n a recent advertisement for 2012 Gujarat elections, Congress used a malnourished child’s photograph. The only issue was that the child shown in the picture was not from Gujarat — he was not even from India. The child was from Sri Lanka and the photo had been taken from a website of a Christian NGO. This was not an isolated incident. It was followed by campaigns where an allegedly Gujarati farmer in a picture turned out to be from Rajasthan, and children shown in another Congress advertisement turned out to be from Assam etc.
This is not new. From 2002, Congress propagandists have given the world the general impression that Gujaratis are a bloodthirsty people.
One can understand Congress protesting against Narendra Modi outside India. To be sure, that is also wrong, but considering that it is Congress (a party founded by a Britisher A O Hume, who butchered many Indians during the 1857 uprising) the nature of the protests doesn’t shock me.
Congress has worked to ensure that individual careers didn’t take off — most notably political careers of Gujarati Americans of Indian Origin. When certain Gujaratis were selected by President Obama to be part of his administration, scores of protests were made by Congress supporters/backed individuals.
Congress’s disdain for the Gujarati way is not new. It started with Jawaharlal Nehru. To quote S S Gill from his book The Dynasty (page 17), When Gandhi decided to ‘fast unto death’ in September 1932 on the issues of Communal awards, ‘I felt angry with him at his religious and sentimental approach to a political question, and his frequent references to God in connection with it. He even seemed to suggest that God has indicated the very date of the fast. What a terrible example to set. Again, on page 22: “Nehru wrote to his mentor: I neither think that the so called Ram Rajya was very good in the past, nor do I want it back.”
These are just two examples of what Nehru thought of Mahatma Gandhi. There are many more instances, one can find in published documents. Incidentally it was Mahatma Gandhi because of whom both Jawaharlal Nehru and Motilal Nehru became the presidents of Congress.
One must not forget that Sardar Patel was elected by the Congress members for the position of Prime Minister. But he bowed down to Mahatma Gandhi’s wishes and thus made way for the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
The above facts alone should have shown Congress that they owe a lot to Gujarat. But thatt didn’t happen. Congress doesn’t remember that in the Godhra riots, the people burnt alive were children, women and elders. All that Congress remembers is what community they belonged to.
Not surprisingly; SS Gill in The Dynasty (page 237) writes: “Gratitude has never been a failing of the Nehru clan.”
After Nehru, Indira Gandhi had a grouse against Morarji. He was the strongest contender for Prime Minister-ship against Indira Gandhi. Later he left Congress and formed Janata Party and went on to become the Prime Minister of India. It is also important to remember that Indira Gandhi’s party was defeated in Gujarat by a coalition of parties calling itself the Janata Front in 1975 and by the Janata Party in 1977. It was Indira Gandhi who designed the fall of the Morarji Government.
Rajiv Gandhi was Prime Minster for too short a period of time and Congress was in power in Gujarat. In Rajiv Gandhi’s death Gujarat stood by him. It was Gujarat which played a big role in tracing killers of Rajiv Gandhi. It was the portrait-building software developed in the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL)-Ahmedabad and later upgraded at Dharamsinh Desai University (DDU) that cracked the case in a month by drawing near-similar features of the criminals from witness statements. The software was called the Facial Analysis and Criminal Identification System (FACIS Project III).
But since none of the family members of Rajiv Gandhi wanted his assassin punished, this contribution of Gujarat was never made mention of by Congress.
Congress’s Gujarat-hate has gone so far that their insulting campaign advertisements are now telecast on National television channels. This serves two purposes — keeping TV channels happy with ad money, and portraying Guajarat as a place full of wrongs across India. After all, how likely are people from other States to go to Gujarat and verify facts? Crime scene footage from Gujarat is used in advertisements with the intention of implying a false equivalence — that Gujarat is as unsafe as the Congress-ruled national capital. In truth, Gujarat has been the safest place in the country since 2002.
Sonia Gandhi went to Gujarat for election campaigning in a helicopter and declared that Gujarat roads are bad. Anyone who has travelled to Gujarat knows that no other part of India has roads as good as those in Gujarat.
Congress knows it can’t win Gujarat. They also realise that maligning Narendra Modi won’t help them, so they discredit the voters themselves — the people who elected Narendra Modi with the intention of winning elections in other States. Congress has done this in the past. The country and the dynasty have themselves paid the price with the formation of Khalistani forces and LTTE.
But like gratitude, learning from the past is also not one of the virtues of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
The State where Congress has lost most of its leaders to terrorism becomes the most-loved State for Congress. A State which has treated Congress with the most disdain is treated with a kid glove — Kashmir.
What never ceases to surprise me is that every year Indian Politicians (as well as India Media) extend a warm welcome to General Parvez Musharaff and other assorted Pakistanis. Then they proceed to travel the world abuse own people, fellow citizens of India.
The only way to address the Dynasty’s hatred for Gujarat is for six crore Gujaratis to make their point with their vote and put the Congress out of its misery in Gujarat.
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