In a world where national interest demands clarity and courage, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to ignore the noise and act. While Modi focused on sanitizing India’s borders from Pakistan-backed terror, the Congress party, in a display of remarkable tone-deafness, wanted answers on whether he had accepted the U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called mediation offer and if India had agreed to a ceasefire with Pakistan.
Seriously?
The same Congress that never summoned the nerve to call Pakistan’s bluff during its six-decade rule now wants to nitpick over semantics while India counters a hostile neighbour? One might be forgiven for asking whether the party still inhabits the same reality as the rest of the nation. Or perhaps, in its desperation, Congress has become a parody of itself — throwing bizarre questions in the hope someone, somewhere, is still listening.
To top it off, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, whose own tenure ended in administrative embarrassment, demanded a status update on the Pahalgam terror attack. He wanted to know if all terrorists had been “neutralized” and what measures had been taken. Well, here’s a thought, Mr. Baghel: why not ask your party what it did in the aftermath of 26/11? Or why Hafiz Saeed roamed freely while UPA leaders busied themselves with “restraint” and “dialogue”?
Congress is losing not just elections, but also its marbles. It risks forfeiting even its few accidental victories in Himachal, Karnataka, and Telangana — states where it rules today not by conviction, but by default.
What do Indians expect from the Congress? For starters, a shred of responsibility. A willingness to be a constructive opposition instead of a shrill, self-absorbed chorus of anti-national pessimism. But alas, obsession with Modi, who has eclipsed even the combined charisma of Nehru, Indira, and Rajiv, has left the grand old party seething with irrelevance. Modi’s popularity is not only national but increasingly global, while Congress can’t even hold its ground in Uttar Pradesh or West Bengal, long considered its ideological backyard.
Instead of aligning with national interest, the Congress Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is demanding a special Parliament session to debate the Pakistan situation, as if national security were a subject for tea-time discussion. What exactly do they want to debate? India should forgive cross-border terrorism again? Whether we should play another round of Aman ki Asha while soldiers return in coffins?
Modi’s government doesn’t function by Congress’s whims. He will convene Parliament when national interest, not political compulsion, demands it. Until then, Rahul Gandhi and his comrades would do well to stay silent, unless they plan to say something remotely patriotic.
If Congress refuses to stand with the country at a moment of geopolitical tension, it should be prepared for public wrath. This is not the 1970s. People are watching, remembering, and voting accordingly. And if the whispers within the BJP are true, Congress might soon have to explain the infamous secret MoU it reportedly signed with the Chinese Communist Party. In whose interest was that? Certainly not India’s.
Meanwhile, Pakistan is on the verge of implosion, courtesy of the Baloch Liberation Army and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Balkanisation is no longer a theory — it’s a ticking reality. But Congress would rather feign concern over imaginary ceasefires than applaud India’s strategic stand.
As for Trump — the man Congress is bizarrely invoking — Modi didn’t need to rebut him. He simply ignored him. That’s what confident leaders do: they act. They don’t seek validation from fading presidents whose global graph is plummeting faster than Congress’s vote share.
Modi’s silence is the answer. India has moved on. Perhaps it’s time the Congress, too, woke up — or made way for someone who can.
