In the recent times, non-NDA forces have made it their regular affairs to brand India as an intolerant nation to the extent of comparing it with ISIS.
Yes, I am referring to India because it is us Indians who have elected this government and hence we are responsible for every act of it. We have elected this government knowing its RSS background and 2002 allegations against the current Prime Minister (though these have been nullified in the court of law). We made a conscious choice. And we did it because we knew the propaganda against Sangh Parivar and BJP may not be the same as it is painted often.
I remember, when I was a child, the communists of Bengal equated RSS with terrorists after 1992 Babri incident. So as more than 1/3 of the country stands by the same RSS backed BJP, should the non-NDA forces mark 1/3 of the country as terrorists? Logic says Yes! In that case it is time, every person who voted for NDA should now taking this anti-intolerance movement as personal attack for being marked as intolerant, terrorists etc.
Having said that, there is a need to understand what is being branded as intolerance. An incident such as Dadri was the result of lack of education which instead of attributing to the present Central Govt., should raise questions against the Congress party which ruled the country for 60 long years and the current State Govt of Samajwadi Party. As far the killings of the intellectuals are concerned, we should question - are they done by BJP or Sangh Parivaar? Had such hate crimes never happened in Congress regime? Has the Govt. at the Centre created barriers for investigative agencies or police to take their course of actions? If not why NDA is being criminalized?
Regarding Award-wapsi, there has never been such a good drama as this one and Bollywood film-makers may take inspiration from these episodes being played by scientists, authors etc. who mostly got their awards during Congress regime. Of course they are proving their loyalty or probably just frustrated that NDA regime is focusing on talents who have proven to be more productive.
We Indians probably we don't know the meaning of intolerance. When women are raped in the middle of the road for not being converted to Islam, that is intolerance. When children are imbibed with terrorist mindset in madrasas and then sent cross-border to murder people, that is intolerance. When some people perform acts such as refusal to prasad, killing cows, etc just to insult religious sentiments of majority people in the same country, that is intolerance. When people are murdered for ethnic cleansing, that is intolerance. Such intolerance cannot be seen among the majority Indians at least.
Uniform Civil Code, abolition of madrasas and promotion of general school education, controlling polygamy, restricting birth of more than two children to a married couple, these are all necessities for people being forced to live by religious extremism and bias. Ban on Beef has been promoted by UN report as well which was published in the western media (refer to Guardian). Also there is an old saying, when in Rome, be like a Roman. As veteran Bollywood scriptwriter Salim Khan rightly articulated - I’d like to ask any Muslim if they’d like to live in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran or Iraq? They’d surely answer in the negative. If this is the only country you want to live in, because you feel at home, then respect this nation, respect its culture, live in harmony.
It is not surprising some of the very educated media representatives do not like to discuss these, of course understanding the fact, the media terrorism has its roots in being relatives of Congress leaders, former administrators, anti-national elements. As educated citizens of India, as we chose a visionary leader after many decades, we should also make conscious decision of banning such media terrorists in our homes. They are no better than listening to the nuisance of Hafiz Saeed or ISI agents of Pakistani channels.
As for the non-NDA political parties, they have already shown how much they are devoid of ethics and honesty by shaking hands among each other for Delhi and Bihar elections. Their immorality need not be rationalized as it is out in the open, hence I do not feel the need to write about this issue.
In the conclusion, just touching upon a trivial issue to show the irrelevance and senselessness of this anti-intolerance movement against NDA, I tweeted SRK on listening to his controversial interview a very simple question - what about
secularism among Muslims and whether he will accept if his children
become Islamic apostates. He is yet to reply. Of course I being a
common Indian, a Bollywood personality is not answerable to me but
before making such callous statement about intolerance Mr. Shahrukh Khan
should also prepare himself for two-way communication rather making
arbitrary statements only because he is popular. The same SRK in his
film Mein Hu Naa portrayed in a fictitious plot, some ex-Indian
armymen as terrorists while showing Pakistanis as friend. Wow! that's
awesome that man could not find any other profile for villains but
ex-armymen ............... and then he says nobody cannot question his
patriotism. Mr. Shahrukh Khan should know with such attitude his
patriotic intentions can always be questioned by any Indian who has
rational mind. To his callous statement we have every right to say - were you coached by the co-star of your new movie Raees?
Vande Mataram !
