Listen to this article:

India has all of a sudden found a new messiah of women’s empowerment. Who? Who else? Prime Minister Narendra Modi! While the entire Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is singing this tune, hyping up Modi’s “commitment to women’s empowerment”, actor-parliamentarian Kangana Ranaut articulated this sentiment with maximum clarity and force. She unabashedly declared, “There is no bigger feminist than Modi. He is the only flagbearer of feminism today.”

Let’s call down curses on the incompetent and callous RSS-BJP ecosystem for not revealing this noble trait for almost 25 years, keeping the nation and the world in the dark about Modi’s greatest personal attribute – his feminism! They portrayed him as a robust leader who would crush his opponents, then conquer the world. Their propaganda revolved around his 56-inch chest while the virtuous aspects of his persona – his unwavering commitment to empower women – went unnoticed.

What a miscarriage of justice! A gentle, kind-hearted politician boorishly mistaken for a political marauder who would stoop to any low for power and pleasure. Heads need to roll for this terrible PR-fiasco.

Before the repeat telecast of the glorious women’s empowerment episode, Modi had said on September 19, 2023:

“Ishwar nein kayin pavitra kaam kay liye mujhey chuna hai.” (God has chosen me for many pious tasks). Let us not grudge a megalomaniac his delusions. Let us correct our own false impressions about the great social reformer. Let us digest this delayed revelation about Modi the feminist who would die to uphold women’s dignity.

Let us obliterate the misgivings caused by Modi’s stubborn refusal to condemn the sins committed in the evil world of Jeffrey Epstein. Let us ignore the protective ring he has thrown around his minister Hardeep Puri despite the revelation of his deep links with the global sex-trafficking criminal.

Let us bury the memories of the snooping scandal that once shaped our outlook about our Prime Minister.

Let us not recall how Modi kept aloof when women wrestlers sat on a dharna against his party’s Member of Parliament over his sexual exploitation of athletes. Let us not........

© The Wire