Ram Nath kovindu…Tricky politics played by Prime Minister Narendra Modi !
Ram Nath kovindu…Tricky politics played by Prime Minister Narendra Modi !
Sunil Negi, President, Uttarakhand Journalists Forum
By finally selecting Ramnath Kovind, a dalit n the governor of Bihar who is not an RSSite n primarily late Morarji Desai’s protege, the prime minister Narendra Modi has played his tricks well by not only sending a significant message across the country that BJP is not merely a party of the forward castes but honors the Dalit sentiments to the core, as well. Moreover nothing can equate as the best example than elevating an unknown Dalit to the highest coveted post of the land. In this way a highly intelligent n manipulative Modi has not only by playing a Dalit card put the entire opposition including UPA into a defensive mode but has also punctured the leadership of the extreme caste oriented leaders like Mayawati, Mulayam Singh, Laloo Yadav n rest of the opposition who usually accuse BJP as the party of anti Dalit, brahmins, thakurs n Banias n has also compelled the Bihar CM Nitish Kumar n his party JDU to support Kovind’s candidature. Moreover, by selecting a politically not so pivotal candidate for this top slot it seems obvious that he may prove to be a rubber stamp President. The Congress party n its UPA constituents who’ve been holding number of meetings for the last several days to select their own candidate in view of the NDA lacking some votes n thinking that the chances of the UPA seems brighter but by all of a sudden declaring the name of an unknown Dalit, Modi have been successful in putting the entire excercise of the UPA into quandry. The political analysts say that now it would be difficult n rather impossible for the opposition to deny or reject the candidature of a Dalit sponsered by the BJP as denying support to a Dalit by UPA n its left , secular n democratic constituents would amount to their being anti dalit n as such they (NDA) would never risk themselves being accused as anti dalit whose entire politics revolves around the vote bank of dalits, backwards n minorities. The crux of the matter is by declaring Ramnath Kovind as their presidential nominee not only has Modi been successful in eliciting the support of Dalits for BJP in future n washing the pro forward n anti dalit caste tag (as BJP used to be identified earlier) but has also demoralised the entire opposition (the UPA) whose politics revolves around Dalit, backward n minorities vote bank n who’d been desperately endeavoring to propose their own presidential nominee. It may be recalled that Ramnath Kovind a non RSSite is primarily a Morarji Desai follower. He represented as Rajya Sabha MP twice n was sworn in as governor of Bihar on 8th August 2015. An advocate by profession Kovind practiced in Delhi. What’s your take on ths, friends? Please do accquaint us ?