They are in the octopus-grip of the BJP. In the Dhritarashtra embrace.

 The courage of cats that drink milk with their eyes shut.

That was the courage of Suvendu Adhikari and Himanta Biswa Sarma.

That was also the courage of the BJP-allied chief ministers in other states.

That was the courage of the Election Commission and those inside it.

That was the courage of the Supreme Court and High Court judges.

Shut your eyes, pretend not to see, pretend there is nothing to see, and pronounce your verdict. Then make those verdicts the law and system of the country.

Make it appear that Sanatana Dharma means misconduct, theft, and lying.

All of this while being thieves to one another, and those who cook gruel for thieves and hold the torch for them.

That is why Nitish Kumar, Chandrababu Naidu, and Sushil Kumar Shinde stay silent even now, as if their mouths were stuffed with cotton.

They are firm in the courage of proving that with power, weapons, and the media in hand, any lie can be made truth and any ordinary man can be made a traitor.

Whether through SIR or voting machines, those who stood with them, gained power, and still hold power all share this same courage: the confidence that they will win and make others win. Joseph Vijay of Tamil Nadu is no different.

That was also the courage behind the deceitful games of Amit Shah and Modi.

Those who once stood with the lie and shared its sweetness can never leave afterward.

They are in the octopus-grip of the BJP. In the Dhritarashtra embrace.

In the octopus-grip and Dhritarashtra embrace of the BJP and RSS, which ensures that in due course they destroy all of them, until every one of them becomes the BJP itself.

The foolish courage of the cats is that, because they shut their own eyes, no one sees or knows anything.

The futile courage that, because they themselves are in darkness, others are in darkness too, and no one else can see or know anything.

But everyone who is not a cat sees everything in the light.

They are watching in broad daylight as these cats drink the milk, and, along the way, knock over and smash all the vessels that are the constitutional institutions.

What other fate was there for the vessels, the constitutional institutions, once they fell under the control of these cats!!!

Those who saw it were saying so as they watched.

From a distance.

But the cats, the thieves, pronounced that those who say the vessels have fallen are merely enemies of such vessels.

Whether through SIR or voting machines, this rigged game of Amit Shah and Modi, played through the Election Commission, has so far won victories for the BJP at the Centre, for Suvendu Adhikari, for Himanta Biswa Sarma, and for the non-BJP allied chief ministers in other states. It did so by foreseeing every calculation in advance and arranging it all to neutralize every kind of anti-incumbency sentiment.

It even manufactured a verdict that made Modi win by that route, though he would have lost in Varanasi.

It implemented, completely and precisely, the written and unwritten rule that the leaders of thieves and thugs must be protected by any means, and must win.

Even so, the number of onlookers around the cats has grown immense.

But the cats, though they know all this, behave as if they don't.

Pretending not to know, as if nothing has happened, as if nothing will happen. That is all the cats do.

They kept denying, and they keep denying.

Those who stood and watched are backed by hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence.

What they call out is what they themselves saw.

The courage of these cats, these thieves, is the belief that when you shut your eyes it becomes dark, and that this darkness can seal every loophole and hole.

So the cat that drank milk with its eyes shut is, now and always, confident it can keep drinking that way.

The cats, believing themselves safe on the single excuse that they drink with their eyes shut, still keep drinking the milk with their eyes closed.

Cats that don't catch mice, and are determined never to catch mice, keep smashing the vessels that are the constitutional institutions.

The cats are now emboldened by having made it so that, from here on, the claws in their hands are power, and so are the constitutional institutions they destroyed by using that power.

Cats who firmly believe that lies repeated with the help of power will become truth.

Using a society that understands nothing and carries hatred and envy, they prove it: the cats who drank milk with their eyes shut, who are still drinking, who destroyed the constitutional institutions.