IT IS good news that as many as 47 legal luminaries and former top police officials -- such as Chief Justices of High Courts or the Directors General of Police -- have written a letter to President Mr. Ram Nath Kovind, condemning those who have criticised the Delhi Police for arresting activist Disha Ravi as part of the ongoing investigation of the Republic Day violence and pro-Khalistan activities. Such a representation provides a strong and nationalistic alternate narrative to the usual crap that the Left-liberal lobby often unleashes in the country. It offers a good retort to the Left-liberal propagandism aimed mainly at misleading the public.

 

The representation urges the President to direct the Central Government to ensure that the Delhi Police conduct a free and fair investigation away from the pressure from “vested interests”. It adds, in effect, that all the actions of the Delhi Police are official and in public domain and open to judicial scrutiny at appropriate stages, and when that is the case, vested interests must not be allowed to distort the truth. The 47 intellectuals have blasted the tendency of some sections of Indian society to team up with banned elements to stage protests outside Indian Missions abroad in order to bring disrepute to the country and its Government. The letter asserts that the young age of Disha Ravi is immaterial if she is old enough to carry on with undesirable activities with foreigners against India’s national interest. It is high time the larger Indian society produces a massive alternate narrative of this kind on every issue of national interests. It is very important that the Left-liberal lobby’s propagandism is opposed and facts established.

 

For decades on end, the society has suffered from such undesirable propaganda aimed at painting the country in a non-existent bad light. The Left-liberals have turned the effort into a well-organised industry churning out intellectual materials prejudicial to national interest. All that effort must be negated with the help of an alternate narrative that would bust the fakeness of Left-liberalism. The most unfortunate part is that the Left-liberal lobby has often sided with clandestine international operatives and agencies existing under innocuous names such as Poetic Justice Foundation or Sikh for Justice. Such agencies often team up with anti-India forces and act as fund-providers for any agitation that may embarrass the Indian nation. All their activities are plushly funded and supported by anti-India lobbies operating in other countries -- under the garb of democracy, free speech, and human rights.

 

Agents of these elements are active in certain universities and political parties, distorting the socio-political discourse of the time. If this anti-India narrative is to be defeated, then a ground-swell of strong, nationalistic assertions is the need of the hour. Under the Left-liberal propagandism, a lot of falsehood, too, is heaped upon the society through a smart use of the media. The Government should think of certain measures to curb the abuse and misuse of the media -- print or electronic -- for anti-India purposes. Strictly from the point of law, putting such curbs in place should not be difficult administratively and legislatively. The purpose behind this suggestion is to launch as all-out war against falsehood being heaped on people as truth. The purpose is to seek a protection from the Left-liberal propagandism, which is indicated appropriately in the representation to President Mr. Ram Nath Kovind by the 47 eminent intellectuals. The ideas is to add a strong nationalistic edge to the current socio-political discourse in the country. The idea is to ensure that nobody is able to foist falsehood on the larger Indian society.