I was toying with different words and
thoughts for the letter -T, and had come very close to deciding on “threat and tolerance”. However, Mr.
Togadia presented himself along with another BJP leader, Mr. Giriraj from
Bhagalpur, Bihar, both caught literally with their feet in their mouths. Yes, I
am talking about the two gentlemen and their irresponsible statements vying to
create furor and storm on the soil of our motherland and I could not just keep
silent.
On second thought, I think the best
treatment to such guys is ignoring them but in our country, with the over-hyped
and hyper-active digital journalism in play, that is not going to happen. When “ignoring
them” can’t be exercised as a weapon to battle these elements, we need to raise
voices of condemnation against such atrocities.
What do these people think of
themselves? Mr. Togadia commented that the killers of Rajiv Gandhi are yet to
be hanged and hence everyone can get away with perpetrating anything whereas
the other (gentle) man can’t tolerate people who oppose Mr. Modi. Other than
instigating communal violence and hatred, what else can these guys do, if not
able to join hands on the development programs of good governance or poverty
alleviation?
I take this opportunity to ask both
these gentlemen what are their views and charter on the development activities.
Or do they really bother to delve into anything else other than dividing people?
While everyone else is actively trying to give peace and tolerance a chance,
these tainted elements of society need to be ignored and punished. What will be
their accountability if today violence erupts in Bhavnagar – however small it
is and there is a death or people get injured?
How will Mr. Togadia ensure that nothing
of that sort going to happen after making those statements?
From my viewpoint, human life does not have
any value to these sorts of people and they care a fig if one or two lives are ended
here and there. They neither bat an
eyelid nor think twice before uttering such inflammable statements to instigate
violence in such situation.
Before concluding, I would also like
to draw attention to the ridiculous actions that had happened on the soil of
Maharashtra by one so called political outfit in the name of saving the state.
They were in a mad rush of throwing migrants out of the state by dictating
their own terms on the sovereign right of every Indian. Is this really the way
to democracy?
