Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism
1) I had won the Pessimist of the AT award at Ishbaaaz forum (Omkara AT) since I always said that OmRu will never get their due and they believed that eventually their will
2) That could be a probability I can't deny. But I really don't think that was the case. Undoubtedly the extra show of visiting Chitrakoot and then especially putting the Charan Paduka over head and sleeping underground was an extra show to win back the confidence or too overcome self guilt(debatable) but I don't think he still had any intent to take over the kingdom.
For Bharat or for that matter any king it wasn't impossible to suppress a rebellion and then most of general public doesn't even care who the king is.
He could have very well agreed when Ram denied the throne and insisted Bharat to become the king. He didn't rather he chose the most difficult position, that he would govern without being the king, all responsibilities but no power, anything gone wrong it was Bharat's mistake, all going good it's RamRaj and that too without enjoying any lavishness.
He had everything to lose.
If it was what he wanted it wasn't at all difficult for him to take the throne especially once Ram asked him to, the public anger would have subsided here and then the way he governed for 14 years, and all were satisfied with a new generation in place, they wouldn't even have been wishing to get an unknown new ruler so Bharat could have easily continued.
About being ambitious he might have been, but the ambition was definitely not of being a king, else later he might have tried to become king of Some other place (like Shatrughan) instead of serving Ramji even later.
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