Two weeks since the unprecedented Republic Day violence hit the streets of the national capital at the hands of extremists and arsonists masquerading as farmers fighting for their rights, the so-called farmers’ agitation has witnessed plenty of new twists and turns.
Following the Government’s decision to clear the protest sites in the aftermath of the mayhem that erupted in Delhi on Republic Day - from a despondent and whimpering Rakesh Tikait of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) - one of the principal protagonists of the protest that has often turned belligerent - to some American pop stars, even porn stars and teenage climate activists intriguingly tweeting their support to the protesting farmers to a flop ‘Chakka Jam’ call by agitating farm unions on February 6 amid a simmering resurgence of protests activities - the extraordinary saga of the Modi government’s three reformist farm bills will be remembered for decades, especially for the unwarranted chaos and pandemonium that was unleashed against the progressive legislation.
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A disturbing reality to have emerged from the ongoing propaganda movement is the efficacy with which the leftist-extremist lobby has been able to arouse anti-establishment emotions within a small section of the vast population of Indian farmers and amalgamate this minuscule faction with rowdy trouble-mongers in order to achieve the obnoxious goal of creating instability and anarchy in India through unruliness and disinformation. Unfortunately, it would not be wrong to admit that the lobby has been successful in their evil endeavour to a great extent.
By now it is crystal clear that the rancour witnessed in and around Delhi is anything but a movement started and sustained by farmers. Foreign hand, working in collusion with India’s political opposition and the lobby at large, in the orchestration of a vicious anti-Modi anti-India campaign is more conspicuous than ever.
Considering all that has transpired in the last two months vis-a-vis the sham agitation against agri reforms, it is fair to argue that the present commotion is only a precursor of a malignant anti-India movement that is to follow, aimed at wreaking havoc in the country through whatever means possible.
Sadly, this battle against a global syndicate that is constantly engaged in a virulent exercise of dishonouring and subverting India comes at a time when the Modi government has devoted itself to the task of remedying more than six decades of apathy and misgovernance.
The hostile forces are aware that India is on the cusp of a major social, economic and political revolution. With CAA and farm laws being mere curtain raisers, some of the biggest reformist legislation in the form of uniform civil code, population control/regulation among others are in the pipeline. Therefore, the underlying motive is to blackmail and pressurise the government into pursuing a non-reformist agenda in the name of secularism and liberalism.
However, the resolute Modi government has always been up to the task. The government was determined to stand by the Citizenship Amendment legislation when the bloody anti-CAA protests rocked Delhi and it is just as unwavering in its approach now while dealing with the farm laws protests.
PM Modi has time and again reiterated his administration’s commitment to the farmers’ cause while at the same time standing his ground as far as the legitimacy and benefits of the three farm laws are concerned.
The government is aware that if they surrender to undue pressure now, it will become a precedent that imperils the practice of bold lawmaking aimed to reinvent India.
A silly attempt that backfired
Misguided commentary of backing the farmers’ agitation by American pop singer Rihanna, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and porn star Mia Khalifa has exposed the ill-intent of the international lobby against India. With speculation being rife that these self-proclaimed advocates of human rights were paid a huge sum by extremist Khalistani groups to add fuel to the fire, it is only heartening to find out that the dirty ploy has backfired for them badly.
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When India comes to the aid of the impoverished and the underprivileged world in pandemic times by supplying them the COVID-19 vaccine while rich countries indulge in hoarding vaccine doses, these celebrities do not come forward to admire and congratulate India for its humanitarian effort. But when it comes to tarnishing India’s image through false anti-establishment narrative, some of them are always at the forefront.
Although less could not be cared about the opinions of foreign pop stars and porn stars or media-hyped child activists over India’s internal matters, the brazenness with which the lobby has endorsed their misplaced and critical views hints at the level to which the lobby can stoop to satisfy its visceral hatred for the Modi government.
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However, the one good thing that the controversy counterintuitively did was that it galvanised all right thinkers, patriots and nationalists of India into action. Hashtags such as #IndiaTogether and #IndiaAgainstPropaganda trended massively on Twitter with some of the biggest Indian celebrities pledging support to India’s unity against all extraneous and propagandist elements and calling out the western world for its hypocrisy and duplicity with regard to India.
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The controversy also exposed political trouble makers - the Congress party and other UPA members. In a bid to express solidarity with the ill-informed western commentators, the united opposition ended up insulting the legendary Sachin Tendulkar, who incidentally was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the same Congress party under the Manmohan Singh government, only because Tendulkar chose to stand for the unity of India in response to the divisive tweets sent out by Rihanna and the like supporting the farmers’ agitation.
If that was not despicable enough, Maharashtra’s Maha Vikas Aghadi government earlier this week followed it up by ordering a probe into the pro-India tweets by Mumbai-based personalities - Sachin Tendulkar, Lata Mangeshkar, Akshay Kumar and others. The purpose of the investigation is to ascertain whether the Modi government coerced the personalities into tweeting their nationalistic feelings and condemning the agenda-driven foreign commentary on India’s domestic matters.
As shocking as it gets - the Maharashtra government, in its attempt to make petty political gains, has stooped to a new low by hailing foreign commentary on India’s internal affairs while humiliating India’s Bharat Ratnas - Tendulkar and Mangeshkar - for expressing their nationalistic spirit. It is nothing but indicative of how deep and dirty the game of dividing and destabilising India is.
The same Congress party, along with its allies, which takes the unmerited credit for being the chief architect of India’s independence despite having done precious little to prevent the country’s bifurcation, is now trying to promote disunity in the country using the anti-farm laws protests as a tool.
In the wake of the current turbulence, PM Modi’s recent “andolanjeevi” remark in the Rajya Sabha reflects the lobby’s ulterior aim to push India into a constant state of agitation and disharmony. Make no mistake, the jibe was not targeted at the farmers but the lobby-extremist nexus which has been shooting off the farmers’ shoulders.
It also reaffirms that the Modi government stands as firmly to push agri reforms in India as it did before the protests had started and that it will not be swayed away from its primary objective of pursuing an overall reformist and progressive agenda in times to come.
