A political celebration is doomed when it does not gain from its previous errors. But, the Congress continues to utilize the usual method of making whatever about Narendra Modi personal as a method to combat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in every election of significance.
It’s absurd that the age-old grand old celebration stops working to acknowledge that this method of personal attacks has no electoral worth and does not help the Congress in winning the assistance of individuals.
Modi understands the video game effectively and utilizes such insults to the hilt to gather the compassion of the citizens like he did when Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry said: “Modi ko uski aukat dikha denge (Will show Modi his place)” while launching the celebration’s Gujarat manifesto last November.
Without losing whenever, Modi played the victim card and excited feelings of the citizens in his homestate. “The Congress says, ‘Modi ko uski aukat dikha denge’,” he said.
“You all (Congress leaders) are from royal families but I am a sevak (a servant).” With folded hands, he said, “I have no aukat (status). Sevaks have no aukat.”
It played into the theory that Gujarati pride had actually been hurt and should for that reason be avenged. The BJP made a spectacular return.
Ahead of the high-stakes Karnataka election, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday compared Modi to a toxic snake.
The BJP stroked in instantly and knocked the “slanderous” remark stating it showed the “mentality” of the primary Opposition celebration in the state.
Reacting to Kharge’s remark, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said Kharge’s declaration was “worse than the one given by Sonia Gandhi. “Congress made Mallikarjun Kharge the party president but nobody considers him that, so he thought of giving a statement which is worse than that given by Sonia Gandhi.” Thakur was describing the UPA chairperson’s notorious ‘maut ka saudagar’ (merchant of death) remark on Modi.
BJP leader and Union minister Shobha Karandlaje questioned to what level Congress will stoop in order to target the Prime Minister. “What does he (Kharge) want to tell the world? PM Narendra Modi is the PM of our country and the whole world respects him and using such language for the PM shows the level to which the Congress has stooped. We want him (Kharge) to apologise to the country,” she said.
Kharge, who made the remarks at Kalaburagi in Karnataka, later on provided an information stating his remark wasn’t directed at Prime Minister Modi however at the BJP and its “divisive” ideology.
In a tweet, Kharge said, “BJP’s ideology is divisive, hostile and full of hatred and prejudice towards the poor and Dalits. I discussed the politics of hatred and malice. My statement was neither for PM Modi personally nor for any other person.”
There are numerous circumstances of the Congress taking a swipe at PM Modi, and the BJP making use of it throughout elections.
Maut ka saudagar
Modi might have lost the the Gujarat elections in 2007 had the then Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s remark, calling him “Maut Ka Saudagar” (merchant of death), not turned things around. Modi, who was then the Chief Minister of Gujarat, utilized Gandhi’s remark to his benefit, and shot back stating Congress was attempting to save the criminals who assaulted Parliament.
Chaiwala
In 2017, when Modi was the prime ministerial face of the BJP, Mani Shankar Aiyar’s ‘Chaiwala’ jibe painted the Congress as anti-poor who had actually insulted poor Gujaratis. Claiming that Modi might never ever end up being prime minister of India, Aiyar said: “He could sell tea at a Congress conclave,” which was then underway. The ‘Chai-wala’ jibe assisted Modi task himself as somebody from a simple background and continues to drive his appeal.
It was a historical election triumph for Modi’s BJP that changed the political landscape of the world’s biggest democracy with the saffron celebration winning 282 Lok Sabha seats while the Congress setting its worst tally ever of 44.
Neech Aadmi
Aiyar, a serial transgressor, went on to call Modi ‘neech’, somebody who comes from a lower caste, in the run-up to the 2017 Gujarat elections. Modi played the victim card and spun Aiyar’s remark into a casteist slur. The groundswell altered the story of Patidar agitation in 2017 surveys and catapulted BJP to power once again with 99 seats.
Chowkidar Chor Hai
Throughout the 2019 survey campaign, Rahul Gandhi utilized the motto ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai’ to advise individuals of all the unkept survey pledges of 2014 and shatter the image of Modi as being incorruptible in view of demonetisation and the Rafale rip-off.
Modi once again reversed the motto to his benefit. Modi introduced the ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign with BJP leaders and ministers utilizing the chowkidar prefix on their twitter manages. The BJP won a landslide triumph with a required of 353 seats in Lok Sabha, its greatest tally ever.
It’s clear that the BJP understands how to make use of the smallest of their challenger’s errors to the optimum. This time will be no various, and Kharge’s remark has already put the Congress on the defensive.
