By D N Singh
Repeating the issue may sound like glossing the obvious but no way out to instill a will for those in power still in a state of slumber of eminence
Rajdharma was the keynote of the debate in the No confidence motion that the Congress did pilot in the Parliament. It reminisces the on stage whisper to Modi by former PM, legendary politician Atal Behary Vajpayee soon after 2002 riots in Gujarat.
Likewise the salient feature of the first day of the No Confidence Motion debate in the Lok Sabha was the manner in which a few Opposition MPs invoked former Prime Minister and BJP icon Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
DMK MP T R Balu left an emotional note who reportedly recalled what Vajpayee stood behind ‘Rajdharma’, “…but today we cannot stand behind them when women were striped and paraded naked”. That was a repeat stunner for the NDA who still remain far from any unanimous stance on Manipur which has touched the global nerves already.
Similarly launching a scathing attack on the PM Narendra Modi it was said why the silence on the violence in Manipur, the Opposition recalled Vajpayee’s advice to Modi when the latter was the CM of Gujarat in 2002.
Why the incumbent CM Biren Singh wallowing wax despite all that is also a big question.
Frankly, the Indian readers must be jinxed by the repetitive mention of the sentences on the silence let alone any concrete way forward to placate the ruffled psyche of the Manipur people who have already taken the issue to the International human rights arena.
A big, big moral reminder
“During the 2002 Gujarat riots, then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji visited the state. He visited refugee camps in Gujarat too. But when Manipur was burning, PM Modi was busy campaigning for elections in Karnataka,” Gogoi reportedly underscored.
Drawing a stark comparison it was stated that why this shocking gap of over 80 days mayhem vs just a 30 seconds sound-byte of the PM
“Why did he (PM Modi) take about 80 days to speak on Manipur and when he did, why did he speak only for 30 seconds?
Post that nothing came up from the treasury bench neither from the NDA top echelons. Does it amount to a kind of “insensitivity” on the part of the NDA? The PM faces this moral poser but yet silent.
At a time the people there at the ground scream their hearts out and panting for breath of normalcy the NDA alleged that the PM was pleading for votes in Karnataka! This a terrible deviation from the word ‘nationalism’, perhaps.
