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Twitter is proof why BJP should have been in Opposition during Uri attack

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DailyTripSep 20, 2016 | 18:48

Twitter is proof why BJP should have been in Opposition during Uri attack

How Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP national president Amit Shah and other luminaries in the ruling are wishing that they were, in fact, NOT in the ruling party!

Okay, it may be hard to digest but if PM Narendra Modi has the biggest troll ever - no it's not Arvind Kejriwal, with due respect to the Delhi chief minister - it is the CM Narendra Modi.

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Whether it is Uri attack, or assault on Pathankot airbase in January this year, the prime minister's biggest critic, with no-holds-barred punches delivered at the "Centre", has been (former) CM Modi.

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How time stamps come to haunt you on social media!

To the extent that even the diehard Modi-baiters had a moment of weakness and actually wished to relive those glory moments, like time-travelling political junkies, going back and forth to relisten to CM's jibes at the PM.

But how can we leave out the wonders that constitute the ruling party, or the government in place?

From a defence minister, sorry, erm, "Raksha Mantri", who prefers to target a Bollywood actor after Pathankot attack, to a fawning party apparatchik hellbent on scoring anti-Muslim brownie points all the time, Modi's fanboys are specimens any museum would just lap up for posterity's sake.

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And no matter how much they detest Congress and the Emergency that bifurcated Indian post-Independence period sharply, Indira Gandhi's ghost remains a hot favourite to summon up at will.

And then there are those who rely on the Twitter polls to figure out if the "normal nuclear bomb" would be a better option than the "Hydrogen bomb" to "teach Pakistan a lesson". Just what you'd do when you're in the Opposition, no? Shadow-boxing loses its edge when you're on the hot seat, but evidently these eminences are not worried.

And what about the BJP national secretary who as the campaign strategist for 2014 depended a lot on Pakistan's ever reliable neighbourly love for India, and literally promised to turn their tourism sector into a booming one, trying to send as many Indians beyond the LoC for harbouring some grey matter?

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Oh he's busy singing "Happy Birthday to you" in rastrabhasha.

Once an event manager, always an event manager, but hasn't he lost his charm ever since the cherished part of being in the opposition has been duly taken away from him?

Sometimes you're grateful that your "colleagues" are so colourful.

But wouldn't their colours really be showcased well if they could do their tongue-lashing without any sense of governmental constraint?

Though, constraint isn't a state of mind bogging him down.

All that fun when the BJP was in opposition, vanished into thin air post May 2014. Else, they could have taught the BJP at the Centre a lesson in governance, skewered the Centre in style.

But being in opposition is a bit like radioactivity. It never quite goes away now. Does it? Pinki swear by cow dung please.

Last updated: September 20, 2016 | 18:48
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