New Delhi: Whereas the Dussehra celebrations might need ended a fortnight in the past with Raavan effigies burning throughout India, the Congress is now making forays into “Ramayan politics”.
The social gathering posted a minute-long video on its official YouTube channel Friday, attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and evaluating him to Raavan.
The video begins with the road Iss desh ki politics ko tumhari zaroorat hai (‘This nation’s politics wants you’) and a smiling Rahul Gandhi main the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Because the video progresses and Modi enters the body, the narration goes: Okayalyug mein chaadar safed odhe jab jab Raavan aayega (‘throughout Kalyug, when a Raavan comes pretending to be a great man’).
Making an attempt to attract a distinction between Rahul and Modi, the video initiatives the previous as the necessity of the hour in Indian politics, and reveals him enjoying with youngsters, strolling with girls and assembly the general public.
By posting a sequence of movies and tweets on social media, the Congress has been making an attempt to rebrand the previous social gathering president by way of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, and counter the criticisms typically made by his detractors — that he’s a privileged dynast and inaccessible.
However this isn’t the primary time prior to now few days that the Ramayan has figured in political discourse.
On Monday, Congress chief and Rajasthan minister Parsadi Lal Meena likened Rahul’s Bharat Jodo Yatra to Lord Ram’s journey from Ayodhya to Lanka. “Rahul Gandhi’s padayatra might be historic. Lord Ram, too, had gone from Ayodhya to Sri Lanka on foot. Rahul Gandhi is strolling much more than that, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir,” Meena stated.
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole backed Meena in evaluating the journeys, however stated that it’s “a coincidence that each Lord Ram and Rahul Gandhi’s names start with R”. He added that Lord Ram and Rahul couldn’t be in contrast. “God is God and Rahul Gandhi is a human being.”
A political row broke out after Patole’s remarks, with BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia taking a shot on the Congress on Twitter, saying, “Raavan additionally begins with R”.
(Edited by Anumeha Saxena)
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