A Different Independence Day

Some political or spiritual leaders often leave us with lines that become a lifetime guiding light. In a few words they become a principle, a philosophy and a pointer to the direction we can take. Lokmanya Tilak charged up people with “Swarajya is my birthright and I shall take it”. Swami Vivekananda still reverberates in our lives with “Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached”. JF Kennedy redefined the roles people play in a democracy with “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. And after recent events, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee lines have finally found fruition “There cannot be two Constitutions, two Prime Ministers and two flags in one nation”. For a start, let’s read the excerpts and lines from speeches of a famous politician who is as revered as he is reviled:

 

That was none other than Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. There is a road named after him in Delhi. “Ata” in Turkish means Father – so that title literally means “Father of the Turks”. As the Ottoman empire fell in 1923, Ataturk successfully defended Turkey and led it to independence, there were rebels who wanted Islamic rule and the Caliphate and not democracy. In India, it was called the “Khilafat” movement. Muslims in India, with no connection to Ottoman or Turkey, agitated for that Khilafat. And who supported it? None other than MK Gandhi. This is where MKG’s politics and vision failed. There are many enemies who still want Islamic rule to return to India and they have been making sincere efforts from across our borders and through their pimps and stooges in India. Ataturk is now called an “Enemy of Islam” by some and the current President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is making all efforts to impose Islamic rule and Sharia back in Turkey. The junking of Article 370 deals the greatest blow to the designs of Chrislamists and that is why they are shouting their lungs hoarse.

PM Narendra Modi will be addressing the nation in yet another Independence Day speech. After dabbling with some Muslim appeasement and wrong directions in the first two months of this term, ModiSarkar has finally come to show the much-required “assertiveness” in its rule. As Gujarat CM, Modi had some memorable lines that I remember. To a question by Rajdeep Sardesai on whether he nurtures ambitions of becoming PM many years ago, Modi replied “I am attached to a Mission, not Ambition”. In another line that defined his governance in Gujarat, Modi repeatedly stated the much-liked line “Justice for all, appeasement of none”. Uncharacteristically, the most remembered line from Modi’s first term is “Ek haath Quran…”. I hope that changes this year.

This country has quite a few external enemies. Our courageous Army men and women with their arsenal are quite capable of dealing with them. It is our internal enemies that have long been gnawing at this country’s foundations like rats. And there are media and lobbies from abroad who would like Hinduism and Hindus to sink and see the establishment of a Chrislamic rule – Half the country Islamic and half Christian, just like Sudan was broken in two. But we are not Sudan and these enemies are now facing imminent death and the assault on their designs must be sustained and relentless. Let’s take just one sample of the campaign to incite violence with fake news by channels like BBC and Al Jazeera over the clampdown in Kashmir:

These channels used fake videos or videos from Pakistan or POK and claimed them to be agitations in Srinagar. They are now not able to back up their claims which were also circulated by many idiotic Indians who bat for Pakistan. The GOI is right in clamping down in Kashmir. We have tolerated the nonsense emanating from Kashmir long enough. Incrementalism never pays when you face tough conditions on a continuous basis – only a drastic measure forces change. Kashmir warranted it.

The bottleneck is always at the top. The “Top” is usually reluctant to learn or change. Take Congress, their bottlenecks are the Gandhis. But they are still trying to heal a fracture with a Bandaid. At the top of India’s map, the JK territory was figuratively a bottleneck to the integration and uninterrupted progress of India. Successive govts were trying to heal the fracture with Bandaid. ModiSarkar has finally and bravely put an end to it by repealing 370. There should be no looking back and no mercy for anti-nationals and enemies. For the ones who want peace and integration we should take two steps more than we did before to enrich their lives and give them the chance for the best life and opportunities in India. In the past, we were rewarding Separatists, Muftullahs and rioters with lollypops. That should end, the good deserve a better deal not the enemies. Anything and everything in politics can be “negotiated”. But threatening to break India is non-negotiable and that message should be again given clearly by PM Modi in his I-Day speech.

Then there are Paki comedians like Tariq Pirzada who frequently appears as a panelist on Indian TV channels too. This Pirzada grandly claimed on Pak TV that “If Hindus return to Kashmir, they have no right to live even for one second” and Muslims would be justified in killing them. This is after lakhs of KP Hindus were driven out of Kashmir and now they want an Islamic State in the region. This is the real motivation for their rants – they want an Islamic State not only in Kashmir but the whole of India. In yet another TV show, another Paki Mushahid Hussain claims Congress, Mamata Banerjee, Arundhati Roy, Commies are with Pakistan for Kashmir Azaadi. It is not merely terrorism; we now know who our real enemies are. Their preliminary “work in progress” has been killed with one stroke of junking 370 and creation of two UTs. It is in this context that separating Ladakh as a UT is one of the most historic decisions. The new map of the region is welcome and while there is no hurry in recovering POK, we must hold out that aspiration publicly in all the contextual speeches of PM Modi and HM Amit Shah:

 

We are now very familiar with the language of the enemy. They will always talk as if Muslims in India are victims of this or that. Yet, not ONE MUSLIM wants to quit India and settle in their paradise called Pakistan. Not one wants to go and settle forever in Bangladesh, China or any neighbouring country. Ineluctable TRUTH is, Muslims enjoy more freedoms and choices in India than in any other country on earth. Anyone denying this is the biggest hypocrite floating around. And we should be proud of the fact that not just Muslims, every Indian enjoys a remarkable freedom and the power of choice not available in a vast majority of countries in the world.  The language of all enemies is inadvertently demonstrated in this foolish tweet by Barkha Dutt:

What kind of moronic thinking would compel anyone to believe that we must make policies and take decisions that the Separatists and Militants should support? This Pak-paid agenda is what the Sickular cabal of the Barkhas, Shekhar Guptas and their gangs have been driving all along. That we should please the separatists and militants in our policies. If the militants and terrorists still want to fight, let it come. We should fight them till the last of them is dead.

Pak PM Imran Khan threatens violence and suicide bombings against India. And if he foolishly wants that war, then let that come too. Indian freedom and progress cannot be held to ransom by blackmailers anymore. And along with external enemies, Amit Shah must start dismantling the dens of anti-nationals within India and those media channels spewing hatred and break-India agenda continuously through their foot-soldiers. This includes Congress and other Sickular parties in India. As long as they bat for Pakistan and breaking India, every effort must be made to make them irrelevant and face eventual death. Ironically, the truth about Kashmir and India comes from none other than a maverick Imam Tawhidi:

There is another thing that PM Modi must clearly assert in his I-Day speech or any other forum. There are anti-India MPs in Britain and some more countries which constantly rant against India or lecture India on Kashmir. He must make it clear to the govts of such countries that this will be seen as interference in India’s internal matters even if that is not the official position of their govt of the day.

The exorcism of the demons in Kashmir that have waged war against India for so long makes this Independence Day special and different from many that we celebrated in the last two or three decades. Light up the Parliament and many important monuments in Delhi and in JK and Ladakh. And in his I-Day speech, PM Modi should find the lines that integrates this new India in spirit as it does physically. Last but not least, send out the harshest warning to traitors within and those who toe the Pakistani line to sabotage everything good that happens for and in India. The economy may be a bit down at the moment but economy, jobs and such things have “swings”. What cannot be ever swung again is the uncompromising equality among all States and all UTs from Ladakh and JK to the tip of Kanyakumari.

Happy Independence Day & Happy Raksha Bandhan!

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