“The crusade initiated by L.K. Advani ji, the one centered around Ayodhya, was conquered in Ayodhya…. I am conveying something profoundly significant… The Congress party and INDIA coalition vanquished them in Ayodhya,” Rahul Gandhi asserted last week while addressing his party members in Ahmedabad. The essence of this statement has been overlooked by the media and commentators.

Gandhi’s pronouncement is not a recounting of reality. Instead, it should be perceived as a declaration of intent. He claimed that the Ram temple crusade led by Advani, an experienced Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart, has been thwarted by the INDIA coalition in Ayodhya. He made this assertion during a meeting in Ahmedabad, after an attack by BJP workers on the Congress party office. It can be inferred that Gandhi made this statement to uplift the spirits of his party members.

The pertinent question is, if Gandhi made a deliberate statement, then what does defeating the Ram temple crusade signify?

Gandhi’s declaration pertained to the BJP’s defeat in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency during the recently concluded general elections. INDIA candidate Awadhesh Pasi from the Samajwadi Party (SP) triumphed over BJP’s Lallu Singh.

The BJP’s defeat by a Dalit candidate, particularly in a region considered the nucleus of Hindutva politics, is highly symbolic. This singular defeat has compelled the BJP to adopt a defensive stance. The opposition exploited this during the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha to embarrass the BJP. Pasi sat between Gandhi and Kannauj MP Akhilesh Yadav in the first row, with both Yadav and Gandhi frequently shaking hands with him. Pasi’s smile was a dagger to the hearts of BJP MPs. Awadhesh, incidentally, is one of the many appellations of Ram.

When this defeat was announced, the BJP scoffed, stating that it lost in Faizabad, not Ayodhya. It now has to regret the Uttar Pradesh government’s 2018 decision to rename the district of Faizabad as Ayodhya, since the BJP wanted people to forget about Faizabad and remember Ayodhya.  Ironically, those who opposed the renaming now speak of Ayodhya, while the BJP insists on discussing Faizabad. It’s as though it’s natural for the BJP to lose in Faizabad.

How could it be vanquished in Ayodhya?

Regardless of whether it’s Faizabad or Ayodhya, the loss of this seat has agitated the BJP. The BJP and its allies waged a fierce hate campaign against the Hindus of Ayodhya after the election result, demanding a financial boycott on the grounds of their alleged ingratitude.  The BJP bestowed upon them a grand Ram temple, airport, and more, only to be repaid with electoral defeat. Could there be greater ingratitude?

Gandhi elaborated on the reasons behind the BJP’s defeat in Ayodhya. The populace of Ayodhya rejected the BJP because they were incensed by the loss of their land, livelihoods, and the general misery inflicted upon them. The reasons were fundamentally worldly. Can this then be termed as the defeat of the Ram temple crusade? Can it be considered an ideological defeat of the BJP?

Gandhi’s statement was part of a discourse directed at his party members and supporters in Ahmedabad. The Congress had suffered a severe defeat in Gujarat, and BJP workers had attacked its office. As the party leader, Gandhi’s duty was to invigorate his followers. This explains his assertion that if the BJP can be defeated in Ayodhya, a cornerstone of its election campaign, it can also be vanquished in Gujarat.

Recall that BJP’s chief propagandist Narendra Modi had been declaring that if the BJP did not triumph, Congress would lock up the Ram temple. The people of Ayodhya rejected this notion. However, the question remains whether this can be deemed the defeat of the Ram temple crusade.

Gandhi’s statement should be interpreted as an expression of the ideological determination he wishes his party to comprehend and adopt.

Significantly, he invoked Advani’s name. By doing so, Gandhi intended to associate the Ram temple with Advani rather than Modi. He aimed to emphasize that this temple emerged from a crusade led by Advani when Modi was merely an acolyte.

Those familiar with the evolution of the BJP, and its predecessor Jana Sangh, understand that the Ram Janmabhoomi crusade was its most crucial attempt to dominate Indian politics. The Ram Janmabhoomi crusade metamorphosed the Hindu faith into Hindutva. It ingrained a narrative of persecution in Hindu minds, transforming them into seekers of retribution. Who was a Hindu? One who harbored animosity towards Muslims. This is what Advani’s crusade accomplished. The temple crusade also redefined Hinduism. It turned the purported ‘Ram Janma Sthal’ into the epicenter of the Hindu faith. Only those who believed in it could be Hindus. This was accepted by other political parties and the judiciary. This was the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)’s greatest political and ideological victory. For the first time since its inception in 1925, the distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva almost vanished.

Modi’s ascent would not have been possible, and terms like ‘kar sevak’ and ‘Ram sevak’ would not have entered the Hindu lexicon, without this crusade. It was also due to this crusade that the number six coach of the Sabarmati Express was set ablaze in Godhra. We still do not know how that fire started, but it was used as a pretext for a massacre of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. This event catapulted Modi to leadership within Advani’s Hindutva.

