She cried, oh how she cried... but after a long, thoughtful delay!
After all, nothing happens without a reason in this world, let alone with Sonia ji, who is an absolute Iron Lady. She didn’t shed a tear during the tragic air crash that claimed Sanjay Gandhi’s life, nor were her tears captured on camera when Indira Gandhi was brutally assassinated, nor even when Rajiv Gandhi was ripped apart by a bomb blast—because, well, she’s a brave woman!
But this time, the script was entirely different. This time she wept—she wept over the falling of the Babri Masjid, and that too in 'back-dated' mode, traveling backwards in time! Now, what else could the poor soul do? The gentleman who wrote her memoir or biography, in a fit of over-enthusiasm, jotted down that on December 6, 1992, Sonia ji watched the tragic event live on television and got teary-eyed.
Now, how on earth was the poor writer supposed to know that back in those days, neither high-tech OB vans were parked outside Ayodhya, nor were Instagram reels being filmed? At that time, Ayodhya was jammed with mobile signal blockers, the internet was shut down, and news of the demolition trickled in via radio hours later—broadcast by her European friend and veteran BBC correspondent Mark Tully from miles away, because Ayodhya itself was completely locked down.
Now, it was entirely the author's grave mistake to claim she wept watching it live on TV! When Sonia ji read her own published autobiography, a profound sense of guilt overwhelmed her: Why on earth didn’t I cry on December 6th?!
So, naturally, she had to go back in time via 'back-dated' tears to fix history. After all, Sonia Gandhi never lies—and once it’s printed in a book that she wept, well, if one has to shed tears in retrospect to make a lie look like the truth, the Gandhi family has never shied away from this supreme sacrifice! And honestly, what other choice was left?
As she pondered this, Sonia ji suddenly remembered another iconic moment from the past, when she had wept so profusely that the legendary 'Rudali Gang' (professional mourners) was left hiding its face in sheer shame. That unforgettable occasion was the Batla House Encounter, where terrorists were neutralized!
Of course, India’s "Godi Media" didn’t bother showing anyone close-ups of her tears back then. Thank heavens for Salman Khurshid, who publicly testified that Sonia ji was beating her chest and wailing inconsolably! Only then could this deeply moving detail find its way into a Friday sermon at the Jama Masjid.
At that time, the BJP also extended tremendous cooperation by broadcasting this 'tear-jerking saga' from door to door. But alas, the irony was that the trick backfired: it resonated less with minorities and far more with the majority community, resulting in a political net loss instead of a profit!
Talking about the genocide of Hindus in India does not align with the dignity of the Constitution, which gives more preference to minorities over the majority Hindus; otherwise, Jawaharlal Nehru wouldn't have had hundreds of farmers killed by showering bullets from helicopters in Jawaharlal Nehru Vihar. Nor would Indira Gandhi have had thousands of Sanatani saints massacred in front of Parliament House while they were protesting for a cow-protection law on Gopashtami, and Rajiv Gandhi wouldn't have allowed the massacre of thousands of innocent Sikhs in Delhi.
So what if 59 Hindu pilgrims were burnt alive in the Sabarmati Express, thousands of Hindus were massacred in Kashmir and millions were rendered homeless? Talking about these and shedding tears goes against India’s secularism and Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb (composite culture). And talking about the genocide of Hindus in Bangladesh is not even appropriate, because it is Bangladesh's internal matter. This is the policy of Congress so what Sonia can do.
Well, Sonia ji is not one to surrender easily. Back in the day, a prominent "Netaji" from Uttar Pradesh had boastfully challenged that "not even a bird could flutter its feather in Ayodhya", yet when the Kar Sevaks swarmed the domes, they were greeted with a barrage of bullets. At the time, his party felt zero remorse; instead, Netaji proudly declared that if thousands of Hindus had to be riddled with bullets to win the allegiance of a "special community," he would gladly do it again—because the Constitution is greater than the country, and Hindus don't even figure in the arithmetic!
The result? All the votes of that special community went in wholesale buckets to that very party, leaving Congress staring blankly into space. But history repeats itself, and with Uttar Pradesh elections just around the corner, both history and geography are being thoroughly scrambled once again—after all, in politics, 'tears' and 'elections' have always had a very deep and ancient romance!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shiv Mishra ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
