Despite having all deserving qualities to be the PM of this country through the massive mandate UPA had garnered, Sonia Gandhi had to step back owing to the conspiracy of Sangh Parivar and other opposition parties.
Though she has contributed more to this nation than anyone else, Sonia Gandhi is yet to be accepted as an 'Indian’.
This crisis of identity has transferred from mother to son now. Looks like Rahul Gandhi strongly believes it is inevitable for him to be a brahmin to become the PM of this country and he has even been declaring his gotra and nakshatra etc out in the open stressing on his brahmin identity.
He is even seeking help of brahmin pontiffs too to press the point further.
On the other hand, Sangh Parivar and BJP are going great lengths to prove Rahul is not a brahmin.
Now the moot question is, whether it is inevitable for Rahul to be a brahmin to even qualify to be the PM of India?
Why is he making all these efforts to prove his brahminical qualities? To understand the effect of how casteism is still ruling the mindsets of this nation, Rahul's need to project himself as a brahmin goes a long way in driving the point home.
And with this, Rahul has fallen in the trap laid by Sangh Parivar and other casteist elements.
By trying to prove himself as a brahmin, Rahul seems to have accepted the supremacy of brahmanism and its power to wield political equations.
Rahul Gandhi could have given a powerful repartee to those who sought to know his gotra. He could have extended the context of discussion to bring the issue of caste to the forefront by asking those who pose blocks in allowing a leader like him to enter the temples could be doing worse to the members of lower castes and underprivileged communities.
He could have mounted constructive criticism about the brahmanical hierarchy that exists within BJP and Sangh Parivar. Instead, Rahul is busy proving to people that he is a brahmin too.
This way Rahul has fallen prey to the lies Sangh Parivar has planted among people all this while. How does him being a brahmin increase his eligibility and deserving characters to be the PM of this country?
The pride of the name Nehru is even higher with the secular credentials associated with it, and not because he was a brahmin by caste and birth. Whatever identity that was his personal one, Nehru surpassed it successfully to be a thorough secular.
Owing to his efforts of building the nation on those very secular values, the country has held its head high among all other nations in the world.
Nehru's family involved all caste identifies within its precincts. Indira Gandhi was denied entry into the temple owing to the fact that she married a Parsi.
But Indians never abandoned Indira Gandhi for that reason. She never set out to prove herself as a hindu or brahmin or some such identity. In some ways, Nehru family represents the country at various levels.
If one asks which community does Rahul belong to, or his faith or that of he is a Muslim; he indeed is everything. He is also a Muslim. He could be a Parsi. All contradictions and diversities are present in Nehru family. Losing out on all these beautiful aspects, Rahul is out to prove himself a brahmin.
This will be a loss to him than a gain. Some elements want to eradicate the diversity of Nehru family and associate mono identity with them that they are brahmins. And those elements have now tasted partial success too.
Being the daughter in law of India, Sonia Gandhi has managed her duties and obligations with utmost integrity. She even lost her husband for the sake of nation. She held the reins of Congress at a time when it was going into splinters.
She tried her best to retain secular credentials within the Congress. Despite being aware of the brahminism that was present in Congress, she successfully surpassed all of them to turn into a true leader. Having sensed Italian roots working against her, she made made a wise decision of not becoming the PM herself but ensuring a statesman and economical expert like Manmohan Singh sat in the chair of PM.
She stood solidly in support of Singh and ensured the govt functioned without any hiccups. Food security bill, employment bill, right to information act all those significant milestones of bills were passed under her watchful guidance.
Yet, Sangh Parivar has been harping on her foreign roots every now and then for its own benefit. An Rahul Gandhi severe ties with his mother Sonia Gandhi to be a brahmin on identity? Rahul Gandhi's massive advantage is that he is the son of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi who were able leaders, and grandson of Indira Gandhi, the boldest PM this country saw, and great grandson of Nehru the visionary and secular PM of this nation. The greatest gift he has got is the one that brings him the best of various communities that are part of his family identity. It would be tragic if Rahul restricts himself to one small sub caste or identity of some part of brahmin community for himself. He must understand that the large expanse of this nation itself reflects the identity of his family and he needs to reach people with this as his context and perspective.
