Shiban Khaibri
The treacherous enemy is at our door, raining shells, mortars, and bullets on our civilians, young, old and even toddlers in addition to fighting a proxy war against us. Our security forces are getting martyred, our infrastructure is damaged through its paid zealot agents and frenzied supporters – even burning educational institutions , sending its terror vermin into this side to kill, maim, burn, disturb, damage and the like and what our many politicians are doing by way of choosing their priorities is making each and every one of us aghast. We are feeling ashamed of such politicians who blatantly and unashamedly selectively milk an incident here and a there in such a demeaning and repulsive way just with an attempt to emerge relevant and get coverage in the news papers and TV Channels. Deplorable this brand of politics as it looks apparently and intrinsically, deserves all heaps of contempt and condemnation and if democracy has in its bosom, this characteristics as well, which students of elementary Political science must surely be ignorant about, then let this writer take the liberty to tut-tut this type of democracy and through these columns suggest to Indian voters to abhor such a type of gross misuse of democracy otherwise all encompassing and bringing in its basket free, Liberal, democratic, peaceful, debatable, healthy criticism and tolerant system, tolerant of one another’s view point. Democracy is repeatedly rapped and to save it, its abusers must take a rap voluntarily or by the rigors of law. If not, then it would be anything but democracy.
My direct question through these columns is for the Congressmen, a Party which always talks tall. And let them be sincere in answering openly whether Jawahar Lal Nehru, Indira Ji or even Rajiv Ji would have responded politically or otherwise to the suicide of an ex soldier exactly the way Rahul Ji did, not to speak of other leaders following him under compulsion or would anyone of these leaders have spoken the way, tone and tenor, film actor turned politician Raj Babbar said in response to union Minister V. K. Singh’s view point on the probable cause of the suicide of an ex soldier. This actor turned politician drew an analogy of Ram Singh Garewal who committed suicide with the great revolutionary, freedom fighter and thinker Shaheed Bhagat Singh. Babbar thus either diluted the legacy and the sacrifice of the legendary revolutionary or cast aspersions on his bravery as he would have never ever thought of committing suicide. Performing in reel life can affect so much in real life could be proved with this unpalatable analogy made by Raj Babbar.
Present day Congress leaders( especially the ones parading allegiance to the family particular) swear that they follow the footsteps of the leaders like Nehru, Indira Ji and Rajiv Ji but do they really mean what they pretend to say? Isn’t it tantamount to the adage “first venture first loss” for Congress Party when it comes to the cardinal premise of what type of legacy in respect of its past leaders and national rulers it is committed to preserve, protect, propagate and follow when in fact it is doing all the opposite. Indira Ji too was in opposition and during that period, the alternative Fronts, Morchas, etc which ruled the country had provided countless occasions to her to cash on similar unfortunate cases. But visiting Hospital, Police stations, cremation grounds in retinues and cavalcades, smile and laugh intermittently, make followers raise patriarchal, personal and Party slogans can only be disrelished. Delhi Police action too was avoidable. Indiraji had imposed emergency and tasted its aftermaths, went even to jail but kept the political fight and the dissent within respectable limits prescribed in unwritten narrative of democracy.
The other political riddle, difficult to comprehend, hunts for, researches or even discovers issues and at once relates them to the Prime Minister. It is a peculiar addiction like phenomenon, to relate each and everything that appears to him happening not exactly he wants, to the Prime Minister or make such issues where in fact the PM had no hand, approval or any control, to exploit to the hilt and create political ruckus the way he, the other day in JNU, strongly exhorted the “students” to come out of the campus , spread unrest in each and every institution and spread the “movement” among the masses because “This Modi and the BJP understood this very language only. These BJP people could even sell their fathers”. These “golden words” he spoke in the campus sharing the dais with Mani Shanker Aiyer, Shashi Tharoor (both Congress) Manoj Jha ( serving teacher and active RJD leader) K. C. Tyagi (JDU) Prakash Karat (CPI M Polit Bureau member) and other sworn anti Modi – BJP brigade. Unfortunate but mysterious missing of a “student” becoming a ready excuse to use JNU and most of the “scholars” there as instruments of the type of eluding “inqalab” Kejriwal was going to bring in the country , to start with from UP.
We Indians not only respect but virtually adore our army. We are proud of them and whatever more we can do for them is still little as their bravery and their martyrdom cannot be price tagged but cannot questions be raised over the unfortunate death of the ex soldier who served the Army for some period. Could really a calculation error at the Bank boomerang so much, the dejection and frustration overtaking the veteran so much that he took this extreme step? Had he approached the Bank authorities? We have a fast redressing of complaints mechanism in our Banking system which acts comparatively fast and in a professional way. The difference, if any payable to him on account of calculation errors could be paid even belatedly. A nonpayment of a small difference, ordinarily, cannot make an army brave so much weak so as to commit suicide. His unfortunate death , his funeral and cremation which warranted respectful silence, non crocodile tear shedding, serious atmosphere of grief and sorrow was reduced into a spectacle, flag displaying, sloganeering for Congress and its hope Rahul Ji , placards displaying photos – slogans and jostles, pushes, confusions, queues and beeline of Politicians are all reprehensible. The supposed march for the soldier had slogans for Rahul Ji. If votes are expected to be mopped as a result of cashing in on such heart rending incidents, then it is really what Rahul Ji said, “Khoon Ki Dalali”.
Please stop politicizing Army, a humble appeal to politicians of every hue. The Army has had to taste the idiosyncrasy of the politicians’ decisions so far. In 1947-48, they could have retrieved today’s PoK but Congress Government under Nehru told them to stop midway. In 1962, they were sent by Congress Government atop mountains and cliffs without adequate possessions of arms, clothing and the proper trainings to fight the Chinese.
The results were disastrous. In 1965, all the gains deposited by them on account of their sacrifices and valour were returned to Pakistan by Congress Government under Tashqant Agreement. In 1971 our Army created history as well as geography but under Shimla agreement all the gains were fritted away by the Congress Government. They were sent unnecessarily to Sri Lanka in huge numbers in early 1987 by the Congress Government where we lost our men in hundreds and then midway were recalled. To fight Pakistani insurgency and terror proxy war in Punjab, thereafter in Jammu and Kashmir and across the country for three decades, army has been giving their very best but the Congress Governments as also NDA Government could not eliminate the menace once and for all. The hullabaloo created deliberately to counter the gains of popularity of Modi over deciding OROP after 43 years of dilly dallying of Congress, the theatrics over the death of Ram Krishen Gharewal is tantamount to heaping disrespect on the dead, and one wonders what these leaders can do for the living ones.
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