JNU
is in much talk all over in almost all media and newspapers in our
country because of one agitation they have commenced to voice their
grievances. It is in news that an occasion was arranged to celebrate
death of Afzal Guru who is noted for his wrong activities in our
country. We also heard of slogans raised in favor of Pakistan and
against India. All this is definitely not acceptable in our country
and that is very much correct.
This
activity on the part of Jawaharlal Nehru University students appears
to be in wrong and bad taste apparently. I was also very much upset
on such an activity from our next generation; but when last week
their leader told in one interview, that
it was not a voice to express freedom from India but within India,
that matters began to be clear to me. At least, that is what I say
because; the concept of freedom within India is something interesting
to me.
We
had been in shackles of slavery since last one thousand years. First
Muslims came and then English, Portuguese, French and Danish in small
parts of our country. The rule of Muslims particularly the Turks did
not destroy our self-identity we were deprived of many of our great
traditions due to Islam but those rulers became part of India as they
accepted India as their country and never returned to their land, as
did British. When British began to rule it was worst type of rule as
they began to uproot our very identity by introducing their identity
on our enlightened upper class society. We digested all this and
finally cleared them and got this freedom. We wanted to have freedom
in which we can enjoy many types of freedoms particularly freedom of
food, speech, movement, thinking and expressing our thoughts
fearlessly. All these and many more were, if I am correct, were
promised to us by our Constitution.
However,
to our dismay we find that present government has begun to curb all
these freedoms and more from us by back door tack ticks. Not only
does JNU but also all freethinking people in our country are worried
about this new development. JNU students have begun agitation for
freedom from INSIDERS! So far, we know freedom fight against
OUTSIDERS but this is definitely a new concept for all of us. JNU, as
it were, discovered that India has again gone in shackles! This time
shackles of not any outside invaders but of our own people whom we
entrusted power by voting them to power. Both political and
bureaucrats are our new rulers and that JNU wants to fight because
they together are attempting to curb our various freedoms. If my
understanding of this agitation is, correct.
Leader
of that student group Mr. Kanhaya is declared by the authority as an
anti-national activist but here we should get an explanation about
what is the definition of term anti-national. I believe this term
means against nation. However, Mr. Kanhaya did not say any thing
against nation; his voice was against this government. Now we should
get clearance from our legal experts about what is difference in two
terms, anti-national and anti-government. Do they mean to be
synonyms? Government is definitely not nation. It a public body out
of that one eights (or less) is elected by people and rest of the
measure part is bureaucratic. How they are elected, we know very well
and so these elected persons do not constitute whole of nation. Most
are elected by small margins and the total voting is never more than
50% of the population. Out of that 50%, voting some 35% only
represents these elected MPs and MLAs. This I put up as an estimated
averaging. Looking to this we cannot take them as true
representatives of the country as a whole. They by all standards
represent only a small minority of people. However, we accept them as
representatives due to our helplessness, that we can never achieve
true popular majority votes. All this explains that by no
consideration government does not mean nation at any level.
I
suggest to these amateur student leaders that if they want to raise
voice against this "INSIDER INVASION", through voting then,
they should voice it in that way and stop making noise by shouting
slogans against India and such other foolish moves.
Talking
of freedom for Kashmir they who want to talk of it should first
achieve suitable GDP for that state, say of the order of 7.5 or more
and then come with suitable suggestion for that freedom as with that
kind of GDP a state may think of forming a separate nation. However,
what is present GDP of Kashmir? Moreover, Kashmir is a land locked
country. They should consider the condition of all land locked
countries such as Russia, Afghanistan, and Nepal. It is wiser to be
within India and achieve suitable GDP for their state. Differences of
opinions are everywhere in our families also but that does not mean
to talk of separation at every difference of opinion.
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