Even after the passage of the ladies’s reservation invoice within the Lower and Upper House of the Parliament, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi made controversial remarks towards the invoice. He mentioned the invoice is a “distraction and diversion tactic from the demand for a caste census”.
The Gandhi scion mentioned that the invoice comes with two footnotes that the Census and Delimitation should be finished for the implementation of the invoice. He mentioned, “Both of these will take years. The truth is that the Reservation can be implemented today…This is not a complicated matter but the Govt doesn’t want to do that. Govt has presented this before the country but it will be implemented 10 years from now. Nobody knows if this will even be implemented. This is a distraction tactic, diversion tactic.”
#WATCH | Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, “Women’s Reservation Bill is nice however we acquired two footnotes that Census and Delimitation have to be finished earlier than that. Both of those will take years. The fact is that the Reservation could be applied at present…This just isn’t a sophisticated… pic.twitter.com/BzLvKzOrL0
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In a tone that appeared to pit ladies’s reservation towards OBC reservation, Rahul Gandhi mentioned, “What is it that you are being diverted from? From OBC Census. I spoke of one institution in Parliament, that which runs the Government of India – Cabinet secretary and secretaries…I asked why only three out of 90 people belong to the OBC community?… I don’t understand that PM Modi speaks of OBCs every day but what did he do for them?”
#WATCH | Women’s Reservation Bill | Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, “What is it that you’re being diverted from? From OBC Census. I spoke of 1 establishment in Parliament, that which runs the Government of India – Cabinet secretary and secretaries…I requested why solely three out of… pic.twitter.com/6WVKGgYXb8
— ANI (@ANI) September 22, 2023
He additional mentioned that the reservation for OBC MPs and MLAs just isn’t the query and requested why there are solely 3 out of the 90 secretaries from the OBC class. The media additionally questioned Rahul Gandhi if he regrets that the OBC quota was not offered within the ladies’s reservation invoice introduced by the UPA. “100 per cent regret hai. This should have been done then. We will get this done,” the Congress MP mentioned.
Demanding a caste census, Rahul Gandhi mentioned that Lok Sabha is known as the temple of democracy. Then he went on to say whether or not any BJP MP take any resolution, do they make any regulation or take part in making a regulation? “Not at all. Neither Congress MP, BJP MP, nor any other MP. MPs have been turned into murtis in temples. OBC MPs have been filled like murtis (in the Parliament) but they don’t have any power. There is no contribution in running the country. This is a question I have raised.”
“Every OBC youth must understand that should you get a chance to run this country, yes or no? If yes, then is your population 5%. And this is what the BJP is trying to distract from”, he continued.
The Congress chief has demanded that the delimitation clause ought to be faraway from the invoice. “Are you going to make separate reservation provision for OBC and women in the government in future?” the Congress chief requested. He additionally claimed that it is extremely a lot potential to implement the regulation from at present itself.
Notably, Congress MPs and its allies within the UPA had blocked the passage of the ladies’s reservation invoice through the UPA regime. Opposition events, together with those that had been members of the UPA, like SP, RJD, LJP, and JDU had been a few of the events whose leaders within the Parliament vehemently opposed and stalled the passage of the Bill.
The Vajpayee authorities launched the Bill within the Parliament not less than six instances however the identical was blocked due to the Congress. Lacking a majority, the Vajpayee authorities was depending on the Opposition for consensus.
Rahul Gandhi’s ‘murthi’ remark and why it’s deeply Hinduphobic
In his desperation to deride the Modi authorities, Rahul Gandhi ended up making an announcement which was deeply Hinduphobic. While making an attempt to make the purpose that MPs weren’t contributing to any productive work within the parliament by the use of formulation of legal guidelines, Rahul Gandhi in contrast them to Murthis in a Temple. He mentioned, “Not at all. Neither Congress MP, BJP MP, nor any other MP. MPs have been turned into murtis in temples. OBC MPs have been filled like murtis (in the Parliament) but they don’t have any power. There is no contribution in running the country. This is a question I have raised.”
Rahul Gandhi primarily mentioned that MPs within the parliament had been powerless simply as murthis in a Temple. This is the precise trope which is utilized by Islamists to negate and insult Murthi-puja – the very core of the Hindu religion. The argument made by the Islamists and extremist Christians is that the Murthis within the temple are merely stones and serve no objective past perpatuating superstition. This line of argument is prolonged to denying legitimacy to Sanatan Dharma and the Hindu religion normally, insulting those that practise ritualistic Hinduism.
Rahul Gandhi made the argument that the Murthis, that Hindus worship, are powerless and ‘useless’, simply because the MPs within the parliament – which is to say – they serve no objective.
Hindus worship Murthis believing that they’re the manifestation of the spirit of the divine. Every Murthi in a temple undergoes a ritual referred to as Praan Pratishtha after which, is it primarily doesn’t stay a ‘Murthi’ however an embodiment of the divine – with the divine infusing the non secular essence in it.
For Rahul Gandhi to assert that Murthis are ineffective, primarily signifies that he believes Murthi puja – the very core of Sanatan Dharma – is merely a superstition and serves no objective – primarily furthering the Hinduphobic narrative of the Islamists and Missionaries towards Hindus.
This just isn’t the primary time that Rahul Gandhi has made Hinduphobic feedback. In 2014, talking about ladies’s security, Rahul Gandhi had mentioned that individuals go to the temple and worship to the Goddess, name ladies moms and sisters, however the fact is that these very folks molest ladies in a bus.
Rahul Gandhi appears to have an uncanny skill to attach each sick of the society to the Hindu neighborhood and protect each sick of every other neighborhood. One recollects how a Wikileaks doc revealed how the Congress occasion performed politics over the 26/11 Mumbai assaults. It didn’t escape the discover of even the then U.S. ambassador to India, David Mulford. The commentary made was that the Congress occasion after the assault had chosen to pander to Muslim fears.
Further, there was one other Wikileaks cable that exposed that Rahul Gandhi had travelled overseas and claimed that Hindu extremism is worse than Muslim extremism and terrorism. This remark was made in 2009.
It is, due to this fact, evident that Rahul Gandhi has an extended historical past of creating Hinduphobic feedback that focus on the Hindu neighborhood and associating himself with parts who habitually go Hinduphobic feedback. In this occasion as nicely, Rahul Gandhi, in his zeal to assault the Modi authorities, has ended up insulting the Hindu neighborhood and their religion.
