When You Cannot Answer Questions, Jump Into the River

 

When You Cannot Answer Questions, Jump Into the River

Hindi Version: https://rakeshinsightfulgaze.blogspot.com/2026/08/blog-post_24.html

The BJP seems to have discovered a new strategy for connecting with Gen Z: become a child or jump into a river. Giriraj Singh, at 74, says his biological age may be 74, but he thinks like a child. Kiren Rijiju jumped into open water, apparently eager to demonstrate that Rahul Gandhi is not the only politician who can swim. At this rate, the BJP needs fewer spokespersons and more kindergarten teachers and swimming instructors.

Unfortunately, this courage disappears at the doors of Parliament. Rijiju can jump into a river, but can he get Narendra Modi and Amit Shah to come to Parliament and answer a few questions? Who ordered the police action against protesting students? What are the answers to allegations surrounding the Ram Temple and its finances? Apparently, swimming against a current is easier than swimming against your own leadership.

Meanwhile, young men and women are increasingly gathering around Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party. The BJP and its friendly media can change the subject, manufacture another controversy, or organize a swimming competition, but they cannot make those students disappear. Rahul Gandhi said he would take away the sleep of Modi and Shah. Looking at the frantic attempts to change the conversation, perhaps someone should check whether their pillows are missing too.

And then there is our "Vishwaguru." I recently saw Ashok Wankhede discuss a photograph of Modi and his delegation meeting Elon Musk in the United States while Musk's children and their caregiver were also in the room. Here was the Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy meeting a billionaire in surroundings that could easily be mistaken, for purposes of satire, for a kindergarten with a government delegation attached.

How low can the dignity of India's highest elected office be allowed to appear before someone asks a question? Back home, every Modi foreign trip is marketed like Caesar entering Rome. Abroad, we sometimes get photographs that look more like "Vishwaguru Visits Daycare."

And these are the people who spent years calling Rahul Gandhi immature.

Today Rahul Gandhi walks among students, talks to ordinary people, faces journalists, takes questions, and keeps putting the government on the defensive. On the other side, a 74-year-old politician tells us he thinks like a child, a senior minister jumps into a river to show he can swim, and the "Vishwaguru" provides material for kindergarten jokes.

Satire is becoming difficult. The BJP keeps writing it for us.

Gen Z does not need Giriraj Singh to become younger or Rijiju to become a swimmer. It needs jobs, honest examinations, functioning universities, and answers. If students were beaten, tell India who ordered it. If allegations of wrongdoing are false, answer them with evidence. And if Modi and Shah are the strong leaders we are constantly told they are, let them come to Parliament and answer the questions.

Until then, Rijiju can keep swimming, Giriraj Singh can keep getting younger, and Modi can keep being the "Vishwaguru."

Rahul Gandhi can keep asking the questions that apparently none of them know how to answer.

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