For the last few weeks the media in India and now around the world is full of reports about writers returning their Sahithya Academy awards, film makers returning film awards and even an odd scientist returning their Padma award. We have discredited historians whose Marxist ideological moorings are well known even taking protests for the first time in the history. The reasons all these people publicly claim are varied from, killing of three rationalists two of whom killed before the present government even came to power, allegations of attack on “Idea of India”, intolerance on dissent with killing of muslim man by some people in UP state alleged for having killed a cow. There is also a bizarre allegation that they present government lack scientific temperament. This set of people whom we can now call as award wapasi club are all over television news channels and press making all kinds of allegations many of which very hard to believe. People are invited on Television Channels daily basis to vent their feels about how the “Idea of India” is under attack, how there is great intolerance towards dissent under present government and how Modi is acting like a fascist and so on. At least one of them went as far as visiting Toranto, Canada to attend event on this. The others like political leaders who hate for the PM and his party is well known join this orgy of allegations and there is almost no let off. The reasons given are varied from day to day and the set of people doing the so called protects are also changing from day to day. A large synchronized drama is being conducted by bring the varied set of people who have their own reasons to hate the present government.
On the other side the government ministers allege that the entire thing was created in a concerted effort to attack for political motives.
The question is the truth of all these allegations. We have on ground Bihar State Elections being conducted in a independent constitutional authority amidst all this. We have the PM and his political opponents fight it out had in these elections. This alone shows that our nation is and continue to be a thriving constitutional democracy. This is not possible if the PM is a despot and the nation is turned into an evil dictatorship as being alleged by this award wapasi club.
On the freedom of expression side, apart from this club, the political opponents of the PM continue to abuse him as before without any fear. TV news and other mainstream news outlets give prominence to all these abuses regularly without any fear from the PM and his government. Can this be a picture of a despotic dictator and the nation which is suffering immensely under his evil rule? How can the very people who appear on Television day after day, abuse the PM in most uncivilised manner logically state that there is no scope for dissent in the nation or can say the scope for descent is shrinking is beyond anyone.
The attacks are only aimed personally towards the Prime Minister Mr. Modi and his party. Nothing is made against the UP state government under whose watch the a Muslim was killed allegedly for killing cow and which is responsible for law and order in their state. They are not aimed at all against the Congress party under which watch two of the three rationalists killed. While there is no serious allegations made by police that any of the people from the Prime Ministers political pasrty or people who are having the same ideology of the said party did any of the these heinous acts. Furthermore two of the three rationalists were murdered before this government even came into power. Yet somehow these people feel that this government which has no role in law and orders area and which is not even in power at that time is responsible to answer to the wild allegations made by them.
It is not that all the people who are doing this award wapasi drama themselves are clean themselves. To illustrate like Mrs. Nayanatara Saighal who got her award from Rajiv Gandhi, to whom she is fact an aunt, in 1986 just two years after massive killings of Sikhs literally presided over him in 1984, accepted the position in a major science institute with a week after emergency is lifed by Indira Gandhi. Of others there are people who lost funding from foreign donors to their NGOs, there are people who attacked Mr Modi for over a decades and rewarded by the earliest government for the same. There are people who actually canvassed against Mr Modi in the last election and even before that. Many of the same people signed petitions and made statements asking people not to vote for him. Mr. Bhargawa the aged scientist who returned his Padma award never protested when Sri Nabi Narayanan a highly reputed scientist was arrested in 1994 on flimsy grounds and kept in prison and treated inhumanly for 4 years only to be found that all the charges were false and created to sabotage the nations cryogenic engine programme. He and his kind never raised no voice when 11 scientists working in nuclear feild found dead in the last few years and no explanation was given till date why they died and if they were killed in a deliberate manner for the obvious reason of damaging our nuclear programme.
These people have no problems with many evils taking place in our nation for decades like ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kashmir, massacre of Sikhs by Congress leaders who later became cabinet ministers of India, Emergency rule and the countless riots and atrocities under the dark decades of Congress misrule. In fact people like Mr. Bhargawa were part of the agitation against the Kudakulam Nuclear power plant being built with the Russian help. The then Prime Minister who is famous for not speaking at all had to came out and say in public that it an anti-national agitation funded from abroad. When the writers who never objected book banning till date, historians who never asked for things like declassification of Netaji files suddenly start agitations etc people are bound to wonder if their pathological hatred for the PM and his party is the only reason for them to do so and the entire drama is politically motivated.
Further the present government made significant changed how the government is run. The elites of Delhi establishment and cabals like NACs no longer lord over the nation and elected leadership. Gravy train schemes like Aman ki asha are no longer available to many. No wining and dining with top political leadership, no freedom to sabotage the national economic activity with the funds received from abroad, no free trips to various western nations at public cost and most painfully no dalali opportunities to pimps from media, NGOs and other organisations. This naturally created heartburn to a large pool of people who are well known in media who can attack the government on one reason or another and create a media skeptical.
The elites now fear that the nation may look for different answers to its long pending and serious problems on its own through its elected representatives without running seek guidance from their great “thinkers” in the Nehruvian establishment that kept the people and the nation poor. When the head of the government is a person who is not a graduate from Oxford or Cambridge or even from Harvard or Yale for that matter, who is different almost in every aspect to these elitists and who is not one of them and will never be one of them and will start ignoring them all together, it is but natural for their brown sahebs and memsabs to get angry and feel. Most importantly their divine right of deciding what Kosher is gone and hopefully gone forever. They are now being ridiculed day after day in social media which is merciless in pointing out their lies and frauds. The permanence irrelevance is staring at their face now. It is but natural for them to hate him personally.
There are also people and forces outside India which do not want to India to develop. The agitations like one against Kudakulam nuclear power plant were created for this purpose. The present government had by and large controlled the NGO funded activities in this regard. Activities of media needs a closer look.
These activities just received a boost with a report that Moody rating agency had advised the PM to rein in the BJP numbers or lose credibility. As per the people who read the report there is no such thing and these news reports are manufactured by media. However with this the entire drama is no longer sound like some political play by disgruntled people who lost the elections a year and half back. It is now slowly turning into a fresh attempt to sabotage the economic development of our nation and destabilize the elected government by extra-constitutional means, a color revolution 2.0 modified and fine tuned for Indian conditions. An effective counter narrative is needed to be put out immediately to counter this.
