The Congress seems to have taken a resolution to be in the middle of as many controversies as possible during the election season. The anti-Bharat and Hinduphobic tilt of the grand old party of Bharat is being exposed day by day. Many leaders of Congress have resigned citing the dictatorial functioning of the party. Others have claimed that the party harassed them over visiting the Ayodhya Ram Mandir.
Former Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam recently made an explosive revelation that the party had a secret meeting when the Ayodhya Ram Mandir verdict came out and that Rahul Gandhi during that meeting with his close aides said that once the Congress government is formed at the centre, they will form a superpower commission to overturn the Ayodhya Ram Mandir decision, just like Rajiv Gandhi overturned the Shah Bano decision.
Acharya Pramod Krishnam also said that Congress harasses anyone who is a patriot, a Ram bhakt (devotee), and a believer in Hindu Dharma. There is a long list of senior leaders ready to leave the Congress party because whoever speaks anything good about the nation, the Congress doesn’t want them, claimed Acharya Pramod Krishnam.
The Congress had barely recovered from the onslaught of Acharya Krishnam’s revelations that their favorite friend, philosopher, and guide Sam Pitroda landed the grand old party in another mess. In an extremely racist and obnoxious remark, Pitroda said that people in the east of Bharat look like Chinese, in the west of Bharat like Arabs, in the south of Bharat like Africans, and in the north of Bharat like whites.
“We could hold together a country as diverse as India – where the people on the East look like Chinese, people on the West look like Arabs, people on the North look like maybe Whites and people in South India look like Africans. It doesn’t matter. We are all brothers and sisters”, Sam Pitroda remarked in a recent interview with The Statesman.
It’s ironical that Pitroda spoke about the diversity of Bharat through the prism of racism. He claimed to speak about the diversity of the country but ended up making obnoxiously racist remarks about Bharatiyas. That a person of that political stature could make such uninformed, biased, loaded, and ridiculously presumptive statements about Bharatiyas speaks a lot about Sam Pitroda’s grooming and the general culture of Congress.
The core of Rahul Gandhi’s political narrative, over the past couple of years, has been the systematic debunking of the idea of Bharat as a coherent nation with a strong identity. His multiple statements over the past have reflected the party’s preference for a fragmented, balkanized Bharat, one that encourages and celebrates divisive politics in the name of caste, creed, religion, etc. rather than a country with a unified and coherent national identity that focuses on development.
The Congress Manifesto for the 2024 general elections and the recent spate of statements by Rahul Gandhi reflect the divisive mindset of Congress. The grand old party of Bharat is totally playing into the hands of woke leftists by laying out a dangerous roadmap for creating conflicts between Dalits vs Savarnas (so-called high castes) and Muslims vs people of all other religions living in Bharat. Its over-emphasis on the development of the Muslim community, to the exclusion of all other minorities in Bharat is a testimony to Congress’s not-so-benign intentions of polarizing the electorate and creating a civil war-like situation in the country by resorting to unprecedented levels of Muslim appeasement if it’s ever voted back to power.
Rahul Gandhi recently made a bunch of sensational comments regarding Bharat’s IIT-JEE entrance examinations. He drew parallels between Bharat’s IIT-JEE entrance examinations and the American SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test), proposing that Dalits should prepare the IIT entrance exam papers to increase opportunities for underprivileged students to get admissions into these institutions.
He reportedly made these comments in a viral video circulating on social media where he stated that “whites failed the SAT exam when black people began preparing the question papers”. It’s dangerous how Congress leader is attacking the very structure of meritocracy in Bharat by making such ridiculous statements. The IIT entrance exams have a pre-defined syllabus and an objective criterion for setting the questions. What has the caste of the person got to with who is setting the paper anyway? By bringing caste into the context of engineering education in Bharat, Rahul Gandhi is applying the dangerous woke template of the US to the Bharatiya context. This should ring alarm bells that the next target of the grand old party will be Bharat’s educational instructions of scientific excellence if it ever comes back to power.
