Cutting Political Opponents to Size

At the end of Kurukshetra war, only a handful of Kauravas were alive. The rest died.

 

Two years ago when Modi and BJP lost both Bihar and Delhi comprehensively, one of my pseudo secular friend was making fun of Modi. At least he was doing it openly, and in person, unlike lots of others, who hide behind silly and malicious forwarded Whatsapp Messages. He was viewing both Nitish and Kejriwal as an alternate to Modi, who was struggling to find his feet in Delhi during the first years of his Prime Ministerial tenure.

 

I allowed him to have his 5 seconds of fun, and gave a chill warning.

 

Never underestimate Modi. He has, in a decade, destroyed all his political opponents in Gujarat. Despite being not part of Delhi politics, he has sidelined his potential threats within BJP for the Prime Ministerial post, be it Advani, Murali Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj or Rajnath Singh. And he has made up his mind to rule India for 10 years, and he will ensure he does.

 

My friend thought I was just being a blind Modi fan, and laughed me off.

 

During the past one year I was wondering why Modi has not taken out his ruthless self, but seemed to be swimming with the tide. He was tolerating too much nonsense. Also I was frankly disappointed at him for not pushing forward the Hindu Agenda.

 

My friend periodically poked fun at me, showing how Modis opponents were about to gang up to dethrone him in 2019.

 

Then they got hit in 2017. In fact the story started in November 2016, when he ensured political opponents were hit at where it hurts most - their ability to raise black money. Demonitization ensured Sonia, Mayawati, Mamta, Akhilesh Yadav, Kejriwal et al were left with limited liquid cash which adversely affected their Election plans.

 

First, he won a landslide victory in UP, and against conventional wisdom, appointed Yogi Adityanath as the CM. This came as a breath of fresh air for the Hindus. A no nonsense Yogi heading the largest State in India, which has become so much anti hindu under SP and BSP. And Yogi promptly got to work efficiently on all fronts and made a bold statement that Ram Temple in Ayodhya is back on track. Maywati is wiped out, and she had to enact a drama on resigning her Rajya Sabha seat to be in relevance (though no one cared) and the Yadav clan was royally split between the Father, Son and the Uncle.

 

Armed now with enough numbers to get his man elected as President and Vice President, Modi chose the quiet, hard working, low profile Ramnath Kovind as Presidential Candidate, whose Dalit credentials threw a spanner in the Grand Alliance plan of Sonia Gandhi and other opposition leaders. Nitish promptly broke ranks, as did Mulayam Singh Yadav - two chief architects of the Mahaghatbandhan. And BJP got votes from opposition members during the election (I wont call it cross voting, as there are no whips in Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections). The election split the Opposition wide open, and the seeds of mistrusts were sown.

 

Prior to that Amit Shah managed to cobble us Ministries in Goa and North East despite coming second in the elections. Goa debacle broke Congress's back.

 

The party troopers lost their morale after the UP, Goa Ministry formation, and the Presidential Election proved Sonia is not in control of Opposition Agenda any more.

 

The sickening defeat Kejriwal faced in Goa (All AAP Candidates lost deposits), and in the bye election in Delhi (Again his candidate lost Deposit in a sitting seat of AAP), and the poor performance in Punjab ensured Kejriwal was on the backfoot. BJP used Kumar Vishwas and Kapil Mishra to further mount pressure on Kejriwal, and the Arun Jaitleys defamation suit ensured he is tied up. AK has lost his face, his credibility and has been reduced to the status of begging to BJP to patch up with Modi. He was rebuffed royally.

 

Next Modi turned his eyes on Bihar, the other sore spot. Lalu Prasad Yadav has too many skeletons in his cup board. CBI and ED were unleashed on him and his children, and they came up with documents incriminating all of them. This gave Nitish the opportunity that he was waiting for, and with the gentle prod of Modi, he quit as CM of Bihar as head of Mahagatbandhan,  and immediately partnered with BJP to form the Government in Bihar. In one stroke, Modi and Amit Shah cut off the root of the Mahaghatbandhan and ensured it will never raise its head again. There is no other credible face to head the opposition in 2019.

 

Now Modi turned his eye on Sonia and her cronies. The defections engineered in Gujarat, with the backing of BJP, by Vaghela, an old friend of Modi, came as a shock to Ahmed Patel, virtually the second in command to Sonia, and the master fixer. Though Congress had 57 MLAs in Gujarat with potential support of 2 NCP MLAs, where they needed only 46 votes for Patel to win, the resignations shook Congress so much that, as this blog goes online, Ahmed Patel will struggle to get through, despite him cocooning his MLAs in Karnataka. Even if he wins, Congress has lost face, and the fact that Congress MLAs were enjoying 5 Star Resort facility while their Constituencies were under flood, will be enough to ensure BJP wins the Assembly Elections. Ahmed Patel was one of the key players who was instrumental in kicking up the Ishrat Jehan case against Modi, and try to implicate him in the past. Modi has a long memory. The other major player in cooking up cases against him is P Chidambaram. The noose is already tightening around the neck of his son Karthi Chidambaram, and it wont be long before PC is also in trouble for his financial mumbo jumbo.
 

This is only the beginning. I am sure at the right time Sonia, P Chidambaram, and even Mamta Banerjee will have to pay for their sins, once Modi turns his eyes on them. And make no mistake, Modi will cut Uddhav Thackeray to size at the right time, once and for all.

NDTV and Prannoy Roy were in the forefront in whipping up an anti Modi campaign in the Media. Now Prannoy is running for cover as he has been asked to pay Rs 900 plus crores as fine by the Appellate Tribunal.

 

By 2018 end, like the Kurukshetra war, only Rahul Gandhi and a couple of others will escape his wrath. For BJP, it pays to have Rahul Gandhi out free. Every time he opens his mouth, BJP is ensured of 1 lakh votes at least.