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Why Mohan Bhagwat Is Right

Why Mohan Bhagwat Is Right

On March 3, RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat had said the new generation needs to be taught to chant slogans hailing mother India, comments which came against the backdrop of the row over alleged anti-India sloganeering on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus.

“Now the time has come when we have to tell the new generation to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ (hail mother India). It should be real, spontaneous and part of all-round development of the youth,” the RSS chief had said.

This was countered by Asaduddin Owaisi. “I don’t chant that slogan. What are you going to do, Bhagwat sahab,” Owaisi said, at a public rally in Udgir tehsil of Latur district of Maharashtra on Sunday.

“I won’t utter that (slogan) even if you put a knife to my throat,” Owaisi said, amid loud applause by the crowd. “Nowhere in the Constitution it says that one should say: Bharat Mata ki Jai,” he said.

Just because we do not say it openly, it does not mean that we do not love our mother. It is the same with the nation as well.

We need not shout out loud that ‘I Love India’ to prove our patriotism. But certain values such as ethics, patriotism etc must be inculcated from a very young age when the mind is fresh.

What Mohan Bhagwat said was that the youth must be conditioned to love the nation and what is wrong in that? Does chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ mean that one is anti-Muslim or anti-Christian?

Therefore, just as the silence of a person does not mean that he has no love towards those around him, patriotism as far as adults are concerned need not be made into a public spectacle.

But the likes of Asaduddin Owaisi should realize that there is a difference between staying silent which is his prerogative or making a drama of the whole thing by saying that ‘I will not do so even if you put a knife to my throat’.

Had it not been for the fact that he is in Bharat, that knife would have cut into Asaduddin Owaisi’s throat a long time ago, given the kind of provocation he delights in meting out to the majority community.

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