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2010-09-21 16:13:08 UTC
Hate does not work
Editorial
The Pioneer
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
It's time Congress realised this truth
The Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in the Gujarat Assembly
byelection in Kathal constituency is a resounding slap in the face of
the Congress that has stepped up its motivated campaign of slander
and worse against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the party after
the CBI framed and arrested former Minister of State for Home Amit
Shah in the alleged Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. The Congress may
now seek to downplay the election outcome as being 'unrepresentative'
of the political mood in the State as a whole and, therefore,
inconsequential, but it cannot ignore the fact that it has lost this
seat for the first time in 50 years, and that too with a spectacular
margin of more than 21,000 votes. Nor can the party pretend to gloss
over the fact that Kathal is in central Gujarat, a region which has
generally voted for Congress in recent times, or that Muslims voted
for the BJP in large numbers. The huge defeat can only be attributed
to the alienation of large sections of the population, including
Muslims, from the Congress. The results are a rejection of the hate
politics the Congress has unleashed against Mr Modi, and the party's
constant attempt to keep communal fires burning even as the Chief
Minister focuses on development and rapid progress. The BJP has been
rightly raising the issue of Mr Amit Shah being hounded by the CBI,
clearly on the instructions of the Congress-led Union Government --
as much is evident from the agency's prejudiced investigations and
selective leaks to media. The election outcome shows that the people
of Gujarat are not impressed by the Congress's politics of vendetta
and vindictive attitude towards Mr Modi; they are beginning to tire
of it.
Since the setback for the Congress comes ahead of crucial civic
elections in the State in October, the party should feel worried. The
last big win the Congress has had in Gujarat was during the 2001
municipal elections; since then, it has been a downswing all along.
Despite its vitriolic attacks on Mr Modi and efforts to discredit
him, the Congress has miserably failed to mobilise opinion in its
favour. Yet, despite the repeated electoral setbacks the Congress has
suffered since 2002, it has been -- and continues to remain --
reluctant to abandon its 'Hate Modi' campaign, scripted by 'secular'
jholawallahs who neither contest elections nor are accountable to the
people. Their larger-than-life image propagated by a biased media and
their proximity to certain leaders in the Congress allows them the
opportunity to decide for the party what should it be its political
line in Gujarat. That apart, there's an important lesson for
everybody to be learned from successive election results in Gujarat:
The people of this State have moved on rather than be shackled by
events of the past. Funnily though, others seem to be trapped in the
past and are reluctant to let Gujarat surge ahead.
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Editorial
The Pioneer
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
It's time Congress realised this truth
The Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in the Gujarat Assembly
byelection in Kathal constituency is a resounding slap in the face of
the Congress that has stepped up its motivated campaign of slander
and worse against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the party after
the CBI framed and arrested former Minister of State for Home Amit
Shah in the alleged Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. The Congress may
now seek to downplay the election outcome as being 'unrepresentative'
of the political mood in the State as a whole and, therefore,
inconsequential, but it cannot ignore the fact that it has lost this
seat for the first time in 50 years, and that too with a spectacular
margin of more than 21,000 votes. Nor can the party pretend to gloss
over the fact that Kathal is in central Gujarat, a region which has
generally voted for Congress in recent times, or that Muslims voted
for the BJP in large numbers. The huge defeat can only be attributed
to the alienation of large sections of the population, including
Muslims, from the Congress. The results are a rejection of the hate
politics the Congress has unleashed against Mr Modi, and the party's
constant attempt to keep communal fires burning even as the Chief
Minister focuses on development and rapid progress. The BJP has been
rightly raising the issue of Mr Amit Shah being hounded by the CBI,
clearly on the instructions of the Congress-led Union Government --
as much is evident from the agency's prejudiced investigations and
selective leaks to media. The election outcome shows that the people
of Gujarat are not impressed by the Congress's politics of vendetta
and vindictive attitude towards Mr Modi; they are beginning to tire
of it.
Since the setback for the Congress comes ahead of crucial civic
elections in the State in October, the party should feel worried. The
last big win the Congress has had in Gujarat was during the 2001
municipal elections; since then, it has been a downswing all along.
Despite its vitriolic attacks on Mr Modi and efforts to discredit
him, the Congress has miserably failed to mobilise opinion in its
favour. Yet, despite the repeated electoral setbacks the Congress has
suffered since 2002, it has been -- and continues to remain --
reluctant to abandon its 'Hate Modi' campaign, scripted by 'secular'
jholawallahs who neither contest elections nor are accountable to the
people. Their larger-than-life image propagated by a biased media and
their proximity to certain leaders in the Congress allows them the
opportunity to decide for the party what should it be its political
line in Gujarat. That apart, there's an important lesson for
everybody to be learned from successive election results in Gujarat:
The people of this State have moved on rather than be shackled by
events of the past. Funnily though, others seem to be trapped in the
past and are reluctant to let Gujarat surge ahead.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/284472/Hate-does-not-work.html
More at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational
purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post may not
have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the
poster. The contents are protected by copyright law and the exemption for
fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely not be read,
considered or answered if it does not contain your full legal name, current
e-mail and postal addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views expressed by others are
not necessarily those of the poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted material the use of
which may or may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright
owner. This material is being made available in efforts to advance the
understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic,
democratic, scientific, social, and cultural, etc., issues. It is believed
that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as
provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title
17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without
profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included
information for research, comment, discussion and educational purposes by
subscribing to USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more information
go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article for purposes of
your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the
copyright owner.
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