Rahul Gandhi is a fifth-generation politician from the Nehru-Gandhi family and a senior Congress leader. He currently serves as the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Entering politics in 2004, he contested from the family stronghold of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, winning three consecutive terms before losing to the BJP’s Smriti Irani in 2019. However, he remained an MP by securing a win from Wayanad, a seat he held until 2024. He briefly served as Congress president from 2017 but resigned after the party’s poor performance in the 2019 General Elections.
Between 2022 and 2024, Rahul Gandhi led two major political marches—the 3,750-km Bharat Jodo Yatra (Kanniyakumari to Srinagar) and the 6,700-km Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (Thoubal to Mumbai). In the 2024 elections, he made a strong comeback, reclaiming Amethi and assuming the role of Leader of the Opposition.
Dear sir- Your view on Rahul posing himself as a brahmin and people beleiving it without understanding the motive behind is understandable. But journalists and Media people have failed to bring out his real face.
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist,Barnala (Punjab)
The Indian masses are now not new to political as well as poll theatrics !
Like, the Indian movies, those films are hit at the box office which have
a blending of fiction, realism and some masaala !
Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi leaving nothing to chance has to employ
all such like innovative devices just to offer impression to the people of
India that he has the rich variety of all the hues in his election campaign
style ! Then Rahul willingly and unwillingly cannot avoid this to outsmart
the mastercraftsman NaMo who is well-versed in theatrics, rhetorics,ploys
and eloquence ! The poll campaign of the day demands all this so that
Congress Party and its Captain can show that both have all the tricks up its
sleeves !
There is no denying the fact that the duo of NaMo-Amit Shah will find
itself buried under its own weight of wrong, bad, ill-conceived-ill-executed
and anti-public decisions as well as acts of NaMo led Union Government !
Moreover, crisises of credibility and public mistrust are also to affect the duo
and BJP very adversely paving quite spontaneously way for the change !
Which section of society in India is not feeling unhappy, desperate and restless ?
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist
Pom Anm Nest,Barnala (Punjab)
It is only Brahmanical hypocracy of Rahul Gandhi in Secular Democracy. A Brahmanical attire on body does not work in secular mind. It is an ill-political advise to a person of secular family who is fighting with surrealists in present politics. It would be better if Rahul Gandhi get married… is really help to Congress. If getting marriage or not is a personal matter then why does Rahul Gandhi make his Brahmanical attires as public thing in Congress. He should not involve religion into the politics of Congress.
Someone must also play devil’s advocate. Rahul Gandhi’s temple-hopping is a satire on EVERY HINDU’s liturgical practices. All the saffron clad “baba”s, and all the Ganga-aarti doing politicians, and all the rest of them who carry weapons, revolvers etc, — ALL OF THEM are genuine, and genuinely dear to their gods except one man called Rahul Gandhi??? Sant Ravidas has said, “mun changa, toh katauti mein ganga” — what about that? Is this man committing a crime by starting to do only now what the others have been doing all their lives? Does telling a lie a thousand times makes it a truth? If you are a sham today, then you are a sham, but if you have been a sham all your life then you become a 24-carat genuine?
Is God a toy that someone has “bought” from the market, and now owns?
राहुल जो कर रहे हैं वह शेखर जी की दृष्टि में एक साहसिक कार्य हैं। पता नहीं कांग्रेस/राहुल को कहां से इस तरह के बकवास सलाह प्राप्त हुए हैं। दरअसल राहुल द्वारा हिन्दू/गोत्र युक्त ब्राह्मण होने का दावा/प्रयास एक मूर्खतापूर्ण कार्य है और कौवा द्वारा मोर पँख लगाकर मोर होने का दावा करने जैसा है। क्या यह संभव है कि कोई किसी आँख वाले के सामने अपना वस्त्र बदले और फिर उसी आँख वाले से कहे कि वो इन्ही वस्त्रो के साथ पैदा हुआ है और आँख वाला मान भी जाये। राहुल जो कर रहें हैं वो साहस नहीं दुस्साहस है । इनके परिणाम कांगेस के लिये घातक हो सकते हैं।
Mr Shekhar Gupta has now emerged as the Indian reincarnation of the evil Hitler & his deputies who demonised the Jews. His endorsement of the idiot Dilip Mandal’s (called senior journalist)) 30 privileges of Brahmins (29 of which are utterly false) is the biggest evidence that IE earlier under him and now the Print has emerged as the single biggest instigator of caste hatred (against only one community) deserving of only one place the jail.
