#257 Congress-BJP-TMC-CPM may cash on the festive season
. This is an electoral-festive season in India, with 2014 General elections fast aproaching. Vivekananda‴s 150th birth Anniversary. 120th Anniversary of Vivekananda‴s voyage from Mumbai to United States for attending the Chicago Congress/Parliament of Religions 1893. Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. narEndra mODi has already encashed vivekananda‴s name and image, by placing his image on all election podia and pulpits. BJP, RSS, Vishva Hindu Parishad seem to have embraced vivEkAnanda without studying his biography or his works in depth. Now, it is the turn of the Congress, TMC (Ms. Mamta Banerjee‴s Party ruling bengAl), and the bengAl CPM. Every party wants to garner some votes by singing the paeans and panegyrics of swAmi vivEkAnanda. They do not mind spending public money or the Government‴s money for arranging processions, rallies and great assemblies. Well, this is a free country, I do not wish to find fault with them. I only wish that the speakers do some homework regarding th...