Rahul Gandhi and his ‘Hinduism vs Hindutva’ jibes: The Duryodhana in borrowed ‘Kavach’

Mahabharatha isn’t just one in every of India’s oldest epics however it is usually a treasure trove of life classes that apply to this present day and maybe without end. Running alongside the principle theme it has numerous tales and tales inside tales. 
One attention-grabbing incident within the nice conflict between Pandavas and Kauravas is that of Duryodhana going to battle sporting his guru Dronacharya’s physique armour (kavacha). Rajaji thought-about it so vital, he devoted a small chapter to it in his Tamil translation of the good epic. His work is a basic for all occasions, as a lot as the unique itself is. It’s additionally accessible in English.
In truth, one lesson that comes out repeatedly in Mahabharata is having a wholesome respect to your rival. Never underestimate him. Krishna profusely praises many Kaurava warriors, together with Duryodhana for his or her valour, at the same time as he condemns their actions. He warns Arjuna too that day. Anyway, with that borrowed protect, Arjuna’s arrows initially don’t have any affect and Krishna himself is flummoxed. But Arjuna quickly realizes the reality. He tells Krishna: “This man is wearing someone else’s body armour like a cattle carrying the load”. And understanding the secrets and techniques of that protect, he quickly finds a method to ship Duryodhana packing.
Looking at Rahul Gandhi’s foolish assaults on Hindutva raises a query – is he combating on borrowed armour?
Left pogrom on Hindu religion
Left clearly sees our perception in Sanatana dharma as a key stumbling block. If you take a look at world historical past, they’ve managed to return to energy in Christian, Buddhist and surprisingly even Islamic international locations (Afghanistan was one) and maintain on to that energy by way of their typical violence for many years. But they’ve failed massive time in India – each through bullets and ballots. Reason? Inherently democratic and extremely resilient Hindu religion that abhors ideology of mass murderers. Even if a lot of communism’s violent historical past has been stored out of our historical past books by its eminent historian cabal. 
Poorly camouflaged left assaults on Hinduism, handed off in numerous methods as scientific thought, pro-subaltern and many others., has by now been utterly unmasked. Slowly it’s turning into apparent even to non-BJP Hindus that nothing wanting a full-fledged Pol Potist pogrom is being waged towards the Hindu religion. If rapist savagery and mass murders are favoured weapons of left realized from their nice gurus like Mao, Stalin, Kim and others, this battle is waged equally within the civil area. Fake intellectuals, pseudo-historians and the so-called “civil” society are warriors on this “throw everything including the kitchen sink” assault. This requires a completely completely different response – one thing pro-Hindu forces are studying solely now, that too slowly. I’ve extra to say on that in a future article.
As talked about earlier, one key weapon has been the co-option of the dynasty. It introduced energy, money move and entry to state funds in addition to management of key establishments to make use of on this conflict. But this got here with a giant caveat. Indira Gandhi and even MMS had been too intelligent to be manipulated. Rajiv by no means wanted them in his transient reign. In truth, Mrs Gandhi ended up utilizing the left every time it suited her agenda and courted RSS when that was extra helpful. Dr Singh, at the same time as he praised the left’s “patriotism” (maybe a “father not hiding in the barn” kind comment) knew when to inform them to take a hike as he did after the nuke deal. He noticed to it that UPA2 wanted them lots much less.
In Rahul Gandhi although, the left sees a as soon as in a lifetime alternative. I’ve not heard of anybody credible accusing Rahulji of being too intelligent. You don’t want forwarded Whatsapp jokes to grasp that. But he’s superb for the left. They ought to really feel lots safer coping with him.
So clearly, through Kanhaiya and different JNU fringe left now in Congress make use of (or is it deputation?), Rahul Gandhi is being advised, on the ache of shedding the assist of the ecosystem and Gurugram fashion outsourced shared providers centres, to assault Hindutva on each day foundation. Left’s world linkages with the Hindu phobic “woke” crowd and the media muscle that it brings add a robust drive multiplier that Rahul can in poor health afford to lose. While there are some household serfs in academia and media that aren’t leftist by conviction, they too depend upon the left ecosystem for profession development and therefore received’t brazenly problem the get together line.
And he’s attempting. He has not a lot selection – he’s not within the class of Akhilesh or Tejaswi Yadav who can get their fingers soiled and leap into the fray in addition to suppose up homegrown methods. 
Duryodhana’s borrowed kavacha
The drawback is Rahul Gandhi isn’t just a gaffe-prone poor communicator, with poor command of Hindi. He probably merely doesn’t care a lot for the message itself. All he desires is the PM chair that he and his Momma suppose belongs to him as a birthright and has been usurped illegally by rank outsider Modi. His sister Priyanka might be even much less satisfied. She has what it takes – her grandma’s face – as household courtiers in media aka “speaking truth to power journalists” inform us. You see, that was greater than sufficient when the “Idea of India” was ruling supreme. Damaad-ji has not signed any profitable land offers in years regardless of his well-earned status for locating such offers in the course of the UPA period. Does anything matter?
That will in all probability clarify his Hindu vs Hindutva assaults in addition to his frequent journeys to temples and different complicated steps. Confusing as a result of even political consultants don’t know what to learn from it! Shiv Sena, not keen to give up Hindutva votes to its ex-ally, thought he was referring to “Hindu rule” and welcomed it, whereas Owaisi saheb got here to the identical conclusion and opposed it! The left ecosystem was delighted, assumed he was taking up BJP on their dwelling turf and welcomed it with Wire promptly popping out with OpEd singing his reward! Rahul has talked about Hindutva and its icons in different conditions too. His “my name is not Savarkar” comment is one other instance. Of course, his nice gramps Motilalji signed a letter of obedience to launch his son Jawaharlal from a really cozy jail, that too after hardly a couple of days. But no eminent historian goes to level that out not in the event that they don’t need their Wiki pages vandalised.
So right here is our Prince like Duryodhana going round in another person’s armour hoping to make use of that to defeat Modi. 
The different chance
Of course, your entire premise of this text could possibly be improper – Rahul is just not flying on a false flag however is a leftist absolutely offered on the JNU/Alimuddin agendas. That solely makes it a lot worse for India and its future however vacates the centrist area that’s now free for anybody, together with our beloved Yugpurush and even BJP to occupy. I want, for India’s sake, they do. But it additionally makes it much more vital for voters to acknowledge and reject Rahul and what he stands for.
Either approach, it’s as much as Modi and BJP to verify the lesson he learns will resonate loudly not only for him however for all future dynasts tempted by the left’s goodie luggage – that anti-Hindu politics, nonetheless properly disguised, or coated up in fake mental verbiage, is not going to fetch you the chair. On the opposite, it can flip off Hindus who don’t have anything towards Muslims or Christians however have grow to be absolutely “woke” to the left’s anti-Hindu pogrom.
Let us watch the area!