One day Rahul was humming the popular song ‘Kolaveri Di’ in his leisure moments. It was incidentally heard by some journalist and soon it became a major discussion point in all political and media circles. Some of the news channels reported this sensational news like this:
Star News: ‘Why was Rahul Gandhi singing Kolaveri Di?’ See the INSIDE STORY at 9 pm today.
India TV: ‘Shocking incident… Yuvaraj sings Kolaveri Di…’ Watch full report at 9 pm today.
Live India: ‘See the KISMAT CONNECTION of World ending… with Rahul singing ‘Kolaveri Di’.
NDTV: (Barkha Dutt): ‘We all need to know the reasons why Rahul Gandhi sang Kolaveri Di…’ Join us for an EXCLUSIVE DEBATE with the people from Delhi at India gate today evening at 7 pm.
CNN IBN: (Rajdeep Sardesai): Watch for the first time on CNN IBN, HOW and WHY Rahul sang ‘Kolaveri Di…’ Watch complete analysis… with verification of the audio tape authenticity.
The real ‘meaningful debate’ was obviously arranged by the stage master Arnab Goswami on Times Now at prime time. As usual, Arnab started the debate with his explosive opening remarks.
Arnab: The nation is outraged. India needs to know. The people of India need to know. Why in the times of such a crisis anyone can sing a song like Kolaveri Di. For that matter, we ask, ‘Why Kolaveri Di only? Why not ‘Sheela ki Jawani’, or Munni badnam? Or even Jalebi bai for that matter…Today the nation will know the impact of Times now’s exclusive discussion on this subject. Joining me are Ravishankar Prasad, Renuka Chowdhary, Manish Tiwari, Jayanti Natarajan, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sushma Swaraj, Kapil Sibbal, Sharad Yadav, Baba Ramdev, Arun Jetly and Sitaram Yechuri.
Arnab continued,” Let me start the discussions with Renuka Chowdhary. Renuka, please tell us what is the real intention behind Rahul singing this song.”
Renuka who appeared smiling all through said,” Arnab, now what can I say? I am surprised. I mean, there is a limit you know! See, these BJP people are becoming so impossible, what I can comment?. It is truly amazing to see the way they behave. It beats my imagination and logic.”
Arnab interrupted her,” But Renuka, we were discussing about Rahul singing a song..”
Renuka again giggled and said,” That is what I wanted to say. He just sang it. That’s all.”
Arnab turned to Ravishankar Prasad,” Mr. Ravishankar Prasad, please react to Renuka’s views.”
Ravishankar Prasad,” See Arnab, I have been telling this from beginning on your channel that there is a big conspiracy being hatched here and these Congress people want to take it easy. There should be an investigation carried out by none other than CBI to probe in this matter. A person projected to become the Prime minister of India cannot sing any song just like that.”
Arnab asked Baba Ramdev to comment. Baba Ramdev said,” See, this is not correct. We will protest against this in Ramlila maidan from next month onwards. Instead he should have said, ‘Why this Kaalaa dhan, Kaalaa dhan, Kaalaa dhan di’. Then we would have got a confidence that the government is truly willing to bring back the black money stashed abroad.”
Arnab now asked Jayanti Natarajan,” Jayanti, please tell us whether there is any special significance attached to this…”
Jayanti said,” See Arnab, Rahul Gandhi is our youth leader and his every action has a deep meaning and message for the society. Actually he sang this song just to bring North and South Indian masses closer. This was also a tactics to improve our poll performance in Tamil Nadu in next elections. Actually he sang,” Why this Kanimozhi, Kanimozhi, Kanimozhi di…” And because of that we sent her free on bail. Earlier also, after his intervention we had increased the poverty limit from Rs.32 upwards and also we had set free Anna Hazare from Tihar jail, when he was arrested at the behest of Chidambaram and Sibbal.
Arnab seemed puzzled and turned to Sitaram Yechuri,” Mr. Sitaram Yechuri, please tell us what do the left parties think of this.”
