Last week, when there revelations that Rafale files were ‘stolen’ from India’s Ministry of Defense, before Bharatiya Janatha Party and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could ‘put the blame’ on India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the social media had put the blame on Nehru.
Who stole the Rafale file? Of course, it is Nehru! The social media came up ‘tangible evidences’ too.
Nehru has been Modi’s favourite ‘target’ for India’s failures.
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And now, when BJP’s website is down for the last six days, the Tweeple Say ‘Nehru Did It’.
A week ago, on 5 March, the BJP’s official website was hacked. There was a meme featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose caption reads “Brothers and sisters, I’ve fooled all of you. Brothers and sisters, we’ve fooled all of you. More to come! Many, many congratulations!”
Soon after, the website was shut down for maintenance. It has been more than six days now, and the website hasn’t whirred back into action yet. And Tweeple couldn’t resist poking fun at the party for not being able to restore the website.
Did Nehru do it, joked Tweeple, likely taking a dig at BJP’s tendency to blame Nehru for the problems India faces today.
The Modi’s government antipathy towards Jawaharlal Nehru is no secret.
The BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have, in the past, repeatedly blamed India’s first prime minister, who died in 1964, for the problems that India faces today.
The Modi government has even implied that Nehru is responsible for the conflict situation in Kashmir today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has, on several occasions, said that if Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had been the first prime minister of India, the situation in Kashmir would have been starkly different today.
Meanwhile, former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief KS Sudarshan had in April 2005 claimed that Jawaharlal Nehru, and not Nathuram Godse, was responsible for Mahatma Gandhi’s killing.
Modi has also blamed Nehru for playing a significant role in the 1947 partition of the country into India and Pakistan, and subsequently not doing enough for the farmers of India.
