Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Patriotism at Stake?

      Many sources offer different answers and depending upon the source right now there are 189 to 195 independent countries in the world. It is the citizen of the countries which have identity and recognise by the world with their National Anthem, Flag, Language and Culture and individual have no existence without their country, so whenever time comes true patriotic citizen will die for their country and never compromise with their patriotism. This is must for a country to compete with other countries of globe economically, fight against foe, terrorism, but sometimes some action, criticism, remark, statement or article by some renowned personalities on to other well known faces of country can be prove boomerang.
     India is democratic country and every countrymen of this country has right to speak what ever he think, but from past few years our politicians are involving themselves in every part of society whether it belong to them or not just to get mileage from other parties or in search of to gain their lost ground, neglecting it can be harmful and dangerous to the society and can create rift between communities. Maharashtra state capital from past few months become battle ground of hatred politics for some political parties which started before Maharashtra state Assembly election to make impact on local Marathi communities. First they try to make voices that Mumbai belongs to local Marathi’s and other states residents are outsiders. When other states local oppose this then their party’s members start creating problems for them and then opposed had to apologise; then other states resident especially of Bihar state treated as if they are not part of country and living in other country; recently when a bank has to recruit employees and exams was going to conduct then again a political party head in a statement said that bank should bar candidates who are not Marathi to sit in exams if they allowed to sit then their parties workers will oppose this and try to stop them for entering in examination hall, then to cope with this problem authority deploy tight security so that unruly scene cant take place and with the help of security personnel examination held successfully; then a famous director and producer, in his film a character call Bombay instead of Mumbai ,ten to twelve times and previously Mumbai had name Bombay but it was changed on the recommendation of a party to Mumbai, so he seek apology from a party on to this then he feel relax and safe; Sachin Tendulkar well known batsman of world who just touched milestone while playing cricket for country, then while talking to media person he said that -
I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.
     very next day he was criticised by local party head in a newspaper that Sachin should concentrate on cricket and not involve himself in politics. It appear as if the party is desperate and trying to gain its ground which it has lost because that is why third time consecutively Indian National Congress led alliance comes to power and keep away the party which is communal to get majority and form government by people in their verdict but surprisingly here to code that his alliance partner BJP immediately without loosing anytime declare that their party not agree with their alliance partner and Sachin is icon and belong to country. If we go through Sachin statement then he code nothing aggressive nor any politically motivated statement but it was a gesture of a patriotic countryman and to get any wrong meaning and connect it to politics is totally a blunder because his intention was not to restrict his achievements with the region he belongs but want to dedicate to whole country, If we look around the globe then any achiever of the country never ever dedicate his milestone to the region but he dedicate to the whole nation. By criticising, party want to prove that on the achievements of individual region has first right he belongs and then to country but it is totally a ideology of a negative and frustrated person or party.

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