Why people like Ram Madhav are among the worst offenders

So today, while getting my early morning Twitter fix, I came across this :

Huh? What’s this? An article in The Indian Express showing Modi in a majestic posture, the Hindu Hriday Samrat? How is this possible?

Then I realize: it’s Ram Madhav himself writing in The Indian Express commemorating the BJP’s Foundation Day.

And this made me very very angry. Let me tell you why.

Seriously? Ram Madhav chose The Indian Express to write the “official” commemorative article for the BJP’s foundation day? Why Ram Madhav ji, why? What happened? Did The Wire and Tehelka turn you down? Did NDTV refuse to carry your article?

This article from Ram Madhav is a slap on the face of every BJP leader who has been vilified with ridiculous hitjobs and fake news in The Indian Express. This article from Ram Madhav is a slap on the face of every loyal BJP supporter on social media who has spent hours combing liberal media and exposing its elitist, anti-Hindu and anti-BJP bias.

Surely a man like Ram Madhav should have known better. Over the last four years, the pages of The Indian Express have been filled with every possible kind of biased and fake news against BJP.

There was one Amaresh Misra, a psychotic “journalist” who once threatened online to cut off the heads of BJP supporters. Got arrested and had to lie low for a few years. Who resurrected this hateful person as a columnist? The Indian Express.

There is Amaresh Misra, there is Liz Mathew. There is the columnist who wrote explaining why Priyanka Gandhi is the feminist icon that the women of the country have been waiting for. I could just go on and on and on…

All in the pages of The Indian Express.

Which newspaper was loudest in spreading the rumor that the Hindutva parivar had something to do with Gauri Lankesh murder? Indian Express.

When a nun was raped in Bengal, which newspaper was leading the effort to heap the  blame on BJP supporters? Indian Express.

Today Ram Madhav has effectively given The Indian Express a clean chit against the charge of being a filthy, third-rate partisan rag. They publish 1000 articles bootlicking Sonia Gandhi. Then, a senior BJP functionary like Ram Madhav goes and publishes one article in the same newspaper, which now allows The Express to claim that it is open and tolerant to all points of view.

The fact that Ram Madhav would publish in IE now gives credibility to every single hitjob that the newspaper has carried out over the years. Rather than marginalizing its partisan hack voice, Ram Madhav is helping the IE mainstream its biased hate towards BJP.

And then we wonder why the right wing cannot take down the entrenched left wing ecosystem. If our so called leaders go down on their knees before the temples of the left, it means that you are accepting the left wing, Congress worldview as the default. You have already conceded that their institutions are great and worthy of respect.

Is this respect reciprocated by the left in any form whatsoever? No, they continue to treat the Sangh Parivar as illiterate idiots, regressive fools who are devoid of logical reasoning capabilities. Have you ever listened to how they talk about you? Dripping with contempt.

When you give respect without expect any, you don’t earn their respect. To someone like Ram Madhav, this much should have been obvious.

What ecosystem are you going to fight when you acknowledge their intellectual superiority at every turn?

In contrast, even a duffer like Rahul Gandhi knows that he should promote and mainstream outlets that are friendly to him. Over the last few months, Rahul’s official Twitter handle has shared “news” from even the most shady sources … such as The Wire and even complete scum like Janta ka Reporter. Rahul’s twitter handle scours the dark corners of the web, scrapes the bottom of the barrel and serves the filth as mainstream news.

What are you promoting, Ram Madhav? The Indian Express?

At this point, someone might ask me. Come on Chaiwallah, you are overly castigating Ram Madhav. He has done so much for the cause of the Hindu right, especially in its now prized victories in the North East. What have you done? You are just an armchair critic. You social media types think everything happens because of you.

I say, okay… sure. I am glad that Ram Madhav did what he did in the North East. But when I see absolute stupidity, I call it out. This much I do know : you win in a democracy by drawing people in, not pushing them away. So go ahead and belittle your most passionate and loyal supporters; kick them in teeth. See where it gets you.