The secular bluff of Congress!

There has always been an element called – nuisance-mongers or trouble-makers – present in any system at any point of time in history, who had performed their role to
detract and provoke some segment of society by finding faults with anything and everything.
And India has been no exception to such species. Further, the Leftists and Congress have been blessed with such cynical elements in abundance. People have
been bearing with the likes of Digvijay Singh, Mani Shankar Aiyer, P Chidambaram, Salman Khursheed etc who have always been throwing their choicest aspersion
on any act of the Government and projecting these in poor light. Strangely, one does not perceive when their high voltage campaigns targeted against BJP and PM
Modi go beyond hitting India's national interest. The past two decades are full of such public statements and discourses.
A British man with Indian roots, Rishi Sunak, with youth on his side won the Tory nod to become the next British Prime Minister. And the happening split India
vertical, thanks to two Congress leaders who should have been clocking ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra' miles instead of their nonsensical rhetoric when they lament about
“Muslim PM, when?” Their itching on Twitter is no less than an anti-thesis by all means that goes against the spirit of Rahul's ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra'
Shashi Tharoor and P Chidambaram as if they were on the prowl to have an opportunity to vomit their grudge, their disappointment writ large at India missing the
train to make a Muslim India's Prime Minister! Tharoor was first off the block. “I think all of us will have to acknowledge that the Brits have done something very rare in
the world, to place a member of a visible minority in the most powerful office….let's honestly ask: can it happen here?”
And P Chidambaram noted “First Kamala Harris, now Rishi Sunak. The people of the U.S. and the U.K have embraced the non-majority citizens….and elected
them to high office in government. I think there is a lesson to (be) learned by India and the parties that practice majoritarianism.”
Following Rishi Sunak's “ascent to high office,” the hashtags #HinduPM and #MuslimPM quickly became popular. Tharoor and Chidambaram were a blessing for
the BJP. The two stalwarts of the Congress, one of whom was a veteran on the top, offered the BJP a handle to use and flay Rahul Gandhi's nationwide ‘unifying
talisman' called the “Bharat Jodo Yatra.”
With their appeal for a “minority/Muslim PM” midway through the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Congress seems to have lost the plot by splitting Indians into Hindus-
Muslims. Tharoor and Chidambaram have given the impression that the Congress was not happy with the “Hindu Sunak's elevation” to the UK's highest office, and
Tharoor's allusion to the “visible minority” acquired a particular connotation.  Sikhs are a visible minority, right? Dr. Manmohan Singh served as prime minister twice,
not just once. Who was the “visible minority” Tharoor was referring to? Were there not many Sikhs to be seen? The same goes for Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and
Christians.
Being the author of the book “Why I Am a Hindu,” Shashi Tharoor, couldn't have ironically answered his own question better than by extending the life of the BJP's
divisive Hindu-Muslim agenda. And Chidambaram contributed to making it an explosive issue. The fact is Rishi Sunak is no longer an Indian and his loyalties were and
will remain with the UK. The way both Congress stalwarts Chidambram and Tharoor reacted reflects their inner feelings against any Hindu rising to some top political
position.
The Congress anticipated that the “visible minority” would unite around the Congress flag by faring up such unrelated issues to India. At the very least, they expect
that Muslims would be drawn to the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which Rahul Gandhi is leading. Fine, if they are so sincere then the ultimate game-changer would be if
Congress declares a Muslim as the party's “PM face.”
Congress needs to think outside the box. The #MuslimPM hashtag will stifle its political discourse in public. Instead, it should mobilise and motivate its rank. The
right “Muslim PM Face” won't be simple to find. Its anti-Hindu campaigns in the guise of their proclaimed ‘secularism' have already pushed it to the place where it has
been struggling for its revival.