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Jaipur, Mar 28: Young Riyan Parag showed why he is considered a precocious talent as he struck a stunning 84 not out off 45 balls to set up a 12-run win for Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Capitals in their IPL match here on Thursday.
Sent in to bat, RR were reduced to 36 for 3 in the eighth over but the 22-year-old Parag single-handedly took the home side to 185 for 5 with a magnificent unbeaten knock studded with seven fours and six sixes.
Parag, who was promoted to number 4 by the team management this season and made 43 in the previous match, took 25 runs off veteran South African pacer Anrich Nortje with scores of 4, 4, 6, 4, 6, 1 in the final over to hit his highest T20 score.
Chasing 186 for a win, DC could only manage 173 for 5 in 20 overs though South African youngster Tristan Stubbs (44 not out off 23 balls) kept them in the hunt till the final over from which they needed 17 runs.
Avesh Khan conceded just four runs to help RR win their second consecutive match.
South African pacer Nandre Burger and Yuzvendra Chahal took two wickets apiece to also contribute in the RR win.
"Definitely disappointed. The best thing to do from here is to learn from it. The bowlers did well through the 15-16 overs. But the batters did well at the death, hopefully we do better in the next game," DC skipper Rishabh Pant said.
DC were reduced to 34 for 2 in the fourth over with Burger taking two wickets in three balls in a fine display of fast bowling.
Burger, who was brought in as Impact Sub for Shimron Hetmyer, dismissed opener Mitchell Marsh (23 off 12 balls) and Ricky Bhui (0) in the fourth over.
DC captain Rishabh Pant came out to bat at the fall of Bhui's wicket and along with senior batter David Warner built the innings without taking too much risk. Delhi were 89 for 2 at the halfway stage.
Warner was the more aggressive one as he got the boundaries to keep DC in the hunt. The senior Australian batter fell one run short of his fifty courtesy a brilliant diving catch by Sandeep Sharma off the bowling of Avesh in the 12th over.
Warner and Pant were involved in a crucial 67-run partnership for the third wicket.
Playing in his 100th IPL match and 14 months after a horrible car crash, Pant tried to build the innings with occasional boundaries. But he got out for a 26-ball 28 as Chahal induced a faint lower edge for Sanju Samson to do the rest behind the stumps in the 14th over.
The asking rate shot up to more than 13 runs an over and DC needed 66 from the last five overs.
Stubbs kept DC in the game with two consecutive sixes off Ravichandran Ashwin in the 17th over, but in the end the Delhi side were short by 12 runs.
They needed 34 runs from the final two overs which they could not get. It was DC's second consecutive loss.
Earlier, Parag shared 54 and 52 runs respectively with Ravichandran Ashwin (29) and Dhruv Jurel (20) after RR made a shaky start.
Royals captain Samson struck three consecutive boundaries in the fourth over bowled by pacer Mukesh Kumar before nicking a Khaleel Ahmed delivery two overs later to Pant to get out for 15.
RR were 30 for 2 by then as Mukesh had given DC their first breakthrough with the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal (5).
The Royals were in more trouble after wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav literally forced his captain Pant to take a review, which later proved to be successful, to dismiss Englishman Jos Buttler for an LBW decision.
Ashwin came out to bat at number five and he lofted a Kuldeep delivery for a six to help RR reach 58 for 3 at halfway stage. He gave Nortje even a harsher treatment with two sixes in the next over that yielded 15 runs.
Ashwin, however, holed out to Tristan Stubbs near the boundary ropes for a 19-ball 29.
Parag then made his presence felt, striking two boundaries and a six off Ahmed to take RR past 100 in the 15th over.