Narendra Modi'S Attack On Rahul Gandhi : Goliath Versus David
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    • Narendra Modi's attack on Rahul Gandhi : Goliath Versus David

    T Job Anbalagan

    Dy General Manager Vigilance
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    Yahoo News published the following news:

    Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has recently challenged Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on why one man (guy) cannot set everything right and offered to show to do it.

    "I will show him (Rahul) how one man (guy) can set everything right, in response to a sermon he gave recently," Modi said at a BJP election rally here ahead of the Karnataka assembly poll May 5.

    "Though born with a golden spoon, he (Rahul) did not read much, especially Indian history. He should have done some homework before giving sermons.

    "He may be right about Pandit Nehru and Indira Gandhi that one man (or woman) can't do everything. But Sardar (Vallabhai) Patel and Lal Bahadur Shastri have shown how one man can change everything," Modi added.

    Modi told about 30,000 people in the National College ground here that while India's first prime minister (Nehru) was in-charge of integrating Jammu & Kashmir with the country, it was Sardar Patel as the home minister who united all the princely and feudal states across the country and brought them under the federal republic.

    Similarly, he recalled how Shastri (then prime minister) with a single slogan of "jai jawan aur jai kisan" (victory to soldier and victory to farmer) brought green revolution into the country.

    He said Shastri increased food production enabling the country to stop importing wheat under Public Law (PL) 480 from the US in mid-sixties after the Indo-Pak war in 1965.

    "If he (Rahul) thinks that way, I am sorry for him as this country had shown many a time how one man with vision and leadership can bring about a drastic change in the lives of the people.

    "Even I can show how to set right everything. Let him come to me for an open debate on what he said recently," Modi said, asking the electorate to reject the Congress in the assembly poll as the party's symbol (hand) was deceptive.

    Modi said it was so because it does not show the face of its would-be chief minister unlike the BJP, which has projected state chief minister Jagdish Shettar as its chief ministerial candidate. 

    One individual 

    Rahul is 100% right. One man on the horse cannot change the course of history of this nation. However, according to Sardar Vallbhai Patel or Lal Bhadur Shastri, albeit individuals, united the whole nation. No doubt, they united the nation because they stood for secularism and for unity of the nation. They united the whole nation and did not divide the nation on communal lines, whereas Mr.Narendra Modi divides the nation on communal lines.  Is his ideology on secularism different from that of the BJP and the RSS? A chameleon can change its color but not its skin. 

    He always speaks in double tongue.  When he faces the youths and the elite groups in Urban India, he speaks on governance and development. But when he goes on election campaign,especially to the rural areas, he speaks about corruption in UPA government and takes credit for his secular image of "not allowing communal riot in his state since 2002".

    Who should read the history? Pandit Jawarlal Nehru was an individual only.  Indira Gandhi was also an individual.  Both of them contributed to the all round development of this great nation individually. They stood for secularism and unity of this nation.  

    Goliath versus David

    The giant Goliath who is a war veteran and who won many battles was pitted against the young, inexperienced shepherd boy David. Goliath was shouting at the fearful Israelites who were seeking cover from his fierce attack. The following is the story of giant Goliath and the young David:

    "The Philistine army had gathered for war against Israel. The two armies faced each other, camped for battle on opposite sides of a steep valley. A Philistine giant measuring over nine feet tall and wearing full armor came out each day for forty days, mocking and challenging the Israelites to fight. His name was Goliath.Saul, the King of Israel, and the whole army were terrified of Goliath.

    One day David, the youngest son of Jesse, was sent to the battle lines by his father to bring back news of his brothers. David was probably just a young teenager at the time. While there, David heard Goliath shouting his daily defiance and he saw the great fear stirred within the men of Israel. 

    So David volunteered to fight Goliath. It took some persuasion, but King Saul finally agreed to let David fight against the giant. Dressed in his simple tunic, carrying his shepherd's staff, slingshot and a pouch full of stones, David approached Goliath. The giant cursed at him, hurling threats and insults.

    As Goliath moved in for the kill, David reached into his bag and slung one of his stones at Goliath's head. Finding a hole in the armor, the stone sank into the giant's forehead and he fell face down on the ground. David then took Goliath's sword, killed him and then cut off his head. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. So the Israelites pursued, chasing and killing them and plundering their camp".

    Mr. Narendra Modi, a shrewd and experienced politician who attacks Rahul Gandhi at every available opportunity  looks like the giant Goliath wielding all kinds of weapons. But the young David, who is a novice to politics and who is not experienced like Mr. Modi looks like David. The battlelines are drawn.  

    The humble David has to win the arrogant Goliath through a sling.  This is history. 


     

     
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