Rahul Azmi zindabad

So finally Rahul baba has said something that brings him down to the level of the Uddhavs and the Raj Thackerays of the world. The cousins were really having a problem sparring all the while with Abu Asim Azmi. Now Azmi might be an MLA but he is not exactly the cream that the upmarket newspapers would want to milk for saleable news. So the wholly empty buffoonery that had come to signify the debates on who owns Mumbai between the Thackeray cousins and Azmi was in serious danger of making it to the bottom heap of media room trash.
The kind of fate that has befallen the blabbering of some of the Republican Party of India leaders in Mumbai. Now how many cared as much as a rat piss when Athavale said that he had been booted out of the Big Boss in favour of Sanjay Nirupam because Nirupam had a more elitist personality?
But Rahul Gandhi is just something else. Even if he does something rank Azmi-ish by trying to give a swarthy north Indian colour to a fighting machine like the National Security Guards, the media really can’t throw the press release into the dust bin.
Now that Rahul has said it, the Thackeray cousins are happy. Over the past two days every branch of Rahul’s hallowed family tree is being shaken down to the roots by the two big-mouthed tiger cubs.
Jawaharlal, Indira, Motilal, Rajiv, Sonia you name it and Rahul has got it.
Of course the debate will never end because it will be impossible to stop migrants from making the journey to dream-infested Mumbai. It will be impossible to stop the caravan out of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. It will be impossible for Biharis and Uttar Pradeshis to fully integrate with the Marathi Mumbaikar. It will be impossible for the Mee Mumbaikar gangs to fully accept the bhaiyya.
But what is very worrying in all this ‘national mouth shooting off competition’ is to see the real mettle of a young man who is arrogant enough to believe that the only job that this wretched nation can give him that is worthy of him is the Prime Minister’s chair.
Rahul is no different from politicians like Amar Singh or Azmi or even the Thackerays. It is just the carefully-illuminated halo- built up meticulously by media and party sycophants who are nothing but royalists in the garb of democrats- that makes Rahul Gandhi different. That halo is slowly giving itself up to a load-shedding of ideas.For India it is a pity. Another one bites the dust.