Addressing a public meeting in Ahmedabad for a BJP candidate ahead of next month’s Assembly elections in Gujarat, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday that nowadays Rahul Gandhi looks like Saddam Hussein, the deceased Iraqi dictator.

Questioning Rahul Gandhi’s few visits to Gujarat ahead of the elections, Sarma said, “He is invisible in Gujarat. He comes to the state like a visiting faculty… He also did not campaign in Himachal Pradesh. He is visiting only those places where there are no elections… May be because he is scared of defeat.”

The Assam Chief Minister also alleged that the Congress must have paid Bollywood stars to join Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo yatra, in an indirect reference to actors Pooja Bhatt and Amol Palekar who had joined the Yatra.

Earlier in the day while addressing a public meeting in Dhansura, Sarma called for stringent laws to curb love jihad/grooming jihad, pointing out that during interrogation, Aftab Ameen Poonawalla, who brutally murdered his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar in Delhi’s Mehrauli area, had reportedly said that he was dating only Hindu girls because they were emotional.

Project Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi has been launched several times over the last 2 decades by Congress handlers to establish him as the successor of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and ‘future of Indian politics’. A video after the 2009 LS elections shows the excitement in the Lutyens’ media and bureaucratic cabal and how Rahul Gandhi was being heralded by the likes of Shekhar Gupta, NK Singh, Prannoy Roy, Vir Sanghvi –

“Very measured and very mature..he (Rahul Gandhi) will not drop a soundbite that will come back and haunt him. That is the quality of a batsman settling down for a long innings”: ‘journalist’ Shekhar Gupta who now leads the clever propaganda portal The Print.

“I would say very sincere and credible….He is being candid, he has been spanning a bipartisan support, the time for instance when he mentioned Chandrababu Naidu’s good work and Nitish Kumar’s good work…he was speaking from the heart, what he saw”: ex-IAS babu NK Singh, who was a JD(U) MP at that time, and later jumped ship to BJP in 2014.

“One – he reminded me of his father who when pushed to the wall could be combative, drop soundbites. But when he was comfortable, was humble, graceful, gracious..that is the Rahul Gandhi we saw today, paying tribute to Advani, seeming very measured, seeming very mellow…Point 2- he said something about the youth, I think that is going to be the theme of the Congress, the victory of young India…Third – there are many questions about reform. I think he made it very clear that he is very much an Aam Aadmi man, his priority is not going to be corporate fatcats, its going to be the poor of India:” ‘journalist’ Vir Sanghvi who was outed just a few months later via the Radia Tapes expose as being a shill for the same ‘corporate fatcats’.

Unfortunately, the potential which the durbari media claimed to have identified in Rahul Gandhi never materialized, and he has proven to be utterly incapable of leading his party or even talking coherently on any topic. Moreover, his frequent secretive foreign trips and constant undermining of Bharat and demonization of its people, indicate that he is now acting as a rogue agent for foreign powers.

In between, there was an attempt to project his sister Priyanka Vadra, but that too has fizzled out after she failed miserably at turning the party’s fortunes around in UP. So the party is now back to promoting Rahul Gandhi. In order to counter the ‘pappu’ (immature, unformed person; small boy) moniker which has stuck to him, political analysts believe that Congress handlers have decided to relaunch him with a bearded look to presumably lend more gravitas.

(With IANS inputs)