Liberals mock PM Modi for recalling Satyagraha for Bangladesh liberation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on an official go to to Bangladesh. He delivered a speech in Dhaka, Bangladesh the place he recalled the Satyagraha he participated in along with his pals, for which he was arrested. It was Narendra Modi’s first go to to a international nation because the pandemic started.
“I was 20-22 years old when I, along with my friends, did Satyagrah for the freedom of Bangladesh. I had even been arrested for the same”: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Dhaka, Bangladesh pic.twitter.com/gKESaMrsRZ— NDTV (@ndtv) March 26, 2021
The Prime Minister appeared to seek advice from the Gana Satyagrah organised by the Jana Sangh, the ideological predecessor of the BJP, in August 1971. However, ’eminent intellectuals’ have taken offense at Narendra Modi recalling the identical in his speech.
Maya Mirchandani, Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism and Media Studies at Ashoka University, stated that there’s a consensus in India that Indira Gandhi performed an instrumental function within the liberation of Bangladesh. She stated, “It was hard strategy that led to Bangladesh’s independence 50 years ago, not satyagraha.”
In spite of many political variations we have now at residence, there’s a basic, nationwide consensus on the instrumental function Indira Gandhi performed within the creation of Bangladesh. It was arduous technique that led to Bangladesh’s independence 50 years in the past, not satyagraha. #Bangladesh50 https://t.co/3rrzE9kXrQ— Maya Mirchandani (@maya206) March 26, 2021
Quite clearly, Narendra Modi by no means stated that it was Satyagraha that received Bangladesh its freedom. But Mirchandani, nonetheless, intentionally twisted his feedback with a purpose to forged aspersions on his motives. As it seems, an award to former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee by the Government of Bangladesh in 2015 talked about the stated rally by Jana Sangh.
The quotation of the award stated, “To press the demand for India Government’s expedited support to Bangladesh’s Liberation War, Jana Sangh held a Gana Satyagraha during 1-11 August and their volunteers organised a huge rally in front of the Indian Parliament House on 12 August 1971.”
The quotation for the award
Vajpayee was additionally lauded for his “firm stand at national and international levels for the cause of Bangladesh and its striving people.” “The people of Bangladesh would always remember the significant contributions made by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee towards supporting the cause of Bangladesh’s Liberation War and consolidating friendship between Bangladesh and India,” it stated.
Despite Bangladesh’s personal acknowledgment of the function performed by the Jana Sangh, liberals in India seem deeply offended by the Prime Minister’s remarks. They have resorted to passing snide jibes and mocking Narendra Modi for his feedback.
Modi was a freedom fighter 😉 https://t.co/31dIpcoqCW— SonaliRanade (@sonaliranade) March 26, 2021
Can we see {a photograph} of this Satyagrah? https://t.co/YpDDZmqUEr— nikhil wagle (@waglenikhil) March 26, 2021
The declare that ANYONE did satyagraha for the liberty of Bangladesh and had been arrested is simply too ridiculous to require refutation. https://t.co/yCDH20MtmG— Srinath Raghavan (@srinathraghava3) March 26, 2021
It is obvious that liberals have fairly a tough time believing genuine historical past. It appears that they’re unable to return to phrases with the truth that leaders from a large ranging part of the Indian political spectrum campaigned for the liberation of Bangladesh. It is remarkably much like the narrative that’s peddled concerning the Indian Independence Movement itself the place all credit score is positioned on the toes of Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi and the contributions of all others are sidelined.
Liberals seem to consider that simply because they’re themselves not conscious of a sure occasion or a sure contribution, it signifies that it didn’t occur. But historical past doesn’t work that manner and fact has a manner of popping out regardless of monumental efforts to suppress it.
These are the identical ‘intellectuals’ who fall over themselves to hail Rahul Gandhi as a youth chief on the age of fifty. These are the identical individuals who consider Priyanka Gandhi has the credentials to guide India simply because her face bears a resemblance with Indira Gandhi’s, which is completely bizarre on condition that she is her grand daughter.
The intellectuals fawn over incredulous tales involving Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi concerning their dad and mom or grandparents and but, relating to a related side of India historical past, they feign ignorance to forged aspersions of factual statements.
All of this, in fact, is par for the course for an ‘intellectual’ elite that’s unwilling to return to phrases with the truth that there’s extra to the historical past of post-independent India than the Nehru-Gandhi household. But regardless of their staunch efforts on the contrary, the historical past they’ve tried to bury for therefore lengthy will resurface.