(I want to start by saying that my constitution grants
me the right to criticize my leaders as much as our Prime Minister. Although
present times are risk ridden where speaking or writing against Mr Modi is like
committing suicide. Be ready to be slapped with UAPA, and talk against the govt
you may be jailed and harassed. I might be taking a risk if I dare to share it
on SM and god forbid if it at all goes viral.)
Maun vrat is an old practice which forms a part of
yoga therapy. Wonder if our politicians have ever heard of it. Its so much used at their convenience but. Former Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh was given the acronym of Maun Mohan Singh during the
UPA regime from 2004-2014. Why! Because he was a ‘silent’ Prime Minister. New
Delhi rose like a tsunami in the wake of December 16, 2019 it took many many
days for PM Manmohan Singh to utter words of condemnation for the heinous
crime, Sonia Gandhi too was pilloried for her silence as the UPA Chairperson.
The country was taking note.
Gone are the days when Prime Ministers used to introspect,
cajole their conscience and even ministers who would resign in case of a train
accident. These are times when the Prime Minister works under the unsaid rule
of holding a demeanor of a no nonsense man, which may coax you to infer that a
Barak Obama or a Bill Gates cracking a joke or for that matter dancing with
children and laughing with colleagues, has the potential of getting taken for
granted. Intellectual hara-kiri eh……
There is a deafening silence when words are needed
most. Keep silent when religious fanatics give a call for genocide. Keep silent
when the farmers sit on your borders for 30 months braving cold, heat and rain
for repeal of farm laws. Don’t talk to the press (as if you are not accountable
for anything going wrong), Keep silence when our boundaries are being captured
by China, Keep silent when China builds road and bridges on our northern and
western borders, Keep silent on the hate speeches by your own people, keep
silence when farmers are being mowed down in Lakhimpur Kheri, keep silent when
Gujarat was burning in 2002, keep silent when thousands die of lack of oxygen
during corona pandemic, silence when dead bodies floated in the Ganga, silence
during Delhi Riots, and many more occasions.
But you only speak when come elections!!! So, the Prime
Minister is only and only vocal at pre decided events. One, on the Independence
day when he exercises his vocal chords at their fullest, for hours together, a
time when he sings unabashedly on his myriad of ‘old wine in new bottle’
schemes. Second when he visits foreign lands and thirdly when he is abusing his
opponents, you can guess (Congress). Also depends from state to state which he
is in before elections or inaugurating some national asset. Oh yes, also when
he talks to the nation on TV. Any other occasion is not of his ‘Wordsworth’.
How does one explain the change of demeanor and body
language when on home soil as opposed to foreign soil.( cant be missed!) His cold, stiff personality as if wants to
deliberately send a message that he is not from one amongst us. Despite calling
himself a ‘chaiwala’ more often than not at every election rallies, depending
on which side of the support one is..pro or against, will the sympathy
undertone play out. But for the man of the moment its all about being there at
the top and the perpetual desire to always
be there. A humble background blessed with the fortune of top class
fashion brands at the smallest of events consciously flaunted, every dress has
a deeply designed message. Did we anticipate such Modi as our Prime Minister!
Coming in on the wave of a poor tea seller who understands the plight of the
poorest of the poor the countrymen did not know he was here for himself and his
multimillionaire friends.
Or what explains an unspeaking and otherwise silent
Modi to be obsessively engaged in the camera glare for hours. Meticulous lens
management for his smallest of behaviour and act is made to repeat over and
over again to the audience ..oops, countrymen’s disgust or admiration,
depending on his constituency.
But don’t underestimate his silence, you ll be
mistaking. Painstakingly rising up his way to see his dream come true, by hook
or crook, carefully crafting his image and personality that he had been
probably nurturing since his early days when he was brooming the BJP
headquarters. The man is out to command, to rule, to prove his mettle. He cannot
be defeated? Whatever is done is with a purpose. So if the farmers bill was
repealed the consequences were well thought of for a longer run…elections in
the farmer dominated belt. His silences are as carefully calculated as his
words. Some daring media calls it his ‘sly, insidious silence’. It needed a New
York Times article in 2017 to make Modi comment on violence on muslims and Dalits
in UP afraid of his international image being tarnished.
So does one believe that Modi vouches for polarization,
genocide, killings and violence! Does India deserve a Prime Minister who
displays unsecular, immature, narrow minded, unsympathetic approach to the
people, history, and demography of the great country!! Unfortunately an international
watchdog on genocide has predicted one for India as well. The country goes
where the leader takes it.
#SilentPrimeMinister #India #PMModi #Genocidecall
