Video: https://youtu.be/YEgN8piTg8A
I started this post to socially
share my opinion around the video but after seeing its sheer size I thought to
blog it instead. Thank you Tharoor saheb for rejuvenating my almost dead blog.
He spoke of quite well, which to
all in principle I agree; whether its usage of the slogan ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ as
a litmus test for being nationalist or charging people with sedition for
speaking up their mind. But then even the last government, quite like the present
one, arrested people for speaking up their mind on social media; they were the
creators of barbaric article 66A. Or, if he would have forgotten things of
distant past than in Maharashtra it wasn’t any right wing party but his very
own Congress which demanded suspension of the MLA.
All I can say that he is a good politician
in a wrong party, as he tries to show. Moreover, it is astonishing to see BJP
getting pushed to the wrong side of the debate. The debate might have been
orchestrated to trap a hardworking PM but the onus to fall in it could be
attributed to less on skillset of the opposition and more to his grossly
agitated party. As Tavleen Singh jee mentioned in some of her articles that the
biggest challenge for the government isn’t from across the benches in
parliament but from the one’s sitting alongside. There seems a no dead-end to
these high decibel shows wherein only the theme gets transformed from ghar
wapsi to intolerance to nowadays azaadi.
In 2014 people of this country realized
that the socialism, which was promoted since our independence, won’t lead us to
a sustainable developed future and thus gave a whooping majority to Modi. Socialism
of past isn’t capable in providing us good education, quality healthcare,
respectable jobs, and thus high standard of living. The government must see
that the present hue and cry isn’t against the capitalist attitude but a
protest against the crony capitalism or licensed capitalism, which have trapped
the reform of liberalisation post 90s. Sadly, the present government is
allocating more funds to such old practices instead of banishing them
completely. Time is passing fast and public anger from economic slowdown is
increasing, which could prove to be troublesome going further.
By the way, Tharoor saheb is a
master orator. Also listen to the student who says that Congress or BJP or in
that case all other political parties are different only in name but same in
appearance. He might have took Tharoor saheb statement seriously where he says that
student life is a time to stand for your convictions, transported by the
passion of your beliefs, and sometime entertain extreme ideas of which some you
may outpour.
I love my country! Vande Matram.
