Viren

Kangana Ranaut has done what an entire generation of journalists refused to do: she has asked the questions that the UPA’s ecosystem buried under Padma awards, access, and fear. For a decade, Sonia Gandhi’s National Advisory Council operated as an extra constitutional parallel power centre that systematically pushed policies hostile to Hindu interests and national security. The Communal Violence Bill was drafted to criminalise the majority while treating organised violence by minority groups as a protected category. Hamid Ansari was elevated to Vice President despite a record of statements that consistently downplayed jihadi terrorism and aligned with Islamist narratives. Godhra was deliberately kept “disputed” long after investigations established the local conspiracy. Ram Mandir was stalled for decades. Jihadi bomb blasts were repeatedly projected as “Hindu terror” until courts dismantled the fiction. Defence deals and China facing economic concessions were pushed through while border infrastructure lagged. Robert Vadra received extraordinary privileges that ordinary Indians never would. Antiques and heritage assets left the country with suspicious ease. These were not accidents. They were the operating pattern of a regime that treated Hindu civilisational assertion as the enemy and minority appeasement plus dynastic control as the governing principle. Most of the media stayed silent because silence was rewarded. Kangana has broken that silence. The record is public. The questions are overdue. The answers are already known to anyone who lived through those years. The era of manufactured consensus is over.