Last week Moody’s cautioned Prime
Minister Narendra Modi that he risked losing the domestic and global
credibility if BJP controversialists were not reined in.
The moment this agency issued the caution, there was a huge
hullabaloo. People behind the hullabaloo conveniently forgot that the very
agency also said, “Key economic reforms could deliver
greater potential GDP, as they would improve India’s productive capacity. These
include the land acquisition bill, a national goods and service tax, and revamped
labour laws. They are unlikely to pass through Parliament in 2015, but there is
an even chance of success in 2016,” Moody’s also said that “Modi
government has cleared stalled projects worth 60B$” which are the legacy of
Congress government.
Although there is no reason to believe
any positive or negative reports of any credit rating agency. They are just one
of the way to control governments which are not the natural ally of the US. The
world knows that they are conveniently manipulated to suit to USA position and
condition which prevail at that time. People and my friends may not “accept”
what I say, I request them to “tolerate” me.
Anyway, taking a clue from the report the
Congress party arranged a march on 3rd November.
The march included members of congress
party, MPs, and a large number of security personnel. In fact, the number of
security personnel almost outnumbered the march members.
And why not? This is for the first time
in the history of Indian politics where the President, Vice President, party
office bearers and members of a grand old party, protested against their own
chief ministers!!! One from the ruling Karnataka and 2nd the former CM from Maharashtra. Hence
they needed the protection from their own party people.
Oops…People reading this blog will react by saying “Are you
out of your mind? The protest march was against the growing intolerance, not
present or former Congress governments”.
The counter question, forget many, I will ask is why not
consider this as march against Congress governments? After all the law and
order situation is the responsibility of state government!!! Does the Centre
have any role to play in maintaining day to day law and order situation in each
state? Is the Congress party not aware of this simple fact? Therefore, I say,
the protest march was against Congress state governments not the Centre.
The protests have come too little, too
late. Had these protests happened immediately after Shri Dabholkar’s and
Kalburgi’s murder, the protests and march could have had some value. The march
could have had some value had they arranged the same when Nirbhaya died. The
march could have had immense value had it happened immediately after the highly
condemnable Dadri incident. All these incidents happened when either Congress
party or Samajwadi Party was in power!!! Not only they were in power, they were
solely responsible to investigate the murders and put the culprits behind the
bars. Both Dabholkar’s and Kalburgi’s murderers are still at large. When the
congress party government is unable to fulfil this basic responsibility, I have
no option but to say that the march is against their own governments. Thousands
of Sikhs were butchered and the then Congress Prime Minister shamelessly said
“When a tree falls, the earth is bound to shake”. Why did the march not happen
then?
There are several such incidents much
more heinous in nature in the history of this country when such kind of march
did not happen.
There would be innumerable such questions which can be asked
and each time the answer would be that as a common man, I have no fear of
expressing my views publicly. I have voted for Modi and I have every right to
ask him questions on the promises he made during his campaign. Even the
Congress party has the same right. They could do so by asking pinching
questions in the Parliament. But what have they done? They obstruct the
functioning of Parliament; they don’t allow passage of bills which were
initiated by their own government in the past. This shows that this party does
not want the Modi government to function; this party does not want India to
develop. Their only agenda is opposing this government because they are in
opposition.
Let us come back to the liberals, seculars and activists.
There is an argument from these so called liberals that the freedom of
expression is being suppressed.
My
simple question is, How?
Few days back, Anupam Kher asked Arnab Goswamy on the news
hour, whether he has received any call from the ministry of information and broadcasting,
or the PMO or even a hint from any politician to refrain from showing certain
subjects on the channel. The answer was a clear no. The media being so
expressive these days, would give a tough fight against any of these censorship
attempts. Since there is no report or show on prime time of any channel, there
is every reason to believe that no such "threats" have been issued.
Lets talk what is the condition of common man.
Can the film makers make films on the subjects they chose?
The answer is yes.
Does the government tell any film maker to not make films on
certain subjects? The answer is no.
Has any political party or RSS taken away the freedom of any
artist to return the award? A loud no. no….
Has the BJP or prime minister send police to any citizen’s
house to ask why he criticized him or the government? At least police have not
come to my house even when I have criticized several ministers, even
@narendramodi or @dev_fadnavis on twitter or facebook. A big positive is when I
have written to the @pmoindia on 2 occasions, I have seen that a change
happened immediately within a day. That clearly means that you can definitely
write to the highest authority in this country and expect an action within a
shortest possible time.
