With the chest- thumping cries of Nitish Kumar, posing a direct challenge not to Narendra Modi or BJP, but to Hindu community to save their mascot; to save their crusader from his impending defeat in 2024, Nitish Kumar had sounded a bugle challenging the collective might of Hindus to bring back Narendra Modi onto the power in 2024. Willy nilly Nitish Kumar is speaking the languages of Islamists, Chinese and all the domestic and international enemies of Hindus who want to convert India into an Islamic nation. Will Hindus allow themselves to be browbeaten by this mounting challenge to their raison d’etre and summum bonum?
Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: With the opposition suddenly having discovered elixir from Nitish Kumar’s stereotypical somersaulting, the moribund opposition camp has suddenly developed a new source of energy to take on Narendra Modi, and by extension, the entire community of Hindus. For defeating Modi in 2024 is akin to pushing the advanced trappings of Hinduism in the polity to recoil back in its shell and bring back the primary agenda of pushing India further into the path of greater Islamisation. Significantly, the hastening of the process of Islamisation, which is going on at a rapid pace in Nepal, with a massive investment pouring in from the Arabian countries, will be smoothen in India, once India bids goodbye to Modi raj. Unequivocally, India, since 2014, has been trying to re-discover its moorings; endeavouring in the process to reaffirm its glorious ancient Hindu heritage, which stood distorted and defiled by the decades of Congress rule, appears to be in a greater jeopardy once the rule of a Hindu nationalist is torn asunder through this Goebbelsian propaganda which is under way to mislead the nation into believing that ‘all is not well’ in Modi raj and, as Jayaprakash Narayan rose in defence of the nation, from the misrule of Indira Gandhi, so is Nitish kumar to inject a new sense of purpose in the opposition.
Unfortunately for Nitish Kumar, even though those encircling him today, albeit for their individual agenda, might be applauding him for breaking with BJP, his role as an adhesive around the opposition unity, appears inordinately fragile. In his new avatar as the Messiah for the opposition, Nitish Kumar has already been posing himself as the disciple of Jayaprakash Narayan when the latter had given a clarion call to throw the fascist Indira Gandhi from Patna, Nitish Kumar too will leave no stone unturned in his endeavour to duplicate Jayaprakash to overthrow Narendra Modi from power in 2024. However, Nitish Kumar should take a note that, neither he is Jayaprakash, nor Narendra Modi is Indira Gandhi. For Nitish Kumar, there is a singular philosophy: to remain in power by hook or by crook; let the principles and values be sacrificed for power and pelf; for Jayaprakash, renunciation was his core philosophy which he followed till his last breath. Indira Gandhi, on the other hand, was striving to institutionalise her family rule in India; Narendra Modi, on the other hand is seeking to restore the lost glory of Bhsratvarsha; his rule is reinventing India, which stands sequestered from the civilisational Bharat. Hence, it would hardly be any different to say that to defeat Modi is equivalent to defeating 1.40 billion of Bharatvasi. This is what the new avatar of Jayaprakash is striving to achieve.
The twenty first century appears to be a new challenge for the existing world order: with Russia having attacked Ukraine, and China is flexing muscle to its neighbours, Taiwan being its primary target, where India too is its radar, as its latest manoeuvres in the area of Ladakh and sending a warship in Hambanthota Harbour for for keeping a surveilance over India’s missile tests, is the growing vindication of how India needs a strong leadership, not a rag tag coalition. Worse still, with sharpening domestic polarisation after Nupur Sharma’s incident, where China too is striving to fish in troubled water, the revival of opposition to Modi and defeating him in 2024 is also on the top of its priority list. Moreover, the overwhelming voice of Muslim countries, upping their ante in the wake of Nupur Sharma incident, orchestrating a move to instigate the muslims back home, is another impetus for opposition to try their hands collectively to dislodge a Hindu nationalist from power. This, in other words, is the humongous conspiracy to finish Hindus by a single stroke, for finishing Narendra Modi is tantamount to breaking the backbone of Hindus.
Modi Raj, despite its myriad omissions and commissions, has taught the nation ‘ not to be apologists’ any more. The nation before 2014 lived in apologies; it had little sense of self- confidence, far less the collective national pride. Worse still, the sense of personal entitlements to few was of an overwhelming degree, so much so that they enjoyed their entitlements with the sense of impunity. Gandhi- Nehru family was the national deity eternally seeking its place under the sun. The mushrooming of dynasties across India has come to represent the latest tragedy of the nation. Willy nilly the situation is back to pre-independence days when principalities were thriving in India. If this vice continues to strengthen, it has the full potential to derail the nation’s newly acquired resolve to re-discover its civilisational moorings. Small wonder then, with the dynastic families reuniting in the guise of saving democracy under the front face of a non-dynast is the indication of a new political churning out which has ominous portends for the nation, because these cynical forces will seek to upend the current national resolve to take India back to its feudalistic times. Small wonder then, with National Herald case tightening the noose around Sonia and the Disproportionate assets in relation to income case of Tejashwi Yadav, has contributed to the cropping up of this new messiah, Nitish Kumar to take on Narendra Modi in 2024.
The wood is lovely dark and deep, Modi has his promises to keep! miles to go before Modi sleeps, miles to go before Modi sleeps! In fact, Modi phenomenon is the national phenomenon, for Modi’s defeat in 2024 is India’s defeat. Every Bharatvasi has to take a collective vow: The nation will have to bring back Modi, for defeat of Modi is equivalent to defeat of India. Moreover, it will bring the celebration across the Muslim world; Pakistan will celebrate it as its Diwali; even within India, a section will celebrate it as the defeat of Hindus. India will go in depression as there will be celebration in China and all hostile nations who do not want India to remain a majority Hindu nation. Hence against this background, India should rise collectively against any such rag tag coalition and openly proclaim, ‘ Modi’s defeat is India’s defeat’. Small wonder then, over a billion Indians will stand in unison to vote for Narendra Modi as India’s next prime minister in 2024.
Vivekanand Jha is an author, academician and a Public Intellectual.
