The Charade of Congress-Mukt Bharat..!! - By Dr Shahir Asfahan




Congress , BJP , AAP or any other legal political party represents a thought subscribed by millions on the ground. You cannot have a Congress mukt or AAP-mukt or BJP-mukt Bharat without having India mukt of many millions of those who follow different strains of thought.

Nation is about celebrating differences in the constitutional framework , not belittling or crushing or impeding each other for owning a particular thought process within the ambit of the constitution.

Wiping an idea is not the panacea for what ails the country. An idea has to be fought by another idea and foster a sense of competition among different ideas to gain traction without intending to wipe each other out in favor of an idea of homogenous state which is not possible in a country as diverse as India.

This kind of negative politics has the potential of making a monster which will come back to haunt those who cheered it. Today its Congress-Mukt, then tomorrow what ? Minorities mukt , then what ? Non-Veg mukt ? Then what ? North east mukt ? Liberal-thought mukt bharat ? . Its a highly dangerous rhetoric and hopefully , the democratically matured public in India will restore the equation back to its glory of Unity in Diversity.

If there is anything to get mutk out of india, it should rather be ‘Hatred Mukt Bharat’, ‘Crime Mukt Bharat’ , ‘Poverty Mukt Bharat’, ‘Discrimination Mukt Bharat’. Our goal shouldn't be as low as elimination of a political party but to rise above to achieve inclusive greatness than divisive glory.

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