There are now clear signs that the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea to Western nations and institutions to intervene in India's internal affairs and destabilise the duly elected Modi government is bearing fruit. Having failed to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in national elections from 2014 onwards, Rahul Gandhi lamented before his audiences in London and elsewhere that the Western nations were not helping "restore democracy" in India.
Although this shameful appeal to international forces to intervene in India's domestic affairs did not get much of a response at that time, it now appears that there is a convergence of anti-India forces in Western capitals and within India.
In a strange coincidence, while he and the Congress Party have begun a massive movement to spread anarchy and destabilise the Modi government, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has taken upon itself to lecture India on democratic traditions.
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The UN agency said it was concerned by reports of mass detentions of demonstrators, who it said were "arbitrarily detained" and advised the government "to exercise restraint," consistent with democratic traditions and demanded "unconditional release" of all those arbitrarily detained.
The Ministry of External Affairs reacted strongly and virtually asked the UN body to mind its own business. It also called out the UN agency's selective approach and its deafening silence over mass killings and brutality in India's neighbourhood, meaning Pakistan and Bangladesh. Where did this UN agency acquire the gumption to lecture the world's largest democracy? The blame must be placed squarely at the door of Rahul Gandhi.
Next we come to the most ominous anti-India signal coming from America, which can be directly traced to Rahul Gandhi – the recent tweets of Elon Musk, the American entrepreneur and business magnate who is said to be the richest human being, commanding a net worth of One Trillion Dollars.
Elon Musk said in a post on X recently that his company Starlink, which offers satellite internet services, had still not got a licence in India although it had got licences in 165 countries around the world. Then he asked, "Is Ambani the real boss of India?"
This statement must be seen in the context of his disappointment over India's delay in granting him a satellite licence because of security concerns and his equally arrogant response to the delay. The union government has been firm. It has said all operators must complete the mandatory security and regulatory clearances before commercial launch.
Rahul immediately responded and said, "Welcome to India, Elon. Wait till you discover the other guy" (meaning Adani). Musk quickly responded, saying, "Thank you, Rahul. This is indeed troubling."
Then Musk tweeted again. His latest tweets are truly shocking and smack of the worst form of arrogance. He says, "Dear Prime Minister Ambani, please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India. Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete? There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market. Starlink would change their lives for the better."
So, this arrogant man thinks he will offer internet services in India where Mukesh Ambani cannot! And this is the kind of person with whom Rahul Gandhi is pleased to deal and whom Rahul is inviting to India! Musk's growing impatience with the Modi regime must be seen in the context of what he said about Bolivia some time ago. He openly admitted that he and the American deep state will stage a coup if need be to get what they want from a country.
Musk prompted the US to stage a coup to get rid of an elected President in Bolivia who was not favourably disposed to his demand for access to Bolivia's lithium deposits at a low price, for which he needed a licence. When someone held him "guilty" on X of engineering a coup, he responded, saying, "we will coup whoever we want, deal with it."
Musk's intemperate admission of his ability to engineer a "coup" must be seen in the context of Musk's disappointment with the Modi regime over the Starlink licence issue, the current turmoil engineered by Rahul Gandhi in India and the bonhomie that exists between Elon & Rahul. So, the Congress Party and its leader are happy to deal with this pompous man who is completely devoid of manners and calls Mukesh Ambani the prime minister of India.
Rahul must take lessons from Kamal Haasan, who ticked off Elon Musk and said, "India is a democracy, not a colony. We welcome the world, but we, the Indian people, will decide our own future – not Western vested interests, their double standards or any billionaire – Indian or American."
But how can we forget the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), absolutely a creation of the American deep state, which is unable to stomach the extraordinary progress India has made under Modi's leadership and is trying to stage a coup to overthrow a duly elected government, just as they did in Bangladesh and Nepal.
Finally, we have the well-known lawyer and Modi-hater who has now declared that the only way to overthrow the Modi regime is through a "revolution". He is absolutely clear in his mind that they cannot defeat Modi through democratic means. He goes on to say that it will be a bloody affair (Khoon Kharaba Hogee), but there is no choice.
Hence, it appears to be a deadly cocktail of the American deepstate which is funding and backing the Cockroach Janata Party and has parachuted Abhijeet Dipke, its so-called founder, from Boston to New Delhi; Elon Musk who threatens to stage a "coup" in countries that do not give him what he wants; a desparate Rahul Gandhi who thinks its his birthright to be prime minister, although wholly unqualified for the job; and the most desparate of them all – the communists who have been thrashed in national elections with just 2.3 per cent vote; vengeful individuals like the anti-Modi lawyer who says only a "revolution" and bloodshed will yield the results they want.
As Dr Ambedkar had warned, a terrible calamity will befall our democracy if these forces succeed in toppling a duly elected government on one pretext or another. The people must decide whether they want chaos engineered by Rahul Gandhi or the development and progress brought about by Narendra Modi.
(The author is a former Chairman of Prasar Bharati)