We live in a time when
those who point out the crimes become criminals while those who perpetrate the
crimes become heroes. The digital
assaults on vice president Hamid Ansari are recent examples. Does the vice president deserve the assaults?
It was a long interview
that vice president Ansari gave to Karan Thapar on Rajya Sabha TV. Some so-called nationalists have focused
their attention on a fraction of what the VP said: “… there is a feeling of
unease, a sense of insecurity creeping in.”
He said that in answer to Karan Thapar’s question whether Indian Muslims
are feeling insecure in the present India.
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| Credit: PTI |
Why should such a large
number of people take exception to Ansari’s answer? Isn’t it plain truth that there are many
communities of people, not just Muslims but also the Dalits and many others,
who are feeling terribly insecure in present India? Religious minorities have ample reasons to
feel insecure as they are attacked in various devious ways by the Sangh Parivar
affiliates. The poor sections have
reasons to feel insecure as subsidies and other welfare schemes are being
eliminated one by one. Prices of
essential things keep rising making livelihood near impossible for large
sections of Indians. Unemployment rate
is mounting sky-high. Crimes are rising
in numbers, varieties and degrees. Those
who were friends till yesterday turn away their faces when they see you
today. People are afraid of each
other. We don’t know who will stab you
from the back the next moment.
What was wrong when the
vice president mentioned “insecurity feeling”?
How many Indians actually feel secure today?
Apart from the air that
is vitiated totally inside the country are the problems looming beyond the
borders. Both Pakistan and China are
getting ready to declare war on the country because of 56-inch foreign
policies.
Yet certain citizens are
accusing the vice president merely for pointing out the insecurity feeling of
certain sections of people instead of looking at the problems that loom large
in the horizons like formidable monsters.
We have become a strange country indeed!
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