the duty of the professionals, in this case Gen. Rawat to correct them. That is what we would expect from the boss of the Indian Army. 
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