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The Prime Minister stated: “this pledge which we have taken today is not to be treated lightly. We lose our self-respect if we fail to live up to ourselves. If we cannot honour our pledge, we cannot do anything. Therefore, we have to take this pledge with full deliberations and with fullest sense of responsibility and to live up to its spirit.”
This is not Rashtra Rishi Narendra Modi reminding masses about the significance of his New India Pledge (NIP) on the Independence Day. It was late Jawaharlal Nehru speaking about sanctity of national solidarity pledge (NSP). He administered NSP to the Nation on National Solidarity day (NSD) on 20th October 1963.
It would not be surprising if hardly anyone within the Government or outside is able to recall either NSP or NSD. It was conceived as resolve/event to be organized on 20th October every year to reaffirm our commitment to learn from our failures in 1962 Indo-China war.
Any entity can today tag NSD label to its event as was done by Indian Medical Association (IMA) that observed NSD on 17th January 2017 to protest increasing attack on healthcare staff.
Even Rashtrapati Bhavan has slipped on NSD. The then President, Pranab Mukherjee in message dated 13th May 2015 to the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Memorial Committee noted that the Committee was “organizing the 40th National Solidarity Day to commemorate the 110th Birth Anniversary of former President of India, Late Shri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed”.
The sad plight of NSD is equally true of some of the great national pledges taken and forgotten over the decades.
Read more: Forgotten Pledges; Broken Dreams – Yehi Hai India!
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(Emergency Rationalist Dr.B.R.Ambedkar. Image Courtesy: ambedkarfoundation.nic.in)
Another 25th June. And another attainment of high moral ground by Modi Government against the 1975 national emergency. Next year, the Government would attempt to scale a new height on this issue.
The pitch of official campaign against the Emergency is becoming sharper year after year. This is a great escape for the Government from its Emergency obligations, which have been meticulously articulated by two separate commissions on Centre-State relations and by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, chief architect of Indian Constitution.
Emergency-bashers would never recall observations of these three great entities while referring to Shah Commission on highly exaggerated ‘emergency excesses’.
It is thus perfect time to tell the truth that the Government has buried under the carpet to humiliate the Congress Party year after year. Politics is legitimate. But playing politics that endangers the very existence of the country should be exposed and shunned.
Before elaborating what the Modi Government does not disclose on the Emergency, consider the Government propaganda.
Read more: Don’t Butcher National Interests by Creating Emergency Phobia
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to citizens to take a pledge for a New India has overwhelmed as well as dazed me. Overwhelmed because it has kindled a new light at the end of dark tunnel. And dazed because I realize that virtually all ex-PMs foresaw ‘New India’ during their respective tenure.
With the promises and pledges for New India galore, I find myself in a whirlpool of dreams. I find they have not led the country near the promised Utopia.
The other day, I instantly became Bhavuk (overwhelmed) when PM saw a New India in the mandate that BJP got in recent State assembly elections.
PM ordained: “On the NM Mobile App http://nm4.in/dnldapp, take the pledge and express your commitment towards building a new India.”
He added: “A new India is emerging, which is being powered by the strength & skills of 125 crore Indians. This India stands for development. When we mark 75 years of freedom in 2022, we should have made an India that will make Gandhi Ji, Sardar Patel & Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar proud.”
I look at the heaven and ask did they not feel proud when Parliament unanimously passed ‘Agenda for India’ to mark 50 years of Independence?
Read more: Dreams Unlimited from Nehru’s ‘Tryst with Destiny’ to Modi’s ‘New India’
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From Bhutto’s to Wani’s execution, Violence has outshined Kashmiriyat
(A 1951 Serene View of Srinagar. Image Courtesy: J&K Assembly)
“We the people of Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh, in order to unite ourselves in an atmosphere of Equality and Liberty and to lift ourselves and our children for ever from the abyss of oppression, poverty, degradation, ignorance and superstition to a life of freedom with a scientific temper and to fulfil the historic task of making the state of Jammu & Kashmir the shining crown on the forehead of the Republic of India, do hereby adopt and solemnly pledge this Socio Political and Economic manifesto,” says ‘Naya Kashmir’ a manifesto adopted by National Conference way back in 1944.
This vision is articulated by Constitution of the J&K, the only State to have its own Constitution. Adopted in November 1956, it says: “The State of Jammu and Kashmir is and shall be an integral part of the Union of India.”
How is that Kashmir swung from scientific temper and Indian Identity to naked love for Pakistan, which organized mass rape & man slaughter in J&K during October 1947?
How has graffiti –‘India go back’ in the Valley become trademark of separatism? Why masked youth take pride in waving flags of Pakistan and Islamic State? Such people perhaps harbour the notion that they can break away J&K from India in Talaq, Talaq, Talaq mode.
They believe that break-away on the lines of Bangladesh is possible. This idea has been fuelled by Pakistan and sustained by Valley’s popular politicians who resemble two-headed snakes. This is the Kashmir Problem. And this is what has saved Pakistan from self-destruction.
“This problem is a difficult, intricate problem, and no amount of eloquent speeches by me or by the hon. member opposite will solve the problem, It may influence us for a while,” stated Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru while responding to Kashmir problem raised by BJP member in Lok Sabha on 26th June 1952.
Read more: Resolve Kashmir Problem by Crediting Sher-I-Kashmir’s Nov 1951 Speech
