'NaMo'nia

Oh well. So ‘Goa’ is trending on twitter and as well on the news. And no! It’s not the usual things that generally catapult Goa in the limelight. No drugs, No rape, No government toppling and no, not even the cheap liquor, “cheaper” women or cheapest petrol.

It’s the endemic that has come visiting the Goan shore that been making the news. Should I be calling it ‘epidemic’ rather than endemic? It surely seems to fit the meaning that Merriam-Webster had to offer and I quote “affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time”. Furthermore it had a simple example towards its usage to makes things easier for those Grammar Nazis, which read 'Pneumonia is epidemic'.

Thankfully so it wasn’t the epidemic of Pneumonia that was affecting the Goans and the rest of Indians at this moment. But then this wasn’t any less dangerous either. It at least sounded as potent and to add to it a homophone of Pneumonia … It was called ‘NaMonia’. In a very rare spark of brilliance, some congressman can come up with this brilliant and rather very apt term to describe the euphoria as well as the paranoia towards Narendra Modi, the PM-in-the-waiting for some, the savior of the country for others and Maut kaa Saudagar for the rest.

With the BJP choosing Goa to host its National Executive meet and followed by the drama of absence of L K Advani and subsequent elevation of Narendra Modi to the seat of Chairman of the BJP election committee provided tons of fodder to the media. And needless to say it has enthused the Modi fans with more vigor to troll on the social networking sites, be it Facebook or twitter or anywhere else. Not that they were any dormant earlier, but the elevation has given them a shot in the arm.

I have no issues when people take their pick whom they want to see as their PM, but the sheer euphoria these Modi fans create bemuses me. These armchair activists seem to see no  future for our country without NaMo at helm. Agreed that he might have significantly transformed his native state of Gujrat as been allegedly reported in the media and various reports but so must be true with some other state’s CMs too. As his own senior party colleague LK Advani mentioned there are many other credit worthy performances by CMs of other states. 

Performance appraisal apart, the kind of rubbish propaganda that the NaMo fans resort to is ridiculous, especially those where they have a comparative analysis of Modi with the uncrowned prince of the congress and a strong contender for PM post, Rahul Gandhi. Agreed that the ‘Amul-baby’ by himself doesn’t have any qualification or a proven track record and my pick too would be the former over the latter, but the abusive comparison done is outright disgusting. Very often you would even find a pictoral comparison, wherein in one frame you would see Rahul giggling with some young girls vis-à-vis Modi interacting with some school kids. In another such pictoral comparison you would see Rahul wearing a skull cap and next to it the famous picture of Modi gently declining to wear one at his Sadbhaavna Yatra.  There would be other picture where it’s shown as a very old man falling at the feet of Rahul which many a times happens unannounced and very next to that pic would be Modi bending to seek blessings from an aged person. I see no rationale in the point you people might be trying to drive home. Instead it reflects pathetically on your mentality guys.

Sychophancy till now looked like a forte of the congressmen and it didn’t seem that anybody would come any closer to them when it comes to sucking up. However now looking at the Modi fans, it seems like they have taken their idol worship to newer and insane heights. Only thought that comes to my mind when I see these newgen toadies is “Sardi Khaasi Naa Malaria Hua, Yeh Gaya Yaaro Isko Namonia Hua”