A futile bid by the Congress to rake up a controversy.
By Rajiv Theodore
NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi, the man who is billed as the next Prime Minister of India, seen as the unstoppable juggernaut of Indian politics, revealed yet another dimension to his personality last week – apart from the oft repeated ones like being tough, ruthless, shrewd, pragmatic, dogmatic.
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After filing his nomination papers from Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, he filled up the marital column (which he usually leaves blank); declared himself as married. He also outlined his educational qualifications and his assets. All these were declared in an affidavit on a Rs. 50 stamp paper. Besides Vadodara, Modi is also contesting from Varanasi, pitted against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal and Congress candidate Ajay Rai.
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A brief look at the electoral website where Modi’s information is ledged also shows that during the past he always kept the column on the status of his spouse blank as he did in the 2012 Assembly elections. Born on September 17, 1950 (being three years elder to his now-declared spouse Jashodaben), Modi, according to the affidavit, completed his schooling at the age of 17 in 1967 from Gujarat Board. He graduated with a degree in B.A. from Delhi University in 1978, 11 years after SSC, when he was 28. He completed his M.A. degree from Gujarat University in 1983 at 33.
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Jashodaben, 62, is a retired school teacher who lives in Brahmanwada, a village about 35 km. from Modi’s hometown, Vadnagar.
But what has caused many eyebrows to rise was his shedding of his bachelor image. And arch-rival Congress was quick to target the BJP leader on this issue.
“We are not making it personal. We are not interested in whether Modi is married or not. All that we are saying is that when Modi fought four assembly elections from Gujarat in 2001, 2002, 2007 and 20012, he had neither mentioned nor had given any details of his wife and her financial assets as required by law,” Kapil Sibal of the Congress said while heading a delegation to the Election Commission office in Delhi . “Now in 2014, the whole nation has seen BJP’s prime ministerial filing an election affidavit saying he is married. This means he had been violating in the past provisions of election law that makes it mandatory for candidates to make a truthful declaration of all facts so that that voters known all facts. Since SC has made the law stricter, Modi has come out with the actual position of his marital status. That means he was violating the law earlier and so we have urged EC to take action against him”.
Sibal said the whole episode is shocking, “because we now don’t know whether Modi, aspiring to be the prime minister, is hiding many more important facts from the people”.
Meanwhile, the Youth Congress party has expressed their desire to take out a rally to celebrate the great occasion of Modi finding his wife nearly four decades after his marriage. Abhay Dubey, a Congress mouthpiece from Madhya Pradesh, wrote to Union home minister asking him to provide an urgent security canopy to Jashodaben since Modi is reportedly in the hit list of terrorists and in turn she could be one of the easy targets.
The BJP, reacting to the attacks, said, “We are fighting these polls on the issues of corruption and inflation. If the Congress wants to bring in personal issues in it, we too can expose various issues related with the Gandhis, to which they will have no answer,” BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said at a press conference in New Delhi.
But is this going to snowball into becoming a raging campaign issue? Agreed that Modi is quite the frontrunner for the top job in the country and there are rivals who want to trip him at all cost. But why should Jashodaben become an issue especially when Modi has declared her to be his legal wife? In making this a plank to bash Modi, it may translate into scoring a self-goal for his rivals. Unlike in the US or the UK, personal lives of a politician does not make hot news in India unless it is linked to public interest at large.
BJP ally Shiv Sena has this to say in its editorial in the party mouthpiece Samna: “While Modi and his wife mutually separated and Modi went on to be the RSS pracharak, why should the Congress speak for Jasodhaben, when she has no complaints? What has Modi’s marriage got to do with common man and issues of price rise, corruption,” the editorial asked.
Modi’s marital status was challenged by Congress in January 2001 via pamphlets when Modi contested the by-election to the Rajkot-2 assembly seat, three months after becoming Gujarat CM. Last year, in November, the Supreme Court had refused to entertain a PIL accusing Modi of leaving the column on marital status blank in the nomination papers for the Maninagar assembly seat in 2012.
Last week, in an election rally at Doda, Rahul Gandhi led the Congress charge against Modi for suppressing his marital status and had also alleged that the Gujarat Police, at the behest of the BJP leader, had “stalked” a young woman violating her privacy using official machinery.
However, for the 2014 Lok Sabha election affidavit which he filed, in the column where he has to declare assets in the name of his wife, Modi has written that he has no information on Jashodaben’s income, IT returns and PAN details.
An interesting article in Caravan by Vinod K Jose, has this to say about Modi’s marriage:
“Modi was engaged to a girl three years younger than him, Jashodaben Chimanlal, from the neighbouring town of Brahamanwada. They had completed shaadi when Modi was only 13, Sombhai told me. But at age 18, with a higher call beckoning him, Modi decided to set off and wander in the Himalayas, leaving his wife and two uncertain families behind.
