PM Modi & the Opposition

There is an old man of my acquaintance who retired from state service about three years ago. He has a habit of going for a walk in the morning and therefore I often come across him in some street. The most remarkable thing I have noticed in him is his regular practice to switch off the pole lights that he saw to be left on even after the sun rise. This has made me relate his mind-set with that of those politicians who never hesitate to make the mess of the national resources just for their own ends.

There lived a family in a colony. One day a new family came to live in the flat opposite theirs. The wife led her husband to the window. “These newcomers are country bumpkins – look, how dirty are those clothes hanging in the veranda,” said the wife to her husband, pointing to the clothes which they could see through their windowpane.

“You may be right, darling,” replied the husband. “But I wonder if you could clean your own windowpane. I think you will find those clothes clean.”

Political parties are very like this wife. Their hearts are full of crooked thoughts so they find fault with the Modi Goverment and never stay to examine and consider their own ideas, thoughts and feelings.

A pundit ji was going back home with a heifer that he had got from one of his yajmans. On the way, he met up with a thug who stopped him and asked where he got that donkey from.

“Do you call it a donkey?” pundit ji retorted angrily. “You fool, don’t you see it is a heifer?”

Pundit ji walked on. After half a mile, another thug emerged and asked the same question. “Where did you get this donkey from, Pundit ji?” Then he added, “You’re a Brahmin and I wonder you are taking this ugly donkey!

This time pundit ji rubbed his eyes, but he was still sure that he was taking a heifer and not a donkey. He rebuked the thug and went on.

Before he completed another mile, he came across a third thug who asked the same question, too. “Where did you get this donkey from, Pundit ji?”

This time pundit ji lost his confidence and accepted that the heifer was a donkey.

Similarly, a few parties are out to mislead the people of India one by one and try to delude them into thinking the Modi Government is as bad as bad.

In ancient times, kings used to undergo years of hard austerity and penance with a view to pleasing God and when they succeeded, they were granted supernatural powers. Then, after getting such powers, they did not have to do anything except enjoying what they chose to. This is something that has applied to Indian parliamentarians and government officials. They have had the notion that they have got a free ride just after winning an election or getting a government job. They have, however, never bothered to think that they have been given the responsibility to serve the people. Many other countries that got freedom even after us have gone far ahead, leaving us to live in an unhappy state – why? It is because our parliamentarians and government officials have never done their duties diligently but rather enjoyed their chairs. This is what had been happening from the first day of independence till the UPA government fell. Things have changed since Shri Narendra Modi became the prime minister. Now no parliamentarian is privileged to do what they like, nor are government servants free to their choice. They are forced to realize what they are there to do. It has made a lot of difference to the way the government conducts its affairs and will bring the country a drastic change.

Today a great number of students gathered in KKC Lucknow to appear in BHU Entrance Exam. When examination started guardians stood waiting in a lawn outside. A police officer was on duty. He came in the lawn and started speaking to none. At first, people thought that he was a crazy sort of person, but a little while later, a few people went over to him to listen to what he was saying. He was condemning Brahamins saying that it is Brahmins who has been the cause of the divide between the different castes and reservation policy. If these so called the owners of Hindu society had not despised the lower caste people, the Hindus would be an integrated group of people and there would be no demand for reservation as well. Slowly his lecture started attracting people and a huge crowd gathered around him. If someone dared to counter criticism, he treated him rudely which ultimately reduced him to silence. This incident taught me that most people like to listen to something spoken against Brahmins not because they feel injured by the high caste people but because the divide politics has made them to hate the high caste.

Just populate a colony by the people of all castes and community. When they start living together, they may find they are not compatible, but slowly they will start making amicable relationships and sharing their common joys and grieves. Now find a leader and make him live in that colony. You should be certain that his presence will cause a rift between the different groups and over a few months, their relationship will end acrimoniously. I want to tell certain fools that no religion or persons of any caste is responsible for the disagreement that separates people. It is politics that has been dividing people into different groups. Communal tension or people dividing over reservation are the side effects of democracy. They will continue with the democratic system. It is not India that is infected by this disease but many other democratic countries are suffering from it.

“Yadavas, unite against Brahmins, or else they will pose a serious threat to you,” says Lalu Prasad. History says that Yadavas and Brahmins have ever been friendly to each other. How come Brahmins are now the greatest danger to them? Mr Lalu ji, why don’t you say your chair is in danger and not Yadavas, nor even Brahmins? A monkey was in danger of drowning. “Save the world,” he screamed. “It’s sinking.” The animals rushed to his rescue to hear him calling. They helped pull him out of the water and sat him down on the ground. “Friend, why did you say that the world was sinking when it was you who was drowning in the river and not the world?” asked one of them. “Would there be any world after I’d been drowned?” replied the monkey.

One day a boy decided not to go to school. He started crying, complaining that his elder brother had mistreated him. The mother admonished her eldest son for that and also warned him not to do that again. The boy still continued crying. The mother asked what else had gone wrong. Now he complained that his younger sister had torn a page from his note book. The mother gave him a new note book. The boy, however, did not stop crying, with a newer reason which he pretended had exasperated him. The congress is the crying boy of this sort. They will continue to invent pretexts for hindering the sessions of the houses of parliament.

Once there was a king who had a beautiful princess. When the princess became marriageable, he invited the prices of different kingdoms and organised a quiz contest, announcing that the winner will marry his daughter. The contest was so arranged that it could pick out the prince who was most intelligent, diligent and honest. Some of the princes were intelligent and honest, but they were not much diligent and prolific; some of them were diligent and intelligent but they were habituated to playing tricks and feeling tempted to cheat; some others were honest and diligent but they lacked the sharpness of mind. However, one of the princes was a quick thinker, swift with decisions, a star performer and candid with everyone. He eventually won the contest and married the princess. His name was Arun Jaitley. Losers like Yashwant Sinha, Ram Jethmalani, Keerti Azad, Shatrughn Sinha are now barking up the wrong tree.

