I finally heard #RahulGandhi ‘s full speech and present to you a synopsis below to save you from an hour of torture.
His speech has three key themes:
1. Bad mouth India & demonise #Modi :
#democracy under attack, press judiciary undermined, girls getting gang-raped…1/7
His speech has three key themes:
1. Bad mouth India & demonise #Modi :
#democracy under attack, press judiciary undermined, girls getting gang-raped…1/7
People dissuading from hugging kids coz they were ‘dirty’ (alluding to untouchability), Kashmir is a violent place, Modi has a divisive agenda, he treats Sikhs, Muslims, minorities as second class citizens, he is trying to enforce his own idea of India on a union of states…2/7
which requires negotiation & not coercion!
2. Present his world view:
Two dominant ideas, one of #USA which believes in individual liberties & freedom and second of #China for which harmony in society is paramount (nothing new in it). US believes in being on top of nature…3/7
2. Present his world view:
Two dominant ideas, one of #USA which believes in individual liberties & freedom and second of #China for which harmony in society is paramount (nothing new in it). US believes in being on top of nature…3/7
while China believes in being force of nature
(Whatever that means, seemed to be one of those moments when a person is really on a high & doesn’t know what he is talking)
3. Position himself as a #Mahatma (Gandhi) not just for India but for the world:
These two divergent…4/7
(Whatever that means, seemed to be one of those moments when a person is really on a high & doesn’t know what he is talking)
3. Position himself as a #Mahatma (Gandhi) not just for India but for the world:
These two divergent…4/7
ideas (US & China), need to be given space, should be given a hearing, unravel the power of listening which I (RG) developed over the course of my yatra, I eventually reached a stage when I could understand what people wanted to say by merely touching their hands…5/7
one needs to destroy oneself (another one of those high moments…and there were many), in order to reconcile & negotiate one must develop the power of listening & compassion, in #Kashmir there were militants looking at me from close range but they did not harm me as I had…6/7
no violence in my heart.
That, ladies & gentlemen, was the summary. And in the process of painting himself as a global mahatma, he spoke lies, lies and more damn lies!! Plus he was all over d place, nowhere even close of how I structured it here...7/7
#RahulGandhiinCambridge
That, ladies & gentlemen, was the summary. And in the process of painting himself as a global mahatma, he spoke lies, lies and more damn lies!! Plus he was all over d place, nowhere even close of how I structured it here...7/7
#RahulGandhiinCambridge
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