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Oct032007
Surname droppings
Move over, Russell Peters. You have stiff competition from within India.
Meet Rajnath Singh - the president of the BJP - India’s latest addition to stand-up comedy. Because, of late, he’s been saying some funny-ass shit.
For instance, he has an absurd requirement - Sonia Gandhi should drop the surname. Why? Because Gandhi’s political vision was Ram Rajya, and while I wonder how ‘Ram’ can be drafted into ‘political’ ideology, Rajnath’s theory is straightforward: Gandhi believed in Ram, you don’t, so don’t use his surname.
It got me thinking. Rajnath who again? Oh, right - Singh. Now, going by that, Bhagat Singh believed in Atheism. Rajnath, obviously, doesn’t. But he still has the surname. Weird. Either Rajnath turns to Atheism - I know a few friends who’d be glad to show you the light - or you set an example for Sonia and drop the surname. Something more appropriate to your ideas and agenda. Like, er, Godse, perhaps?
Rajnath Godse.
Hmm. How does it sound to you?
But that isn’t where it all ends. He goes on to make this crappy statement.
If Lord Ram did not exist, then it means the preachings of Gandhiji were all wrong. The Congress president has Gandhi in her surname. Her children also carry Gandhi surnames. Then I think they should reconsider.
Reconsider? He thinks they picked the surname? Right, so the kids were born, and little Rahul and Priyanka, one fine day were left in awe of their History lesson, so they went up to mommy dearest and were like, ‘Mummy? We want Gandhi in our surname. Thank you.’
Mr. Singh, for the record - what Gandhi preached was what he believed. You and me are absolutely nobody to decide whether his belief was factual or fictional. And before I’m stabbed, Gandhi talked about non-violence. About Hindu-Muslim unity. Your ‘party’ - which is actually a ‘legitimate’ front for right-wing Hindus like the VHP and the RSS to slaughter the ‘minority’ - is far from establishing Hindu-Muslim unity. Another quick reality check - who assassinated Gandhi? The Congress or the RSS? And, Mr. Singh, can you honestly (or even dishonestly) deny that the RSS and the BJP aren’t pals?
In fact, just in case you claim to be ignorant about your own party’s doings, the RSS use the BJP for their political activities, the same way the Americans use their fake wars for the oil. So, seriously, just hush up.
Not that the Congress is India’s best party - they haven’t handled the Sethu Samudhram cleverly - but never mind.
Rajnath Singh also had this to say about the whole Lord Ram fiasco.
Neither British rulers nor Mughal emperors questioned the existence of Lord Ram. But this government is doing it. They are doing what even Aurangazeb and Clive had not done.
Naw, all ‘Clivey’ did was turn a whole nation and her people into slaves for the Brits. And all ‘Zeb did was reward anyone who converted to Islam, in a country that had prided itself on religious harmony and cultural diversity. No big shit, really, eh Rajnath?
Right, you do have some class leaders - Mr. Vajpayee comes to mind - but if you’re going to make personal attacks on random people (sorry, Sonia, but in the context, you are a random person) using the BJP’s name - you’re being silly.
To his credit, the bloke noted that the country cannot progress by ignoring its key agricultural sector. True. I’m not a big fan of those who lick the West’s rear, and Mr. Singh would do well to focus on issues of national importance than a mere surname of a woman.
Back to my initial point on comedy. There is, however, one key differentiator between Mr. Peters and Mr. Singh.
Russell occasionally does makes sense.
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Mahendra
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11:07 pm
Excellent post!
What next? Or Sonia to drop her surname because she’s a foreign national against whom the Mahatma fought? Will he then want our PM to drop his surname as the PM may not agree with Rajnath?!
Dilip
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1:29 am
An otherwise very well written article spoiled by unnecessary naivete a la: “the same way the Americans use their fake wars for the oil”
shravan
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8:58 am
ridiculous article, probably you do not know the reason behind indira gandhi’s surname, know and then talk. once you do what I have told you you won’t compare the singh surnames shared by rajnath and bhagat.
2S
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9:32 am
@Shravan - What are you waiting for? Why the delay, in telling me that she got married to Feroz Ghandy (a Parsi surname) and he altered his name a bit to suit that of the freedom fighter, Gandhi?
That is irrelevant, incidentally.
vishesh
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9:33 am
lol!
now seriously this funny…are the political parties so jobless??maybe we should give them a kick on their backside and bring them back to more serious stuff??
Sanjuro
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1:08 pm
“Russell occasionally does makes sense.”
Take cue from that..and may be if you try hard, you too will make sense some day.
Jo
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1:51 pm
Spot on post Sandil!
2S
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1:56 pm
@Sanjuro - by any remote chance are you suggesting that Rajnath Singh made sense?
Sanjuro
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3:02 pm
For one thing.. He is a polititian.. he is just playing his games for the upcoming election, I dont think one should read too much into whatever he has said (U know.. he is just a senior leader of the main opposition party :D). He does have a point though. Don’t you think Congress and the whole Nehru-gandhi clan is mis-using the name of “father of our nation” for their own personal benefit way too much ?
Just 2 days back there was a news about a congress leader saying that the nation owed a lot to the party, since it was the party who gave gandhi to the nation. He went on to say that Gandhi belonged to the congress first, and then to the nation (glad, aren’t we?).
http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/222685.html
Now.. that is some article..
ram
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3:48 am
ur knowledge about north politics and about My importance in north india is rather to shallow
godse was a follower of bharat mata not me
u seem to be a karunanidhi bhakt!
Sanjuro
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12:10 pm
http://indiablogs.searchindia.com/2007/10/06/sonia-gandhi-attacked-in-65000-new-york-times-ad/
http://nitawriter.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/protests-against-sonias-speech-on-international-non-violence-day-suppressed-by-media/
Pardon me for digging up this thread again, but when you see a person who holds no official state post addressing UN representing our beloved nation, I just couldn’t sit on the fence. (She was not invited by the UN, but went to UN representing India as the head of the state - Usually its either the PM or the president of the nation who has the previlage of addressing the UN representing the nation). She has once again showed (shoved) that she runs the show.
Anurag
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10:39 am
The article is excellent. The comments are even more humorous, to say the least…