Gandhi ideology mocked in Modi's India
India is celebrating Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary like some kind of a mockery. Modi has restricted Gandhi to just a symbol of cleaning roads. There is a reason to this. Gandhi is a memory, an indelible one, that seeps the sangh Parivar in guilt owing to the end he met at the hands of a person who believed in Sangh ideology. Hence the BJP which believes in Sangh ideology has restricted Gandhiji to a metaphor of sweeping roads. BJP leaders stand with rooms in the hands on the birth anniversary of Gandhiji clearly ignorant is all other messages and teachings. Gandhians fear whether the leaders have held broom to sweep away his other values such as non violence, coexistence, harmony and secularism.
It is true that Gandhiji placed cleanliness above all other values. He wants visited pilgrimage which was dirty beyond comprehension and said god would never be present here. He once visited Krishna Mutt and the dignitaries invited him to visit the main temple Gandhiji asked them are Dalits allowed in that place?
Upon getting a negative answer he refused to go to the temple. His emphasis for cleanliness was not just external. He believed external cleanliness is as important as internal purity. This is the main reason why Modi's swachata andolan is not taking off as expected. The reason for its failure is here. There is also a reason as to why the river Ganga is not getting cleaned up. So long as social evils such as poverty, casteism and untouchability are not eradicated from our society, or the government does not work with total integrity to eradicate them from the society, all these celebrations will just remain mere slogans or pretensions.
Gandhiji strongly believed in nonviolence. That was the route he chose to earn freedom for India. Just as the non-cooperative movement was gaining momentum some people set a police station on fire when he heard this he withdrew from the movement.
He felt the country wasn't prepared to gain independence. He regretted for this incident of violence. At a time when the country celebrates his 150th birth anniversary violence is looming large in all quarters of the country. There was a time when those to cared for the cows were known as Gau rakshaks. Today's Gau rakshaks are those who brandish knives, do rowdism, smoke ganja and drink alcohol creating trouble for everyone and claiming innocent lives in the pretext of cow protection. Dairy farming held prominent place in Gandhi's India. Princes in Modi's India, dairy farming takes a backseat and fake Gau rakshaks gain prominence.
Farmers are killed by this fake cow protectors. Police kill without hesitation in the name of encounters. More than anything else government got down to assault the farmers who had gathered to press for the demands at the national capital on Gandhi Jayanti day itself. This is the tragedy of the celebration. This bloodthirsty government will attempt to kill common people but will pay tributes to Gandhiji by banning sale of meat on the day of his birth anniversary. Just as fake cleanliness is a mockery of Gandhi's values running sale of meat is also another contradiction to what Gandhi stood for.
India is a country where people have varied sources of food, it's not a majoritarian nation. Meat and alcohol should not be made on the same scale. Alcohol is not food and by consuming it man loses semblance of thoughts. The government has to ban sale of alcohol on certain occasions.
Gandhi had staged anti alcohol protest many a times during his freedom struggle. But never ever did he stage a demonstration against food or choice of meat as one's food. Many of his friends were meat eaters and Gandhi never protested against it. This being the case why should the government ban sale of meat on his birth anniversary? More than 50% of the population in India dies of malnutrition. World Health Organisation has been warning that the numbers are increasing with every passing year. With this by placing meat and alcohol on the same level what message is the government trying to give to the people of the country?
The government is trying to reduce the food of the majority of Indians to third grade. This government is trying to create an inferiority Complex among people about eating meat. Where are the examples of vegetarians having followed the path of non violence?
History is testimony to the fact that Hitler was vegetarian. All those who have been exploiting the Dalits since ages are vegetarians. This being the facts what is the basis to prove that non vegetarian diet encourages violence or cruelty among its consumers?
Violence is to take away the right to sell cattle from the hands of their rearers which are farmers. Denying people their food for not possessing Aadhar card is violence. Banning sale of meat on Gandhi Jayanti day and denying people their choice of food is violence. The irony of democracy is that the government decides the diet of people starting from Gandhi Jayanti to Mahavir Jayanti. Gandhiji would have never approved of this. No administration or any government has any right to dictate food choices to people. Before people take to streets demanding their choice of food the government should issue a directive to district administration to not issue official orders on what people should be eating on a particular day.
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Vinod Tawde seeks apology from Kharge, Rahul through legal notice, warns of defamation lawsuit
Cash-for-vote row
New Delhi, Nov 22: BJP leader Vinod Tawde has demanded an apology from Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for making "false and baseless" allegations against him in the cash-for-votes incident in Maharashtra, saying if they don't he would sue them for defamation.
Tawde was accused by Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, a regional party, of distributing Rs 5 crore to woo voters, with its members barging into a hotel room on November 19 in a Mumbai suburb, where the BJP leader was present.
The former Maharashtra minister and BJP national general secretary claimed innocence, saying the alleged amount was not recovered in the probe by the Election Commission and police.
"The Congress only believes in spreading lies, and this incident is a proof of the party's low level politics to dent me and my party's image," Tawde said.
The two Congress leaders and the party spokesperson Supriya Shrinate seized on the row to accuse the BJP of using money power to influence the November 20 assembly polls in the state.
The legal notice sent to the three claimed that they were aware that they were pushing a "totally false story fabricated" by them.
"You all have deliberately, mischievously with the sole intention of damaging the reputation of our client intentionally fabricated the story distribution of money. You all have published false, baseless allegations against our client on various media for tarnishing his image in the eyes of right thinking people in the society," the notice read.
The Congress leaders were in a "great hurry" to damage Tawde's reputation, they did not bother to check the fact and or despite knowing the entire fact they made the false, baseless allegations, it said.
"The entire imputation made by you all are totally false, baseless, malicious and mala fide and as our client is in no way involved in any such illegal activity and as a responsible office bearer of the national political party he is aware of his duties," it added.
The notice demanded an "unconditional apology" to Tawde within 24 hours from the time the receipt of the notice, which was sent on November 21, and published in newspapers and X.
If they do not offer apology, then Tawde will initiate criminal proceedings under Section 356, which covers defamation, of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and also civil proceedings for the damages of Rs 100 crore against the three Congress leaders, the notice said.
