Prime Minister's Post, world wide, is regarded as HEAD OF GOVERNMENT, and is honored with GREAT RESPECT. Conversely, people of any Nation expect their Prime Minister to speak with dignity. He is not a clown or joker. This expectation of Great Dignity on the part of a Prime Minister, does not as much apply to an Opposition Leader. The job of the Opposition is to criticize and make allegations. They too are expected to maintain the dignity expected of their position, but not as much as the Prime Minister. This is because 1. Prime Ministers have global exposures. 2. Usually for any country, there will be maximum one or two Prime Ministers. But, a country can have any number of opposition leaders, depending on the number of parties.
Recently, we have seen in 2016 American Presidential Elections, both the candidates have, occasionally, spoken like clowns, and they were appearing as though they were participating in a CLOWNERY CONTEST. Comparatively, between Ms. Hillary Clinton and Mr. Donald Trump, as far as CLOWNISHNESS is concerned, Mr. Trump looked like a larger clown, though factually, there may not be much difference between them.
CONTEXT
Forthcoming Elections in Uttar Pradesh. Election Rallies are in full swing. Rivals are shooting their darts against one another. Mr. Rahul Gandhi took out a damp squib of an allegation of corruption against Mr. Narendra Modi, which Mr. Prashant Bhushan, a Senior Supreme Court Advocate and Swaraj Abhiyan Party leader tried to convert into a PIL in Supreme Court. Unfortunately for Mr. Bhushan, Supreme Court did not accept the writ petition, and he was asked to produce some solid substantive evidence. Same allegation, Mr. Rahul Gandhi tried to reignite, adding some attributes like "There will be an earthquake if I speak". He wanted to speak in Parliament, but he could not get. There were demands on him to disclose the earthquake outside. What Rahul Gandhi has finally come out with were two diary notes in Sahara, and Aditya Groups, which mentioned that amounts aggrgating approx. Rs. 40 crore (Rs. 400 million) were paid to Mr. Narendra Modi, in 2013 and 2014. These were payments before the Lok Sabha Elections 2014, when Mr. Narendra Modi was Chief Minister of Gujarat, and he was rehearsing himself to be a Prime Ministerial candidate on behalf of BJP Party.
FUN OR RIDICULE CANNOT BE AN ANSWER TO WHAT RAHUL GANDHI SAID
For those readers who wish to see the Rahul-mocking speech of Mr. Narendra Modi, here is a link: Click to go to Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acIkSd-RzKc.
For those readers, who wish to study the news report, here is the link: Click to open http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/how-narendra-modi-took-down-manmohan-rahul-and-chidambaram-in-his-bhu-speech/articleshow/56115566.cms.
Some tit-bits from the sarcastic speech of Mr. Narendra Modi:
"...They have a young leader who is just learning to give speeches. Since the time he’s learnt to speak, there’s no limit to my happiness. ..."
"... He (Rahul Gandhi) had been going around threatening that when he will speak, there will be an earthquake. If he hadn’t spoken, there could have been an earthquake. It would have been an earthquake that people would have had to deal with for 10 years. ..."
"... There is no chance of an earthquake now that he has spoken. We can be rest assured that there is no danger of the natural calamity in sight. ..."
"...He (Gandhi) may not have realised that he has admitted the failure of the long reign of his own party, ..."
"...I wonder whether he (Singh) was giving his own report card by admitting the dismal (poverty) situation…After all, he has been prime minister for two terms and a finance minister previously. Since the 1970s he has been holding key positions. ..."
yb-a-donkey's views, which cannot be imposed on Readers:
*Important reasons for success of BJP and Mr. Modi, in 2014 Lok Sabha Elections: Not only the so called charisma of Mr. Narndra Modi, but also 1. Mr. Rahul Gandhi's & his mother's failures. 2. Failures of Mr. Manmohan Singh and Congress. 3. Religious fanatism of SOME LARGE CHUNK of people in Varanasi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. This fanatism still continues.
Nobody can say that India has not done substantial progress during the last 60 years, which includes rule by Congress, Janata 1977 experiment in which BJP too participated, Indira-Rajiv-VPSingh-PV Narasimha Rao, DeveGowda-Gujral United Front Rule, Vajpayee-Advani Rule, Manmohan Singh Rule. Notwithstanding corruption, everybody have done their best. Owing to tripling/quadrupling of population from 360 million to 1.3 billion between 1947 and 2016, all our efforts and achievements have gone in vain. Besides, spiralling of oil prices have escalated our difficulties. We have ben compelled to spend a sizable share of our budget on Defence, as we had to defend our borders against invasions and infiltrations by Pakisthan and China.
