Monday, August 19, 2013

Modi and Lutyen's Underdog

Lutyens Delhi joins hands against a  rank outsider--??? Seriously Tavleen Singh, you cannot fill your column in last Sunday's Indian Express, with this argument, thought Dolly.

Are you ignoring all what has happened in the last 20 years in Indian politics; are you forgetting Lalu as Railway Minister or Mamta, or Nitish, or Mulayam or Beni Prasad Varma?

Your line of argument is Dynasty versus a Raw Political Recruit--alias Modi Sahib. Many politicians have risen on their own might and made it to the Parliament and also Ministership--IK Gujral for one was known to have said that he came to this city of Delhi--a victim of partition-- riding a bicycle. He ended in Maharani Bagh and Amrita Sher-Gill Marg!!

The type of politician NaMo signifies is not unique to Lutyens Delhi, infact he is better off as he has the whole monetary and moral might of the RSS--who certainly must've benefitted from his years of Chief Ministership in Gujarat--directly or indirectly--and .....understandbly so...Dolly thought, on her bench in Humayun's Tomb, again reading Tavleen Singh's outrageous column in the Indian Express,
but after the past edcades  of the underdog claiming bureaucratic and political space to reduce the argument of Rahul vs Modi to mere Lutyens Delhi's penchant for social snobery--that is a political cliche is ever there was one.

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