There lived a couple who always bickered with each other because the wife did the opposite of what her husband asked her to. One day an idea came to the husband that he would ask his wife to do the opposite of what he actually wanted. “Madam, I’ve decided not to go to any pilgrimage this summer,” said the husband to his wife. “No, no, we’ll certainly go to Haridwar,” responded his wife. They set off for the Holy Place. On reaching there, the husband told his wife that he would by no means bathe in the Ganga, whereupon his wife became adamant about taking a bath in the river. They walked down the stairs into the water. When the enthusiastic women walked ahead of her husband, he shouted, “Paro, paro! Stop, stop!” The headstrong women continued heading for deeper waters and finally bubbles rose on the surface. This is what is happening between the ruling party and the opposition. The Modi government should do what is in the interest of the country, ignoring all that the opposition cries, for resisting the opposition is, in real sense, to follow them.

A talk between the spokespersons for BJP and Congress:

BJP spokesperson: It’s shameful that a group of people betray the country, speaking and shooting slogans against the country and favouring Pakistan. Such persons are traitors and the government is not going to tolerate them.

Congress spokesperson: In a democratic system every citizen has the right to speak anything they may like and nobody can prevent them from doing so. The country is being ruled by a despotic tyrant.

BJP spokesperson: The congress has befooled the common classes, the backwards and the schedule caste community because they have always won their support by exciting their emotions rather than by having good schemes for them.

Congress spokesperson: You the liar shut up! The poor, the poor, the poor are our heart and soul, our blood, our life and what not! We love them.

BJP spokesperson: This why you have been cultivating their poverty instead of raising their status. Anyway, if you have a least love for the country, you should support us to pass the GST Bill at Rajya Sabha.

Congress spokesperson: To hell with GST, we want to have discussion on Rohit Vemula case.

BJP spokesperson: (Muses for a short while) Oh friend, your government has been so idle that it did not even do a single case of corruption.

Congress spokesperson: Do you have any proof?

BJP spokesperson: No, no, we don’t have.

Congress spokesperson: Brothers, just look at this guy of BJP. He accuses us of doing nothing, not even a single corruption, and at the same time he says he has no proof of that. These BJP people have got only to defame us.

If a mouse complain that someone else has ripped up its book, who will believe it? The likes of BSP and Congress accuse BJP of dividing the society. If a python complain that the lioness is doing nothing for her family, who will believe it? The opposition accuses BJP of doing nothing, particularly when everyone knows that the Modi Government has many stopped up projects on the go and is continuously transforming India into an industrious nation. If a reptile complain that some of the animals is killing the creatures around, who will believe it? The likes of CPI, CPM and Rahul Gandhi are teaching BJP how to be loyal to the country.

‘Mother, my stomach’s rumbling – give me something to eat!’ said the poor little boy. ‘Have patience, my child,’ replied the mother, ‘your father must be coming with some food for you.’ The boy knew that there was nothing in the house and his father will return from work after dusk, so he ran out thinking if he could do something to earn a little money. When he was going along the street, he saw a man, calling him over to where he was standing. The boy turned to stroll to the stranger who took a five-hundred rupee note from his pocket and gave it to the boy. The henchmen of separatist leaders in Kashmir collect such boys and without worrying about their lives, they use them as their shield. These separatists carry out such dirty deeds not because they are concerned about the Kashmirians but because of the money they get from Pakistan. The people of Kashmir know that Kashmir cannot be independent – some neighbouring country would soon invade the valley and they are better off with India than with any other country.

‘Secular’ was first introduced through 42nd Amendment Act 1976, but it has not yet been defined. There are certain political parties that consider themselves as the real owner of the famous term ‘Secular’ and so they keep defining it from time to time. According to them if you call India ‘Hindustan’, you are secular; but if you ever call it ‘Bharat’, you are certainly a communal person. Greet people with a ‘Hello’ and not with ‘Jai Siya Ram’ or else they will give you hell for it. You are sure to be accused of being communal if you call water ‘Jal’ – you’d better call it ‘Pani’. Likewise Sanskrit is communal but English secular. Mind you don’t say ‘Bande Matram – it’s terribly communal! You are welcome to a Holy Iftar Party but think twice before you visit a Ramleela. You, secular humanism contractors, clear your heads and know secularism is the belief that does not allow anybody to involve any religion with the ordinary social and political activities of the country.

I came across a mad man during my morning jaunts today. He was talking to a college building on the other side of the road. “You’re sure to die; remember, no shroud has a pocket!” he warned the building again and again. I think he was right because those who make a lot of money by doing illegal things to settle it on their sons do not do good things for them but, in point of fact, spoil their lives. Money is best enjoyed by those who have earned it.

TV Reporter: Mr CM Delhi, air pollution has reached ten times the acceptable level and people are smothered with the clouds of smoke, would you tell a single step which you have taken to abate it?

Kejariwal: Yes, I’ve done a lot. Did you not hear me out? Many’s the time I’ve issued statements criticizing the neighbouring states which have caused this pollution.

The TV Reporter: (turning to Mr Rahul Gandhi) Rahul ji, what did you do for the ex-military men during the incumbency of your party?

Rahul Gandhi: I wonder what you people keep doing here. Did you not see me visiting the bereaved families to show my sympathy?

TV reporter: Both of you had better go to Jammu and Kashmir and try your hands at becoming the chief minister there. Delhi is not fit for you.