Fw: Rahul Gandhi: Reconciler or hellraiser?

[Sandeep Pandey]

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Subject: Rahul Gandhi: Reconciler or hellraiser?

Please see attached as a PDF file my Times of India column:

“Rahul Gandhi, who a few days back kept waving the pocket-edition of the constitution at everybody he came across, suddenly in parliament, on Monday, started showing religious figures and religious symbols. It was an immaculate contradiction. He had become a schoolteacher with flash cards, trying to prove he knew enough about religion. He also tried to acquire a moralistic perch through this exercise. Whatever his reason for doing so may be, religion is a landmine that a politician should avoid stepping on. He should have remained inside the frame of the constitution he had nicely created as his niche. Sadly, he had disrupted the harmony of his own efforts.”

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STRANGE BURDENS: THE POLITICS AND PREDICAMENTS OF RAHUL GANDHI

Penguin Random House (Vintage), 2023 | https://www.amazon.in/dp/067009885X

FURROWS IN A FIELD: THE UNEXPLORED LIFE OF H.D.DEVE GOWDA

Penguin Random House (Vintage), 2021 | www.amzn.to/30bIvpq
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SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU

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[Sandeep Pandey]

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From: Pramod Yadava <pkyada...@gmail.com>

To: Sandeep Pandey <ashaa...@yahoo.com>

Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 09:50:14 AM GMT+5:30

Subject: Re: [SP(I)] Fw: Rahul Gandhi: Reconciler or hellraiser?

Dear Dr. Pandey:

That’s my concern too. A true leader would assert on rationality. In past Rahul has been showing off as  shaivite Brahmin going to temples and showing off tripund tilak and the sacred thread(janeu). Others like Akhilesh also keeps flaunting his Aastha. They don’t fit in the unsaid part of Nehru’s scientific temper. Maybe they find it politically more acceptable gesture. But that in itself is unethical opportunism.

Regards 

Pramod Yadava, Professor (superannuated) & Former Dean, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi 110067, INDIA, Presently Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER, Berhampur 760010, Odisha

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