[Reader-list] No mention of emergency anywhere in schooling ?

[Rajen Uppinangadi]

Sir,
you have hit the nail on the head of psuedo- seculars while talkong about
emergency and the role of executive and judiciary in those days. But for one
Justice Khanna and his dissent with ten other judges of the constitution
bench of Supreme court, who were crawling when asked to bend, nowhere else
ne will find mention of emergency and the drastic draconian actions that
followed it.Nor will anyone see the mention of emergency except in passing
reference once in a while in discussion as for those who suffered, it was
painful trauma fit to forget, for others, it was nothing personal, but for
many like me, who had entire family, which was politically congress, it was
eye opener that congress is no more congress, after the death of Indira,
then Rajiv, it is a bunch of selfcentred sycophants who gave unsung burial
for Sevadal, a service brigade, served the villages with people of  all
walks of life, without emphasis on faith or caste, helped the needy, was the
feedback channel to governance and was reason for success of Congress at the
village level.

 Soon, the leaders like Gundu Rao, CM of Karnataka, young turks of Congress
believed that only money can bring in votes, the sole emphasis was on
mobilisation of people with food, liqour and money,for rallies, but slogan
shouting brigades can never replace the volanteers of sevadal, and hence the
rise of RSS in the vaccuum thus created by Sevadal, even RSS later modified
its stand on other followers of faith, gave importance to service to
tribals, downtrodden and pracharaks went to remote areas to serve the people
so far neglected, with eduaction and healthcare. Ofcourse it was also tinged
with unifying the divided society of castes and prejudices. At times it
makes me wonder when psuedo-secular say RSS is communal, is it wrong to be
unifier of the hindu society when all other faiths are united against the
injustice why should hindu be victimised because some one is a bania, some
one else is jat and if attack on one is seen as attack on that caste, but
not an issue for all to protest.? A strong society of all faiths' followers
live inharmony as none would clash as they know the rule of laws will punish
such attacks without discrimination, thus we have a nation of all faiths
respecting all faiths and even followers of no faith as such illegal acts
get booked under rule of laws, vote of communes like yadav, jats, banias
will not have bulk transfer but go for the performer of good governance
without fear or favour.

  Emergency and days of it, is atmost, discussed in law school when
constitution and fundamental rights are dealt in class rooms.But otherwise
as citizens, many would like to forget the trauma and go on with life
forgetting that we have not done our duty to sensitize the young generation
of what an autocratic leadership can undo in democracy. In all walks of life
when individual freedom becomes licence and overlooks the freedom of the
society, the individuals have to be reminded of emergency days, when such
licensious behaviour damaged the life of many in the nation.

 Most born after freedom may not even know the sacrifices of many thousands
of individuals who struggled for the freedom as the "leaders " like Nehru
and gandhi shadowing all of them, Congress then had all in its folds, later
new outfits in politics came , but to say that the present congress is only
the one which struggled for freedom is fallacy unquestioned by anyone as
those who could question are no more, those who are there are uninterested
in the sycophancy or any of it. One will not find a single individual in
present day Congress even remotely associated with struggle for life leave
alone freedom, as all these are modern maharajas living on national
exchequer.

The young generation may not even know the relation between Gandhi and
present day Gandhis as the surname is used more as a tool of invoking the
votes garnering than about discipline and search for truth.The ideals that
mahatma stood for are represented in the roads of cities bearing his name,
mahatma gandhi Roads in different cities, fallen wayside,while the airports,
stadias stand for the name of first family as testimony of loot and
contractors delight of daytime robbery of national exchequer, be it the
jawahar stadia, Indira international airport.Widows of ex PMs are no where
to see while the first family widow and the generation next has the best
known palatial residence in capital for the "sacrifice" .Be it Lalitha
Shastri, or a Mrs, Nanda or even Mrs. narasimha rao, the history does not
seem to record the work even when it is for good of the nation.?

Regards,

Rajen.