DNA Special: Why doesn’t Rahul Gandhi take the challenge of going among the farmers?

It is Christmas day today and Congress president Rahul Gandhi has suddenly ended his holiday and decided to step out with TV cameras in tow to speak in favour of the protesting farmers with a designer speech. If folklores are to be believed, Santa Claus hands out gifts on Christmas Eve in designer socks but these gifts usually only have sweets tucked in them.

In the same manner, Rahul Gandhi tried to handover ‘toffees’ to farmers but these sweets are full of fire and the Congress leader wants to inflame the farmers with it. That’s why by coming out in support of the protesting farmers a day before Christmas, Rahul Gandhi is hoping that his fortunes will shine again.

Rahul Gandhi and two senior leaders from Congress -- Ghulam Nabi Azad and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury – went to meet President Ramnath Kovind. Gandhi claimed that he had signatures of 2 crore farmers voting against the newly-implement Farmers Act.

Around 15 days back, on December 9 as well, Rahul Gandhi with other opposition leaders had gone to meet President Kovind and demanded that all three Farmers Act should be repealed. However, in the next two week, Rahul Gandhi never bothered to check on the well being of the protesting farmers around the Delhi borders although he was full active on Twitter as always.

There is still great possibility that Rahul Gandhi may once head on another holiday after showing his support for the farmers on Christmas eve. The Congress president’s entry into this issue will cause most harm to the farmers because in whatever issue Rahul Gandhi touches that matter loses its relevance!

Amid all of this, the farmers are continuing to claim that their protests are not political in nature in any way although Rahul Gandhi is attempting to be the farmers’ biggest ally.

Rahul Gandhi is also claiming that democracy is coming to an end in this country. But we have to go back 45 years to understand when democracy came to an end in this country.

On June 25, 1975, Rahul Gandhi’s grandmother Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in India. Back then no leader of opposition was even allowed to speak with most of them put behind bars.

Right now Rahul Gandhi is free to meet the President, handover his party’s memorandum to him, speak to the media freely about this meeting with the President – most news channels showing it live all over as well – and all of this is happening because there is democracy in India. In all of this, it is hard to understand what end of democracy is Rahul Gandhi trying to project in this nation.

Rahul Gandhi is trying to protest against the Farmers Act today but when the UPA government was in power and Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister, then Congress was trying to prepare the farmers for these same laws.

Congress party and Rahul Gandhi are trying their best to hijack the farmers protest. But farmers are also well aware of the fact that Rahul Gandhi is attempting to grow a crop of votes for Congress from the ‘seed’ of farmers protest. That’s why after Rahul Gandhi’s political stunt on Thursday, the farmers have made it clear that they don’t need any support from political parties.

Even while protesting against the CAA and the plight of migrant labourers during lockdown, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tried to indulge in politics but like we have said earlier, it was to no avail.

Rahul Gandhi attempts to become an expert in everything. While speaking against demonetization and GST he became an economist, on the Rafale and China border issue he spoke like a defence specialist while hearing his thoughts on the coronavirus pandemic he sounds like a medical expert.

He has been continuously questioning surgical strike and the Balakot air strike, raising fingers on our defence forces and has also claimed that if his party was in power during China border crisis then he would have sent the Chinese army 100 kms back in matter of 15 minutes!

Former US President Barack Obama has called Rahul Gandhi ‘nervous’ and ‘unformed’ in his autobiography ‘A Promised Land’. According to Obama, Rahul Gandhi seems like a student who had studied in class but when it comes to showing his knowledge on a particular subject he is found to be severely lacking.

This type of personality can also be called a ‘grasshopper mind’ which means a person who takes inconsistent decisions and instead of staying on the battlefield and fight, runs away from the field. He is a person who jumps from one matter to the next without fully understanding the issue.