Sitaram Yechuri had been patiently waiting for his turn in studios. He said,” See, this whole exercise is only raked up to divert the attention of people from the FDI issue and the petrol price rise. The country is suffering because of inflation and how can people have the luxury and comfort of singing any song for that matter?”
Arnab now asked Sharad Yadav. “Sharad ji, please tell us your opinion about this matter.”
Sharad said in his characteristic style,” Arnab, this only means that the boy has grown up now and Sonia ji should seriously think about his marriage. Other than that I do not attach any importance, as Rahul does not know anything about politics.”
Arnab now turned to Sushma Swaraj. “Sushma ji, please comment on this matter.”
Sushma said in her usual attacking style,” Arnab, this is an old habit of this government and the UPA. They always keep us in dark about any issue till it gets exposed. At least they should have informed and consulted us before. I would have danced to the song, just as I did few months ago at the Raj ghat.”
Arnab then asked Abhishek Manu Singhvi for his opinion. Singhvi said,” See Arnab, if Team Anna wants that the right of a person to sing a song is to be included in Jan Lokpal bill, then I am sorry, they are asking too much. It is for parliament to decide what rights are to be given to the people, not for anyone outside it.”
Arnab was getting disillusioned with the discussion by now. He asked Arun Jaitly. “Arun please advise us what do you think about this.”
Arun Jaitly said,” See Arnab, the constitution is very clear about all such cases. A person cannot sing a song unless he has good voice. And it has not been conclusively proven earlier that he did have this quality. In these circumstances, notwithstanding the international stand on global warming and European fiscal deficit I strongly condemn this act and demand an unconditional apology from the government.
Arnab then asked Manish Tiwari his reaction. Manish Tiwari said,” What can we talk about Rahul ji. ‘Woh to uppar se neeche tak sangeet me lipt hai. He has music in his breath. He lives music. He eats music, he drinks music and he sleeps music. It would be very unfair to doubt his intentions over music.”
Arnab then called Digvijay Singh. Digvijay singh said,” Arnab, Rahul ji has been singing this son since his childhood. In school, Rahul only sang this song whenever he got any opportunity. The RSS is now misleading the nation in believing that this song is sung by Dhanush. In fact, Dhanush has stolen this song and popularized it. We are planning to take suitable action against Dhanush for plagiarism.”
Lastly, Arnab called Kapil Sibbal. He said,” This song has been immortalized by Rahul by humming it. We are soon going to delete all the versions of this song from the internet sites and also have copyrights of this song. No one can sing this unless they take permission from the government. This song is special because it is sung by Rahul Gandhi.”
After 7 days
Rahul was attending a party with Digvijay singh . Suddenly some journalists caught the duo. They asked Rahul on his opinion on this raging topic. Rahul started,” For how many days more will you go and beg in Maharashtra? Till when will you do majdoori in Punjab?”
Suddenly Digvijay whispered in Rahul’s ears,”Sir, we are not in UP. The rallies in UP are now over.”
Rahul said, “Oh, I see. Sorry. “
And facing the journalists he started,” I am here to solve your problems. I fully understand your problems. Your lands have been grabbed and when you ask them back, you are showered with bullets. Where is Kalavathi’s hut? I shall spend a night in her hut.”
Digvijay again murmured in Rahul’s ears,” Sir these are journalists, not farmers in Bhatta and Parsaul.”
And Rahul looked at them in stark silence. He had no words for them. He had no answers for their potential questions. He signaled Digvijay to follow him and left the scene.
And the people were left wondering, was it really an issue that Rahul sang ‘Kolaveri DI..’.
Or was it REALLY an issue of significance, when he attended Kisan Mahapanchayat, or rallies in UP, or protested in Bhatta Parsaul?
It did not seem so. But the media had glorified all these events.
The truth eluded everyone.
This is some world class stuff. Superb!
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