So, what's going on?

It’s been nearly two years since the installation of new government led by Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

Do we remember the key plank on which Modi government came to power? Am sure we do not remember it anymore because it has dropped off the radar as it too has dropped dramatically. Corruption! I am sure, some of the skeptics among you would be pursing their lips and saying that, what crap, “how do I know?” Well, in such case you are saying that Modi government has been indulging in corruption using some extremely ingenious way that they have been doing it for two years and yet they have not been noticed yet. And, this when most of so-called “main-stream” media and opposition have been baying for blood of this new government from the way go, makes it even more commendable effort. Perhaps Congress should copy this new ingenious way adopted by Modi government so that if they ever come back to power, they can employ it to save themselves some future embarrassment, which they regularly albeit shamelessly faced during the previous 10-years of MMS-led UPA regime. As you would have figured out by now that there is a loads of pun intended in all this – one that there is such ingenious way and two more serious pun is that Congress will ever come back to power on the back of Pappu!

Now that it is very apparent that corruption has reduced drastically over the last two years and it’s been confirmed by independent sources too, lets explore as to whose loss it has been, this reduction in corruption. “What a ridiculous proposition!”, some of you are already thinking with a churning in your stomach.

Nevertheless, I will explore this question, as it is very pertinent. However, before I try and answer this question, some trends that became very prominent in the last two years. One unprecedented trend was gradual unification of all opposition parties against Modi-led NDA government – strangely, we did not see such a trend when Congress-led UPA was looting the country brazenly – however, we saw it in almost all assembly elections and it became sordid in Bihar when two bitter foes Nitish-Lalu joined forces with the Congress just to tackle Modi-juggernaut as their political existence was at stake. In all this, it has clearly been established there is no ideology of all these political parties except power and they would sell their mother just to remain in power. Clearly, the opposition was rattled after successive losses in Rajasthan, MP and Maharashtra and hence would do anything. Second trend was now that there is no corruption issue to corner the NDA government, hence, what issues they could they use to try and keep bombarding Modi-government to keep it busy in the same? So, they reverted to what they tried doing to Modi in Gujarat for 12-years and failed miserably. Hence, we saw issues such as Church attack in West Bengal, Dadri, Award-return, intolerance debate, JNU-strife et al. Whilst all of these events happened in states ruled by non-BJP parties, yet the punching bag was Modi-government! Did we see anything like this happen during 10-years of UPA rule when a mishap occurred in a state ruled by non-Congress government and yet the blame was brought to the door of Congress led UPA at the center? In fact, just the contrary happened, be it in Gujarat or Karnataka that were led by BJP-NDA governments – these state governments were on the receiving end always. One clear reason was that the Congress-led UPA at the center was facing huge corruption issues then and these attacks on non-Congress state governments would help them divert public opinion and also help them in weakening the state ruled by BJP as well! Talk of killing two birds with one stone!

Coming back to the question, so, who has lost out due to reduction in corruption apart from Congress? Well it is obvious, isn’t it? There are the likes of Barkha Dutt (who now has been “absolved” of sordid wheeling-dealing she did with Nira Raadia), Rajdeep Sardesai & Sagarika Ghose and co who benefited by murky dealings within UPA 1 & 2. Further, all of these people have lost the “perks” that included free rides along with the PM to wherever he visited (this was the norm during MMS regime and since Modi came to power, this “perk” has been discontinued) and more importantly the power that they wielded during UPA days have suddenly diminished drastically. Therefore, their biased diatribe against Modi was evident in their bogus criticism when he went on overseas tours as if MMS never went anywhere! Apart from these pseudo-journalists, the so-called intellectual elites (which include politicians, artists, journalists, writers, and such leeches) were also used to active government patronage, which include plush bunglows in Lutyens Delhi, awards (that were ostensibly returned to prove their loyalties to Congress and not the nation who had bestowed the same on them), elite club membership, and unbridled power to top it all. With advent of Modi-led NDA, all these people were suddenly starved of “perks” and “power” resulting in the backlash we are witnessing over the last two years. And since, corruption isn’t something they can rake up now as there isn’t anything to show, they are raking up non-issues such as what we have seen over two years aka ‘Modi’s foreign-tours’, ‘intolerance’, ‘freedom of speech’ – were these issues not there during UPA regime? Did no Dadri take place before? Wasn’t there intolerance earlier? And is ‘freedom of speech’ an issue that is applied selectively – Kamlesh Tiwari Vs Umer Khalid – we can see how each of these episodes have been treated so differently! And all these incidents happened in non-BJP-ruled states, yet blame was heaped on Modi-led NDA. Why?

The answer is not difficult to find. It is nothing to do with intolerance or freedom of speech – it has to do only with corruption, withdrawal of “perks” and lost power! The ‘you-scratch-my-back-I-scratch-your-back’ machinery stands impaired and people who profited from it are feeling the pain and reacting. Hence, they are perpetually on a look out for issues to rake up and make mountains out of molehills. Hence, there is ‘intolerance’ or lack of ‘freedom-of-speech’, or rise of ‘hindutva’, et al in the country. These guys will keep going at it and newer issues will keep cropping up again and again till somehow they are able to go back to pre-Modi times by making sure that Modi-led NDA fails. A further look at what is happening with Jat agitation in Haryana or Gujjars in Rajasthan or Patels in Gujrat – all BJP-ruled states – do we have any such unrest elsewhere? Is it coincidence? Or is it by design? We need to identify and expose these designs of the so-called intellectuals who are deciding what India is and how it should be run. 

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In this context, please do read this eye-opener piece by a real intellectual who has exposed the countless pseudo-intellectuals who have been used to suck-up-to-power-to-get-their-power in Delhi. http://www.mediacrooks.com/2016/02/intolerant-evictions.html#.VsrSn1JX-wZ. Interestingly, he in this article of December 2015, mentions JNU as one such power center in Delhi.