• Have you ever seen Central govt sponsored scheme names? Now they are named after by just prefix of Pradhan Mantri xyz yojana or with the names of few BJP tall leaders namely Atal, Din Dayal, SP Mukherjee etc. There are only one and a half schemes on M.K. Gandhi namely MNREGA & Swacha Bharath (only spectacles of M.K, not his name)
• Recently, have you noticed how many times in how many occasions PM has taken names of Dr.B.R Ambedkar, Sardar Patel, Subhash, Vivekananda, Dr.APJ Kalam, Atal,dindayal, Azad, Bhagat Singh & JP Narayan in his speeches. Many more times than that of M.K. He smartly mentions M.K’s name in his speeches when it is national formality & when it benefits him !!! ( like his speeches on Independence/republic days or while in abroad with foreign delegates)
• There has been always some sort of anguish in the majority of people of the country that many national figures of pre &post independence era were ignored or not given enough importance like Gandhi-Nehru co got. Congress-led UPA had hundreds of central /state govt schemes named only after Nehru, Indira, Rajiv during their tenure.No doubt there must be political reasons to it. By branding them as Gandhi schemes which would have had helped them in marketing in non-Cong state govts.But who was bothered about schemes achievements or outputs was a million rupee question ?! Namo is also implementing the same UPA schemes though with different names, yet we have to find million rupee answers & Time is observing !!
• Namo as a politician is not a Jughead like his rivals in the matter of playing balanced politics. He has Ph.D. in this and will take others to decades to reach his benchmark. Needless to talk about his oratory skills within India & also abroad.
• As NAMO being an RSS pracharak in his earlier days of life, I presume, his inclination/influence towards Hindutva, Patriotism & other Saffron leaders is obvious.
• Many times he openly criticized Jawahar Lal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv, Sonia, Priyanka & Rahul on Congress culture, Corruption, vote appeasement & dynasty politics BUT he neither showed his dislike on M.K. nor showed more like (As there is a certain dislike among youth on Gandhi-Nehru duo on Partition, compromising national interests etc which is itself never-ending debate) directly at any point of time in his public life. He might be thinking present generation should have lost relevance or no use to repeatedly preaching the name of Gandhi for just politics. But one thing I can say he uses it as “brahmastra” to set his records right in Gujarat as well as now while leading India. There is an old saying ‘Neither the stick should break nor the snake should die’ may be implied here.
• It seems he doesn’t want to create free controversies by supporting hate or dislike on M.K. by right-wing people and give the opposition a chance for nationwide agitation which will hurt BJP as well Namo image. Instead, he is simply uplifting the names of Netaji, Azad, Bhagath, Kalam, Dr.B.R Vivekananda, JP, SP Mukherjee etc which were sidelined by earlier Non-BJP govts.
• Remember once Amit shah BJP head &close aid of Namo quoted on M.K. ” bahut chatur baniyatha ho”.His remarks could be in different perspectives but opposition tried to capture this and made huge controversy nationwide. And Namo-shah duo surely would have had a “Chai pe charcha” on this mistake.
• You can see the latest developments of statues & museums proposals by BJP, Sardar Patel in guj, Shivaji statue in MH, Lord Ram statue in UP, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar museum in London,Netaji museum in Delhi etc. which again shows the BJP’s clear-cut ideology of their idols , whom they worship & the path they follow !!
• And here is a reason why I put a heading as like L.K Advani !! The 15 yr old Sangh pracharak to Dy PM of the country under Atal. His contributions to the RSS to Co-founder of BJP has been a long journey which the RSS & BJP will never forget !!! But age, timing & demand in situation halts his journey further. The Bjp & people of the country very well knew the desire of L.K as PM but was artful, carefully and warmly sidelined by Namo & Co. As I said earlier this generation people might have lost relevance or dependence on Advani as same as in case of M.K.
Jai Hind !!!
Note: The opinions of writer are purely personal and not to hurt intentionally to anyone mentioned in the COL .and also under freedom of expression if it is applicable !!!
By the way, this my 1st attempt at writing .!!!
Rajesh Khare 😊