Has the level of petty leaders and Prime Minister become equal in election speeches?

The Bharatiya Janata Party, while accusing its rival parties of doing politics of votes, repeatedly claims that it does not do politics of votes. But how capable his claim is, it can be understood from Prime Minister Narendra Modi inexplicably raining his election symbol on his bicycle while cornering the rival Samajwadi Party (SP) over the alleged incitement of terrorists in Uttar Pradesh.

It is their misfortune that when they were intent on making the cycle, which is often the cheapest and most accessible means of movement of people in the whole country, the root of all mischief, being the election symbol of the SP in a meeting, many people were left as anti-BJP. Those gifts of the leaders were being remembered in which they keep saying that since the lotus, which is the BJP’s election symbol, cannot bloom without mud, it continues to create a lot of mud of corruption, dishonesty and immorality.

At least two questions arise from this memory. First, whether the level of these little brothers and the Prime Minister has become equal in election addresses? And secondly, what is the politics of vote other than that a leader starts playing with the sanctity of facts in making emotional atrocities on people to divert people from the real issues and bring them to his side?

Look at the irony of the prime minister getting into the game: The Samajwadi Party may be his party’s formidable rival in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, with hardly any base in Gujarat. But in order to prove his election symbol cycle as the carrier of bombs, the Prime Minister even went as far as to say that the tiffin bombs used in the 2008 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, were planted on bicycles only when he was the Chief Minister.

Referring to many more bomb blasts, he also asked why all the blasts were done on the election symbol of Samajwadi Party and why did the terrorists prefer cycles for this work? Just imagine, in 2008 in Ahmedabad, terrorists planted tiffin bombs in cycles, then how can SP be held responsible for this? If the election symbol of a party is a bicycle, then it becomes the responsibility of keeping an eye on the production, distribution or sale of cycles across the country and to prevent misuse? Then will the countrymen, who like and use cycles in large numbers, also be called sympathizers of terrorists because the Prime Minister has to prove his sympathy to his party’s rival Samajwadi Party, whose election symbol is cycle? These questions are still unanswered and the Prime Minister, according to his old habit, has escaped from them. But the benefit of his escape is also going to the account of Samajwadi Party.

Now its president Akhilesh Yadav is calling the Prime Minister’s statement an insult to the country and counting the utilities of cycles. In the past, he tweeted that our cycle lays the foundation of his prosperity by connecting the farm and the farmer, breaks the social bonds and leaves the girl child in school, she is not affected by inflation, she gallops, she is a common man’s plane, rural India is proud and its insult is an insult to the whole country.

Not only this, Akhilesh has also shared a screenshot of an old tweet of the Prime Minister. In which he is thanking the Prime Minister of the Netherlands for giving him a bicycle as a gift. Thus, the most interesting question that can be asked to the Prime Minister in this regard is that if bicycles are only the carrier of bombs and the choice of terrorists, then why are environmentalists insisting on cycling to protect the environment? Why do the hawkers who travel far and wide for livelihood from villages and towns run their mobile shops on these cycles?

Why do postmen deliver mail by bicycle in remote areas where there is no other means of transport? Why did Bihar’s famous Jyoti Kumari travel twelve hundred km from Gurgaon to Bihar by bicycle during the lockdown during the Corona period? Why were many rockets carried on bicycles for launch in the initial phase of ISRO and why in olden times many MPs have been going to Parliament by bicycle?

The leaders of the Samajwadi Party are not asking these questions, but are claiming that since the BJP has realized that it has failed to do communal religious polarization, this time Uttar Pradesh is getting out of its hands, due to which the Prime Minister Including almost all its big leaders, ignoring the issues in anger, are talking nonsense here and there.

They are neither taking care of the limitations of democracy and language, nor are they taking care of facts, morals and model code of conduct. If his claim is considered politically motivated, then this question begs the answer that instead of issues related to the misery of the people, what is the gain of useless debate on election symbols?

But what will you do, the way in which the Prime Minister in the last assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh in 2017 had surprised civil society by making discriminatory mention of cremation vs graveyard, Eid vs Holi-Diwali for communal-religious polarization of voters by going beyond the real issues, His profit is in their mouth. That is why this time too, at the very beginning of the elections, he has earned a lot of fame by telling the red cap of the SP as a red alert for the state.

On the other hand, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is carrying forward his ‘graveyard-crematorium tradition’ in this election also with words like Abbajan, Chachajan and Jinnah. While linking the father of one of the accused in the Ahmedabad serial blasts case to the SP, the first Union Minister Anurag Thakur is also referring to an entire community using the same communal terminology. They say: ‘Abbujan of terrorists, Bhaijaan of socialists, so Akhilesh’s tongue is closed.’

Many such videos of BJP leaders are also going viral, in which they are chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, telling the difference between beard and braid or questioning the patriotism of minorities. In such a situation, now hardly anyone doubts in the fact that when it comes to gaining power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns into Narendra Modi, the star campaigner of the BJP and does not care about the dignity of the Prime Minister’s post.

That’s why one observer has rightly reminded that he didn’t stop even after being criticized for doing graveyard vs cremation ground. In Jharkhand, he talked about identifying miscreants by clothes, and in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was insultingly called ‘Didi O Didi’.

Now in Uttar Pradesh, the cycle of the poor is on their target, so it is a matter of concern not only for Uttar Pradesh but also for all the countrymen that if they continue this process like this, how far will they go by lowering the dignity of the post of Prime Minister?