FRAGRANCE OF IDEAS
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi in his latest short video on social media while addressing the audience said, ‘abuses never solve anything, let us guide the misguided, they have given us a cultural shock’. Obviously he referred to the youth of the country calling themselves Gen Z who took to the streets and used selective abuses, invectives and targeted foul language against the PM in his personal and official capacity. It is time to decode the main developments connected with the situation in a bid to explain the nuances of the entire scenario.
However, though unfortunately, some politicians and their families after 1947 took it for granted to be in the government for all the times to come. The Congress led this notion successfully for a long time. The first family of Congress party, the Nehru-Gandhi family, took it as its entitlement to be in the government on a permanent basis. This false notion also travelled to other regional parties in the country in their own context. Congress always treated the intermittent rule by parties other than it at the Centre as a time-gap arrangement. This theory of time-gap arrangement was for the first time seriously challenged by the BJP in and after 2014.
A number of times their leaders had to apologize in courts for their baseless statements issued against the Prime Minister and the other ministers in the cabinet. Its spokespersons on debates and discussions in the media followed their leaders and stooped extraordinarily low in their presentations. This scenario over the last more than a decade has definitely impacted the social fabric of the country; and mostly negatively.
Protests, their content and outbursts and the kind of demonstrations held at Jantar-Mantar and outside were reflective of this social and family degradation at large. The upbringing of children by their families and also their schooling were brutally exposed bringing shame to the society. The demonstrators assembled there made it sure to put on record their indecent behaviour, ugly utterances and naked invectives against men, women, institutions and the government. They didn’t spare even the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, his late mother and his international acquaintances and friends notwithstanding the hard fact that he was elected for the third time as Prime Minister by virtue of the people’s mandate and was a highly recognized figure internationally.
The fact of the matter is that this is not an end in itself. The way things moved during the month of July 2026 even after the end of the agitation raises a number of doubts about the future course of events. Forces, in and outside the country, bent upon disturbing the advance march of India and the Indian society need only an excuse to play their games. The course correction so far as reform in educational policy and NEET system is concerned was tried to be bulldozed when the Congress and some other opposition parties in parliament opposed the very introduction of the Bill to deal with the issue. But they knew it better that the treasury benches could bulldoze their very opposition to it by passing the Bill on their own strength which also happened.
The leadership in the government shouldn’t appear to have ‘surrendered’ to the blackmail. The whole nation looks up to PM Modi and the government of India for a better, appropriate and convincing response that is still wanting…!
(The author is a senior BJP & KP leader, Human Rights Defender and a columnist and can be reached at: [email protected])