One happy feature for Mr. Narendra Modi's Government is, oil prices have touched rock bottom during the last 2 1/2 years. Now, they are again farming up because OPEC countries, Russia, and Saudi Arabia seem to gradually patch up their differences, and restrict oil production and supplies. Now, this is time for Mr. Narendra Modi to get ready for meeting RISING OIL PRICES. There is also a SERIOUS DANGER OF TERRORIST ATTACKS FROM ISIS, continuous-continual squirmishes both from China and Pakisthan.
TAIL-PIECE धूमकेतु తోకచుక్క
TODAY'S SANSKRIT VERSE. From Bhartrihari's Niti Satakam (100 Verses of ethics
In Roman Script
keyuuraan` na bhuush`ayanti purusham
haaraa na candrojjvalaa
na snanam na vilepanam na kusumam
na alamkrutaa muurdhajah
vaan`y ekaa samalamkaroti purusham
yaa sanskrutaa dhaaryate
kshiiyante khalu bhuushashaan`anii satatam
vaag bhuushan`am bhuushan`am.
APPROXIMATE ENGLISH MEANING
Real beautifiers are not: necklaces shining like moon;
Baths with cosmetics and flowers;
Hair dressing and styles;
Only a purified language and speech adorns a person.
All other ornamentation will degenerate and atrophy.
In Devanagari Script
केबूरा न भूषयंति पुरुषम
हारा न चोंद्रोज्वला
न स्नानम, न विलेपनम, न कुसुमम्
ना लंकृता मूर्धजा
वाण्येका समलंकरोति पुरुषम
या संस्कृता धार्यते
क्षीयंते खलु भूषणानि सततम
वाग्भूषणम भूषणम.
In Telugu script
కేయూరా న భూషయంతి పురుషమ్
హారా న చంద్రోజ్వలా
న స్నానం, న విలేపనం, న కుసుమం,
నా లంకృతా మూర్ధజా
వాణ్యేకా సమలంకరోతి పురుషమ్
యా సంస్కృతా ధార్యతే
క్షీయంతే ఖలు భూషణాని సతతమ్
వాగ్భూషణం భూషణం.
For those who wish to study verses similar to the above verses, here are links:
Click to go to http://bhartruhariyb.blogspot.in/.
Click to go to http://vairagyasatakam.blogspot.in/.
Click to go to http://sringarasatakamyb.blogspot.in/.
Sometimes, it may be easy and satisfying for a leader to shake hands in peculiar ways, modulate voice in peculiar ways, and generate laughter and claps from people. But, these things are reserved for street-level (basti level) politicians. Shri Narendra Modi is a venerated R.S.S. worker, as a person endowed with great discipline. Besides, he is Prime Minister. His personality and behavior ought to become 'jewels' for the designation of the 'Prime Minister' and serve as an example to emulate for future Prime Ministers. Else, some other leader from BJP itself may arise, resort to similar gestures and speaking style, but outsmart the pioneer Shri Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister post may come and go. But, Shri Narendra Modi, should be remembered by the Nation, as INIMITABLE.
In Telugu language, there is a proverb: 'tADi nekku vAnini tala tannu vADu unTADu'. Approx. English gist: "A person felt elated when he climbed a palm tree, and was at the top. But his joy didn't last long. Some other person reached slightly higher than him, and kicked the first person's head from above." The purport of this proverb is, there is no permanent place for anybody at the top. Next person will come, and overshadow. There were days, when I believed that Mr. Polly Umrighar and Ajit Wadekar were at the top of the Indian Cricket. When things were looking hopeless, Mr. Sunil Gavaskar came-- a great contributor to Indian Cricket. Several records were set. I thought that he would be invincible and unbeatable. Then, Messrs. Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sehvag, Dhoni, Bedi, Prasanna, et al came and rewrote some records. Now the turns of Kohli, Asvin, Karun Nair et al have come. Simultaneously, there may be one or two persons who get excess awards, credits, fame, moola, fan-following, State-recognition etc. Mr. Tendulkar got his Bharat Ratna, for whatever be the undisclosed extraneous reasons. There may be unsung heroes also. Then, there may be fate-forsaken, God-forsaken (as an atheist I should not use these phrases) talented persons like Vinod Kambli, who get lost in the middle. Even in politics we see this: Mr. L.K. Advani could not reach the No. 1 level. Mr. Pranab Mukherjee too aspired for the No. 1 level. He has to satisfy with No. 1-A sort, though may be as per protocol the Supreme Commander and Head of State, still his true ambitions to become PMOI seem unfulfilled. In Capitalism, there can be no link/relationship direct or indirect, proportionate or disproportionate between talents, performances, and accomplishments.
Vocabulary notes:
The word UNIMITABLE is also correct as per Click to go to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unimitable. But UNIMITABLE seems to be archaic and anachronistic.
To continue. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.
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