Moody’s, Writers, Awards, Amnesia, Hallucination etc…..

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 3^rd 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 2^nd 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