Congress social gathering leaders assault Shekhar Gupta for criticising Rahul Gandhi

On Saturday, the veteran journalist and the editor of The Print, Shekhar Gupta, confronted the wrath of Congress social gathering leaders and supporters after he revealed a video criticising the Congress social gathering and its chief Rahul Gandhi.
In his weekly present ‘National Interest’, Shekhar Gupta spoke intimately in regards to the state of Indian politics and the absence of any opposition to the ruling Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party. Criticising the Congress social gathering’s management, particularly Gandhi-scion Rahul Gandhi, Shekhar Gupta opined that the grand outdated social gathering appears to have misplaced curiosity within the nation’s politics as they’ve didn’t put strain on the ruling authorities.
Lamenting on the lack of the opposition events, particularly the Congress, to verify the Modi juggernaut, Shekhar Gupta went on responsible the Congress social gathering and Rahul Gandhi for the state of opposition events within the nation and the dearth of fireside of their bellies to tackle the BJP. Throughout the present, Shekhar Gupta was, actually, suggesting the opposition events to step up their strain on the federal government and hit streets in opposition to the Modi authorities.

However, as traditional, Shekhar Gupta did with all of the subtlety as he expressed his agony by blaming the Congress social gathering for failing the ‘liberals’ and its ecosystem by not aggressively taking over the BJP.
Sharing a poem written by some Majrooh Sultanpuri, titled, “Aag lagi hum ri jhopadiya mein, hum gawain malhar/dekh bhai kitne tamashe ki, zindagani hamaar (my hut is on hearth, however I’m singing Raag Malhar, the comfortable rain raga/see what enjoyable my life is), Shekhar Gupta picturised the state of Congress social gathering and its lack of management.
The controversial ‘journalist mentioned it’s all the time hazardous questioning a authorities, no matter the social gathering in energy. However these days, the journalists are going through double bother as they’re being cursed for questioning the opposition events. In his present, Shekhar Gupta additional mentioned that he has been so frightened of drawing this for the previous couple of months and he was frightened of writing something crucial and even vaguely destructive in regards to the Congress social gathering or Rahul Gandhi.
“I am now walking into that minefield with this question: We can keep complaining about the undermining of institutions, misuse of the ‘agencies’, sectarian and socially discriminatory laws, use of provisions like sedition as if it was a parking ticket, rail-roading of legislation through Parliament, even a GoM activity like this one on the media. But, would it have been a fraction as easy as it is now if Congress had just 100 seats in the Lok Sabha? Or the UPA about 130-150?” requested Shekhar Gupta in his present.
Attacking the Congress social gathering over not protecting the BJP in verify, Shekhar Gupta mentioned that in a democracy, the first accountability of respecting establishments, residents’ liberty and constitutional ensures lies with the ruling social gathering. However, as per Gupta, it is usually the first duty of the opposition to struggle for these.
Shekhar Gupta calls Rahul Gandhi’s Kerala marketing campaign as an ineffective stunt
Speaking on Rahul Gandhi’s journey to Kerala final week, Shekhar Gupta lambasted the Gandhi-scion for his theatrics, asking whether or not Rahul Gandhi swimming with fishermen would flip into votes.
“Think then, about the de facto chief of our largest opposition party, with still 51 members in Lok Sabha and the control of three major states, heading for election in another four states and one UT, in each one of which his party has a stake. And here he was, showing off his phenomenal fitness to school children. I would never trivialise school children, I know how hard they are to impress. But, for a 50-year-old to dazzle them with his muscle power?” Shekhar Gupta famous in robust phrases.
Ending his monologue on the Congress social gathering, Shekhar Gupta as soon as once more reminded that the joyful, viral visuals from the ever-so-cool Kerala introduced again to him a line from the 1974 Dilip Kumar-Saira Banu movie Sagina. He mentioned that the Lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri had no thought he was writing a line that might match so completely with the Rahul Gandhi-Congress social gathering state of affairs, “Aag lagi hum ri jhopadiya mein, hum gawain malhar/dekh bhai kitne tamashe ki, zindagani hamaar (my hut is on fire, but I am singing malhar, the happy rain raga/see what fun my life is)”.
“Sorry, Majrooh sahib, I stole this. But no sorry Rahul Gandhi. This was written for you,” mentioned Shekhar Gupta.
Congress social gathering upset with Gupta’s evaluation, calls him a pliable journalist
As Shekhar Gupta’s present gained somewhat little bit of traction on the social media platforms, the Congress was perturbed. Perhaps, the Congress social gathering was shocked to listen to such harsh phrases from their very personal Shekhar Gupta, who’s believed to be one of many distinguished faces of the ‘left-liberal’ media ecosystem within the nation, which largely resonates with the ideology of the Congress social gathering.
The Congress social gathering, which couldn’t digest the betrayal, quickly began to assault the veteran journalist for criticising their chief Rahul Gandhi.
Pawan Khera, the social gathering spokesperson who has been elevated as a frontrunner as a result of paucity of management within the social gathering, attacked Shekhar Gupta for talking in opposition to Rahul Gandhi. Giving it again to Shekhar Gupta in the identical poetic language because the latter, Khera altered the lyrics of the identical Majrooh Sultanpuri’s poem to accuse Shekhar Gupta of being a pliable journalist.

