Will This Action By Government Bring The Opposition Together? | Rahul Srivastava Explains

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified as Lok Sabha MP a day after a Surat court sentenced him to two-year jail in a 2019 defamation case. The Wayanad MP was convicted over his "why all thieves have Modi surname" remark.

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[itsaiwal]

how come court verdict is interpreted as Government

[vignesh]

This is the end of Modi era and beginning of Rahuls era...

[gauravchaubal]

Completely agree with Uddhav Saheb that Adani-Modi-Shah rule is Maharashtra’s ‘Enemy No.1’!!

It is said that one should judge others’ intentions, not just by their words, but more so by their actions.

Here is a small list of actions that literally proves the Adani-Modi-Shah rule’s ill-intentions of breaking up Maharashtra into pieces, for instance, Bombay (not Mumbai), Vidarbha, etc., to reduce Maharashtra’s economic, political and cultural influence:

1. Breaking up of Shiv Sena into pieces, and then, snatching the Shiv Sena name and symbol from Uddhav Thackeray

2. Sidelining, Pro-United-Maharashtra BJP politicians such as:
i) Nitin Gadkari: by throwing him out of BJP’s crucial parliamentary board
ii) Eknath Kadse (a potential chief minister candidate): by throwing him out of the party, right after winning Maharashtra state elections
iii) Pankaja Munde: by taking away her ministership from the Maharashtra Cabinet
iv) Devendra Phadnavis: by demoting him (a full-term chief minister of a strategic state like Maharashtra) to a Deputy Chief Minister
v) Prakash Javdekar: by taking away all his ministries and cabinet posts from him
Instead, giving tickets and key strategic posts in the party to as many non-Maharashtrian politicians in Maharashtra as possible, for instance, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Kirit Somaya, Piyush Goyal, Ravi Rana, Navneet Rana, Murji Patel, Mohit Khamboj, etc.

3. Taking away almost all the major projects from Maharashtra that are worth almost Rs. 2 lakh crore:
i) Vedanta-Foxcon semiconductor manufacturing project
ii) Tata-Airbus aircraft manufacturing project
iii) Bulk drug park project
iv) Medical devices park project
v) Renewal energy equipment park project
vi) IFSC (International Financial Services Centre) - International stock exchange and India International Bullion Exchange (IIBX)

4. Setting up of diamond park project in Navi Mumbai, a project which benefits only the rich people belonging to a few business communities in MMR (Mumbai Metropolitan Region)

5. Giving Maharashtra’s strategic infrastructure specifically to Adani, so that a perpetual control can be maintained over Maharashtra, for example:
i) Mumbai airport (both international and domestic terminals)
ii) Navi Mumbai international airport
iii) Mumbai port
iv) Dharavi redevelopment project (worth lakhs of crore rupees)

6. Developing infrastructure only between Mumbai and Gujarat:
i) Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train
ii) Mumbai-Delhi Expressway passing majorly through Gujarat, despite already having a 6-lane Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway. Mumbai-Delhi expressway should have passed through Nashik, which would have reduced the travel time, construction time and cost much more
iii) Launching Vande Bharat trains between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, despite there being Shatabdi, Duronto and so many other fast and slower trains on this route. Vande Bharat type of fast trains are in dire requirement on other routes that connect Mumbai to important cities of Maharashtra, such, Kolhapur, Ratnagiri, Jalgaon, et al

7. Developing infrastructure only between Mumbai and Nagpur:
- The Samruddhi expressway was not a priority requirement, as most people who own cars fly down to Nagpur and will hardly go by car
- The need of the hour is expressways on routes such as Mumbai-Goa, Mumbai-Nashik, Pune-Kolhapur, Pune-Solapur, 12-laning of Mumbai-Pune expressway, etc.
- The Mumbai-Goa 6-lane highway (not expressway) passes mainly through Konkan region, which has a Shiv Sena voting population that works in Mumbai and have their native places in Konkan. Obviously, they use roadways to travel to their native places more than any other mode of transport. However, this highway is under construction for almost 20 years, but still not even 60-70% complete.
- Also, the traffic density on the above-mentioned routes is very high compared to other routes in India. So, expressway construction should be prioritised as per traffic density and not just by political gains.
It is clear that the Adani-Modi gang wants to develop infrastructure between Mumbai and Gujarat, Vidarbha, et al, using Maharashtra’s funds and resources, before breaking Maharashtra up into pieces

8. Instigating villages in border districts of Maharashtra to join Gujarat or Karnataka

9. Sending Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister to Mumbai to hold an event to persuade the Hindi film industry to setup shop in Uttar Pradesh

10. Sending an anti-Maharashtra person as a Governor of Maharashtra, who:
- spoke against Shivaji Maharaj and other Greats of Maharashtra such as Mahatma Phule, etc.
- was not only anti-Maharashtra, but also a supporter of only a few business communities that live and work in Maharashtra
- did not nominate 12 MLCs for 2.5 years, despite the Bombay High Court and Chief Justice questioning the Governor’s move (an undemocratic move amongst many others)
- did not allow Assembly Speaker’s election
- called for a floor test to facilitate the fall of the existing government, a move that is called unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India

Other actions such as hypocrisy on nepotism, for instance, Jay Shah becoming the secretary of BCCI, bullying over even discussions (let alone investigation) of the Adani-Modi Scam in the Parliament and elsewhere, media gag, abuse of institutions such as ED, CBI, IT, SEBI, RBI, et al, attacking the autonomy of the judiciary, finishing off of the opposition parties, hardly fulfilling any of the 2014 manifesto's promises, bad handling of Chinese incursions along the LAC, crony capitalism, deaths of common citizens during demonitization, bad road conditions across India, horse-trading during elections, forming governments with parties of opposing ideologies out of political greed for example, forming a government with Mehbooba Mufti (PDP) in Kashmir, Ajit Pawar (NCP) in Maharashtra, Conrad Sangma (NPP) in Meghalaya, etc., abusing people's nationalistic and religious sentiments for political gains, spreading the politics of communalism, regionalism and casteism across India, inflation, unemployment, farmers' suicides, etc. point toward the Adani-Modi gang being India's no.1 enemy as well.

The list goes on and on.