Comrades aren t allowed to Say Jai Hind

 

Long live India, or Victory to India or Salutations to India is what is meant by "Jai Hind" and anyone, abhorring these two words for any reason whatsoever, should, on his or her own, leave this country for good. Anyone found not having the requisite regard and love for one's country and thus deciding willfully to behave like a thankless or an ungrateful person towards one's mother country is in the words of Shakespeare "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child" (King Lear).

What made Neta Ji Subash Chandra Bose adopt these two words, which became a part of our Indian life, hardly needs to be stressed upon but it is increasingly believed that it was one student, the son of a collector of Hyderabad, studying engineering abroad who, on the asking of NetaJi to suggest some appropriate inspiring and endearing words of command to be used as a patriotic zeal to connect people as also as a war cry, the student whose name was Zain-ul-Abdin Hassan, and who had given up his studies following a change of heart due to the charismatic personality and the vision of the Neta Ji, suggested "Hello", but he got a snubbing from Neta Ji, whereupon he came up with "Jai Hind", which was not only approved of by Neta Ji but adopted as an official form of greeting in the Indian National Army (INA) and by the revolutionary Indians. It was, later, adopted as the official slogan of the country. We are, therefore, proud of the country Hind and also that of saying "Jai'' or salutations to her.

As per our ancient Vedic Indian traditions, no worship or prayer is started and hence not accepted by the Almighty unless we pay our reverential gratitude to "Bhoomi" or the earth on which we stand, sleep, run, act, grow and die. In most of the traditional houses, even now, the first act by the inmates immediately on waking up in the morning is to touch the floor or the "Bhoomi as a mark of reverence. Why not, a small act of thanks or gratitude it is, towards it for giving us air, water, bread, energy and everything required from morning till evening, from birth to death. Having said so, it is a thing to be not only believed but rued too with an element of due indignation that Communists not only reject this "Jai Hind" but penalise and pillory any of their comrades for saying, writing or getting associated with "Jai Hind" if one of their comrades, an MP, is to be believed as disclosed by him on a national TV Communist Party of India and not Indian Communist Party, at the outset, makes you feel smell a rat as we have Indian National Congress, Indian Janta Party and the like suggesting that it is Indian and not made or carved in a particular communist country and thrust on India. In other words, intrinsic allegiance looks iffier, if not suspect. Why not Indian Communist Party and why Communist Party of India?

We have a young Rajya Sabha member Ritabratra Bannerjee, who despite being just 37, is more matured and knowledgeable than many of his elders, turned a whistleblower openly on TV channels when he charged the bosses of the Communist Party of India for pillorying him for writing "Jai Hind". He says he was threatened to this extent that he fears for his safety and has deferred his travel to Kolkata. He must have, pithily, understood the whole spectre, even if belatedly, and wished to have it shared with someone in the media for which he was wanted strictly. A party which, day in day out, cries that there was no freedom of speech (in Modi government) to say the like of stuff which their comrades Khalid, Kanahya and others said in JNU early last year, viz- "Aazadi and Bharat key tukdey tukdey ...." is denying the right of saying even "Jai Hind" to one of their staunch members like Ritabratra on the pretext of it being a non-Communist slogan. His plea to be at least allowed to write "Jai Bangla" too was not approved. 

 

This party is mustering all gumption to plead for the rehabilitation of Rohingya Muslims of Myamnar in this country which is already reeling under population explosion and Jihadi terror but these Communists are least bothered for the peace- loving Buddhists of Myanmar who won't kill an ant but who were troubled by these Rohingyas continuously and considerably and wanted a separate area out of Myanmar as an exclusive Muslim state with Muslim laws. These Communists, simultaneously but brazenly, put forth the rhetoric of compassion, helping persecuted "poor" Muslims, commitments under International covenants towards granting refuge to persecuted people etc. They have quite different (communist) yardsticks for their own persecuted fellow citizens, the 5 lac Kashmiri Pandits hounded out from their birth place and living in exile in this very country for nearly 28 years for whom these Communists never batted around by issuing even a formal statement of sympathy. Why such a stance and such a policy?

Not only this, Ritabratra has, very interestingly, been fired on wearing a watch of his choice on his wrist and dotting a glittering (not golden) pen from the upper shirt of his Kurta. "Communists are not supposed to wear non-communist watches", he was told. So a lifestyle, a common Indian life style commensurate with one's income stood at variance with communist life style dictated by the party bosses A person can be trolled for saying Jai Hind by a party, to whom Chinese interests are more concerning than their own country's, looks ludicrous d unwarranted. They can create a great hullabaloo on the unfortunate and condemnable murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh but are mum on other similar deaths like that of Santanu in Agartala, recently, who, from a news channel, was covering a public event. They have different yardsticks suiting their obsolete ideology and hence face credibility test.

In Kerala, how RSS and BJP workers are attacked and killed, they will never raise any voice against that political terrorism under their party's government there. They perhaps appear to hate everything that does not appeal to them as being Indian of their brand and the one even projecting as true Indian must first be tested on the touch stone manufactured by Communists. That speaks for their offices, with background photos not being of Indian National leaders but of Communist "heroes", rarely of Indian origin.

 

In the 1962 war with China, their role remained quite different, if not suspect, while all other political parties rallied behind the government. Large sections of the Communists put forward vague arguments that it was not a fight between China and India but between a socialist and a capitalist state. They only believe in criticising and criticising bluntly, at times, on manufactured issues which are looked into through the communist prism only

CPI (M) gave us hardliners like Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal, the two founders of the Naxalbari movement. The leadership saw in the Naxal movement a promise of bloody "revolution" in India, the stale philosophy of Communism. We continue to reel under the Naxalite terror, the activists of which are virtually waging a war against the nation, attacking and martyring our security forces and destroying other national assets and not allowing developmental activities take place lest their "movement and hegemony in the select areas gets waned and finished. There are many liberals, left-leaning so-called intellectuals and pseudo-seculars having soft corners for them. Their cohorts, though in a small number, do exist in JNU-like Left-infested educational institutions.

Not only the likes of Ritabratra Banerjee but their committed leader Achuthanand was grilled and reprimanded severely to the extent of expelling from the party for having dared organise a blood camp for our soldiers in the 1962 war with China. Indian Communists like Jyoti Basu, Harkishen Singh Surjeet, and many others had supported the Chinese in the 1962 war. Likewise in the recent stand off on Doklam between the two countries, the Communists remained mum and did not speak in favour of the interests of India which should otherwise be unbelievable. Their day dreaming of the prospects of a revolution to lead to their political takeover of the country is still being nursed by their ranks, hence buttressing imaginary issues of Hindu terror and the "thrusting" of "Saffron ideology". Distorting history and invading or questioning cultural heritage are some of the tools they keep on sharpening for their "revolution" and disliking "Jai Hind'' is no exception. Concluding these lines, of course, with a splendid "Jai Hind '', Jai will remain inseparable from the Hind till this world remains.

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Courtesy: Shiban Khaibari  Koshur Samachar 2017, October