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Kanhaiya Kumar- The New Hero of the nation!



February 9, the fateful night that gave a new shape to students' politics in India. This was the day when an event to mark the death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was held at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. The twist to the tale was that a few students shouted anti-India or anti-national slogans during this programme. Now the question arises, did the students actually do that? And a bigger question, did Kanhaiya Kumar raise the anti-national slogans? If so why?

Well India is a democracy and the true sense of democracy is directly proportional to freedom. However, there is a thin line between freedom and being anti-national. However, raising slogans can in no ways be considered anti-national and slapped with sedition charges.

This student of JNU, Kanhaiya Kumar was just like any other student of the university, with no such links to his being extraordinary surfacing to the fore till date. But his alleged action made him a hero in the eyes of the nation. Why did this happen? Is it because the lapse of the security authorities or the extreme charges slapped on him made him the hero of the nation?

After Kanhaiya's arrest, students from all quarters of India started supporting him. Some consciously, while others just followed the bandwagon. This fact is yet unknown whether Kanhaiya actually raised any anti-national slogan or not. While some say that the video that surfaced was doctored others say that the video was genuine. What is interesting to see is that this very incident showed the diversity of India in the very true sense of it. While students from almost all quarters lent their voice in support of Kanhaiya, Armymen, a faction of lawyers and a few from the intelligentsia showed their discomfiture to the core. But the real dividend of the whole incident was reaped by the politicians who bee-lined to the university to score brownie points. Did this divert the attention of the people from the focus?

While now the entire issue hangs in balance, the questions that still lurk are, was there any anti-national slogan raised? If so, who raised it?

Lets forget about who was right of wrong for a moment. In Bengali a famous phrase says: "Ja rote ta kichu to bote", which means whatever is being said has some amount of truth in it.

If this is considered to be true, then there was some anti-national sloganeering done inside the campus. Even if we negate that, the matter of the fact that some students held a programme to hail Afzal Guru cannot be negated. It was done. Even the university says that permission was not granted to hold such an event which essentially means that an attempt to seek permission for such a programme was made. Here comes up a new question-- Why did a few people think it to be right to hail a person who was anti-national and had carried out the attack at Parliament? Why did the same few think Afzal was a hero?

Shall we call this democracy?

If this is democracy then we are not far from the day when every terrorist attack in India will be hailed which in turn will give a free hand to the ones who orchestrate the attacks to "bleed India through a thousand cuts".
And then why stop at Afzal Guru, let us also praise Ajmal Kasab, Dawood Ibrahim, Masood Azhar, Hafeez Saeed etc. Where were the voices of dissent when these people were tagged as terrorists? Why did someone not think of a protest against the branding of these people as terrorist? 
It is sad what happened in JNU. It is a slap on the face of the Armymen who stand in the border to ensure our peaceful sleep. However, I againg say, slapping sedition charges was a bit overstepping.

If Kanhaiya has been behind the organising team of the event then punishment should be rendered to him, however, sedition charges are a bit too much. A few days back the title of an article in some news website read "Is India using sedition charges more often than the creators of the same?" I think yes.

If we sit back quietly then all of will realize that the way the entire issue was handled by the government gave rise to the voices of dissent. The people who are now hailing Kanhaiya or even raising anti-national slogans are doing this with shear hatred towards the present government and not because they do not like the nation. Often people show their dissent by doing something which they not is not correct, yet continue doing the same in order to oppose for the sake of opposition.


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