Thirty thousand Indian youngsters enter the job market every day. Only 450 get jobs. From American coast to coast, from Berkeley to Princeton, Rahul Gandhi goes around parading this vibrant statistic.

How come he did not bring this statistic up when he and Sonia Gandhi were the supreme rulers of our land. As I see it, 2019 is not far away and he’s kick-starting his election campaign from the US of A.

But why from the US of A? And why from these elite fora? Resplendent behind him is a banner, the most charismatic of them all. Oh that, that really made me gag. Nothing has changed in the Congress’s culture of sycophancy.

But, once again, why the USA? Is it because his image is so bland, so banal, so tarnished in India; that he repels crowds like Odomos cannot repel mosquitoes; that his handlers have decided that foreign shores would be best to try a makeover.

And then of course there is always intolerance? Once when Sonia Gandhi was the supreme leader of the land, a flunky presented her with a memo with the words zero tolerance. She lost it. This phrase is much too American. And so hypocritical. The Americans have infinite tolerance for their own depredations, yet how dare they decide to have zero tolerance for everyone else’s.

The flunky tore up the memo. Pronto.

But consider for a moment. For three thousand of their own killed on 9/11, the Yanks have torn countries apart, killed hundreds of thousands if not millions, and displaced millions more. Now the country is going through an upsurge of white pride, of white nationalism, of white intolerance.

It is not as if Donald Trump is the instigator of this white pride, this white nationalism, this white intolerance. No, no, no, no. He’s the product of it.

But Rahul, much like Arundhati Roy, is willing to go crying about India’s intolerance to perhaps the worst perpetrators of intolerance in the world.

If Rahul were to go to Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria or Libya and talk about Indian intolerance, it would make sense because these countries have suffered, senselessly, at the hands of others.

But they are not cool enough to kick-start an election campaign, so why go there.

Ever wonder why they are all Muslim countries. That then should be enough for Rahul to visit them. But didn’t I just say, they are not cool enough.

Every month or so in the US, a white cop is acquitted of killing a black teenager. Blacks have launched a movement, Black Lives Matter. The truth is, they don’t. The lives and the blacks.

How often do you, in 2017, hear of an Indian cop killing a minority and then getting away with it scot-free?

When was the last major anti-minority riot in India? In Muzzaffarnagar in 2013. When Rahul and Sonia Gandhi ruled the land. Sure, law and order is a state subject, but the state of UP was being ruled by their soulmates, the fervently anti-Hindutva Yadavs.

Rahul and Sonia Gandhi could have easily have persuaded the Yadavs to prevent the riots when Hindutva’s ugly face was rearing its head. But did they?

Was Muzzaffarnagar going to be used by the Gandhis and the Yadavs to spread fear of Hindutva amongst minorities and romp home to victory in 2014? Well, something went wrong somewhere.

Even if one believes that Rahul and Sonia Gandhi are pristinely secular and not communal in their thinking, then why did they team up with the same Yadavs and Azam Khan, all of whom did little to stop the Muzzaffarnagar riots.

It’s not just many Hindus who have seen through Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, it is some minorities as well. They are tired of being taken for granted.

Rahul likes Make in India, but he would rather tweak it this way. He likes GST, but would rather have tweaked it that way. Make in India may go nowhere, but at least our man is trying to make some bullet trains and fighter jets in the country. Rahul and Sonia Gandhi signed the nuke deal, which has mostly proven a damp squib.

Rahul’s handlers want to make him over. But he needs to make his handlers over too. The old praetorian guard consists of Digvijay Singh, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Motilal Vora, Ahmad Patel, etc., etc. all of whom are hard-pressed to win a Rajya Sabha seat, let alone a Lok Sabha one.

And they are expected to guide him in politics against a man who wins seats by the bucketful.

And the new praetorian guard–Scindia, Pilot, Maken, Kanishka Singh–princelings all, all in politics because of their lineage and because how their lineage was beholden to Rahul’s lineage.

There perhaps is no politician in the world with the pedigree of Rahul. The great great grandfather, the great grandpa, the grandma, the dad, the mother. People cry about dynastic politics. They forget how hard it is to build and sustain dynasties. Even totalitarian ones. The Mughals only really ruled for six generations. Rahul’s dynasty is right up there.

A person of Rahul’s lineage should draw crowds in the thousands, if not lakhs, on his overseas travels. Instead he is crammed into a room where the camera refuses to pan towards the audience lest it reveal the truth. This then is the question that Rahul needs to answer. Has he squandered his inheritance so much that not just people in India, but even NRIs and the odd Yank find him too much to bear?

Our gentle ruler is able to pack them in. And they are not all Gujaratis.

Making a name, howsoever staged, for himself in America is not going to help Rahul in India. In 1928, the Simon Commission was greeted in India to loud jeers of Simon Go Back. Simon had nothing to offer to India; India had nothing to offer Simon.

In the same vein, Rahul has nothing to offer America. America has nothing to offer Rahul. So in the same vein, Rahul Go Back. Go get your own house in order first.