Beautiful analysis. I’m your great admirer sir, you simplify the matters to the core.
Once a CPI worker asked the veteran CPI leader Late S A Dange, why the Left is unable to make a dent in North India, what’s the way out. Dange replied: “Ask our cadres to take ‘dhol’ ‘majira’ and do ‘satsang’ with the common people, our party will soon grow roots in the cow belt.” This suggestion was met with strong disapproval. It was treated as a wry joke. Years later, CPI leader Indrajit Gupta while speaking in LS after Operation Bluestar made this comment in his speech “Sir, this is after all India. You cannot tinker with religion. If you tinker with people’s religion, you shall be nowhere”. Shekhar Gupta’s article underlines this ‘culture’.
In Britain, there is a shadow minister to follow each minister. Here we have a dozen ministers, led by the One who never smiles, to shadow the shadow Prime Minister. One statement by him, inconsequential man, although no longer a Pappu, and they are all over TV. On this one, I think Shri Rahul Gandhi is having fun. You were questioning whether I went to college, am a graduate, well, here it is : A post graduate degree from Harvard. A Hindu, a Brahmin, a Kashmiri Pandit, at that.
I’m a brahmin
Never heard of a Gotra called Dattatreya
This is an excerpt from another article: Since Lord Dattatreya was the son of one of the Sapt Rishis, he must have acquired his gotra from him, thus, his gotra must have been Atreya. Moreover, there is no such gotra or pravara for Hindus by the name of Dattatreya Gotra and thus, maybe, Mr. Gandhi had made a mistake in naming his gotra which has ultimately landed him in another controversy.
After extreme imposition of cultural habits on the minorities, the minorities are ready to tolerate rahul’s right leaning. In fact BJP helped congress consolidate minority votes snatching away from the likes of owaisis. That is a big gain for Congress. At the other end by temple hopping Rahul at least ensures that Hindu anger is not against Congress. Intelligently congress has tried not to focus on Modi supporters. Rather they tried to consolidate left overseas. Truly a master stroke from Rahul and Co. BJP has over leveraged on hidutva card which has started back firing. Gujarat MP Chattisgarh and Rajasthan election is a proof of it
The problem with either left wing or right wing is that they have never followed the basic principle of the constitution, that all citizens are to be treated equally. Even in Hindu religion, according to Bhagwat Gita, all people cannot be equal, each has his own talents and skills and personality, his dharma is decided by these factors (not by heredity or lineage) and as long as he follows his dharma (Gita never meant religiosity or tradition), he is a righteous person and he will receive God’s grace as befitting his actions.
Even great people in the Mahabharata, who broke strayed away from their dharma, by falling prey to their own weaknesses such as Yudhistira, Dronacharya, Karna etc have suffered. But, as it is said, to err is human. Hence, the very popular notion of forgiveness in Christianity is present as redemption in Hinduism. If you do something wrong, there is no forgiveness and no escape from its consequences but you can always revert to your dharma and redeem yourself. Yudhistira got the chance and redeemed himself. Drona remained stubborn to the end and trained a son who was even more arrogant. Karna was given several chances but refused to redeem himself.
Hope Rahul Gandhi understands this basic concept about Hinduism and reads Devdutt Patnaik books before indulging in something he does not understand. If he argues that because he is an upper tier Brahmin and thus, knows everything, then he is subscribing to a club that is a minority in India.
Shekhar, the crux of the matter is, who reduced the Congress to 44, Modi or Manmohan Singh? The answer is, Manmohan Singh. The second poser is, who will lead to the Congress’ resurrection, Rahul or Modi? The answer is, Modi.
So in my opinion, Rahul’s shenanigans are of no consequence. I agree with you that his recent discovery of his Hindu roots is nothing but hypocrisy, but let us not make too much of it. I don’t think anyone is going to believe him or get unfocused from voting against Modi. Those of Rahul’s advisors who have prompted him on this Hindu trip will pat themselves after the results, but the results will be what they will be independent of these advisors’ efforts. (But hold on! Let us wait until 11 December and see if U.P. type of ballot trick is still working.)
Rahul “s political drama analysed.