Saral Patel, who was busy spreading faux information on social media final week, additionally tried his palms in finishing up ‘intellectual’ assaults on Shekhar Gupta. Criticising Shekhar Gupta’s journalism, Saral Patel mentioned that it was simple to criticise the opposition, nonetheless, it was neither wholesome for democracy nor journalism if somebody is focussed on senseless bashing the opposition greater than holding the federal government accountable.
The Congress chief referred to the type of Shekhar Gupta’s journalism as “D”. However, OpIndia couldn’t decipher Saral Patel’s cryptic insult.

Sanghamitra, one other Congress supporter too admonished Shekar Gupta for criticising Rahul Gandhi. The social media person mentioned the journalists like Gupta, who had been allegedly requested to bend, are actually crawling in entrance of the federal government. The article written by Shekhar Gupta was itself proof for that truth, she mentioned.

Sonali Ranade, a Congress social gathering troll, was fast to focus on Shekhar Gupta for talking in opposition to the Congress social gathering and its management. Sonali Ranade, who Shekhar Gupta gave a platform up to now, didn’t let go of her former boss and mentioned that it was typical of Gupta to vent his ire on Rahul Gandhi for what the Modi authorities did to him.

Swati Chaturvedi, a troll masquerading as a journalist who typically empathises with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress social gathering, was not comfortable about Shekhar Gupta’s tackle the Congress social gathering. Targeting Shekhar Gupta not directly, she mentioned it was simple to focus on Rahul Gandhi and be mum Modi’s assault on democracy.
She mentioned that the most recent try by Shekhar Gupta to assault Rahul Gandhi was his try to guard the actual property reasonably than the fourth property, i.e. media.

Another Congress supporter Laly Randolf mentioned that she by no means imagined Shekhar Gupta to be such a ‘bootlicker’. She mentioned that she knew him to be doing a disservice to journalism, however downgrading himself to this extent of dropping soul is pitiful, she mentioned.

In their hurry to assault Shekhar Gupta for placing out his opinion on the state of Congress social gathering, the Congress social gathering leaders and its ecosystem scored a self objective by proving Shekhar Gupta proper. Gupta, who had claimed that it’s fearful nowadays to talk on the Congress social gathering as it might result in private assaults on him, turned out to be proper because the Congress ecosystem pounced on him only a few hours after his present was revealed.
Ironically, the Congress social gathering proved that it doesn’t entertain any criticism or reveals tolerance to the views of its personal ‘journalists’ by launching a battle in opposition to Shekhar Gupta.