BJP and Its Election Winning Mantra

BJP is winning elections not because of anti-incumbency or development.

Neither do I believe that EVMs are being hacked.

There is something, which is not obvious and is elusive to common perception.

And that is- BJP is winning because of Congress.

There were (and are) sangh affiliated men in Congress, since the time of its inception.

Okay, the sangh was created 40 years after formation of Congress, but the sangh ideology was there even before its formal inception.

What makes me say so?

Look at 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

BJP won with a massive majority of 282 seats.

How many were ex-Congressmen in this?

116 of them.

Take the recent Tripura elections.

BJP got 1.7% votes in 2013 elections.

It jumped to 41.4% this year. (see chart)

The Left suffered a loss of just 3.4%.

The 35% gain in vote share that BJP got was due to Congress alone.

When the BJP announced its list of candidates for 44 of 51 seats,

ALL of THEM were Ex-Congressmen.

So there were BJP moles in Congress since long.

It’s not that only Congress is infected, other parties too have such moles in them.

There exist such moles in Left bastion as well, which speaks for their fast eroding presence.

These moles in the Left jeopardised the functioning of the UPA government during 2010-14.

So what lies ahead?

Answer is- Not much.

Even if Congress comes back to power in 2019, Democracy in India is already dead.

I say this because politics in India does not work the way it appears.

It’s not Congress Vs BJP.

“Congress mukt Bharat” was another jumla of BJP.

The reality is that-

BJP is Congress yukt today.

It wasn’t a Hindu-Muslim issue either.

That’s another pretext to grab power-political power.

When you have political power, you have the resources of the country at your command.

The capitalist class which spent roughly 30,000 crores rupees during 2014 Lok Sabha elections, wanted a party which caters to capitalist interest.

The policies of the present govt. during last 4 years testify the above statement.

Modi was a Hindutva mascot.

They needed him- for votes. For power.

Once the capture over the resources is complete, they would no longer need him.

Modi would be history in few years.

And if my prediction is correct- in few months.

He would be replaced by a more moderate face.

Coz communalism in the long run would be detrimental to the capitalist class’ interest.

They would need a person who has a moderate image.

Might be even Rahul Gandhi.

However, this political transformation would not be without a conflict with the Sangh.

But then, money rules.

In event of political change (i.e. Congress taking over BJP in 2019), the moles would change sides again.

Modi has paved the way for capitalist.

And if you expect that there would be a policy change if Congress comes to power in 2019.

You’re sadly mistaken.

Let me make it simpler through an equation: It’s merry go round.

Battle of Bhima Koregaon

The battle of Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 1818 has come to a narrative of Dalit assertion against Brahminical oppression; however it was a story of Indian Nationalism standing up to the colonial army of the East India Company.

Dr B.R. Ambedkar in one of his visits to Jaystambh said “Mahars had defeated Peshwas at Koregaon”.

One of the earliest accounts of the battle was published in 1885 in the three volume The Poona Gazetteer, exited by James Campbell, ICS, as part of series of Gazetteers of the Bombay Presidency.

The battle took place at the village of Koregaon situates 16 miles north-east of Pune, where 800 British troops faced 30000 Maratha on January 1, 1818. At that time Pune was under Colonel Charles Barton Burr, by the end of December he received intelligence that Bajirao intended to attack Poona. The second battalion of first regiment Bombay Native Infantry of 500 tank and file under Captain Francis Staunton, accompanied by 300 horse & 2 six pounder guns manned by 24 European Madras Artillerymen left Sirur for Poona at 8 pm on 31st December 1817. They came across the Peshwa’s army of 30000 Maratha Horse across the Bhima river. Fierce fighting followed and as night fell the attack lightened & British got water, by 9 pm the firing ceased & the Marathas left. Of the 834 British troops 275 were killed & the Marathas lost 600.

Abhiram Das- RamJanmabhoomi Uddharak- The Man Behind Manifestation of Lord Rama In Babri Masjid

22nd December 1949, can’t be forgotten or erased of, as a conspiracy that began with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 culminated in the execution of the Ayodhya strategy. Late that night, a little known sadhu, Abhiram Das, and his followers entered the Babri Masjid and planted an idol of Lord Rama inside it. It is known that Hindu Mahasabha had a role in placing the idol in the mosque, the larger plot and chain of events that led to that act of demolishing the masjid has never been subjected to rigorous scrutiny. 

Sometimes the buried narrative too can be of help in understanding the gory nature of any crime. There was a liaison between Mahasabhaites and the Congress- an association which Jawaharlal Nehru sought to break in his cautious battle with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and the right-wing forces. 

On the morning of 23rd December 1949, the FIR (First Information Report) registered by Ayodhya Police following the planting of the idol of Lord Rama in Babri Masjid on the night before had named Abhiram Das as prime accused. In course of time, many Hindu devotees had started calling him Ramjanmabhoomi Uddharak. The historical facts associated with the developments in 1949 had slipped into obscurity. The propaganda of Hindu Mahasabha and RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) – that the idol had never been planted and Lord Rama had manifested himself at his place of birth- had gained ground among devout Hindus largely delinking Abhiram Das from what he had done in the dark hours of that fateful night. 

Booklets and pamphlets written by Hindu communalists during the intervening period had flooded the shops of Ayodhya and had gone a long way in reinforcing the myth of ‘Divine Exercise’. For legal reasons, even those who had a role in that  surreptitious act found it convenient to let the myth grow and capture popular imagination. The laws, after all, could catch human conspiracies, but a divine exercise was beyond its reach. Yet, Abhiram Das continued to remain till his death Ramjanmabhoomi Uddharak or Uddharak Baba.

As the trespassers walked towards the mosque, the muezzin jumped out of darkness. Before the adversaries could discover his presence, he dashed straight towards Abhiram Das, a little known priest, the variability who was holding the idol in his hands and leading the group of intruders. He grabbed Abhiram Das from behind and almost snatched the idol from him. But the sadhu quickly freed himself and, together with his friends, retaliated fiercely. Heavy blows began raining from all directions. Soon, the muezzin realised that he was no match to the men and that he alone would not be able to stop them. 

At that time, many in Ayodhya, as in several other parts of country, had seen things differently. The communal frenzy which had accompanied the partition of India had intensely brutalised the atmosphere. No less important was the role played by organisations which saw the immediate aftermath of partition as an opportunity to derail the secular project of independent India. The conspirators associated with there’s organisations and the conspiracies they hatched had resulted in major national tragedies by the onset of 20 century. 

The surreptitious occupation of the Babri Masjid was an act planned by the same set of people who planned the brutal assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. It was a reflection of the same brutalised atmosphere that saw Gandhi being murdered. Neither the conspirators nor their underlying objectives were different. In both instances, the conspirators belonged to the Hindu Mahasabha leadership- some of the prime movers of the planting of the idol had been the prime accused in he Gandhi murder case- and their objective this time too was to destabilise the secular harmony and wrest the political centre stage from Congress by provoking large scale Hindu mobilisation in the name of Lord Rama. 

The planting of idol was an event so remarkable that it changed the political discourse in India though it continues to be treated as a localised crime committed spontaneously by a handful of local people led, of course by Abhiram Das, a local sadhu; Or the other propaganda as Lord Rama had manifested himself at the place of his birth. It was, however, a well planned conspiracy involving national, Provincial, and local level leaders of Hindu Mahasabha undertaken with the objective of reviving the party’s political fortune by destabilisng the secular atmosphere of India.