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“It was not an easy decision as both the seats (Wayanad and Rae Bareli) are confirmed,” Rahul Gandhi said of the decision to vacate one of the seats. two seats are required by the rules

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made her election debut from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala after her brother and former Congress leader Rahul Gandhi decided to retain the Rae Barel seat in Uttar Pradesh.

Gandhi won both seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, but as the rules allow only one seat to be retained, he had to contest within 14 days of the MP’s election. The deadline for this is June 18.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge announced the decision at his official residence on Monday after a marathon meeting that lasted more than two hours.

Gandhi said it was a difficult decision for him as he has an emotional connection with the people of Rae Bareli and also with Wayanad. “I have an old relationship with Rae Barel and I am very happy to represent it. But it was not an easy decision as there is a connection with both places (Wayanad and Rae Bareli),” he told reporters shortly after Kharge announced the decision.

“I am very happy to represent Wayanad and all I can say is that I will not let them feel his (Mr Gandhi’s) absence. As he said, he comes often but I work just as hard and try to make everyone happy and be a good representative,” Vadra said.

He also claimed that his ties with Rae Bareli and Amethi cannot be severed as he has worked there for 20 years and continues to help his brother in Rae Bareli.

If Mrs. Vadra wins the Lok Sabha polls, all three members of the Gandhi family will be in Parliament for the first time.

“Let’s say both constituencies get two MPs,” Gandhi said. He added that the past five years as Wayanad MP had been a “wonderful and very enjoyable experience”.

“The people of Wayanad stood with me, gave me love and affection, support and energy to fight through a very difficult time. And I will remember that for the rest of my life,” he said.

Gandhi smiled and said “Dhamki Dee hai as party president (he threatened as party president)”.

Kharge added that a decision will be made soon.

The political implications of the decision were discussed in a marathon meeting before the venue was officially announced. Apart from the Gandhi siblings, the meeting was attended by Congress Parliamentary Party President Sonia Gandhi and General Secretary (Organization) K.C. Venugopal.

“According to the law, he (Mr. Gandhi) has to give up one seat and he can continue with one seat. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the last date to do so. The party decided that Rahul Gandhi should retain the Rae Barel seat. The Gandhi family has been contesting from their seat for generations and the people of Rae Bareli as well as our party workers believe that this is good for the party, Kharge said.

Gandhi contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Rae Barel after his mother Sonia Gandhi left the electoral fray to settle in the Rajya Sabha. Since 2004, he has represented this place for five seasons. Since the first general elections, the Congress has now won Rae Bareli 18 times and the top seat was represented by late Feroze Gandhi, grandfather of Mr. Rahul Gandhi. His grandmother, the late former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, represented the seat three times.

Family legacy aside, the party reckons that by retaining the Rae Barel seat in the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi will strengthen the Congress’s alliance with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party. And with Mrs. Vadra in the Lok Sabha, the opposition has a clear voice in its ranks.

“People’s voice is much louder with @RahulGandhi and @priyankagandhi in Parliament,” Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said on social media X.

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Congress pioneer Rahul Gandhi was responding to PM Modi’s meeting with news organization ANI, where the last option talked about the appointive bonds plot, which was struck somewhere near the High Court on February 15 this year.

Congress pioneer Rahul Gandhi on Monday referred to State leader Narendra Modi the driving force of the appointive bonds as a “trick”, saying that the last option is currently giving meetings after he was “got”.

“Rahul says this is the greatest blackmail plan in the world and PM Modi is its brains. Request that the PM make sense of that one day CBI request begins and following that they (the BJP) get the cash. Furthermore, following that, the CBI request is rejected. Large agreements, framework contracts – – the organization gives cash, and following that they are given the agreement,” the Congress chief said.

“The significant thing in discretionary bond is – – names and dates. Assuming you see the names and dates you will know that when they (contributors) gave the discretionary bond, just after that agreement was given to them or the CBI request was removed against them. Pradhan Mantri pakade gaye hain isiliye ANI ko interview de rahe hain (Top state leader is giving meeting to ANI after he was gotten),” Rahul Gandhi told the media on Monday.

The Congress chief was responding to PM Modi’s meeting with the news office ANI, where the last option talked about the constituent bonds conspire, which was struck somewhere around the High Court on February 15 this year.

In the meeting, PM Modi said the electing securities plot was pointed toward controlling dark cash in decisions and that “everybody will think twice about it when there is a fair reflection”. He additionally hammered the Resistance for “spreading lies” over appointive bonds.

On this, Rahul Gandhi provoked the Head of the state to make sense of how a few organizations gave to the BJP through discretionary bonds following they came on the radar of focal test organizations.

On February 15, the High Court struck down the discretionary bonds plot, referring to it as “illegal”.

The discretionary securities were without revenue banking instruments which could be bought by residents or corporates in India for their decision of ideological groups. The resistance groups censured the plan as it kept the personality of the contributor unknown.