Dost Khan
RSS-LIABILITY OR ASSET FOR BJP
JAMMU: On every major or minor issue, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been issuing advisories to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which holds the sanctity of edicts for the Narendra Modi led NDA Government but it doesn’t assert when it comes to tackling Pakistan. A country that owes its birth to the element of hate and survives to accomplish the only mission of dismembering India has of late become a darling for Nagpur, which is why not a single word has been said over the martyrdom of seven bravehearts in Pathankot Air Base attack.
India got belated New Year gift from Pakistan in Pathankot, a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Nawaz Sharif’s residence in Lahore by breaking established norms of diplomacy and protocol, perhaps in a bid to be seen as a non-traditional Head of the State. This kind of statesmanship is new to the world and the experiment has miserably failed. Such seems to be shock of this diplomatic disaster to the Prime Minister that he forgot to send even a word of condolence to bereaved families even after three days of their losing dear ones. Thus the RSS and its Pracharak turned Prime Minister have preferred to undermine the Pathankot disaster by playing it down.
Narendra Modi showed exemplary agility in boarding the Indian Air Force aircraft in Lahore by jumping the steps like the Heads of State in the US or other Western Countries do but he did not emulate any of them in sharing the national grief. He must check up with his office, how US President Barrack Obama addressed the nation whenever terrorists struck against Americans. As latest as on 6th December 2015, in the wake of ISIS threat, he addressed the nation from the Oval Office and spelled out the steps to keep the American people safe. Modi must learn how a Head of Nation instilled confidence in his people by saying, “For seven years, I have confronted this evolving threat each morning in my intelligence briefing. And since the day I took this office, I have authorised U.S. forces to take out terrorists abroad precisely because I know how real the danger is. As Commander-in-Chief, I have no greater responsibility than the security of the American people”.
Indian Prime Minister is not to be seen anywhere when the nation is asking questions.
On the contrary, in the midst of Pathankot attack, Narendra Modi government is busy in ensuring to steer out Nawaz Sharif from the responsibility by nailing non-state actors. He has no word for his nation. He has no solace for the families of those whose young sons perished in the hot-pursuit of terror perpetrators from across the border who felt provoked by his ‘large hearted engagement’ with political government in Pakistan.
The RSS should have asked the Prime Minister to stop adventurism and see through the prism of realism when it pertains to Islamabad. Doesn’t the Sangh Parivar think it prudent how to instill a sense of confidence in the shattered nation, which has started living under the smoke of fear because the nation is celebrating its Republic Day and the terror monsters, let loose by Pakistan, are out to inflict scars?
True to Indian traditions, Narendra Modi may have touched feet of Nawaz Sharif’s mother at his ancestral Jati Umrah residence at Raiwind near Lahore but what answer he has for Amrik Kaur over the loss of her young son, Gursewak Singh, who was married just 45 days ago. His 26 year old wife received the body by opening the full-bangled arms. Is that what she and the entire family had desired to get in return of Narendra Modi’s goodwill trip to Pakistan?
The senior officers of the National Security Guard, the Army and the Air Force are self-patting for having saved the precious Air Force assets in the strategically air-base while fighting for over 65 hours, but does it matter to the parents of seven brave-hearts. True, they stand with a sense of pride for having offered their sons to the motherland but can their agony be compensated?
The politicians have failed this nation always. Now an organisation, known for being the conscience keeper of Bharat Mata, has also got disarrayed. RSS has lost its sheen. And if anyone is still keeping the idea of India alive, it is people like ex-serviceman Sucha Singh, the father of Martyr Gursewak Singh, who said he will encourage his grandson to join the Indian Army.
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