The only source of information for Modi’s travels during this time is Modi himself: even his family had no idea of his whereabouts. “Mother and all of us were very worried for him,” Sombhai recalled. “We had no idea where he had disappeared to. Then, two years later, he just turned up one day. He told us he had decided to end his sanyas and would go to Ahmedabad and work at our uncle Babubhai’s canteen.”
“I remember,” one of the Modi family’s neighbours in Vadnagar told me, “before Narendra left again, his mother wanted to set him up with his wife, so they asked Jashodaben’s parents to send her here for gauna. On the day Jashodaben came for gauna, Modi fought with the family and left home again.”
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NO GOONDAS AND CRIMINALS LIKE VAJPAYEE, MODI AND SONIA-RAHUL; WORSHIP “INSANELY HANDSOME” AVATAR OF SHIVA, SATISH CHANDRA
(April 17 ‘14) The voter turn-out in Bangalore was 35% (itself inflated from the actual figure) and the high turn-out in the rest of India was electronically fabricated using microwave signals from satellites (see IndianAirForcePilotsMurderDOTblogspotDOTcom ) though the actual turn-out was a half or a third or a quarter of the figures given out. CIA-RAW will assign these fabricated votes to whomever they choose. CIA-RAW began fabricating the high turn-out figures to counter my “The opinions and votes of India’s slave population suffering from mass-psychosis (below) do not matter” after media reports of very low turn-outs late on April 7 — the first day of polling.
(April 15 ‘14) Bharatiya Janata Party is a Goonda Party which chases a Goonda (Modi) instead of worshipping this Avatar who can make India the supreme military and economic power in the world immediately (see below); it must be destroyed. Regarding the BJP president’s statement about not changing the “no first use” of nuclear weapons: what these Goondas (including Goondas like K. Subrahmanyam; see ‘Offer to Me by CIA Director and K. Subrahmanyam‘: HaydenSubrahmanyamDOTblogspotDOTcom ) working for the CIA say does not matter, only what Satish Chandra says matters. I have made abundantly clear India’s plans (see below) for the first use of nuclear weapons against the United States without itself suffering a single casualty. And see what I have said below about the Goonda M. K. Gandhi.
(April 9 ‘14) Azam Khan says India’s Muslim soldiers won the Kargil war for India. I have said for years that the Kargil war was started by Pakistan’s army chief Musharraf on the CIA’s orders to make Vajpayee win the election that was pending after he had lost a vote of confidence as prime minister; that Hindu-Muslim conflict before 1947 was created and managed by the Intelligence Bureau leading to the partition of the country and its Indian and Pakistani successors (RAW & ISI which cooperated in the Kargil war & terror attacks such as the November 26, 2008 attack on Mumbai, etc.) continue to do so after 1947.
(April 4-6 ‘14) The opinions and votes of India’s slave population suffering from mass-psychosis (below) do not matter; only nuclear weapons matter — to simultaneously destroy Washington, New York, RAW headquarters, South Block and North Block with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed, with nuclear warheads already emplaced in them, if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. In a letter dated July 27, 1982 to Indira Gandhi as prime minister I referred to an act, by American Jews, that was “the equivalent of an annihilatory nuclear first strike on India”. In her reply dated July 29, 1982 she wrote “Dear Mr. Chandra, I have received your letter dated July 27, 1982 and am passing it on to my Principal Secretary to deal with it. Sincerely, Indira Gandhi”. In December, 1982 I wrote to her “There was sudden, terminal, overwhelming violence against me during a seminar at Harvard University and rather similar occurrences earlier… India can expect sudden, annihilatory violence … with nuclear weapons … against its population … unless it can mount a decisively superior force to stop it”. Following my advice, India’s strategic program, including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme and the Centre for Advanced Technology, was started to give India victory in a nuclear war with the United States and because of my influence on her, Indira Gandhi as prime minister was assassinated by CIA-RAW and later when Rajiv Gandhi realized the truth of what I had written to her after the American invasion of Iraq which was the first Gulf War, he was also assassinated by CIA-RAW. In the past few years, I have had India’s nuclear forces emplace nuclear warheads in Washington, New York and other U.S. cities and India is now in a position to destroy the United States without being destroyed. In fact, India is in a position now to destroy the United States without itself suffering a single casualty by triggering its nuclear warheads emplaced in Washington and New York with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. Note that Vajpayee could not have done that because of his relationship with the CIA which brought and kept him in office. The same is the case with all other Indian politicians because of their participation in the CIA’s crimes against me which the CIA can threaten to expose.
