Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Who should be Caesar's wife?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his wish to see a "Congress-mukt Bharat", which means, 'an India free of the Congress Party'. ANI. With that in view, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is being targeted with a raft of court cases by various people who have suddenly discovered that they have been defamed by Mr Gandhi. India must hold a general election by May 2024. wikipedia. "Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been sentenced to two years in prison in a criminal defamation case. The Congress MP was convicted by the court in Gujarat state for 2019 comments about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname at an election rally." BBC. Immediately, "Mr Gandhi was disqualified as a Lok Sabha MP following his conviction in the criminal defamation case over his 'Modi surname' remark." TOI. But, "Rahul Gandhi...sought to link his disqualification from the Lok Sabha as a fallout of his questions on the Adani Group's functioning and political 'patronage' for the infrastructure conglomerate while vowing to carry on with his 'fight to defend the democratic process' - even at the cost of 'life-long disqualification' from Parliament or 'imprisonment'. On BJP's demand for an apology, he once again threw his favorite line: 'My name is not Savarkar. I am Gandhi. I won't apologise'." ET. Now, Savarkar's grandson, Satyaki Savarkar has filed a defamation case against Rahul Gandhi. India Today. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a politician who joined the Hindu Mahasabha and promoted Hindutva (Hinduness). He was sentenced to life in prison by the British and was imprisoned in the Cellular Jail at Andaman and Nicobar Islands. wikipedia. "In the end may I remind your honour to be so good as to go through the petition for clemency, and to sanction it for being forwarded to the Indian Government?" Savarkar wrote in his petition. Counterview. 'Clemency' means 'an act or deed showing mercy or leniency'. dictionary.com. "Therefore if the government in their manifold beneficence and mercy release me, I for one cannot but be the staunchest advocate of constitutional progress and loyalty to the English government which is the foremost condition of that progress." 'Beneficence' means 'the doing of good; active goodness or kindness; charity'. dictionary,com. "Whether you believe it or not, I am sincere in expressing my earnest intention of treading the constitutional path and trying my humble best to render the hands of the British dominion a bond of love and respect and mutual help." 'Dominion' means 'sovereignty'. Promising "love' and "mutual help" means promising allegiance to the British rule. Meanwhile, The Supreme Court ruled that the PM Cares fund does not need any audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) because it was collected through voluntary donation by the public. HT. Surely it needs an audit because precisely it is public money? On 31 March, "The Gujarat high court...ruled that the Prime Minister's office need not furnish the degree and post-graduate degree certificate of Prime Minister Narendra Modi." HT. One would have thought that the prime minister would be pure as 'Caesar's wife'. But, it seems to apply only to others.        

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