The amazing Hardik Patel: "if the Chaddis try Goondagardi, we will respond with Goondagardi"

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The amazing Hardik Patel: "if the Chaddis try Goondagardi, we will respond with Goondagardi"

by Guest Sun Nov 19, 2017 2:11 pm

Those who doubt Hardik's importance should have been at Mansa, BJP boss man Amit Shah's hometown, on Saturday night. Buoyed by a crowd that left no chair, no corner, no nook unoccupied, Hardik roared and roared, calling himself a victim of the BJP's sleaze machinery and launched a blistering attack on Shah and PM Narendra Modi, promising to uproot them from Gujarat.
"We will take them on. If they want us to fight legally, we will fight legally. If they want to try gundagardi (illegitimate force), we will respond with gundagardi," he proclaimed in Shah's den. In terms of tone, resolve and defiance, his oratory seems borrowed from Winston Churchill's famous speech after the retreat from Dunkirk, where he vowed to fight on the seas and oceans, in the air, on the beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets, and in the hills.
In a fiery speech that is full of seeti-taali inducing dialogues inspired from Bollywood, he tears into the BJP, challenging, mocking and ridiculing its top leaders. Uncharitable words, slurs and metaphors flow like the Sabarmati.
That Hardik and his followers are not afraid of the ruling regime on their home turf comes across as a bit of daredevilry for outsiders. But that is part of his appeal. His machismo and bravado endear him to the audience, who believe that the Modi-Shah duo can be brought to its knees only in a battle, not through supplications and pleas.
This should be a cause for worry for the BJP. In a state where Modi is revered and Shah is feared, a 23-year-old is going from village to village to question them without fear, to ridicule them in public. More importantly, the very audience that would till recently attack anybody saying uncharitable words about Modi, not only listens in silence but also applauds and guffaws. What is at stake here is not just the Gujarat election, but also Modi's aura, his reputation of he-who-should-not-be-challenged.
Under the flashlight-lit skies of Gujarat, amidst the backdrop of bhajans, on the waterfronts of Sabarmati, an upstart is trying to bring the ruling deity of Gujarat's politics to the level of a mere mortal.
If it wants to retain Gujarat and the aura of its ruling pantheon, the BJP needs to throw everything it has at Hardik. Relying on the love stories of the Patidar heartthrob won't be enough.
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/given-hardik-patels-massive-demigod-like-following-bjp-needs-to-throw-everything-it-has-at-him-4217745.html

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