Guest guest Posted December 24, 2002 Report Share Posted December 24, 2002 How Congress dug its own grave in Gujarat By Raghavendra P Bellamkonda, USA Before the Godhra incident happen, the people of Gujarat were 50-50 on BJP-Congress, because people were equally satisfied/dissatisfied with BJP government. Congress had a better chance of winning more seats that before. After Godhra and Post Godhra retaliation Attacks, the Congress along with anti-Hindu left and castiest SP, RJD started a totally one sided attack blaming entire Hindu community. Please note this is first major election where Sonia's foriegn origin was not an issue and people also don't had much objection. Still Congress lost a golden chance due to its partisan approach. Media also targetted Modi and BJP only for attack on minorities especially at the time Pakistani Islamic Terrorists attacked Hindu temples and killed thousands of Indians in Kashmir. Added to that Sonia and Musharraf started speaking in same tone on Gujarat on international fora. Musharraf is a crooked military ruler of Pakistan who don't have a diplomatic decency, so one can understand his meaningless involvement in internal affairs of India. But what Sonia did was much more harmful than that. She, the opposition leader of Indian Republic, disgraced India, Gujarat and people of Gujarat at Islamic Study Center at Oxford, London organised by Al-qaeda supporters. People of Gujarat felt She NOT only dragged Indian internal matter out to world, but ruined the Gaurav of Gujarat. Needless to say the venue was ill-placed. People of Gujarat are very outraged on this. When the election come to final days, Congress employed Slander Hindu biters like Laloo and left parties. This further diminished Congress support among soft or simple Hindus. Then Congress tried Ram vilas Paswan who is undoubtedly a popular Dalit leader. But people didn't trust him, because he left the BJP association only when he was denied the prominent ministry in NDA government. Till that time he has no objections with the "Communal BJP". The congress leadered by Shakar Singh Vaghela then tried Caste Card to beat Hindutva. One more wrong and failed trick. People of Gujarat were never divided on the basis of caste and they know the disastrous effects of Caste politics which are in full effect in Bihar and semi effect in other northern states. While Bihar has become full Jungle Raj, the other northern states also following it(except Himachal, Delhi, Rajastan). And finally, the final big blunder of Congress to get fatwa in favor of it by Muslim religious leaders to vote for Congress. This tempted Hindus to vote exactly opposite to that and thus Modi's victory with much less help by VHP. Congess dug its own grave in Gujarat. And it will happen whereever Congress folows such kind of strategy. At the time when every state of India is vulnerable to Pakistani Islamic terrorists, biting Hindus without proper justification will yield disastuous results for any party. If the Congress followed neutral and non-partisan approach after Godhra, the results might have been different. Modi and BJP are indebted to Congress, Musharraf and leftist "secular" media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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