The Hindu ties itself up in knots making an attempt to fan-boy on Rahul Gandhi for Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir

Just a few days again, we printed a detailed article on how The Hindu’s protection of the Bharat Jodo Yatra is a good case examine of learn how to be extra loyal than the King! The article was written with the belief that The Hindu is completed with the protection of the BJ Yatra. However, The Hindu has shredded that assumption to items. Not absolutely content material with how they praised Rahul Gandhi, they publish this opinion on Feb. thirteenth. 

Article by The Hindu

The phrase “catharsis” means “the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.” The premise of the article is that Kashmiris have embraced the BJ Yatra like by no means earlier than and subsequently – “In the groundswell of support for Rahul Gandhi, there is a message for Delhi”.

But what’s the message for Delhi? We have been instructed that “By walking with Mr Gandhi, Kashmiris sent out the political message that they believe in principles such as democracy, plurality, civility and a detestation for hate politics, despite the popular depiction of them as Islamists.” 

That is a glowing description of those that walked with Rahul Gandhi. Those who walked apparently believed in sure rules “despite the popular depiction of them as Islamists”. Now, why would that be the favored depiction? The creator himself supplies a solution for this, inadvertently, in one other part of his article.

We are instructed that “There has been such a groundswell of support only during militants’ funerals or separatist leaders’ speeches in south Kashmir.” Whoa! Now, whoa! In his try to worship Rahul Gandhi, have the creator and the newspaper truly ended up demonising him additional? Did they only evaluate the group that joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra to the group that used to hitch the militants’ funerals or separatist leaders’ speeches? 

“Separatist leaders’ speeches” are crammed with, properly, separatism. Separatism is the precise reverse of “Jodo”. Why then does a crowd that desires to separate, be a part of a yatra that claims to unify? How does the creator need the reader to know this hypocritical argument? 

Attending militants’ funerals basically means help for terrorism. It’s not as if folks simply walked together with the lifeless our bodies in these funeral processions. Anti-India slogans have been raised throughout these funerals. Now, do you perceive why the “popular depiction of them as Islamists”? If you hail separatism and mourn terrorists, why then would the world consider you as a citizen who has “detestation for hate politics”? Do the creator and the paper actually assume that their readers are so gullible, that they’ll write something and get away with it? Or is the creator (and the paper) saying that the identical crowd that embraced separatism has now embraced Bharat Jodo? And in that case, shouldn’t the credit score go to Modi and never Rahul?!

Since the creator believes so strongly that Rahul Gandhi gained huge reputation in Kashmir, he tells us that this help is as a result of “Mr. Gandhi seems to have been a medium of catharsis for Kashmiris, who have stopped expressing themselves since 2019 in the face of many clampdowns.”

Stopped expressing themselves? Here are three reviews from The Hindu itself, by the identical creator – on how Kashmiris’ have embraced their newfound freedom; how they’re changing into affluent; on how they’re lastly attending to even watch motion pictures in theatres after 23 years (You can ignore the “dark hall” remark – Kashmiris couldn’t even go to theatres and watch motion pictures for 23 years!). 

Article by The Hindu

Are all of those not methods of expressing themselves, of how they’ve embraced the brand new state of affairs? Or in keeping with the creator, is the one solution to categorical themselves by mourning terrorists and embracing separatists? 

We are instructed that Rahul Gandhi got here to Kashmir in August 2021 and “Barely anyone remembers the statements he made that year.” Well, can you actually blame the folks for this? His speeches have at all times remained the identical ever since he entered politics in 2004! However, why did the creator deliver this up? Because he now tells us that the speech, he gave in January 2023 as a part of the BJ Yatra is completely different from the speech he gave in August 2021. How? “this time, his speech from the Sher-i-Kashmir Cricket Stadium was live-streamed on social media.” I used to be studying additional to see if any stats might be offered on viewership or exercise on SM platforms. Nothing is written. The creator bluntly ends the assertion there! The solely completely different factor from 2021 to 2023 was {that a} speech was live-streamed and subsequently it is a sign of being widespread! 

After such a mumbling but a glowing tribute to Rahul Gandhi, are you able to guess how the creator ends the article? “All the political pundits will agree that Mr. Gandhi’s sudden and rare popularity in Kashmir may not necessarily translate into any upswing in votes for him if elections were to be held in the region.”

The already confused reader will now maybe wish to tear up the paper in frustration! The excessive ranges of worshipping that the creator exhibited on this article will even put some (p)sycophants within the Congress get together additionally to disgrace. We are instructed that “The eyes of many women welled up with tears on seeing him.” We have been additionally instructed that individuals males stopped their automobiles and got here and hugged him. In reality, these factors are repeated twice within the article, lest we overlook! If ladies cried and males hugged him on a scale that was by no means seen earlier than, why then wouldn’t they vote for him? After all, we have been instructed that they strongly imagine within the “principles of democracy”!