: Opinion: Congress’ song of love mistuned #IndiaNEWS #News By Arun Sinha By leading the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ Rahul Gandhi appears to have pulled Congresspersons and liberals out of the quagmire

Opinion: Congress’ song of love mistuned #IndiaNEWS #News
By Arun Sinha
By leading the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ Rahul Gandhi appears to have pulled Congresspersons and liberals out of the quagmire of pessimism they were sinking in. They are singing praise of him as though by merely setting out on a walk from Kanyakumari to Kashmir he had triggered a storm that would blow the Modi regime away!
We only hope their bullishness is a propaganda pitch and not a real feeling. For, if they really feel that way, they are fooling themselves. Their jumping out of a sea of despair and jumping into a sea of delusion is neither going to help them nor the cause of the plural idea of India. For, those who are trying to establish a singular idea of India are not going to be vanquished by a few thousand people singing a song of love. They are well-entrenched in society. They are no more their stupid monochromatic old selves. They are several steps into transforming themselves into a rainbow.
They have fused singularism with welfarism. They have brainwashed lower castes into wearing Hindutva hats. Buoyed by the success of their rainbow disguise, they have even started trying to seduce Pasmandas, the lower castes among Muslims. Hindutva is no more made only of political ingredients. Its new formula has economic ingredients too.
New Formula
That new formula is essentially an evolution of the Gujarat model. Narendra Modi was the architect of the basic Gujarat model—a fusion of Hindutva with economic growth—and he is the architect of its evolution as a fusion of Hindutva with social welfare. In the old Gujarat model, Modi was idolised as ‘Hindu hridaya samrat’ (The emperor of Hindu hearts) and ‘vikas purush’ (Man of progress). In the new Gujarat model, he is deified for his blend of hardcore Hindutva with ‘garib kalyan’ (welfare of the poor).
The Congress cannot supplant the new Gujarat model with a yatra. It would need a far greater endeavour to do so. It would need a movement. It would need a nationwide mobilisation of courageous people ready to make sacrifices, for the new Gujarat model has not only political and economic ingredients but also legal ingredients. It is a deadly compound of Hindutva, welfarism and repression.
Perhaps, instead of leading a yatra, Rahul Gandhi should have focused on Gujarat. This is where the Gujarat model originated. This is where the core of the evolved Gujarat model is. This is a State which Modi controlled as CM and continues to control even as PM. In this State, Modi is the BJP. The party always sought votes in this State in his name, as it is doing now in every State.
There was no better place than Gujarat for the Congress to mount an attack on Modi.

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