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Rahul Gandhi emerging as a ‘Big’ threat to BJP

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Let it be BJP, PM Modi, GST, Dalit atrocities or any issues related to the country, Rahul Gandhi is aggressively taking each issue nowadays. He is showing maturity as a seasoned politician, but how can BJP tolerate that? BJP and its propaganda agencies already damaged Rahul Gandhi’s image by various ways, but still the fading charm of Modi waves is giving big scope to Congress and Rahul to get back in peoples’ mind. No one expected BJP would lose its credibility so soon. People are running towards Congress again. The ruling BJP has gone very insensitive towards Gandhis, fearing on their evergreen popularity among common man.

Recently, Rahul Gandhi trained his guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying, he is surprised to see how swiftly public anger has grown against the BJP government at the Centre and in Maharashtra. He brought the deadlock on the BJP’s ambitious indirect tax reform – the GST bill, back into focus saying the Congress will not relent unless the ruling party accepts its demands for tweaks in the proposed legislation. Rahul Gandhi was in Mumbai as part of a two-day tour.

During his visit to Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ignored the request seeking stay for Rahul Gandhi at state guesthouse. The BJP has now started to indulge in the lowest level of politics. Looking at criticism from all sides, however, Fadnavis told media that a suite was in fact kept reserved for Gandhi at the guesthouse but the latter failed to turn up.

The Protocol department had booked a suite for Rahul Gandhi from January 14 and the concerned people had been apprised about it. They had made arrangements for Rahul’s security contingent as well. But, he failed to turn up at the Sahyadri Guest House. Nirupam alleged that the BJP turned Gandhi’s “apolitical” discussion with students of a college into “political” one with the BJP workers “chanting” slogans in Modi’s name.

During his two-day visit to city on January 15-16, Gandhi participated in a padyatra where he addressed party workers and separately interacted with college students. Rahul sounded very seasoned and ready to take controls of power. His popularity among youth has gone high; the way Gandhi’s connected with common people is worth appreciating.

He seems to be very charged and aggressively reacting on every issue. As soon as he finished his two days visit to the city, he went to Hyderabad for condolence to meet Rohith Vemula’s parents. Frustrated BJP accused Rahul Gandhi of politicising the suicide of a Dalit student at Hyderabad Central University after he visited the protest-hit campus, and insisted that the issue had nothing to do with the victim being from the backward community. Normally, whenever a government is voted to power, they remain popular for a while, their credibility remains for three to four years. However, here the case is different, BJP’s and especially PM Modi’s credibility has gone to zero. Now, they feel that leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Kejriwal are threat to their existence.

Gandhi’s strident tone on GST comes within days of Jairam Ramesh hitting out at Jaitley. Imploring mythos, Jairam Ramesh nailed away at Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saying “Stop being Narad Muni and start being finance minister” in response to the minister’s criticism of the party’s top leadership for delay in passing the ambitious indirect tax reform – the GST bill.

Once again, Jaitley is determined to try in the Budget session but before that, he singled out the Congress top leadership is the problem and not the rest of them. Ramesh accused the finance minister of attempting to drive a wedge between the Congress and its leadership. Sharpening knives ahead of the upcoming Budget session, Ramesh said Jaitley has “lost complete command and control over the economic situation”.

The Congress party rebuffed suggestions of a breakthrough on a landmark tax reform, hours after the government said it had accepted the demands set by the main opposition party to back the measure. The proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST), India’s biggest revenue shake-up since independence in 1947, seeks to replace a slew of federal and state levies, transforming the nation of 1.2 billion people into a customs union. The new sales tax will add up to two percentage points to the South Asian nation’s economic growth. The Congress party, the original author of the tax reform, has opposed what it calls the “flawed” version now before parliament, where it has been able to block a key constitutional enabling amendment in the Rajya Sabha.

Congress Party and their vice President are giving tough time to BJP and its leaders by questioning every issue and also supporting public in particular, from greeting farmers to visiting the students. Rahul Gandhi seized every issue to his political advantage. From Delhi elections to Gram Panchayat election in Maharashtra, BJP has tasted the defeats everywhere. May be Rahul emerges as threat to the ruling party. Now Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election next year will give clear indication for the future of BJP in 2019. Let’s see, how much more are there for BJP to lose.

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Vaidehi Taman
Vaidehi Tamanhttps://authorvaidehi.com
Vaidehi Taman an Accredited Journalist from Maharashtra is bestowed with three Honourary Doctorate in Journalism. Vaidehi has been an active journalist for the past 21 years, and is also the founding editor of an English daily tabloid – Afternoon Voice, a Marathi web portal – Mumbai Manoos, and The Democracy digital video news portal is her brain child. Vaidehi has three books in her name, "Sikhism vs Sickism", "Life Beyond Complications" and "Vedanti". She is an EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker, OSCP offensive securities, Certified Security Analyst and Licensed Penetration Tester that caters to her freelance jobs.
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