The JNU imbroglio hurt me
too. I felt provoked as if a lunatic smacked my mom and made her bleed. Given
below is what I wrote in my journal when India-bashing was at its peak at some
of the educational institutions.
Read on:
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It was to Afzal Guru’s
discomfiture that the Indian security forces thwarted his bid to raze the
Parliament down. I could still remember Promod Mahajan hurriedly runs along the
corridors of the Parliament with worried looks. He was so scared of what was
happening around him.
There were human losses in
the terrorist attack. But still, Guru might have been disgusted of his not
being able to bring more anarchy to the Parliament as planned. He would have
been even cheerful at the time of hanging, had he known that a herd of
misguided young men would come soon, resurrect him from his grave and glorify
him a martyr. Sure, we have in our midst such prats; such a bunch of devil
worshippers.
I know Guru is dead and gone.
But the breed of saboteurs, he left behind is still at work. They are onto his
agenda to finish the work he started. Their infiltration into the highest seats
of the country’s learning can vouchsafe what they are after.
Their purpose is not to bring
mayhem to the University campuses through a series of bomb blasts. But, they
engage themselves in doing more abominable act than physically wrecking the
educational institutions they encroach. Yes, they begin tinkering youngsters
there, sowing wild oats in their minds and turning them potential dangers to
the nation’s sovereignty.
That is why we see a cluster
of ill-advised young chaps at the JNU and other Varsities sing paeans to Afzal
Guru and his ilk and heap indignities on their motherland. The bizarre slogans
shouted against India at the JNU is not a freak incident, but a well-planned
campaign. Thus the fringe who indulge in anti-country antics transform traitors
into martyrs; anarchists into heroes.
This may be due to the handiwork
of infiltrators. But what I cannot understand is, can indoctrination can go to
such an extent of making innocent students a bundle of jerks? Can it make them
slight their homeland and kiss the feet of terrorists? Yes, it did and would do
if the nation is not on its guard.
Pitifully, anti-govt media
and some revisionist ideologues defend the students’ sloganeering saying they
are only exercising their right to speak and it is not an affront to India’s
unity.
It is still puzzling to know
why the opposition parties are silent over such campus fracas. Why don’t they
condemn the smear campaign carried against the nation at the JNU during a
cultural programme? Tragically, the granny Congress too – they ruled the
country for a hell of time and knows what unity means to India – is not getting
provoked by such anti-India tirade. May be, the party looks at this issue as
fodder for their guns always trained against the ruling BJP.
Comrades, left or right, would
always like to grind their own axes in the Indian political arena. I hear them
shrill, too on the JNU issue. But, it is not to pull up the students for their
backstabbing the nation. Nor for their singing hallelujah to the terrorists.
They hop on the campus turmoil only to defend their students’ unions who are
said to be accomplices to the anti-national fringe.
Berserk goes the media,
especially those of the visual ones. Wedded to sensationalism, their primary
concern is to either retain or expand their share of viewership. So, it becomes
necessary for them to pitch in themselves against the ruling party come what
may. So, when a herd of students heap indignities on India at the JNU, they
manufacture their own version of the episode. They call people hooligans, Modi
toadies, Patriotic freaks who condemn the fringe for throwing invectives at the
nation.
The intellectuals also go
wayward and buy the media’s rubbish. Their phobia against the ruling party make
them invent a series of reasons to justify students adoring terrorists and maligning
India. Their hostility to the govt is so strong that they don’t see the
elephant in the room.
And that is the story of
nationalists becoming hooligans. Anti- govt turkeys still continue to hound
them for not towing their lines on JNU’s hoopla. No conscientious Indian will
buy their ‘right to speech’ stuff. For, we know they lean on Constitution only
to save those who are out to destroy India. We also know the social and
political philosophy they teach reeks of despicable anti-nationalism.
The Delhi HC has since
granted bail to Kanhaiya Kumar. He is now back to the JNU. Thanks to the
efforts of a callous media, he is now a cult figure. Writers of substance vie
with one another in giving him a halo of heroship.
Though I get upset seeing the
nation celebrating his release from the jail, my spirit of nationalism gets
emboldened when I read the remarks of the Hon’ble Judge while giving bail to
Kanhaiya.
Excerpts from the judgment:
“Freedom of speech guaranteed to the citizens
of this country under the Constitution of India has enough room for every
citizen to follow his own ideology or political affiliation within the
framework of our constitution. While dealing with the bail application of the
petitioner, it has to be kept in mind by all concerned that they are enjoying
this freedom only because our borders are guarded by our armed and paramilitary
forces. Our forces are protecting our frontiers in the most difficult terrain
in the world i.e. Siachen Glacier or Rann of Kutch.”
“The
thoughts reflected in the slogans raised by some of the students of JNU who
organized and participated in that programme cannot be claimed to be protected
as fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression. I consider this as a
kind of infection from which such students are suffering which needs to be
controlled/cured before it becomes an epidemic,”
“”Raising anti-national slogans do have the
effect of threatening national integrity. The kind of slogans raised may have demoralizing
effect on the family of those martyrs who returned home in a coffin draped in
the tricolor, the Judge observed.”
Jai Hind
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