I have been following so many blogs as well as magazines, newspapers, television etc, and just fail to understand why this issue has become a bone of contention.
At the same time it was quite overwhelming to see that almost 80% of the young Indians believe that the book should be published on the grounds that India is a democratic country and everybody has a right to speech and expressions. The other school of thought is that, the book carries personal opinions of Mr.Jaswant Singh and it has nothing to do with BJP party agenda or its philosophy, so who is BJP to decide weather the book should be published or not!!!
One thing I have observed, is that since the exit of Mr. Vajpayee from BJP, it has completely gone into shambles. Every party worker voices his own opinions and dictates’. Be it Modi, who was once a self proclaimed Prime ministerial candidate and later it became party agenda to fight 2009 Lok Sabha elections, or the differences arised between Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley, then difference of opinion on the Varun Gandhi speech issue, and suddenly issue of black money parked in swiss accounts became an election agenda. The motto of MAZBOOT NETA NIRNAYAK SARKAR was a good advertising punchline but the fact of the matter is it was never accepted by the people of India, which was evident from the results. Even today we are yet to hear BJP in a single voice. The party is just running without any agenda or motto like a headless chicken. I have deliberately not mentioned the Vijayraje Scindia issue.
The way Jaswant Singh has been dishonoured and expelled from the party, shows the complete absence of spirit of solidarity, respect and camaraderie even towards the senior party members.
Jaswant Singh has remained one of the most non-controversial BJP leaders for decades. We have hardly seen him coming up with non-secular views or religion biased opinions ever in his speeches, this could itself be one of the reasons that in someway the questions cudve have been raised on his loyalty by many party workers in the past also. And this latest issue gave them a chance to show him the exit door.
It’s a very sorry state of affairs and shows how brittle the unity and internal party politics is within BJP.
Coming back to this book and his opinion on Jinnah, I think it will be extremely disappointing and heart breaking to see such a book not coming on to stands. Such things are actually very common across the borders. Let us behave like citizens of a civilised society where respect is given to everyone’s personal opinions. Having difference in opinion and observations will always exist, but that’s how the good and bad philosophies of any social, religious or political issues are segregated.
More over such acts hurt the image of the country globally. These party actions taken in haste not only dent the image of the party, at the same time, it sets bad examples about the Indian political system to the outside world.
At the time when we are already trying to improve our tarnished global image due security issues being raised by so many countries (the latest being pull out of Australian and British teams from the World Cup badminton championship tournament organised in Hyderabad). More so at the time when commonwealth games are round the corner, the exit of Britain surely has not left a good taste in the mind of many other commonwealth member countries.
We cannot get judgemental and create an opinion without understanding the root cause for any issue or a problem merely on baseless speeches of handful of politically motivated individuals who themselves are not clear about there own reason for existence!.
People have hardly read the book, it’s not even on stands, but everyone has started making their own pre conceived notions. Let us get the book in the stores. All of us have read the history million times, some of us know the past, some have vague idea of the past and some are clueless about it. I think this book will bring out more ideas, more opinions, more observations and more views on the subject.
We cannot sit back and keep discussing weather creation of Pakistan was right or wrong. It’s been more than 50 years since Pakistan was created; it is now a recognised country by United Nations and every other global and political agency. Let us accept this fact and stay focused on our own agenda, rather than keep scratching the past wounds and keep debating that who created this wound, why it happened, weather this injury is justified or not, or was this injury a blessing in disguise for the people of India as well as Pakistan!
Jaswant Singh has put forward his opinion on the subject, lets look at them, understand his views also and that’s it. Lot of people said, it’s a way to grab a share of Muslim vote bank! Very very myopic view I must say! If name of Jinnah can pull vote bank, then only God can help this country. His book is not going to change the history; his book is not going to create any further divide between people of India and Pakistan. His book is just a collection of his own ideologies, believes and opinion on the subject. Those who want to understand buy it, others move on.
After all AUR BHI GHAM HAIN HINDUSTAN MEIN, JINKO BHARNEY KE LIYE MARHAM CHAHIYE AUR EK DOOSREY KA SAATH CHAHIYE!
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Dear Shad,
ReplyDeleteIf all this media hype is to make the book popular that the gimmic has really worked. Infact all Indians who were against division of our country, are well aware of the facts refereshed in the book.
The book is tribute to all freedom fighters and Quaide Aazam was one of them.....the book also shows mirror to those backing two nation theory which was nothing but out come of over ambitious approach of few of our leaders.
Jai Hind.