[Reader-list] THROW OUT ANTI NATIONAL ELEMENT

[Bipin Trivedi]

Whatever topic discussion going on, Gujarat always comes in the picture. I
don’t know why so much hatred for Gujarat. Vande Matram is a matru vandana
(prayer for mother earth. She gives us so many things and in return we
express thanks) song. That is what masses of India believe. It’s question of
faith. For those who don’t believe, no one has forced to believe it or sing
a song. Vande Matram, Jai Shree Ram has nothing to do patriotism. No one
forced to sing it. However, if someone use it in election campaign, that is
there individual choice.

Hoisting of flag has nothing to do with patriotism. Among all Indian people,
majority of them never hoisted the flag in their life. It does not mean that
they are not patriotic. Most of us hoisted the flag in school and then never
did it. But if on independence day, if someone want to hoist the flag in any
part of India no one can stop it. By arguing that it will create
disturbance, flag hoisting is not possible is just ridiculous argument. If
state government show will to allow this ceremony with proper security than
nothing will happen. But, problem is with state government. Since somewhere
they also believe that Kashmir is not part of India and that is
objectionable. 

By not allowing flag hoisting definitely increase the will of
separatists/terrorists and goes wrong signal to them and Pak that India is
weak country and cannot fight with us morally. This is what happening since
many years and increases the strength of separatists/terrorists. That’s the
reason, we were proved weak against fighting the terrorism.

Thanks
Bipin Trivedi


From: Rakesh Iyer [mailto:rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 2:41 AM
To: Bipin Trivedi
Cc: sarai-list
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] THROW OUT ANTI NATIONAL ELEMENT

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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