Gods of Noise: The BJP’s Parliament Performance and the Truth Left Behind
Gods of Noise: The BJP’s Parliament
Performance and the Truth Left Behind
Today, while watching the Monsoon
Session of the Indian Parliament, I was treated as usual to the BJP’s signature
political theatre: yelling, chest-thumping, and the ceremonial slaughter of
facts. One leader after another took to the mic with full-throated passion and
empty folders, hoping their volume would compensate for their vacuum of logic.
It’s not surprising. Courage
among the BJP’s top brass seems to exist only in opposition or on social media.
When real power entered the room as it did with Donald Trump, repeatedly
claiming (29 times, to be precise) that he was the one who stopped a war
between India and Pakistan, not one BJP leader dared to call him a liar. They
rolled over so quickly that they may as well have applied for U.S. citizenship.
Rahul Gandhi, to his credit, used
his time to challenge Prime Minister Modi directly. In one of the most biting
moments of the session, he said: “Try to find even half the courage of Indira
Gandhi, who stood up to Nixon. Can you do the same with Trump, who has claimed
again and again 29 times that he stopped a war between India and Pakistan?”
Now here’s the uncomfortable
truth: Trump didn’t lie. That’s precisely what makes this so politically
devastating. Modi can’t call Trump a liar without confirming that Trump did
broker a de-escalation. And if Modi admits that, it’s an admission that India
wasn’t in control of its foreign policy, and needed foreign intervention to
pull back. That’s political suicide on the global stage for a self-proclaimed
strongman.
So, Modi does what he does best:
says nothing. When Rahul pressed him to declare in Parliament that Trump is
making it up, Modi didn’t roar, didn’t respond he just stared, calculating the
cost of every possible answer and choosing silence as the safest escape route.
The contrast was striking. One
couldn’t help but remember Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the elder generation of BJP
leaders who, with soft voices and sharp minds, made speeches so precise and
cutting that even their opponents paused to listen. Today, that legacy has been
replaced with volume over value, shouting over substance. The modern-day BJP
appears to have adopted the principle that if you say something loud enough,
long enough, and with enough finger-wagging, it must be true. Unfortunately,
history and facts tend to be immune to decibel levels.
As the phrase goes, "barking
dogs rarely bite" and in this case, the metaphor feels tailor-made. BJP
leaders have mastered the art of public bravado paired with a remarkable
absence of action when it matters most. When Trump took center stage and
declared himself the peacemaker of South Asia, the BJP's response was not
outrage, not rebuttal, but silence so loud it echoed.
Take, for example, Operation
Sindhur a campaign the government initially tried to present as a moment of
triumph. Unfortunately for them, the narrative has boomeranged. Now it seems
they’re spending more time trying to look victorious than actually
explaining what was achieved. A lot of chest-thumping, very little clarity.
Then came the exchange between
Rahul Gandhi and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. Singh declared boldly, of
course, that Pakistan was “on its knees.” Rahul calmly asked the obvious: If
that’s true, why did you stop? Why didn’t you reclaim POK? And why let Trump be
the narrator of your so-called victory? Rajnath had no answer, just tremors
in his voice and silence behind his words.
When the Opposition pressed
further, challenging Modi to tell the nation that Trump was lying, Modi,
usually fond of theatrics, seemed suddenly interested in finding a conveniently
placed hole in the floor.
And then there's Amit Shah, whose
solution to every problem appears to be shouting it into submission.
Unfortunately, reality does not bend to volume, nor does public accountability
disappear under a raised voice. Whether it’s Shah, Sidhanshu Mishra, or others
in the BJP chorus, the formula remains the same: when cornered, yell louder.
But the people are watching. And
no matter how hard the government tries to mask silence as strength and bravado
as bravery, the cracks are showing. The Monsoon Session may be wet, but it has
exposed a drought of courage in the ruling benches, one that no amount of
shouting can hide.
