The inevitability is
already there. After mid May it is very likely a man, who acts, speaks and
appears like a criminal, will head the largest democracy in the world. Although
he tried hard to camouflage his rabidity under a cloak of so called progress
and development but his dagger keeps slipping out into the open. Then his
incorrigible henchmen are always there to rain on his parade with one telling
his opponents to migrate to Pakistan and another one asked Muslims not to
venture into the Hindu areas. Yet another topped by declaring destruction of
Pakistan after ascension of the man to power, who incidentally was on the stage
at the time, grinning I guess, at least mentally.
If that scenario wasn't
nightmarish enough, then one just needs to ruminate about the people who will
be manning the impending Modi regime. There is that Amit Shah, his racketeer in
chief in Gujarat, who besides having been recently banished from campaigning,
excelled in arranging fake encounters. Though the pliant election commission
rescinded its ban, lest revenge be too hard once elections are over. Shah's
name prominently figured in Ishrat Jahan Ara murder case and many others until
he was sent by his Fuehrer to manipulate India's largest state for him through
rampant bigotry and communalism. Then that one-man train wreck, the ex-army
chief cannot be discounted either, who for the first time in the history of
India scared an elected government through what tantamount to staging of a
coup. His raison d'être was that the government of the day did not accept his
manipulation of the date of his birth and let him continue to in the office for
another two years. But then his roguishness was all over the place and his
softness for hinduvta did not long come into open. If nothing else, there will
always be the shadow of one of the most sinister persons ever to set foot on
this planet. The agenda of Subramaniam Swami besides demolition of all mosques
in India includes disenfranchising those Muslims who fail to declare their
Hindu ancestry. Nobody can discount Yoga swindler either, least for the comic
absurdity of those pretenders.
Then there are mainstream
leaders of the party still to be counted who apparently attained the stature of
statesmen once Modi became their leader. Bigotry of Advanis, Joshis, Jaitleys
and others pale in comparison to his acolytes and Modi himself. Otherwise the
damage they did to Indian polity during their time in the government was
enormous. It took poor Arjun Singh an entire term from 2004 to 2009 to undo the
damage done to educational syllabi by Murli Manohar Joshi and his accomplices
at human resources ministry during that period when those right wing fanatics
were in power. During their earlier term they were not only sinister but also
proved to be contemptuously incompetents. The fiasco during the handling of
hijacking and those foolishly immature statements of Advani remain ever
refreshing to remember. And now elevation of a man who presided over and
abetted killings in Gujarat to the top leadership position has provided
credibility to his incompetently sinister colleagues.
One would think nightmare
ends there but it doesn't. As of now Modi is debarred from entering the US.
That ban will go away if in a nightmarish scenario he really become
Prime Minister, as business takes precedence over human rights. But that
doesn't mean that a literal Damocles sword will not hang over his head whenever
he ventures abroad, Europe in particular. Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi
Livni even during her time in the government avoided Europe due to warrants issued
by a London court. And the arrest of Pinochet during his visit to London does
not bode well for you know whom!
