‘Tapasvi vs Pujari’ remark by Rahul Gandhi is signalling to his secular-liberal ecosystem: This is how

This is a rustic of Tapasvi, not Pujaris – is the most recent gem from Rahul Gandhi, who’s being relaunched for the umpteenth time by his occasion and a pleasant ecosystem. In his newest avatar, Rahul Gandhi has come up as a 52-year-old younger man who doesn’t really feel chilly within the unforgiving Delhi winters, however who can be sufficiently old to sport a graying lengthy beard, dropping pearls of knowledge.

While one can chuckle off this newest gem of Rahul Gandhi – Tapasvi vs Pujari – as being one other sentence whose true that means solely Rahul Gandhi or God is aware of, it’s not one thing the Congress scion has stated with out consideration. In reality, he hardly says something with out considering issues by. That may come throughout as a shock to most individuals who mock him, however that’s the reality. He thinks, albeit his considering course of is screwed, however he thinks. He thinks as a result of his advisers feed him with issues to consider.

And his advisers are a motley bunch of individuals – of us handed out of JNU who have been card-carrying communists, individuals like Sudheendra Kulkarni (the Pakistan-loving man who was with Atal Bihari Vajpayee as soon as and who initially known as Rahul Gandhi a ‘tapasvi’) individuals like Yogendra Yadav (the farmer, the psephologist, the economist, the sociologist, the ichhadhaari skilled), and clearly Congress loyalists who will do something for the household, say somebody like Digvijaya Singh.

There is one factor widespread amongst all such of us – all of them consider that to be seen as a hero, RSS must be proven as a villain. Now it doesn’t matter to them in any respect what RSS truly thinks or believes in, however they’ve painted a villainous picture of RSS that they need to preserve and proclaim to struggle that picture. The RSS of their dream is ‘Brahminical’, which, once more, as per their very own definition, means anti-lower caste, anti-woman, anti-<insert any woke buzzword>.

Essentially, the grand evil is Brahminism, which they additional go on to assert, inaccurately as all the time, is the idea of “Hindutva”. That’s why for a very long time now, Rahul Gandhi has been spouting these “Gandhi vs Godse” and “Hinduism vs Hindutva” buzzwords in his personal imperfect philosophical type. That is what he thinks, as a result of his advisers have been asking him to consider all this, however can’t specific, for causes price not commenting upon.

Now there may be sufficient literature that was written underneath the patronship of the British, after which just lately too aligning it with the Critical Race Theory of the West, which defines Brahminism because the worst potential evil, and the identical is then used to assault Hinduism. The latter is by design. That was all the time the unique objective – to complete off Hinduism with out utilizing swords – a potent software the British designed, in distinction with the methods employed by Islamic invaders. This software is so potent that even the RSS and BJP leaders find yourself utilizing a few of them to look socially superior and liberal.

The use of that software was additionally witnessed through the so-called “Dismantling Global Hindutva” convention just lately. The organizers saved mendacity that the occasion was not in opposition to Hinduism or Hindus and dismissed all criticism of them being anti-Hindu. But when the occasion did happen, nearly all of them talked about why Hinduism is an issue certainly. In their hearts, the proponents of this concept know that their actual goal is Hinduism, however they use code phrases like “Hindutva” and “Brahminism” to idiot the gullible Hindus.

While developing with such phrase salads to cover their hate for Hinduism, one hate they will’t conceal is the hate for Brahmins. While some too-clever-by-half of us attempt to give you the sham that “we are not against Brahmins but Brahminism”, others proudly use the anti-Brahmin hate as garnishing. Hate in opposition to Brahmins is blatant and mainstream, even ‘intellectualized’. One of the ugliest manifestations of the identical is seen in Dravidian politics in Tamil Nadu, however some variant of it’s seen in nearly each a part of India.

In locations or conditions the place you’ll be able to’t explicitly specific your hate in opposition to Brahmins – or the ‘priestly class as the history books would say – the least that is expected from you by this “anti-RSS” “anti-caste” “anti-Brahminical” lobby is that you shouldn’t do or say something that appears like giving respect or authority to the Brahmins. You are certainly going to be “cancelled” for doing that. Rahul Gandhi was faltering on this side by prostrating at temples, attending pujas solemnized by Brahmins, accepting blessings from them et al.

And that’s why Rahul Gandhi has now stated India isn’t a rustic of “pujaris” – the clergymen, the Brahmins – as a soft-signalling to his ecosystem. It is to save lots of himself from being cancelled. “Dude, see, while I might move around in rudraksha mala around my neck and tripund on my forehead, I’m with you, I’m with your anti-Brahminism project. Don’t doubt me” – that’s what Rahul Gandhi is saying.

Recently in an interview with YouTuber Ajit Anjum, JNU-student-turned-revolutionary-turned-Congress-leader Kanhaiya Kumar tried to argue the identical. “Rahul Gandhi goes to temples because people go to temples,” he defined when requested why Rahul Gandhi was doing one thing that’s related to “Hindu politics” and by extension “communal politics” within the secular-liberal lexicon.

Kanhaiya Kumar tried his finest to sign to the secular-liberal ecosystem that Rahul Gandhi has not junked their anti-Brahminical agenda even when he’s seen doing “Hindu things”. That in his coronary heart, he doesn’t actually consider in all this stuff. Rahul Gandhi has finished the identical himself now by developing along with his Tapasvi vs Pujari assertion. The assertion is sensible as a result of the common Hindu continues to be fooled by the “Hindutva vs Hinduism” smokescreen as a result of will probably be introduced in the identical breath by occasion of us.

It can be straightforward for the backroom movers and shakers in Congress to persuade this secular-liberal ecosystem to not be spooked by Rahul Gandhi doing temple runs and quoting Bhagwad Gita. Also, there’s a priority in Indira Gandhi. Indira was very Hindu in her look, sporting rudraksha mala, and endeavor occasions like her well-known puja at Sringeri Math. She was the truth is abused as ‘Baaman’ (Brahmin) woman by Bhindranwale through the Punjab disaster. While all that was taking place, all instructional and cultural establishments have been full of leftists underneath her premiership.

“Those were the best days of my life,” a leftist would coon enthusiastic about summer season of 69, when Indira Gandhi broke away her personal occasion and entered right into a Faustian cut price with the communists. “I can bring you back those achche din” Rahul Gandhi is promising that ecosystem now.