India is observing repeated protests. While the left-wing people glorify protests calling them PEOPLE’S VOICE etc, such protests are apparently raised by a miniscule fraction of Indian populace and protesters do not represent India. Farmers’ Protest are attended by how many? 10K, 20K, 50K, 70K? India has 139 crores and counting.
While building PM Kisan Samman Nidhi database, India has documented to have more than 9 crores farmer families which excludes farmers of West Bengal. Hence, India, in reality, would approximately be having around 10/12 crores of them. How many of these crores of families have protested? Is it statistically correct to declare these protests to be PEOPLE’S VOICE?
Leftists in Social Media were ecstatic after a group of protesters desecrated Indian tricolour at Red Fort. To them it was a revolution. To many others who think revolution doesn’t come with a bang but is brought in at a steady pace necessarily for betterment of a larger section of the society, such act was an example of opportunistic cowardice.
Colossal preparedness of Farmers’ protest suggest it is orchestrated & not spontaneous. While there’s no legal bar in orchestrating events, detailed enormous arrangements of food, drink & stay at the protest sites incurring massive expenses raises questions about source of funding thereof of “poor” farmers. As intel-sources revealed international funding of Farmers’ Protest (reports of which have already been in public domain) and after Greta Thunberg’s tweet indicated call for international participation, there’s no reason not to feel apprehensive about the real intentions behind such protests. Why should international figures enter into India’s internal matters is a legitimate question. Farm Laws are India’s internal matter. Parliament of India passed them following due procedure. If it wasn’t the case, the opposition parties would have knocked the doors of Supreme Court against violation of procedure.
So is this a PROTEST? Or is this a CONSPIRACY? Right to protest is a basic right. But professional protests are contrived. Greta Thunberg had known about tractor rally, given a call for tweet storm, even jotted down dozens of text for protestors to tweet, how Indian embassies in world were to be stormed, the names of embedded “cells” in India to be tagged etc. Her “toolkit” had dates outlined on which a specific action were to be taken. From January 26 onwards till February 13, all had been chalked out. This isn’t a spontaneous protest.
Those who’d think there’s no ethics in a war, must also admit that a war has been waged against Indian Republic. Who. Has waged out? Outsiders using India’s internal enemies? Or India’s internal enemies using outsiders?
If cops thrashed are barricading themselves at Singhu or Ghazipur borders, isn’t it a right of self-defence? Who protects the common man like you and me? Who ensures that another Red Fort shame doesn’t happen. Or worse now that Arvind Kejriwal is not even sparing enough state buses for them to move about? Who carries police and paramilitary personnel to Delhi’s border points? Are we given to understand that the safety of Delhi isn’t the prime responsibility of its chief minister? Is this the cost the Capital Fools are going to inflict India at large by choosing a self-declared anarchist?
So is this protest or domestic terrorism? To throw India into the fire of Civil War? To replace a popularly elected government in a coup by other means?
Debjani Bhattacharyya is a columnist who’s a keen observer of politics and social changes.. A communication-strategist by profession having special aptitude for analytical jackknifing of information, Debjani is a Pharmaceutical Engineer & a Management Professional by her credentials.
Analysis of data & information for generating insights for policy planning is a passion while her other significant area of interest is the Constitution of India and its interpretations thereof. She’s a voracious reader with enormous affinity towards Classics of Bengali Literature. She is an opinion-maker on social media through her blog, twitter and facebook.
