By: Shreepal Singh
There are very high stakes in the incoming India’s 2019 Parliamentary elections. There are powerful – very powerful – people, who have been dethroned from their seat of power but who still have a large support base of privilege sharers intact and an enormous amount of money at their disposal. It is not one kind of people who have been dethroned by Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister of India. There are a good number of rival gangs of such people. These do not agree together on anything but they all belong to only one class: the dethroned people. They share a common pain: ex-proprietors from their political estates and a bleak chance to regain their former status in future. So, they all are one in their common aim: Remove Modi!
But they all know that it is not possible for them to defeat Modi. But, as the proverb goes, nothing is impossible in the dictionary of the great warriors – as they consider of them ‘great warriors’ in their own rights after the fashion of the famous warrior Napoleon Bonaparte! In In India the ‘2019 elections’ are the Waterloo for, may be, either of the two sides. It is a matter of do or die for them; it is a matter of their political survival; it is a matter of the proverbial ‘meeting their Waterloo’ for the defeated one, whoever he or she happens to be that defeated one. Modi is crest riding today in India; and he is climbing new heights every day, and they make no mistake on this count. They know, a vast majority – crores in number – of Indian people love him, which is evident from the huge public gatherings wherever he goes. And, the dethroned lot know this fact more than anybody else. Before them all the question is: How to remove Modi?
It is the age of science. When you have a difficult problem, you go to the people who know the science. Science studies everything, identifies the problems and provides the solutions. There are experts on everything, including tilting human minds this way or that way and winning elections. It is their business; for them, it is more of a science than an art to win losing elections.
One such handy friend available to anybody for money is the Cambridge Analytica. They call it a company – a company to do things that should not be done! It is their business; and, they take their business seriously. They have collected data of billions of people – data of what these billions of people like or do not like. It is a peeping into the minds of these billions of souls. What I like or do not like, is my personal matter but to this company it is a commodity or product available for sale. But what is the use of this data – liking or disliking of people? It is a raw material and it does not have much value to the customers of the Cambridge m Analytica. Therefore, the company is wise enough to turn this raw material – process this raw data – into finished and usable tangible goods. They can get one – the detested one – elected in democratic elections, notwithstanding the disliking of the vast majority of electorate! How do they do it? It is their trade secret. They sell it. It is available for money.
In such capability, the dethroned lot of political leaders – the ex-propriators of their political estates – in India saw a glimmer of hope in the Waterloo of 2019. They contacted the vending section of the Cambridge Analytica, paid the demanded price and got the delivery of the product- the product in the form of a well calculated scientific strategy to be put into practice in India by these depressed political clients and win elections in 2019. Guaranteed win, is the assurance! After all, without assurance, nothing sells!
What is this strategy? How is it to be put into practice?
In one sentence the strategy is: changing the minds of billions of Indian people! One would wonder: is it ever possible? Wow! Analytica has made it possible. Let us educate ourselves, how it is proposed to be done.
India has 1.3 billion of people; out of this number, some are Children below voting age, men, women, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, tribal, South Indians, North Indians, (alleged) Aryans, (alleged) Dravida etc. You and me or even the government of India may not know their individual details but this Cambridge Analytica know it all with accurate precision. It is their business to know this. Business has no concern whether one is Hindu or one is Muslim etc. but this business has concern with their liking or disliking. The British Analytica is astute business entity and so it does not take sides with this or that group of people. But when it becomes their business to take sides, they do take sides. Out of this 1.3 billion Indians, they take out children below voting age, Muslims and Christians and what is left is a huge population of Hindus. It is as simple as that. It is this base that is the strength of Narendra Modi and because of which numerical strength he in invincible. Analytica knows it more than you and me.
But this huge population of Hindus can be divided into three categories: First, those who are committed voters for Modi; second, those who are committed anti-Modi voters; and, three, those who are by and large for Modi (and had made it possible for Modi to win thumping majority in Indian Parliament) but who are not committed voters for Modi. This category three Hindus may vote – and also may not vote – for Modi, depending on their perception of Modi as and when elections are held. The British Analytica has their data – individual particulars. The strategy recommended by this company to its political customer(s) is to change the perception of these Hindus about Modi. How this perception can be changed?
These billion of Hindus are nationalists but liberal; they like and love Modi; they do not like Modi to go to the extreme in serving the alleged cause of Hindus – e.g. temple, cow, religious excesses, firebrand Hinduism etc. Because they are liberal, they do not like Modi to take the extreme stand on such issues. If Analytica knows this fact, so does Narendra Modi too know it. Modi is liberal, works for the liberal agenda like development of India and takes extra care to project his image as a liberal Hindu political leader.
How to burst this armor – accumulated love of liberal Hindus – protecting Modi? Analytica provides the solution, off the shelf:
- Provoke some Hindus to become – or seen as have become – rabid and extremist Hindus; If Modi is forced to take action against such rabid extremist Hindus, divide Hindus and paint Modi as anti-Hindu; if he does not take action against them, create a feeling of alienation of this large chunk of liberal Hindus against Modi. But how to provoke Hindus?
- Who is a Hindu? On the social media, anybody can create an identity of a Hindu (or Muslim etc.). One who is a Hindu by name on the social media, is a Hindu for all the users of that media. The solution provided by the Analytica is very simple: Pay to those who are willing to pose on social media as Hindus, ready to post rabid Hindu extremist messages and abuse liberal Hindus as cowards or anti-national.
- The way is: spend the huge money (which is already accumulated by and in possession of those who ruled for long and have now been dethroned) to troll the social media – twitter, telegram, Facebook, websites, blogs etc. The social media concerning India must be swamped with such artificial rabid Hindu messages and exhortations.
- Utilize your money to hire services of mainstream electronic media, in addition to the social media, to attack Modi and his policies. Invite Hindus, who are willing for whatever reason to serve this anti-Modi agenda, to come on TV and make any debate there superficial, ludicrous and anti-Modi.
- A most dangerous plan – economic plan – to devastate the Indian economy: As the proverb goes, all is fair in love and war! If it is necessary to destroy the economy for coming to lost power, do it! No scruples! The guided roadmap suggested by this sinister – immoral – business entity is: Call all your strength of personnel to queue for withdrawing your own money from ATMs, in every city and town; and, on the strength of this seemingly genuine conduct, spread the word: ‘There is currency crunch in India’, The calculated prediction is: the next morning, the innocent ordinary citizens would be before the counters of their banks to withdraw their money, as thereafter nobody would be able to get any money from their banks! It is high treason, to say the least!
- This is the strategy and this is the work plan. But what is the way out? Any way out? Yes. Ask the cyber cell under the government of India to go behind every account on social media – the suspected account – to find out who is who.
- Make it a crime by passing an immediate ordinance to create a fake name or account and impose stiff penalty.
- Install CCTV cameras before banks; record who is spreading the rumor of currency crunch; declare such rumor a crime; identify and punish the criminal.
- Declare the British Analytica an illegal business entity; make any business contact with that company in India a crime; punish the criminal, including debarring from participating in democratic electoral process in India.