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Pimping a la Patel

 

Courtesy Nala Ponnappa

Praful Khoda Patel has made pimping an art. He knows how to sell India piece by piece to certain clients who have high connections. He sold Daman and Diu to CG Corp Global in 2018. Now he is selling Lakshadweep to other VIP clients. Thousands of indigenous people are displaced by him with impunity because he is acting on behalf of the central government which reportedly has “dreams for the people”.

This Patel is a phenomenon. His father, Khodabhai Ranchhodbhai Patel (a mouthful of a name) was an RSS leader whom Narendra Modi regarded as a guru. Our man became an MLA in Gujarat in 2007 and took over the entire charges of Amit Shah when the latter went to jail for arranging the encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheik. Now you can understand the ‘greatness’ of this phenomenal Patel. No ordinary man can take the place of Amit Shah under Narendra Modi.

The people of Gujarat failed to perceive that greatness, however, and Patel lost the 2012 election. But soon Modi became the PM and Patel was elevated to prominent places. Modi junked the convention of appointing IAS people as administrators of Union Territories and put Patel in Daman & Diu and soon extended his ominous power to Dadra & Nagar-Haveli.

Wherever he was, Patel was hated actively by ordinary people as well as his own party men. BJP leaders have complained against him time and again. As many as eight leaders have quit BJP in Lakshadweep now protesting against Patel’s reforms in the islands. Hundreds of simple fisherfolk in Daman now live in slums, thanks to Patel who bulldozed their homes and gave their lands to somebody who came from somewhere. He is doing just the same in Lakshadweep.

Patel’s aura was so powerful that it drove the Dadra & Nagar-Haveli MP to suicide in 2021. Though Patel was specifically mentioned in the suicide note as responsible for the ‘injustice, insult and bias’ that drove the MP to the extreme step, the law did not deem it necessary to take action against the great man.

If a Parliamentarian cannot survive Patel’s tyranny, how can simple fisherfolk do? Patel is selling Lakshadweep in the name of tourism. There is hardly any place left in those islands for developing tourism.

Is it about tourism really? Patel brought the pandemic to the islands with his villainous plans. He brought alcohol to the islands. He stole the people’s food, especially the school children’s. 200-odd schoolteachers were dismissed summarily. He closed down dairy farms. He threw the local people out of jobs. Even the sub-divisional magistrates were thrown out and Patel’s North-Indian chamchas have been appointed in their place.

Isn’t Patel a phenomenon?

Patel is the New India’s phenomenal metaphor. He is the pimp between the government and the corporate trader.

PS. Written for Indispire Edition 376: Write a post on the phenomenon called Praful Khoda Patel. #PrafulKhodaPatel

Comments

  1. This is shocking! Is there no light at the end of the tunnel for this country?...

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    1. My prediction is that we're moving towards full dictatorship. In March 2014,i had predicted that Modi would ruin India.

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  2. Hari OM
    My heart is rent asunder at the path government has taken in India... I had seen the early signs, even as I resided there. It is a fascist path, there is no denying it. And that it is done in the name of "Hinduism" is a scandal beyond words.

    Sadly, in my beloved Australia, there is also such a buffoon - though nothing as overt... and equally here in the UK. I am at a loss to understand, when we have come so far, that the world has turned back on itself and so many have built a 'them versus us' wall around themselves. That leaders think themselves beyond touching... YAM xx

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    1. It's surprising that many countries are turning fascist in varying degrees. The basic reason is greed. Religion has nothing to do with it. People like Modi misuse religion for ulterior motives because they know it's the easiest thing to do in India.

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  3. It's shocking that 21st century leaders are the near incarnation of Hitler& Mussolini. Citizens of India should be aware of their peril existence in the clutches of BJP and RSS. Let's join hands to bring these distorters down.

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    1. Yes, India should unite against these frauds who masquerade as nationalists.

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  4. While the world is moving ahead , we are walking backwards .
    Dropping our own people towards a never ending dark tunnel ,oops I see a light "Vikaas'!2024!

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    1. Vikas for certain people is creation of hell where paradise existed.

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