Sunday, October 08, 2023

Master of disguise.

"The Election Commission will announce the schedule for holding assembly elections in five states at 12 noon today. The commission will announce the dates for assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram." NDTV. "Months ahead of the 2024 general elections, BJP may need some skilled political maneuvering and expertise not to let its Hindutva vote bank agenda be hit by the latest Opposition attempt to revive Mandal politics, which has now taken center-stage with the release of caste data by the Bihar government. The latest data of Bihar pegs the state's backward caste population at 63%." ET. The Mandal Commission was formed on 20 December 1978 by the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Encyclopedia. "The Mandal Commission concluded that India's population consisted of approximately 16 percent non-Hindus, 17.5% Brahmans and 'forward castes', 44% 'other backward classes (OBC), and 22.5% scheduled castes and tribes." "PM Narendra Modi attacked Rahul Gandhi's new plank for caste based census and said it was a ploy to divide Hindu society at the instance of foreign powers who were active behind the scenes and were operating through their handlers." TOI. Is Mr Modi accusing Mr Gandhi of being an agent of a foreign power? If so, is he not guilty of criminal defamation as defined under Section 499 IPC (iPleaders)? "There are two distinct strands to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's art of public communication: one, high voltage bombastic rhetoric; total silence," wrote Sagarika Ghosh. "Loud personalised nationalist superhero-cum-victim-cum-action man, on the one hand; stony silence on the other. Bombastic rhetoric on certain issues, deafening silence on other matters; high profile personality projection, but mute escapism and refusal to take responsibility" and "pushing his own 'victimhood' and how he is the 'victim' of his rivals." "In the nearly 10 years of the Modi government, there have been questions about its handling of data. Evidently, there are areas where it has buried or blacked out the data that was inconvenient to its agenda of running a glorious Hindutva regime;" and "It has also faced allegations of fudging the data, most recently in the case of India's GDP for the first quarter this financial year," wrote Sushant Singh. "Does PM Modi's allegations that his political enemies are giving out bounties to malign him and that the 'foreign hand' and its local collaborators are out to get him by hook or by crook somehow bring back memories of an Indira Gandhi smelling an international conspiracy at every step? DH. "Every week you're asked to take a position - and that too as a Hindu," wrote Shruti Kapila. "Modi's second term is not saddled as much by anti-incumbency as it is with an identity crisis. Having successfully reinvented Hindutva in his own personality, it is not clear whether we are looking at a strongman Vishwaguru or the representative of a so-called victimised identity." Clearly, Modi can change his identity at any moment as we can see from his images. Google. Maricha of Ramayan would fall at his feet.              

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