When Nationalism meets the Spirit of Nation

JNU row, 
It is palpably tough to digest the slogans which were alleged to be shouted at an event organized for commemorating Afsal Guru, prime incriminated for 2002 parliament attack. I personally do not brace death penalty, but believe in no alternative for terrorism and coldblooded murders. But everyone has their own thoughts and persuasion on things which the government is obliged to address. JNU episode proves how much vague a government can be. Developments at JNU uncovers an irresponsible government retaliating at students who opposed the ideology of the RSS backed government, deteriorating the wound further instead of soothing it.

The JNU episode began when students belonging to left student wing of CPI(Maoist) Democratic Students Union(DSU) conducted an event commemorating Afsal Guru where they questioned the capital punishment given for him. They questioned the judgement note which stated "The collective conscience of the society will be satisfied only if the death penalty is awarded to Afzal Guru" and denial of fair trial to be precise denial of a fair defence.
From the words of some senior SC advocates Afsal was not given a chance to defend himself.

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I am uncertain of whether Afsal deserved a fair trail or not, but as a part of world's greatest Republic, moreover among a civilized society everyone has their own right to defend themselves. For the smooth running of a democratic nation, an independant judiciary should be the final word, no scope for questioning judiciary should be promoted. But questions may arise when it starts to hang a person to satisfy the collective conscience of a society who has surrendered himself to the law. It is obvious that some would find it difficult to accept the judgement. They have their right to protest and the same happened at JNU excluding some unfortunate slogans raised at the event. Those slogans points at our national integrity, the core idea of India. The slogan makes every normal citizen cheesed off, so do I. Government must ensure, those raised anti India slogans are served with apt punishment but no innocent is tortured for their dissent on Sangh Parivar agenda.

The organisers of the JNU event had collective responsibility for incidents took place at the event. It is our right to protest , but our duty to respect national feelings, country and obviously government should not be unlearnt. How vitiated government may be, but they are democratically elected.

One major problem when the dissent crosses safe limit, the idea of activism may get misinterpreted by nation. See how the nation now see activist like Umar Khalid and Kanhaiya Kumar. Umar Khalid was a brilliant student who rejected his US scholorship in order to continue his fight for the suffering people of war torn areas. Now he is labelled as a traitor, terrorist and so do many JNUites. Everyone knows how sensitive Kashmir problem is and violence cannot blossom a permanent solution on the valley. It needs lot of courage and strength for our leaders to preserve India as a democratic secular republic. Citizens too have their responsibility,if they start fighting against nation raising antinational slogans, I am afraid of the future. Let us keep our nerves together and resolve all the issues through dialogue.

Today our nation have a lot of self proclaimed patriots who are ready to attack people whom they feel unpatriotic in their own definitions. They are trying to redefine the nationalism to RSS propoganda of Hindu Rashtra. Patriotism for them had converged to a means for celebrating soldier's death. I seriously doubt their sincerety as a nationalist. Do they really accept the idea of a secular India?
Have the so called nationalist thought the reason why Kashmiri youth fell into the trap of terrorism or how people of war torn areas are suffering? Can some military operations be an effective remedy for terrorism. Answer would be certain 'NO' as it could only keep a check on terrorist exertions. What we need is a treatment for the root cause. Unemployment among Kashmiri youth is hovering around 6%. The throng showing up for cremation of any separatist leader at Kashmir reveal how deep extremism is spread among youth. They might have lost faith in the idea of India. In such a case it is the duty of Indian government to take serious measures to reform them before falling prey to seperatism. Similar is the case for other northeastern states where 90% of population are poverty stricken. The Prime Minister's 80000 crore project for civilizing Kashmir was seen with lot of hope in this context but the sudden death of Mufti Muhammad Sayyid former Chief Minister of J&K (PDP leader) and consequent irresolution of government backfired this effort.

What does a credible government ought to do? Hitting serious charges on its citizens when the ideologies conflicts or redefining nationalism on their own? or vanquishing people's right to protest? or suppressing the voices of oppressors through authoritarian governance? Are they trying to saffronize our universities as did earlier in FTII(The Film and Television Institute of India) bringing Gajendra Chauhan to its apex and the incidents at HCU which led to tragic death of Rohith Vemula. It is obvious that antinational slogans are to be reprobated, but can a government criminalise innocent students on sedition charges as a payback for conflicting ideology. It is evident that quick immature action against students had a scathing backwash on our national integrity.

As an Indian moreover a human who dream of a world disseminating love and bliss, I hope the fog in the air of JNU is cleared away quickly with no added cripple. We shall have an open debate for promising future of our nation. The prospect of being world's largest democratic republic should embolden the government's action. The hard fought independence must never go in vain. Our Constitution is the apex though we need some frequent updation on that too, the only way in which a democratic government works. Now time impels us to rejuvenate the idea of India, 'Unity in Diversity', together we can find a formative solution. Setting apart personal beliefs, religion, race, politics we can contemplate about solutions. Join our hands for oppressors, let us make ourselves proud, remembering the basic manthra "United we stand divided we fall".