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Jan 10 10 tweets 5 min read
It's said that BJP is always in election mode. Very True. Electoral defeats don't deter them. True that too. It's impossible to beat them. As of now, appears daunting. Yet, here they are, scared. Attacking #RahulGandhi, looking under his t-shirt, spying who he has lunch with 1/n Image
Its IT Cell head has gone on an edit-err-cheap frenzy of pushing out edited videos of Rahul’s press meets. It’s a Shake before you Break.
Let me tell you why. Rahul Gandhi has managed to get the rat out of the hole. Because the BJP is so brilliant at fighting elections, 2/n Image
they seem surprised in a no-fight, only-love scenario. #BharatJodoYatra is a non-electoral yet political weapon of peace. BJP doesn’t understand this. They’ve a mechanism driven by data, analytics, social listening tools, campaign blitzkrieg that work to deliver electoral wins3/n Image
All good, all short-term. So, when faced with a long-haul ideological struggle such as the #BharatJodoYatra, this mechanism fails in its understanding, its calculations. It happened prior with the farmers’ protests; it was tested at anti-CAA protests. With #BharatJodoYatra, 4/n Image
Cong has set a political tone with a long-term prospect. This is unlike the IAC protests which while immensely impactful also saw its star components bitterly part ways amidst individual ambitions. BJY, aims to bring the elements together. The BJP believes in grand spectacles 5/n Image
Whether it was the air-strikes or the India’s G-20 chairperson elevation, one man dominated the hoardings & TV screens. Even his visit to a temple or the occasion of his mother’s demise got transformed into a glorification drive for the PM. But BJY has the BJP unable to 6/n Image
digest the people connect & honest interactions that its own over the top spectacles lack.
The BJP destroyed Rahul Gandhi’s image in the most vitriolic personal attack ever seen. From mocking his intelligence to calling him an anti-national conspirator, it was a ruthless 7/n Image
character assassination. & when the dust settled, to its shock, Rahul Gandhi emerged. BJP fears all its guns have been wasted on the Man of Steel. The BJP fears him because if Rahul Gandhi can withstand that kind of attack, there is no way can the BJP vanquish him & his party8/n Image
In the battle between brute & grit, grit will triumph.
When you a lie, a ‘000 times, it becomes a believable ‘fact’. A lie, nevertheless, can never be a truth. But when the lies become a pollutant in the air, it begins to burn the eyes of the most devout of the intoxicated. 9/n Image
& the truth, it's like light, always there. Against #BharatJodoYatra, BJP faces not a behemoth, it faces humanity holding hands in fearless defiance of authority. It is still a small river, but will eventually wash away all the hate BJP has managed to sow in the last decade10/10 Image

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Jan 9
Dear BJP Supporter,
I know many of you are making fun of #BharatJodoYatra & mocking #RahulGandhi. Do I think your views are misplaced? Yes. Do I blame you for it? No! But with a rider. You’re blameless as long as you’re believing in stories that Amish or Arnab feed you 1/n
Afterall, you believe what you’re told & told repeatedly by ‘NEWS’ channels. You’re blameless out of ignorance. Remember, however, ignorance is not bliss.
I know this post will not change your heart. But I don’t want you to support Rahul Gandhi or Congress. 2/n
I want you to THINK. ASK. QUESTION the media for its non-stop attack on the opposition & dutiful defence of the govt. Don’t you think there is something wrong in always being pro-govt & anti-opposition? Don’t you think media has a responsibility to ask tough questions to govt 3/n
Read 12 tweets
Jan 7
The BJP has become obsessed with #RahulGandhi. & it’s one of a sickening kind. & an entire machinery is deployed with all its might to tarnish One Man. Let that sink in. One Man, not a religion, not a political belief, not a country, just One Man! How much are they scared of 1/n
Rahul Gandhi? The Nazis went after the Jews, the BJP went after Muslims, the North Koreans went after the rest of the world but rarely has one man rattled a govt so much ever the way Rahul Gandhi has done to the BJP ruled central government. Why, shouldn’t you ask even if you 2/n
happen to be a BJP supporter? Congress after all (according to the BJP) has become irrelevant. Are they scared of a congress revival? Are they scared of Rahul Gandhi talking to you directly like Modi has never been able to do. Let’s talk about RG. Let me ask you all that you 3/n
Read 12 tweets
Jan 5
They claim #RahulGandhi is high on Ganja. That’s why he can brave the cold in a single t-shirt. You’ll come across more absurd statements but this one ranks up there.
This is just a fund thread on
10 MOST CREATIVE BJP HALLUCINATIONS ON RAHUL GANDHI & #BharatJodoYatra
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1. RG has an army of clone who’re walking in his steed
2. RG is taking performance enhancing drugs & IOC is aware of it
3. The Chinese gifted RG special mech-shoes to enable walking
4. It’s all just a hologram
5. RG stole Modi Ji’s mushrooms
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6. RG’s T-shirt has a nano-chip (2000 notes)
7. RG drinks monkey blood at night to warm his body (pick your beast)
8. It’s an android (another Made in China gift)
9. RG has done skin implants & coating to prevent heat reach his body
10. RG is possessed by dead terrorists
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Dec 24, 2022
#BharatJodoYatra has been a personal walk of discovery for Rahul Gandhi as much as it has been a wake-up call to the last cadre of the Congress. Whether RG has been able to shed the Pappu-tag that was thrusted upon him by the promotions hunters at BJP can still be debated yet 1/n
a new Rahul Gandhi has emerged. He was always a fearless man, a principled one. Now we see a man whose discipline is phenomenal & whose energy level can electrify an entire village. Wakes up every day at 4am, begins his walk at sharp 6am, walks 24km daily, has covered 2800km 2/n
in a walk that he set foot 100 days back from far south now it marches near the India Gate. If you still call him Pappu, you do it at your own peril. Because the dishevelled man is nonchalant in his stride, held back in his words & steadfast on his feet. 3/n
Read 10 tweets
Dec 23, 2022
The BJP driven propaganda against #BharatJodoYarta is a shameless act by a party that ran an amoral governance & promotions drive during the pandemic. It however, begs the question, should the Congress continue with the Yatra in the face of the danger of #COVID? A thread 1/n
Rahul Gandhi was the 1st politician who warned off against the dangers of #COVID19 during the 1st phase back in 2020. Unfortunately, the Indian govt didn’t pay heed to it & followed a mindless policy of pseudoscience & anti-life measures throwing india into an unprecedented 2/n
tragedy of death, despair & starvation. That was 3yrs back & as #COVID returns, we need to be better prepared & less insane than before. #BJY has been a massive success for the congress but the lives of people are more important than a political movement. We know india is 3/n
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Jul 29, 2022
Sonia Gandhi is many things to many people. Some hate her, few call her arrogant, others believe in stories of corruption & KGB spy theories. We forget she is a daughter of India. We forget she is the woman who gave up the chair of PM when it was for the taking. 1/n
We forget she established a man of utmost integrity to the office of PM & never ever (including Nehru) India has had a man of such erudite grace the office. We forget she championed for MNREGA. We forget she lost her husband in the service of the nation 2/n
They will still call her a bar girl. & we the people of India repeat after them. We forget who we’re & we forget Sonia Gandhi is as much Indian as any of us. The vile attacks have not deterred her. Aspirational leaders have jumped ship & are vocally critical of the Congress 3/n
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