AAP Slanders Narendra Modi
It is a given that the pre-poll pitch is raised to a fever by all contestants as the date gets nearer and nearer. And so it is with the Delhi, which goes to the polls on 4 December 2014.
Hitherto, Delhi has witnessed a two-way contest between the Congress and the BJP, with the Congress (currently) retaining power for the third consecutive time.
However, this time, it appears to be a triangular contest between the Congress, the BJP, and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) headed by Arvind Kejriwal. It is true that while the AAP seems to have made a significant impact in capturing the imaginations of the Delhi populace, it is equally true that it is an untested political entity. Its true strength will only be revealed after the polls conclude.
But the AAP, which began on a “clean” and “corruption crusader” platform, quickly degenerated into a cesspool of the same things that plague most political parties in India–corruption, lack of transparency in funding, pandering to vote banks, shady deal-making, flinging vile charges against opponents, and so on. While other parties have had decades worth of history in indulging in such decrepit practices, the AAP, which has not fought a single election till date, seems to have outdone these established political players. Of late, the AAP seems to have excelled in mudslinging.
The latest exhibit: slandering Narendra Modi, who is the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate and the party’s most popular leader. Indeed, slander is a mild term for what the AAP has done in this case as the following graphic shows:
The wording in the banner, which AAP party workers displayed in public reads as follows:
The 1984 genocide of Sikhs? How does it matter to me?
The import is clear: AAP slanders Narendra Modi by falsely accusing him of being insensitive to the Congress party-perpetrated genocide of Sikhs in 1984, following Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Thus, by falsely insinuating Modi as being callous towards the Sikhs, the AAP has also sought to divide the voters on the lines of community/creed/sect, thereby violating the Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct.
Am I alone in thinking the AAP has a sinister echo of the US-sponsored human rights and democratic movements across eastern Europe through which the US sought to take advantage of local protest? The US apparently sought to consolidate its surrogates via so-called Orange revolutions, etc.,in countries like the Ukraine, the very birthplace of Russia itself. Very soon these redoubts were being required to host US ABMs targeted at Russian nuclear retaliatory capacity. The excuse was Iran, but that may not carry the same conviction after the US itself has guaranteed a non nuclear Iran in recent days. Of course the US wouldn’t dream of engaging in such rank subversion of India and no Indian would ever dream of betraying the country for consideration!!
However, do not forget the sight of the ‘whooping’, harridan self-promoter, Hilary Clinton, rejoicing on seeing a clip of Colonel Qaddafi being brutally murdered by Jihadi assassins on the US payroll, with a knife of some sort being inserted into his rectum. This is white, Christian civilisation, but the Jihadis seem to have seized up to 3,000+ anti-aircraft missiles missing in Libya and capable of bringing down a civilian airliner. It may be an Indian one and our secular parties will of course try their damnedest to blame Hindu extremists to protect Pakistan’s ISI, on which they now evidently depend for survival. Do also remember the US State Department compared India to Tojo’s imperialist Japan in 1948 and the Delhi CIA station chief in the 1950s told the Canadian High Commissioner to India that it would be difficult to fight another major war without Indian manpower (the second largest participating army during WWII after the Russian one).
I have always believed too much slander always back-fires. I am keeping my fingers crossed.