Coming back to Sam Pitroda’s racist remarks regarding the supposed skin color and looks of Bharatiyas from east, west, north, and the south, the Congress tried its best to distance itself from the remarks. Pitroda even stepped down from his position as the Chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress. But the damage has already been done.
The likes of Pitroda reflect the systemic rot within the Congress party and reflect the deep roots of its anti-Hindu and anti-Bharat stance. Pitroda is no small leader in the Congress party. He has an illustrious history within the party and is the one responsible for grooming Rahul Gandhi.
Sam Pitroda, now based in the US, was Rajiv Gandhi’s advisor when he was the Prime Minister of Bharat. After UPA’s victory in the 2004 elections, Pitroda was invited by then- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to head the National Knowledge Commission of India. In 2009, he became an advisor to the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on public information infrastructure.
Sam Pitroda’s website describes him as “an internationally respected telecom inventor, entrepreneur, development thinker, and policy maker who has spent 50 years in information and communications technology (ICT) and related global and national developments”.
Pitroda has a history of making anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu remarks. Discussing the Congress Manifesto, Pitroda has earlier spoken about the concept of Inheritance Tax prevalent in the US. “In America, there is an inheritance tax. If one has 100 million USD worth of wealth and when he dies he can only transfer 45 per cent to his children, 55 per cent is grabbed by the government. That’s an interesting law. It says you in your generation, made wealth and you are leaving now, you must leave your wealth for the public, not all of it, half of it, which to me sounds fair”, Sam Pitroda had said.
In 2023, Pitroda had made controversial comments regarding the Ram Mandir. He had said that temples were not going to solve Bharat’s problems of inflation, education, health, and unemployment. Speaking at a US event where Rahul Gandhi was also present, he had also said, “No one talks about these things. But everyone talks about Ram, Hanuman, and Mandir. I have said that temples are not going to create jobs”.
A recently published article in the Firstpost sheds further light on the prominent role played by Sam Pitroda within Congress and his specific role in grooming Rahul Gandhi and changing his perception overseas. “The Print reports that it is Pitroda who has arranged many of Rahul Gandhi’s overseas visits, including the one to Berkeley in 2017 as well as the ones to Dubai and Abu Dhabi. He has also been credited for changing the perception of Congress President overseas and has even given a few lessons to him on communication and leadership”, says the article.
Sam Pitroda’s casual racist comments about Bharatiyas also reflect the continuum of the larger missionary conspiracy of dismantling Bharat by manufacturing fictitious fault lines based on race and caste. The now discredited Aryan Invasion theory is repeatedly used to keep the pot of discontent boiling by insinuating that those living in the north of Bharat belong to the Aryan race and are thus fair-skinned more racially closer to Europeans whereas those in the south of Bharat, belonging to the Dravidian race are the real natives of Bharat, dark-skinned and racially closer to Africans. The Arya-Dravidian theory was used to a massive scale to disconnect those in the south of Bharat from their Hindu roots and further large-scale Christian conversions in the south of Bharat.
The theory has been appropriated by all sorts of anti-Bharat stakeholders to peddle a bunch of related conspiracy theories. For example, one such theory insinuates that Hindu Dharma was created by the white-skinned Aryans, that is the Brahmins to control the lower castes, that is the Dalits and keep them in a perpetual subjugation mode. That is why in modern western woke theory, Brahmins are being labeled the whites of Bharat oppressing those belonging to lower castes.
The Aryan Migration Theory has been discredited multiple times through a plethora of scientific evidence. Yet, anti-Bharat propagandists continue to peddle this theory to keep the pot of discontent billing and divide Bharat along racial and ethnic lines.
It’s within this larger context of strengthening internal faultiness based on caste and racial identities that Sam Pitroda’s comments need to be looked at. While the BJP under the leadership of PM Modi talks about the development and creation of a strong national identity of Bharat based on its ancient civilizational and cultural heritage, the INDI alliance’s campaign seems inspired by the ideas calling for balkanization of Bharat and keeping the identity politics pot simmering by peddling versions of the now discredited Aryan migration theory.
