Bharat Jodo Yatra: NDTV Offers An Insightful Glimpse into Its Innards

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Sukla Sen

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Nov 13, 2022, 6:26:20 AM11/13/22
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Here's the video report presented by Sreenivasan Jain, one of the rare figures in the mainstream electronic media who is strikingly competent, remarkably balanced and not known to be compromised: <https://www.ndtv.com/video/shows/truth-vs-hype/truth-vs-hype-anatomy-of-rahul-gandhi-s-bharat-jodo-yatra-665587>.
Incidentally, his father was a very well-known and respected Gandhian economist: LC Jain. His mother, Devaki Jain, is an eminent Gandhian-feminist economist.
While he's, quite justifiably, known as a TV journalist who has done a number of (courageous) investigative report, I, for one, remember him for his 'The Myth of Big Retail' (at <http://www.sacw.net/article2859.html>) penned by him when the issue of the FDI in retail was being passionately and acrimoniously debated. 

Here are a few more insightful glimpses, of course put out, more recently, by the Yatra organisers themselves:

The numbers joining the Yatra or cheering it on are, no doubt, quite impressive. From the very beginning. And, appearing to be swelling even further as the Yatra progresses.
But, more than the numbers, it's the spirit that's most heartening.
The extent of both has, reportedly, surprised even the organisers of the Yatra.
It's probably during a chitchat with Dilip D'Souza -- a journalist-activist from Mumbai -- Rahul Gandhi had, very rightly, observed that the element of spontaneity is even more important than organised mobilisation. In the event, there appears to be no dearth of spontaneity either. People are joining in from all corners -- physically and metaphorically.

Apart from all these, the Yatra is offering and trying to evolve a new idiom for mass mobilisation.
What's essentially a protest march is shot with a carnivalesque mood.
That, for so many, must be quite mind-boggling.

Even Rahul Gandhi is presenting a very radically different model of a public "leader" -- warm, intimate and humane -- so starkly different from the gross, distant and macho 56".

But, to be sure, the fight on hand is too difficult.
"India" is virtually racing towards the abyss.
The Yatra is, as yet, only a (growing) ray of hope.
Let's do our bits.

sukl...@gmail.com

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Sukla Sen

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Nov 13, 2022, 10:13:02 PM11/13/22
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Just look who's so concerned about the electoral prospects of the Congress!

The fight is, of course, too tough.
No doubt. (Had explicitly been acknowledged in the initiating post.)
But, it's now being fought in right earnest -- spreading the message and spirit of amity and friendship to counter hate.
That's why the hate mongers are unnerved.
(They so intensely hate "hugging" and put gangrape and mass murder on a pedestal. Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is celebrated via premature release of convicts of such crimes and their public felicitations.)

And it's a fight to make "India" -- it's foundational pillars, substantive democracy and pluralism -- survive.
Giving up is just no option.

Sukla


On Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 01:23 sanjeev kulkarni <jeevku...@yahoo.com> wrote:


After the Bharat Jodo Yatra started there were 7 by-polls in various states.  All were lost by Congress.  When Rahul's yatra was passing through Telangana Congress even lost the seat that they had held earlier.



 

NEW DELHI: Signs had already lined up of Congress’ steady diminution in Telangana. But if confirmation was needed of the party’s decline, it came in the loss of the Munugode by-poll, a seat Congress held till August this year, and where it finished a dismal third on Sunday. (This is when Rahul's yatra was passing through Telangana). For good reasons, he is avoiding taking yatra through Gujarat and HP where there will be elections soon. 

 

It is expected that fresh poll debacles will be dumped on the head of the new Congress president for which he was specifically brought in.

 

Besides walking, hugging girls Nehru-Gandhi style, and tying shoelaces, has Rahul discussed any programs or policies? Or we are supposed to be so gullible as to fall for such photo ops? Has S. Jain penned any article discussing the pros and cons of it if there was any program to discuss in the first place, that is? Or in this case, too, we are supposed to be happy that his mother was a feminist economist and his father was something so do not expect any intelligent articles from him this time.

Congress should garner 10-15% votes, and it will have served some useful purpose justifying its existence for the Indian democracy.  Others will take care of the rest.  Yes, Congress in its present avatar and strength is very useful. BJP must ensure Congress does not go below this strength. Or where that vote will go?

 


SANJEEV


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