Re: [IAC#RG] Insult to the nation

Sarabjit.

You have given detailed background and the importance of Vande Mataram which has been accepted as the National Song, not to be confused by many as National Anthem .Vande mataram has its appeal and I remember since childhood the Prabhat- Pheris used to be taken out with the National Flag leading and all singing the Vande Mataram  without any religious bias. Your observation is worth being taken seriously. But by Whom? Can you expect any such action by the power hungry politicians and the Government apparently led by the most corrupt person. He has created a wrong halo of being the most honest man. How can a person be considered man of Integrity, who has betrayed the nation on many occasions for the sake of his being on the Chair of PM. He took a commitment to serve the interest of the Nation while taking the oath as PM in the Rashtrapati Bhavan. To the contrary he took upon himself the responsibility to protect the corrupt colleagues. At his level Financial integrity is expected as the basic ingredient and not a great virtue.

You may not agree with me and may even feel dismayed by what I am saying  let us face the facts, which a prudent and knowledgeable person of your standing may find too ridiculous but please try to make sense out of this seemingly non-nonsensical statement.having witnessed the latest events and the stand of various political parties and their leaders, I have come to the conclusion that the one person who will work in the best interest of our country is the much too maligned Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. The only disqualification attributed to her is her being a foreigner  She is the power center of the ruling party and the hidden hand behind all major decisions. Will it not be better that she is accepted as the leader of the ruling coalition  This will give her direct authority with the responsibility for her decisions. let questions of her origin and holding duel citizenship and many other perceived shortcomings be forgotten and she is given the respect and place which she deserves. She has proved herself as an undisputed leader of the coalition and her ability to take tough, unpleasant decisions over ruling the majority within her party.This shows also her sensitivity  for the public opinion/sentiments, unlike the unscrupulous cabinet colleagues and the legal brains like Kapi Sibball, Ashwini Kumar and others. This Govt is credited with many scandles of Financial corruption-CWG, Def deals, Coal-gate etc. but no where there has been a linkage with Mrs. Sonia Gandhi.If one person who needs to be sacked for all these along with the perpetrators-he is our most incompetent, power  hungry PM. He presents a sorry picture and has lost all the conviction with his mono-tone occasional speeches Why.? He was always an effective speaker and more convincing than most of the shouting brats in the Lok Sabha, now he has lost the moral ascendancy by supporting or not taking action against the corrupt ones; Bansl's and Aswini Kumar's are the latest examples  when he tried to protect them even after the Lady forced him to take action against these two. It speaks of the courage of Mrs. Gandhi who forced this TOUGH action against the wrong doers,even at the risk of losing support of the Party. 

 

It will be much better that Manmohan Singh-the dummy PM leaves. It seems he has some inkling of not getting the 3rd term even if Congress forms the next Govt and is playing a cunning move now by resisting the Madam-trying to show to the people that he can act independently. any thing van be expected from such spunkless characters. Being a great economist is different from being a leader.

I for one will support some one who has the courage and foresight and who will work for the interest of India, let him or her be a

foreingner.

Regards.

Col Nauni

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

Sack MPs who don't respect National Song 

No matter what his reservations may have been against the National Song, by disdainfully walking out of Parliament when Vande Mataram was being played, BSP leader Shafiqur Rahman Barq has insulted the country. Such an affront to the nation, that too delivered inside the hallowed halls of Parliament — the sanctum sanctorum of democracy, cannot be tolerated. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has taken note of the incident, but the matter must not be allowed to rest there. The offending MP's membership to the lower House must be cancelled and his political boss would do well to severely reprimand him. Not only has Mr Barq committed sacrilege, he has shown no remorse for his despicable behaviour. Instead, the little known MP from Moradabad has defended his actions in the name of 'religious freedom' and 'secularism'. That the two have absolutely nothing to do with respecting one's motherland is clearly a concept that is alien to Mr Barq, who has argued that since rendering Vande Mataram is the equivalent of paying 'homage to a Hindu idol', he, as a true Muslim, cannot 'worship' anyone else apart from Allah. The fallacious nature of his argument apart, the fact remains that Mr Barq had no business dragging his religious beliefs into Parliament, where he has come not as a representive of a religious community. Moreover, if he really felt so strongly about the National Song, he had other ways to register his concern. He could have, for instance, stood aside while the song was being played. But by walking out, Mr Barq sought cheap publicity through the use of his religious identity. But this is not the first time that Mr Barq has played the Muslim card; he had opposed the BSP's 'Jai Bhim' slogan too.

This is also not the first time that Vande Mataram has been criticised for being 'anti-Islamic'. This manufactured controversy goes back to the turbulent decades of the 1930s and 1940s when the country's emergent Muslim leadership was seeking to consolidate its own political base vis-à-vis that of the Congress. By that time, Vande Mataram — Bankim Chandra Chattopadhay's powerful paen to the motherland which had bound the national conscience, Hindus and Muslims alike, during the 1905 Bengal partition — was already being sung at the opening of all Congress sessions. However, when the party wanted to make the song the national anthem, some Muslim leaders objected. In 1937, a sub-committee that included Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose reviewed the song, and for the first time in the 1938 Haripura session, only the first two stanzas were played. Even that did little to placate the likes of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who demanded the song be scrapped.

But while that did not happen, Vande Mataram has remained the favourite punching bag of communal leaders. In 2006, the song's centenary celebrations were hampered after some Muslims complained against a Union Government directive asking all schools to sing the song on September 7. A supine Congress leadership in New Delhi buckled before them, as it had earlier. The question now is: Will it be any different this time around or will Shafiqur Rahman Barq get away with his shocking irreverance?

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