I am forced to ask the question- how did a statistically disproportionate number of Kashmiri separatists make it into the leadership of the student union at a premier organizations in Delhi. Can it be possible without design or perhaps a professor's (SAR Geelani's) systematic brain washing? Are these mature rabble-rousers posing as 'students'.
In 2014, we were on our way from Leh to Srinagar, the road was smooth, of international standards- a highway lined on both sides by unmatched beauty, each bend offering a new vista more beautiful that the last. I was lost in revere, thinking how great my India was- when we drove by a green Pakistani flag fluttering proudly on the road.
The next day, I had taken a taxi from Dal lake to the outskirts of Srinagar. The radio was on and blaring. A very angry man was talking about how Muslims would go to heaven if they fought against India. Loud. Persuasive. Illogical.
I was reminded of that radio broadcast today, while watching a speech given by Shehla Rashid, the Vice President of JNU's student union. She was loud, persuasive and her vitriolic speech received hearty applause from the crowd. But when you dug deeper into her words- she did not have a logical focused agenda. She was using multiple populist agendas and was broadly against the Modi government and saffron- but no specific charges or allegations were made. It was purely a play on the sentiment of impressionable students.
She was rousing the crowd for a barge on Parliament. The entire speech really made me restless -that the students at JNU don't know what they are fighting for- their youthful ardor is being used by these anti national elements.
I hope and pray that the students at JNU are not gullible, that they carefully dissect the arguments given by these so called 'student' leaders. For those who can't stand for something they truly believe in, will fall for anything.
Wake up JNU.
Edit: New videos show that Kanhaiya was not shouting "Pakistan Zindabad slogans. He was asking for azaadi from jaativaad, samantvaad. But someone shouted anti India slogans at JNU- who was it?
The case is very complicated and a fair judiciary needs to judge. But definitely the students at JNU should not coming under the spell of aggressive speeches.
The case is very complicated and a fair judiciary needs to judge. But definitely the students at JNU should not coming under the spell of aggressive speeches.
