By D N Singh
What stops Modi from Manipur visit, it is a million dollar question the critics have posed and the opposition hammering at the issue.
But in a marked departure from that the PM, as if, on a run up to the 2024 Lok sabha polls has started a concerted attack on the new conglomeration called INDIA.
As a political leader he has every right to indulge in any such on diatribes as any leader on the other side of the fence.
But as a PM, who often seems and accepted so by all, above any trivial recourse in attack without the use of terminologies of unsavory taste is a different matter.
Because even political pundits plead that language often corrupts politics and debase the political image of a nation.
Coming, as it did, from the Prime Minister a straight diabolic fired at the opposition and the new conglomeration ‘INDIA’ and the Congress in particular, calling them as ‘urban Naxals’ostensibly does not behoove his position, perhaps.
When any such attacks are made from a Prime Minister it postulates the caution in language a notch higher and also assumed that he or she be far from being personal in their attacks.
Be it the principal opposition, the Congress or any other outfit but any barb aimed at them or at any individual leader is always expected to be premised on a refined tenor.
In earlier few occasions it had been noticed that PM Modi very getting personal like ‘Didi, Oh! didi’ the rants or ‘nind ki goli khar kar sona” aimed at the Gandhi family, and now calling the INDIA block a cluster of corrupt people, somehow was not what was expected from the top most political executive of a nation.
Regardless of the alleged departure of the Congress from being among the common mass, their decades long rule cannot be straight away dubbed as entirely fruitless.
Prime Minister Modi made these allegations while addressing a mammoth gathering of BJP booth workers – the event organised by the state unit called – ‘Karyakarta Mahakumbh’ at Bhopal’s Jamboree Maidan.
During his long speech, PM Modi launched a scathing attack on the grand-old party and levelled charges against it.
He questioned why Congress could not even build toilets during its long years of rule?
“The Congress leaders are born with a silver spoon so how will they feel the pain of the poor?”, he asked.
Pain of the poor is still there today where it was few decades back, when the rich get richer and the poor being more poorer.
‘Roti, kapda makan’ getting so sloganeering in essence that India being on the moon or near the Sun cannot hide the inner wounds of people.
Let’s leave apart the politics and the ‘tu-tu,mein-main’ of the day, more we near to the electoral climate language takes new dips but for a PM it has to be within a limit that cannot be seen at par with other leaders.
Our civilization is decadent and our language – so the argument runs – must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.
In an oblique assault against erstwhile Congress President Rahul Gandhi and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged on Monday that the lives of the indigent simply bear no meaning for leaders born with silver spoons in their mouths.
What about 4k odd legislators from several parties? Their assets can match the annual budget allocation of all the three North east states! Were they all born with silver spoons in their mouth? NO!
They have amassed wealth brazenly running down all the ethics in the books of politics. Even in the party Modi leads.
In nut shell, politics becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
If poverty is an alleged adventure tourism for some leaders, then there were events like adventurism by Modi with Bear Grylls in the woods made into an episode, where dozens of media cameras blazing was no less than a humongous extravaganza costing the peoples’ exchequer.
