Malicious !!!

 

THE current narrative the Congress party is trying to slap on the nation with reference to happenings in Bangladesh is nothing but a fully malicious rubbish. Congress leaders have launched tirades in their public statements stressing that India, too, faced a similar danger since democracy is at peril here. That a principal Opposition party -- with elected Governments in three States of the Indian Union and more than one hundred Members in both Houses of Parliament indulges in such a malicious propaganda is a matter of shame for the nation’s political discourse. It is most unfortunate that there is no constitutional or legal mechanism whatsoever to stop this malicious tirade and ensure that nobody is allowed to utter the huge nonsense the Congress propaganda machine is dishing out. Because such an utter falsehood is going on for a long time, good time it is now for the Government in particular and the people of India in general to apply brakes on the spread of the political filth. One of the falsehoods the Congress party in particular and the Opposition in general are pushing is that in the schools books brought out by the National Council Educational Research and Teaching (NCERT), the Government has not included the Preamble to the Constitution as curricular content. This accusation was refuted most vociferously by Union Education Minister Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan in the Rajya Sabha responding to the speech by Congress leader Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge.

 

The Congress leader had also accused that the Government was trying to impose a communal ideology through educational books. Union Minister Mr. J.P. Nadda stood up and refuted that claim, too, most assertively. The implied meaning of the accusations by the Congress party is that democracy is in danger India thanks to the Modi Government’s ways and means of handling issues. When the Opposition clamour rose to a crescendo, Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, too, stood up in Parliament to set the record straight. He highlighted how the Congress party hurt the spirit of the Constitution and defiled its principles. Anybody who thinks sanely would understand the substance in the Government’s argument in this regard -- beyond the political part of the argument from both sides. The examples of how the Congress party defiled the Constitution and its spirit are many in number -- and the Prime Minister and his colleagues are doing a great job bringing to fore all those most tellingly, most accurately with the help of accurate interpretation.

 

Of course, the Congress party in particular is least likely to see sense in such attempts by the Prime Minister and his colleagues in the Government and the National Democratic Alliance and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Yet, that task of exposing the Congress tool-kit needs to be exposed in full measure and at the earliest so that it cannot cause any damage to the Indian democracy in the name of democracy. The Congress party’s references to the happenings in Bangladesh and accusation that India too appears headed for such a situation, is nothing but utter nonsense and falsehood. The common people of India must understand this start political reality in its entirety and block any attempts -- by anybody -- to defile the Constitution and push the country into problems. And this work will have to be done notwithstanding the electoral swings in the past summer. No matter the small changes in electoral statistics, the people have expressed full faith in the leadership of Mr. Narendra Modi as Prime Minister. From that strong base should the fight to protect democracy from the evil of anti-national toolkits be conducted.