My fans and devotees would possibly not have to go through the trauma of seeing me settle for something bad to happen under my supervision,” Patel said.
The Prime Minister admitted that there was violence in Manipur after 79 days of pretending there was none.
A two-month-old video that sparked outrage and sent Manipur into public debate forced him to speak.
The Chief Justice of India also uttered angry words and the Manipur police, who had been inactive during this period, made arrests without delay for a case they had ignored.
When the incident occurred, and others like it, he was in Bangalore organizing roadshows.
He postponed a tour, because of Manipur, but because it would clash with exams and needed to disturb students. He continued with the others.
After that, he went several times, attending parties and watching parades.
In India, he continued his regime of departing from trains, inaugurating and congratulating other people on their birthdays, etc.
He made no reference to Manipur. La is, again, what do you gain by not realizing that there is a challenge, even if the challenge is apparent to everyone?
If my space is on fire, I will rush to save it. If my circle of relatives is attacked, I will rush to them.
If not only do I not act, but I act as if nothing has happened, then I do not admit that it is my problem. And so I don’t have to figure it out.
This is the advantage of the moment: I avoid having to face a complicated scenario immediately and it is imaginable that it will pass on its own.
In a previous column, I explained how this was the tactic used by the Prime Minister in the current wave of the Covid pandemic.
Normally visual every day at a physical or virtual event, he disappeared for 20 days after cancelling his Bengal rallies.
He returned three weeks later, when things were going better and fewer people were dying and he intended to have “high-level meetings”.
A BJP decision earlier this year saying India had defeated the pandemic under Modi was removed from the party’s website.
Once the wave subsided, he dropped the topic altogether.
He also did the same after Galwan. No there was information from the army more than 3 years after the confrontation.
The only summary he made on the matter came here after days of silence, and then he remained silent on the matter.
My supporters and devotees (who are many in the case of the Prime Minister) will not have to go through the trauma of seeing me settle for something bad to happen under my leadership.
The other merit of this is that because their devotion continues, I can also make sure that I haven’t done anything wrong.
If so many other people continue in me, then my movements are correct and so are my acts of inaction.
How many times have we heard that India is the fastest economy?
Many continue to be who we are, but, as one newspaper reported on July 22: “India is no longer the fastest developing primary economy. Saudi Arabia is developing at 8. 7% in 2022, followed by Vietnam at 8%. In the first quarter of 2023, the Philippines overtook India by 6. 4%.
If I absolutely avoid talking about “faster growth” at this point and come back a few years later, then many will feel like I’ve been on top.
The first is that the challenge will persist and often, as in the case of Manipur, worsen.
How many other people have died, how many women and women have been attacked, how many houses have been burned because the Indian government ignored the problem?
Perhaps historians will tell us because most of our media won’t.
The time is that other people will benefit.
Why does the leading minister of Manipur resign when there is no challenge according to the prime minister himself?
When there was pressure in the open air, he made a drama by resigning, but he stayed because he was wise enough to know that he could use silence to his merit and he did.
The 3rd is that the nation, this nation, may continue in its amazement that it is marching toward greatness and be distracted by the fires burning within.
Perhaps this evasive behavior comes from the Prime Minister’s bloodless calculations, or it comes from instinct.
Whatever the truth, there is enough evidence in Grade 10 to show what they are for him and what their harms are for us.
Aakar Patel is a columnist and you can read Aakar’s previous columns here.
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