By not standing next to Sonam Wangchuk, but actually centering the students + delhi police victims, Rahul Gandhi has been much smarter about this than many who were insisting he aligns with Wangchuk.
A lot of people are like, "He shouldn't be PM because he isn't a strong leader."
He marched across the entire country on foot. He endured 12+ years of relentless attacks and mockery of his family. He has exposed multiple scandals of the current regime.
But honestly, none of that is the most important part.
The most important thing is,
You can talk to him.
He is far more likely to listen, hold press conferences, answer questions, and be held accountable. There will never be a perfect Prime Minister. We don't need a perfect one.
We need an accountable one, someone who listens, acts, and can admit when they're wrong.
have held my tongue despite several objections to the CJP’s messaging+tactics but what in the political cravenness is this? sorry, unelected organisers don’t get to approve the vocabulary of public anger. that’s not how mass movements work.
tum kuch bhi kar lo - azaadi.
differentiate yourself from shia practices & annual rituals. but if you can hear the story of Karbala and feel nothing..if you dismiss it by saying “other important people died too” .. then i feel sorry for you.
reports mention that the prophet ﷺ himself wept when he was informed of what would happen to his beloved grandson, Hussain ibn Ali (as).💔