Can people watch movies or even porn whenever they want? A
big yes.
Can people buy anything and everything they want, depending
on their affordability of course; anywhere in this country? Again yes.
Can you travel anywhere in this country without any fear
from a certain community? Yes. I have and am travelling frequently to most
parts of this country except the NE and have never felt insecure even at 3am at
night.
Can you eat whatever you want? Pizza’s burgers, any
continental food, drink the finest wines, or even a desi tharra if you prefer?
Absolutely yes.
Can you have sex with your wife or your girlfriend with
mutual consent. This question is highly private but at least for me, the answer
is yes. No government or Modi has told me either to have or not have sex.
Can you read any book I want or like? Yes.
Can you celebrate your festival the way you like? Burst
crackers, celebrate Eid, buy clothes, sweets, etc… A big big yes.
Further, It would be interesting to check a many more
similar questions.
The only controversy is on eating beef. The controversy is
being created as if, each and every person who is protesting against the law,
eats beef in breakfast, lunch and dinner on a daily basis; and there is
absolutely nothing left in the world to eat apart from beef and people are
starving to death without eating beef!! How many of the awardees themselves eat
beef? The prime question I have in my mind is “Why not accept a religious
sentiment of a certain community by not eating beef?” Why not come forward and
say “We respect your religious sentiments. We won’t kill a cow?" Why not
have some “tolerance” there?
I was watching the debate on newshour on @timesnow 2 weeks
back. The panelist included a lady called Maya Krishna Rao. A very basic
question popped up. “Why the awards weren’t returned when innumerable incidents
happened during in the past?” The answer was worth listening. She said “I
decide when to take the award and when to return. Nobody can question my
liberty. I choose how and when to react to whom”. When she has this basic
fundamental right of returning the award, how on earth she could say her fundamental
right has been curtailed. She is an eminent theatre personality and writes,
directs and acts in plays for which she received a Sahitya Academy Award in
2010. The very same year Deganga riots happened right under UPA rule from whom
she took the award. Did she not have the freedom to return the award then?
Several incidents which happened the UPA rule, Congress
ruled states in past 10 years, Taslima Nasreen's book was banned, James Laine
book was banned inspite of Supreme Court lifting the ban, A cartoonist Aseem
Trivedi was arrested on sedition charges during Prithviraj Chavan rule, Dalits
were killed in Khairlanji again during Congress rule. The list can be gigantic.
A ban on a marathi play "Me Nathuram Godsay Boltoy" is still there by
NCP leadership. This play is not allowed at the famous Gadkari Rangayatan in
Thane!!! Where was the conscience of the writers then? Again this lady replies,
“It’s my convenience. I choose my time”. This means she even has the freedom of
choosing the time of returning the award. How can she claim her fundamental
right has been violated?.
Further she asks a counter question involvement of Modi in
2002 riots. My question is why the award wapsi programme was not organized in
2002 itself?
Out comes the truth, Mr. Modi is ruling now who is a highly
communal figure. Let’s recall, that even the H’ble Supreme Court has discharged
all cases and not a single evidence has been found against him. Even the case
of Sanjiv Bhatt, the police officer during the 2002 riots has been proven to be
lying in Supreme Court in a recent judgement.
The truth still prevails. And the truth is a lot of people
in this country cannot tolerate a non-Congress government. People in Congress
party cannot tolerate the progress and development which is likely to happen by
passage of the land bill, GST bill and several other bills which are aimed to
take this country forward.
People who are returning the awards are not only insulting
the people of this country due to whom they have got this award but also the
hard work of co-artists. Award returnees conveniently have forgotten the
contribution of the jury members, one of them could even be an ideologue of
BJP? The award wapsi is nothing but a farce on which people of this country and
the world is laughing.
I conclude by saying that the award returnees are suffering
from selective amnesia. They forget to return their awards for incidents
happened during Congress rule. They return their awards for the same incidents
during BJP rule as a mark of protest against intolerance by BJP. They could
even be hallucinating. A person suffering from hallucination sees nonexistent
things. And in India, the so called intolerance described by the seculars,
liberals, writers, is nonexistent. If
at all intolerance exists, it is the intolerance in the minds of the writers
and activists who cannot “tolerate” a non-Congress government in India.
Till this award wapsi farce continues there is no threat to
Modi government as people forget the prime issue; DELIVERIES OF PROMISES. The
sooner the Congress party realizes this, better is the chance of revival of the
grand old party. Otherwise its time up
