Snoopgate: Congress Vocal and Modi Silent. Why?

Couple of pinko websites have dug up some information on the use of Gujarat state government machinery being used for civilian surveillance. A desperate Congress all set to lose three, maybe four out of five state elections has latched on to this “scandal”. With Rahul Gandhi drawing anorexic crowds and getting booed, his darbaris are desperate to divert the attention of voters elsewhere. Unfortunately for them, the friend and attack dog Tarun Tejpal got caught raping his daughter best friend. Unable to come to his defence directly, the Congress mandarins are trying their damndest to see if they can make this so called snoopgate amount to something. They are screaming at their loudest while Bhai Narendra Modi and the BJP have stayed silent on the matter.

I wondered about the reasons. It is obvious why Congress is screaming bloody murder, trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. As a law abiding citizen, if true, it bothers me that state government machinery was used for personal purposes. We will leave that for later investigations. However, I live in the real world and not in some teenaged Utopian India. I see government vehicles being used by Class 1 officers and the entire neta class for their personal use. Sarkari peons are more servants of the brown sahibs than aam janta. Government owned bungalows are used as vacation homes by the privileged and the very same are used to barter favors (four of them were given by Congress to Mayawati for favors). The same Congress uses our top notch commandos as their private guards. So if Modi has to be investigated for use of sarkari outfits then so do millions of Class 1 officers and every neta in New Delhi. Think about it. When industrialists allow Sonia Gandhi to go abroad in their private planes, what do they get in return from Congress? Has that ever been investigated?

Forgetting the use of sarkari machinery for private use, let us focus on the snooping issue. Isn’t it true that the then Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee’s office was bugged by the Congress themselves? These guys were snooping on their own man. How many of their enemies were snooped on? One cannot even imagine and now he same Congress has the chutzpah to raise their finger at Modi/Shah? Seeing how they are trying to help Tejpal, any attempt to accuse Congress of hypocrisy is a waste of breath. Snoopgate in today’s corrupt India is like a parking violation in Nazi Germany.

But why are Modi and BJP silent on the matter? I do not know but I can guess by the way Modi is campaigning. So far the man has run his campaign in the American style. Aggressive, targeted, interactive, informative and entertaining, his rallies have captured the imagination of voters. He has a message and to deviate from that would mean hitting a speed bump in the middle of a car race. I think that the BJP will address the issue after the last vote is cast in Delhi elections and the results either become obvious or are declared. That will the wise move and I think that is the plan. Four losses destroy Congress. I predict an internal revolt in the party directed against the family. If god forbid, Congress manages to wrest Chhattisgarh out of BJP’s hand then the Congress spinmeisters will claim victory. That will give Congress some breathing room. Even so, the snoopgate fight will be best fought then. You see, it will get ugly and the BJP will have to get down to Congress’ level. After the elections, they can fight and win. But do so right now will be playing in Congress’ hands and it will take away from Modi’s brilliant campaign narrative. I think this is why the BJP is postponing the fight. Right now it is important that the BJP focus on winning and energizing their vote base and attracting the undecided voters for 2014 elections. Everything else is baseline noise.