This is what I said when asked if India is just a pawn. “Yes, it is a pawn, a slave, a society suffering from mass-psychosis. Despite the recent revelations about M. K. Gandhi being a homosexual who reveled in his “slavery with a vengeance” to the white man, who engaged in a fake ‘freedom struggle” with the British managed by the Intelligence Bureau, the entire Indian government went to his memorial on his death anniversary this January 30, 2012 to pay tribute. India is a very sick society. (I had urged that all his portraits in government offices, etc. be burned). … By saying that India is suffering from mass-psychosis, I am being generous and kind of giving it the excuse of being ill (of the several hats I wear, I am also a mental health professional) but a country of 1.2 billion people being so terrified of much smaller numbers of people from half way around the world cannot really be excused. … ” (see RAWsTraffickingOfIndianChildrenDOTblogspotDOTcom ).
(The above is about one-fifth of my comment; the full comment can be found at IndiasLegitimateRulerSatishChandraDOTblogspotDOTcom ).1
NO GOONDAS AND CRIMINALS LIKE VAJPAYEE, MODI AND SONIA-RAHUL; WORSHIP “INSANELY HANDSOME” AVATAR OF SHIVA, SATISH CHANDRA
(April 9 ‘14) Azam Khan says India’s Muslim soldiers won the Kargil war for India. I have said for years that the Kargil war was started by Pakistan’s army chief Musharraf on the CIA’s orders to make Vajpayee win the election that was pending after he had lost a vote of confidence as prime minister; that Hindu-Muslim conflict before 1947 was created and managed by the Intelligence Bureau leading to the partition of the country and its Indian and Pakistani successors (RAW & ISI which cooperated in the Kargil war & terror attacks such as the November 26, 2008 attack on Mumbai, etc.) continue to do so after 1947.
(April 4-6 ‘14) The opinions and votes of India’s slave population suffering from mass-psychosis (below) do not matter; only nuclear weapons matter — to simultaneously destroy Washington, New York, RAW headquarters, South Block and North Block with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed, with nuclear warheads already emplaced in them, if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. In a letter dated July 27, 1982 to Indira Gandhi as prime minister I referred to an act, by American Jews, that was “the equivalent of an annihilatory nuclear first strike on India”. In her reply dated July 29, 1982 she wrote “Dear Mr. Chandra, I have received your letter dated July 27, 1982 and am passing it on to my Principal Secretary to deal with it. Sincerely, Indira Gandhi”. In December, 1982 I wrote to her “There was sudden, terminal, overwhelming violence against me during a seminar at Harvard University and rather similar occurrences earlier… India can expect sudden, annihilatory violence … with nuclear weapons … against its population … unless it can mount a decisively superior force to stop it”. Following my advice, India’s strategic program, including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme and the Centre for Advanced Technology, was started to give India victory in a nuclear war with the United States and because of my influence on her, Indira Gandhi as prime minister was assassinated by CIA-RAW and later when Rajiv Gandhi realized the truth of what I had written to her after the American invasion of Iraq which was the first Gulf War, he was also assassinated by CIA-RAW. In the past few years, I have had India’s nuclear forces emplace nuclear warheads in Washington, New York and other U.S. cities and India is now in a position to destroy the United States without being destroyed. In fact, India is in a position now to destroy the United States without itself suffering a single casualty by triggering its nuclear warheads emplaced in Washington and New York with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. Note that Vajpayee could not have done that because of his relationship with the CIA which brought and kept him in office. The same is the case with all other Indian politicians because of their participation in the CIA’s crimes against me which the CIA can threaten to expose.
This is what I said when asked if India is just a pawn. “Yes, it is a pawn, a slave, a society suffering from mass-psychosis. Despite the recent revelations about M. K. Gandhi being a homosexual who reveled in his “slavery with a vengeance” to the white man, who engaged in a fake ‘freedom struggle” with the British managed by the Intelligence Bureau, the entire Indian government went to his memorial on his death anniversary this January 30, 2012 to pay tribute. India is a very sick society. (I had urged that all his portraits in government offices, etc. be burned). … By saying that India is suffering from mass-psychosis, I am being generous and kind of giving it the excuse of being ill (of the several hats I wear, I am also a mental health professional) but a country of 1.2 billion people being so terrified of much smaller numbers of people from half way around the world cannot really be excused. … ” (see RAWsTraffickingOfIndianChildrenDOTblogspotDOTcom ).
(The above is about one-sixth of my comment; the full comment can be found at IndiasLegitimateRulerSatishChandraDOTblogspotDOTcom ).
Come out from illusions
You are insane and require urgent mental attention. If it does not work, join a mental asylum.