Jerry Fernandes
The recent Supreme Court judgment with regards to playing or whether to make cinemagoers to stand up for national anthem in cinema halls must have come like a tight slap on the Narendra Modi-led BJP government’s face at the centre as the same has been constantly somehow trying to forcibly imposed its own stupid agendas on the citizens of this country under the guise of promoting true nationalism in every part of India.
The Supreme Court whilst responding on a plea of an individual has rightly observed that one cannot force cinemagoers to stand up when national anthem is played in cinema halls as by merely standing, no one can ever become a true nationalist nor a patriotic citizen of this country. I feel that this is a perfect and a most sensible observation which our Supreme Court has made in the recent years with regards to the growing display of fake nationalism in our country,.
Yes, leaders of known communal parties (which unfortunately are remote-controlled by Taliban-type fascist forces from Nagpur) who don’t believe in fighting caste, corruption, poverty on top priority basis, who don’t believe in punishing rapists nor giving protection for women but who only believe in treating them like kitchen slaves, who still believe in fighting to turn people living in this country into dangerous violent thinking most communal fanatics by forever instigating them spreading some fabricated lies in the name of re-writing past history, who believe in playing cow politics and dividing every Indian citizen based on religion for political gains should just not be allowed to give us lessons of nationalism nor should be allowed to make people stand up whilst national anthem is played in cinema halls or force people to shout senseless slogans like “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”, “Vande Mataram” etc from all the public places to prove their loyalty for this country.
Coz finally a true patriot is the one who respects the diversity of this country, who treats all citizens as one (irrespective of caste, creed and religion), who believes in giving equal rights for everyone based on common sense (not on religion) and not the one who only believes in suppressing or taking away all fundamental rights of others depending on one’s personal beliefs or religion by forever spreading hatred against everyone displaying fake nationalism everywhere.
A true patriot is the one who has/still living to spread love to unite this country and not the one who has/still living to spread only hatred against every Indian citizen to divide India.
