So, what's Rahul Gandhi up to?

So, what is Rahul Gandhi up to?

The scion of Neheru-Gandhi dynasty recently had a whirlwind tour across West Bengal and aroused the intesest of the masses by simply mouthing things that were half-baked rhetoric. To cite just one example, he told in a meeting that there are two Bengals – one that of rich CPM’s, and another of the poor masses. He was of course cheered with applauses, but is there anything new about it? Do you see any novelty in such a benign and apolitical statement? If it wasn’t shit, it was not a tolerable insight either.

Rahul is evidently posing as the messiah of the underdogs, but without any credibility. Think what he stated in the wake of the Central Government’s rejection of Vedanta’s Niyamgiri project in Orissa following the relentless resistance movement by the Adivasis. He congratulated the Adivasis for the triumph of the movement, and assured them that he would be their ‘sepahi’ in New Delhi to fight for their cause in future. Now, who is going to have his faith in someone who has never ever associated himself with this movement?

Here is the irony: Rahul advocates for the poor while his Government is systematically batting for the mining corporates who are supposed to hike the GDP!

So, it does not require much brain to understand that Rahul is just paying lip service for the ordinary poor people of India and is in the game of building up an image on his way to being at the helm of affairs in not too distant a future.