Now How About Khadi Chaddis?

Pink chaddis have been sent to the BJP's goon squad that opposed Valentine's Day and threatened violence upon all those found celebrating it. And these seemed to have had their desired effect. The goons have backed down.

Yet, these goons are but the lowest of the low in the party hierarchy. What about those at the top?

Here is the old man LK Advani, calling for "swadeshi."

Addressing a conclave of cronies, Advani said:

“India needs neither a free-for-all Capitalism nor a freedom killing Communism, but a swadeshi model of democratic and integral human development.” He was addressing the FICCI annual general meeting.

The cronies must have cheered.

Note how this sounds exactly like Nehru's "mixed-up economy." Also note the word "democratic." They all hide behind this label. We have the vote, while they have our The State.

Advani, indeed, is but a reincarnated Nehru. The report cited above continues:

In his address, Mr Advani also said there was a need to strengthen the public and the private sector. “There is no place for dogmatism in favour of or against either, since both have to be strengthened.”

He has, of course, called for "Gandhian socialism" – and an editorial in the ToI today politely tells the BJP that it needs "rebranding."

I would suggest that we all get real on what the BJP is all about. According to me, the BJP is about:

=> closed minds
=> closed borders
=> rural development, panchayati raj and associated bullshit that dreams of an India of "model villages"
=> a vast public industrial sector
=> cultural fascism

All these are profoundly illiberal doctrines.

According to my suspicious mind, this ugly episode of the Sri Ram Sene in Karnataka had all the blessings of the party high command. Muthalik was trained in Maharashtra, and the BJP wants to set up a Maharashtra-style Shiv Sens or MNS in Karnataka as well. They are fascists. They are communalists. They are socialists. They want to control our The State to further their own, private agenda. That agenda is entirely backward looking: they look back to ancient India, they look back to Gandhi, they look back to Nehru. They do not look forward at all.

What do we do? We who believe in liberty and Capitalism, in cities and civilization, in free trade and a borderless world, in peace, and in modernity.

I suggest a "khadi chaddi campaign."

Let us send wagonloads of khadi chaddis to Advani & Co.

Let Chaddi 2.0 be our answer to Swadeshi 2.0.

The colour? Why, saffron, of course!