The Lie and Deceit from Modi’s Closet

The Lie and Deceit from Modi’s Closet

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August 12, 2022

That politics is a dirty game comes true every now and then. This time it is the lie and deceit that has come out once again from the closet of Gujarat’s Nero, Narendra Modi. Days before Modi along with other Bharatiya Janata Party leaders landed in Patna, the capital of Bihar, to attend the party’s two-day national executive beginning June 12, Bihar dailies – English, Hindi and Urdu – carried full-page advertisements showing, in contravention of the ground reality prevailing in the Modi-ruled communally tainted State, Gujarati Muslims doing sufficiently well, and depicting Modi as Bihar’s ‘Samaritan’, who helped the victims of Kosi flood that had afflicted Bihar in 2008.

As for the progress and prosperity of Gujarati Muslims, it will suffice to say that the scar of meticulously-planned, state-sponsored anti-Muslim genocide in the State in 2002 is still green in the psyche of plural Bharat. It is such a terrible crime that cannot be washed out with dishing out lies in advertisements and speeches. Keeping in view the forthcoming Assembly elections in Bihar in October 2010, such Machiavellian mechanism can well be termed as political jiggery-pokery. But should we remind the authors of this essay in deceit that Muslim voters of Bihar and for that matter of Gujarat or any other place in the country are not that fool to buy such deception.

The published lie is that one of the photographs printed in the ad was snapped in Shibli National College at Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and not at any place in Gujarat; and that it was plagiarised from a US based news web site TwoCircles.net, where it was first published. The Editor of the news portal and the management of Shibli College are mulling legal action against this unauthorised use of an image of Muslim girls; and it will be in the fitness of things if they really go ahead.

Another advertisement, which shows Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar joining hands with Modi, has also stirred the political cauldron of Bihar politics. It infuriated Kumar so much that he cancelled the dinner he had hosted for BJP leaders at his Chief Minister’s residence. But the fact remains that mere cancelling the dinner for the leaders of a party, whose very approach to politics has been against the plural fabric of the country, or for that matter taking legal action against the ad agency, will not work to show his ‘secular’ credentials. The least the voters of Bihar expect from Kumar is to sever his ties with the BJP for good, and return the money the Modi government had sent to Bihar to help the victims of Kosi flood in 2008. This will raise his stature as a politician and go in the long run to establish a much-wanted just society.