Other side of Jamia protest

Recently, there have been protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, recently passed by the parliament and thus became an Act, in many parts of the country. More often than not these protests have turned violent and ended up in confrontation with law enforcement agencies except in the state of West Bengal where protestors were offered a few days of immunity before Mamata Banerjee administration started to tighten the screw on them.

There can be no denial of the fact that these protests were somehow isolated events and didn’t have pan-Indian impact until police intervention in Jamia Millia University a few days ago. The CAA, that made way for hassle-free citizenship for migrants for the minorities in three neighbouring countries, sparked a cause of panic amongst Muslims right from the beginning for all the wrong reasons. Even though, Muslim citizens of India had nothing to do with that act, yet a sense of insecurity loomed large over them due to misrepresentation by opposition parties and lack of explanation from those who are in favour of the act.

I am not going into the legalities of the referred intervention but that was enough to give birth to the perception that the govt is in favour of using force to tame down the voice of dissent. Since then, it was an easy run for the forces opposing the act as they smartly equated the Act with the freedom of expression (FoA) to bring students and youths into their side. Although this act was made on a humanitarian ground but supporters of the act failed to project it in that way due to reasons best known to them.

One is free to differ with me on this but I strongly believe that without engaging ourselves into gag blaming of students, we should realise that its the demand of their age to be of rebellious nature. At that age, they are meant to get carried away more by emotions than logic. Its not wise to alienate them based on political line. One may argue that their rebellious nature should have come to the fore against Islamic orthodoxy, but that did not happen. They like, Young Bengal, should have at the forefront of social reforms in their community, but that is not the case with Muslim youth. I agree but I also propose to ask ourselves whose duty is this to alienate them from Islamic lobby? Is there any such mechanism in place, at all? Blaming the whole community is not going to bring them back in track and without rescuing them from the clutches of Islamic & Communist cartel, we'll not be able to make the best out of our young human resources.

I believe if our youths like Khudiram Bose or Bhagat Singh or many others had reasons of inspiration to work and sacrifice for their motherland, today's youth are not of much exception. What need is a proper target and good guidance to reach that. If we shun them for falling victims in the vicious conspiracy of anti-nationals, it will not only cost us our future but also create a hostile situation in present days as well.