When Congress opens its mouth, the BJP does not need to. The roasting is served hot by Congress leaders themselves, with the BJP merely adding the garnish.
Congress MP Manish Tewari solemnly declares that dynasts are being rejected, that Gen Z has no patience for entitlement. BJP claps in delight.
Who better than Rahul Gandhi, the party’s PRO for hereditary politics, to prove Tewari’s point? The saffron spin is quick: Gen Z to Congress veterans are all fed up. Tewari has aimed his arrow straight at Rahul.’
Mishra’s Mahatma 2.0
Congress leader Ashwani Kumar Mishra tries damage control, calling Rahul Gandhi ‘Mahatma Gandhi 2.0’. The BJP howls this must be the beta version that crashes on every update. I do not blame those who misread it as the better version, though evidence remains scarce.
Gen Z speaks for itself
Rahul, not to be outdone, proclaims that ‘Gen Z will save democracy and stop vote theft’. A news channel buttonholed some Gen Z youth, asking if they would like to see Rahul as prime minister. One replied, ‘Never’, adding that the Congress MP does not deserve to be even an MLA.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan sharpened the jibe: ‘Nobody has a monopoly on Gen Z. Gen Z is for Bharat, and PM Modi is representing Bharat.’ He pointed to the Delhi University Students’ Union elections, where the ABVP, the BJP’s student wing, won three of four key posts. Delhi BJP leaders added that this was Gen Z’s rejection of Rahul Gandhi.
Veterans join the roasting
The elders in Congress are hardly kinder. Earlier, Captain Amarinder Singh, elbowed out of Punjab, compared Rahul and Priyanka to children who need to grow up.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, in his farewell letter, accused the Gandhis of handing the party over to an inexperienced coterie of sycophants.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, trying to sound wise, muttered: ‘One rotten mango spoils the box. Remove rotten mangoes from the party.’ BJP instantly interprets the metaphor: ‘Kharge ji, you mean the aam aadmi with the wrong surname?’
Inherited surnames, inherited mistakes
The Gandhis, however, still behave as though they own India, while the party is reduced to telling the public that every weakness is actually a strength. Entitlement, they forget, is not a birthright but a millstone.
In the Congress kitchen, the chef keeps changing, but the recipe is always the same – nepo kids in oversized aprons trying to pass off reheated leftovers as haute cuisine. In Congress, the only thing inherited more faithfully than the surname is the sense of entitlement. The BJP hardly needs an IT cell – Congress leaders provide the memes free of charge. And in the family firm, even rotten mangoes are considered heirlooms.
