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Bharat Mata Ki Jai: A forceful shying away from important issues

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It is interesting to note how our politicians apply agenda setting, which is otherwise used by media. There is nothing wrong in setting an agenda but it is more important to set forth the right agenda.
Prime Minister Naredra Modi  PIC/Google
I do not want to make a mountain out of a molehill but the fact about a large part of the Indian population still living below the poverty line is not new. It is not new to the people of India; it is not new to the ruling parties and obviously not new at all to the Opposition. It is a different fact that when the same Opposition gets tagged as the ruling party, poverty of farmers reaches a new low. This dirty politics has been doing the rounds for a long time now.
Why only farmers’ woes? There are several other problems that need to be addressed by both the ruling party and the Opposition as well. Problems ranging from academics, healthcare facilities, infrastructure to job availability and others need to be addressed by politicians. Many might debate that every individual must take up the issues themselves and address them and that not everything can be blamed on the government or its inaction. My question is, then why did we select them as our representatives?
You must be thinking why I am saying all this. It is simply because I want to draw your attention towards the entire issue of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.
An uncalled for, unnecessary and unimportant agenda set by the government, which I feel has been done to draw away the attention of society from the extremely important and pertinent issues of the day. This view is solely mine and I do not want anyone to buy it. (I would be happy though if you do buy it J).

Assaduddin Owaisi PIC/Google
Some politician in Hyderabad says I will not say Bharat Mata Ki Jai as the Constitution does not force me to do so and the government of the day jumps in to score brownie points by slamming him. I ask, is it at all that important an issue?
I might not like to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai to showcase my patriotism but at the same time, I might rather go out and feed a hungry beggar or stop a person from shamelessly peeing in the streets. It is my discretion as to whether I would want to say Bharat Mata Ki Jai or not.
In India now, an attempt is being made to give a new definition to patriotism. Some are trying to carve out a staunch meaning for the word negating all related but valid deviations. Chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai or sporting the Indian flag on one’s chest does not make one patriotic. If true patriotism needs to be shown then stopping an unnecessary private extravaganza at the cost of nature like Art of Living’s World Culture Festival on the bank of Yamuna in Delhi is important.
Participants practicing before the World Culture Festival PIC/Utsav Basu


The Prime Minister wanted us to believe what Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said about creating awareness for a cleaner Yamuna but I ask, are we stupid? The entire cost of organising the event could actually have been used to clean up Yamuna to a large extent. And do we see any volunteer or a bhakt of babaji there now?
It is weird that our politicians consider us equal, when it comes to intellect, and compare us with our rural counterparts. If patriotism has to be shown, it has to be done in the manner our freedom fighters did. They were not worried about any ‘wave’ or did not wait for any election to do good work for the nation. Today we know the names of several freedom fighters but there are many many more who were equally patriotic but never did they try to shape patriotism according to them.
Addressing the issues of the day has become very important today and I urge our government to do so without wasting time behind a stupid issue of who is saying Bharat Mata Ki Jai or not.
The people talking about patriotism through words are probably forgetting that it is not just a word or an expression which needs words to support it. It is rather a feeling. And I say, there are better patriots than you, there are people who understand patriotism better than you. He who thinks his/her ideology is the end of the world has his face inside a bucket and thus he/she cannot see the world outside the bucket.
It’s time we all rise, take a pledge and move ahead of all stupidity that our politicians are engaging in and remind them of their duties. Tell them why they have been elected to power, remind them that they are not the leaders of their parties but rather of the country and finally remove them from power if they do not listen to you.
Jai Hind!

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