So far all Congress has done is reacting to Modi’s statements and claims. They are realizing that they are bringing a knife to a gun fight. So they met for five days and have come up with an aggressive strategy. They are going to do what Digvijay Singh has been doing so far: blatant lies, innuendoes and name calling i.e. usual Congress brand sleaze which the mainstream Indian media laps and perpetuates. Except it won’t be Singh alone. Sonia ji has appointed some “articulate’ Congressmen who will essentially carry out a intense negative campaign aided by NDTV and their ilk. However, when you take a look at the Congress A team, you have to say WTF!! They are pitting these corrupt and loudmouth men against one of the best and the most able leaders in our history. Let us go through the list of these ‘articulate’ men and see where they stand in comparison with and able and proven leader like Modi.
Kapil Sibal
This man has been accused of helping the Ambanis in the 2G scam. There is a pending Vodaphone scam (Rs. 11000 crore). He also tried to censor internet and social media sites to help out the Gandhi family. He has made a mockery of various exam systems and made loud claims about the now failed Akash tablet. He made a surreptitious deal with Agnivesh to scuttle Anna Hazare’s campaign. His wife runs a butchery / abattoir which seems to be a curious business for a Hindu. All in all the man has a checkered run in every department he has been in charge. Moreover, he is a known loudmouth with little diplomatic skills.
PC Chidambaran
He is claimed to be deeply involved in the 2G scam. His son is allegedly involved in a scam known as Aircel-Maxis deal. He and his wife have represented some really dubious outfits (Enron, Vedanta Resources and the Saradha Chit Fund in WB). His wife was invested in a company called Fairgrowth which was involved in a securities fraud. As per The Hindu, he pressured poll officer in Sivaganga to influence the poll results in his favor. His term as the Home Minister is known for a lathi charge on protesters in Ramlila maidan in which one woman died. During his tenure we had numerous Naxal and Maoist attacks which are yet to be solved. Perhaps his biggest failure has been the recent Rupee debacle especially because he is supposed to be this highly educated Economist. This man is known only for corruption, destruction of the Rupee and coining the term Hindu Terrorism. Wow!
Salman Khurshid
He is known for his involvement is a non scam i.e. a scam so petty that as per his own partyman, it cannot be called a scam. Stealing from the handicapped!! When confronted by Arvind Kejriwal, our current FM who should be a consummate diplomat lost all cool and threatened Kejriwal with death. Yup. Another piece of work.
Anand Sharma
A lesser known luminary but also involved in a majors cam. India Today (no friend of the BJP) said the following about this man: In a deal reminiscent of the 2G scam that continues to rock the Government, 82 licences to export one million tonnes (MT) of non-basmati rice were doled out by the commerce ministry under Anand Sharma to a chosen few.
Another one like Manmohan, he is a Rajya Sabha member and probably owes his position to loyalty to the party high command rather than his constituency.
Jairam Ramesh
He was one of the better Congressmen. He is also highly educated, liberal but able and seemed like a committed Environment Minister but did not have the backing of the Family or the Government to make any difference. All in all a barking dog with no bite. He was shunted off to a much lesser ministry. So far no involvement in any scams but is a real loudmouth with a penchant for putting his foot in his mouth. In a Congress without the Gandhi Family, he will be an asset. With the Gandhi family in it, he is being reduced to another attack dog of Congress.
Digvijay Singh
He is the biggest blowhard since Lalloo Yadav but far less entertaining. Self acclaimed evaluator of women (“Tunch Maal” versus regular or lesser maal). Guru to Rahul Gandhi and thus responsible for Congress’ defeats in many states. Has been involved in minor scams and confessed to gifting Asaram Harpalani aka Asaram Bapu free land in Indore. He is Asaram’s man in Congress. Digvijay Singh has given new dimension to the word hypocrisy. Routinely stoops to new lows with secularism as an excuse. He lies but not well. Recently got caught lying about BJP paying for burqas and topis. Accuses Hindus of all kinds of terror and is going to be the Congress’ biggest attack dog as he is total loose cannon. He is a spent political force since he cannot bring in votes for Congress but for some unknown reason, still a relevant figure in that party.
So this is Congress A-Team and is supposed to contain the man they could not contain in the last ten or so years with their entire might. As the expression goes, Modi is going to eat their lunch. It is not even going to be a fight because Modi is going to talk issues while these men are going to go all negative. Modi will tell the voters why they should vote for him. These men are going to tell voters lies to hide their own sins.
These men do not worry me. What worries me is continuing disunity in Hindus. We are still divided along familiar fault lines and continue to lose sight of the bigger picture; future of India. Hopefully by the time next election rolls in, we would have set our differences aside and do the right thing for once.
References to various sins of the A Team are as follows:
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