Add to that Modi’s greatest
advantage: the Paltu media, a lapdog press, bought and paid for by taxpayer
money funneled through the Ambani-Adani megacorp pipeline. This ecosystem
shelters Modi and his party, covers up lies with patriotic varnish, and
amplifies fake accomplishments with a megaphone funded by the very public it
misleads. Who has the time to verify, when most citizens are too overworked or
too poor to protest? Truth in India today doesn’t just die in silence; headlines
smother it.
And yet, even within this
manufactured fog, something is shifting. The Vice President has resigned. The
Speaker is showing an ounce of backbone by allowing Opposition voices to be
heard. It’s faint, but it’s happening.
Even in a theatre of noise,
sometimes the quietest question echoes the loudest: What are they so afraid
of?
Trump is known for lying thousand times in US and oversees, none has callled him a liar to his face. India’s foreign and defense ministers have told what happened contradicting Trump. It does not behove diplomatic to call a foreign president a liar. Indra G did not call Nixon a liar.
ReplyDeleteSome people are so deep in Modi’s shadow that they can’t smell the rot. Let’s be clear: when the Indian Army was fully mobilized and on the brink of neutralizing Pakistan’s nuclear bluff, the war was halted and Donald Trump, not Modi, tweeted the “peace deal” as his victory. So the question isn’t whether Trump lied. The question is: if Trump didn’t stop the war, who did? Did our “56-inch” Prime Minister suddenly catch a case of foreign policy food poisoning? Did he panic and hit the brakes because he forgot how to lead?
DeleteThis isn’t about diplomatic etiquette, it’s about national dignity. If a foreign leader publicly makes claims about your country’s decisions that aren't true, you call it out. Not doing so isn’t diplomacy. It’s weakness, plain and simple.
And for the record, if Indira Gandhi were alive today, she wouldn’t be hiding behind “decorum.” She stared Nixon in the eye and humiliated his entire administration with her grit, resolve, and sharp intellect without shouting. If Trump had dared to take credit for India’s military strategy on her watch, she wouldn’t have just called him a liar. She would’ve called him what he truly is a reckless, self-obsessed meddler trying to rewrite another nation’s story to feed his ego.
Modi didn’t push back because he couldn’t. And his followers don’t demand accountability because they won’t. That’s not diplomacy. That’s surrender dressed in saffron.
Pakistan has not contradicted India’s statements that they asked India to stop military operations.
ReplyDeleteAh, so now we have a “foreign policy genius” claiming victory because Pakistan hasn’t denied India’s statements? That’s your gold standard for geopolitical credibility? Pakistan doesn’t need to deny anything; they’ve already won the diplomatic round. The world is watching, and guess what? They’re not buying Modi’s "Operation Sindhur" theatrics.
DeleteSince 2001, India has used a combination of military pressure and global diplomacy to expose Pakistan’s terror ecosystem. The international community was slowly isolating Islamabad not because of tweets or TV anchors, but because of deliberate, strategic statecraft.
And now? After all that groundwork, we handed them the narrative on a silver platter. Do you really think Pakistan would bail out Modi by admitting they begged for mercy? Please. They’re gaining international sympathy, diplomatic space, and even indirect support from countries that once stood squarely with India. You think they’re going to interrupt that by fact-checking India’s chest-thumping? They’re playing smart letting Modi talk himself into a corner while the world nods politely and moves on.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Pakistan didn’t stop India. Trump did. And Modi, for all his bravado, complied. If he had followed through, India might have fundamentally shifted the strategic balance of the region. But instead, the brakes were slammed, and Trump tweeted himself into the role of peace broker.
So, no, Pakistan’s silence isn’t submission; it’s a strategy. They’re not denying anything because they don’t have to. We denied ourselves the victory. And trying to spin that as a diplomatic masterstroke is like calling a retreat a parade.
Grow up. This isn’t PR. It’s geopolitics.