[Reader-list] THROW OUT ANTI NATIONAL ELEMENT

[Rakesh Iyer]

Somewhere in Gujarat in 2002, as the election campaign was going on, people
were equating Hindutva with patriotism, first saying Vande Mataram and then
saying Jai Shree Ram, as if both are the notions of patriotism. Shouldn't we
be ashamed about it?

Every event has a context. If in the name of raising the national flag, the
idea is to announce slogans which create riots, then who is being
anti-national? And by the way, by holding Kashmir ransom to India using a
huge army and a gang of police officers and paramilitary forces, there's no
way the cause of the Indian nation is being served. Instead, it's this cause
which is being harmed. The very existence of Kashmir in this way within the
nation itself demeans the flag and its value. And all those who support it
or indulge in it, should themselves be put behind bars for a change.

What do people on this forum think?

Rakesh

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Bipin Trivedi <aliens at dataone.in> wrote:

> What is going on in Kashmir? CM of J&K openly appealing to stop flag
> hoisting in Srinagar. Is central government listening or sleeping?
>  However,
> central government since long sleeping by allowing huge corruptions of CWG,
> 2G spectrum and more, so nothing new in it.
>
>
>
> By not allowing the democratic right of flag hoisting in any part of India
> is an insult to nation and government must throw out these antinational
> element out of the country.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Bipin Trivedi
>
>
>
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