PUNISH THEM
| Date :27-Dec-2019 |
THE appeal by author-activist Ms. Arundhati Roy to people to file wrong data in their National Population Register forms, is good enough a reason for the Government to take strict action against the woman who is considered a spearhead of urban Naxalism. This is not for the first time that she has indulged in something like this. On the past several occasions, she has indulged in acts of instigation of common people against the State, which in ultimate analysis tantamounts to acting against national interest. In fact, she is an integral part of a dirty brigade that has often positioned itself against the State, trying to show as if the State is some cheap criminal that is all out to do everything purposefully wrong to harass citizens.
And that is the reason why the Government must find official ways to punish such people in complete seriousness. This particular lobby of people who often position themselves against the Government must be the reason why Pakistani journalist now exiled in Canada has time-and-again said that India has more Pakistanis than they are in Pakistan. He has never shied from insisting that instead of feeling proud that India has avenged the terror strike at Pulwama, they ask for proof, as if they are agents of Pakistan. This is also the charge Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi and many of his colleagues in the Government have often made, alleging that people of a certain political disposition talk “Pakistani language”. Taking into account the contents of the obnoxious statements made by Ms. Arundhati Roy and her likes, it must be said that these people act against national interests, and thus must be punished in the strictest possible manner for being agents of foreign powers.
For, such persons belong to that lobby that has the temerity to say that they would not implement a central law such as the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in their States, when they have no constitutional authority as well as moral right to do so. Such people need to be punished under an appropriate law, no matter what official positions they may be occupying. In the name of liberalism and the so-called freedom of expression, these people indulge in statements that flout all norms of decency, decorum, dignity, and discipline as citizens of India. They try to extract all sorts of liberties from the State to make all sorts of statements against the State. The State also accepts to remain a mute spectator to all these diatribes and deliberate distortions actually aimed at defacing the edifice of the State.
And because the State tries to pass all those machinations as political activity, these people gather further audacity to take the State further for granted. The appeal of Ms. Arundhati Roy to people to file misleading data for the NPR, actually, is a direct affront of the principle of sovereignty and supremacy of the State. It is also aimed at creating a deliberate disturbance in the society by taking undue advantage of the respect the society accords her for her extraordinary literary talent. As an urban Naxal who has joined the ultra-Left extremism under the cover of civil society, Ms. Roy has often taken positions that have embarrassed the State and the larger society.
This appeal to file fake data into NPR forms is her latest machination that needs to be derided in totality. In fact, these machinations -- by anybody -- call for a serious relook at how the nation should treat the people who indulge in those at will and at the slightest of provocations. There is no doubt that these people are finding things easy because the State has not decided to act tough. But if the State starts acting tough, the larger society will stand by it and ensure that these pseudo-intellectuals are shown their rightful place -- buried under social ridicule -- which they richly deserve, but are spared from.