Politics and Controversy go hand in hand

Creating controversy with unwanted statements is the cheapest and most effective way in Indian politics to gain popularity and gaining popularity, by any means, is the key to success in today’s politics. It is one of the most successful tools, so far used by politicians, to become a known face. It is neither linked or limited to any particular party nor to any particular section of leaders rather it’s prevalent across all the political parties. The latest such controversy has been created by MoS at centre Sh. Giriraj Singh. As being discussed in media, Mr. Singh has passed a racist comment on Congress President Ms. Sonia Gandhi.

It is quite obvious that such statements are used as a tool to gain short term popularity and the recent one by Sh. Giriraj Singh is also with the same motives. Sh. Giriraj Singh was a minister in Bihar Govt. when BJP happened to be alliance party with Nitish Kumar Govt. initially in-charge of cooperative and later of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Development Resources. However he was not as popular leader in Bihar as many others in BJP especially in his own caste. Dr. C P Thakur has a large stature as far as political figure of Bihar is concerned but today he is hardly talked about by media. In order to make his presence felt at national level Sh. Giriraj Singh has taken this route and has given a number of controversial statements. He was the first person in Bihar who openly criticised Nitish Kumar for opposing Narendra Modi as BJP Prime Ministerial candidate which ultimately resulted in break-up of alliance in the state. It was he who asked all opponents of Narendra Modi to go to Pakistan. The result is before all of us. A leader, who was confined to Bihar only, that too in limited area of state, has now become a name being recited in each and every corner of the country, albeit for wrong reason. He is known to be one of the staunchest supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Though with his statements he has embarrassed PM Modi and sensing the same he has apologized too.