WHITHER NATIONALISM

                                    WHITHER NATIONALISM

Friends,fellows and my dear countrymen, our glorious country finds itself at the crossroads on the eve of it's 62nd Republic Day as the events that unfolded earlier today on the Kashmir-Punjab proved.
The reprehensible events of this afternoon have once again given rise to the highly relevant question of whether a handful of seccesionists and separatists can hold a country of the magnitude to ransom, where were  the reactionary tactics, new found love for law and order and fear of a bloodbath when the Yasin Malik's and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq's of this world unfurled the Pakistani and Chinese flags on more than one occasion at the highly combustible Lal Chowk, why didn't Omar Abdullah and the home minister display the same alacrity and alertness at that time?
This rather sorry state of affairs is a direct fallback to the policy of appeasement being practiced by this Congress lead UPA government and every other Congress government that preceded it, the Congress has always believed or rather conformed to the sectarian idiom of equating minorityism with secularism, while any two bit rationalist worth his salt would be well versed with the fact that the two idioms are as different from each other as chalk is from cheese and the two cannot even co-exist with each other in mutual harmony.
The country finds itself being broken upto into smaller parts and principalities as the present day regime believes in bending over backwards and letting matters come to a head before reacting and nipping all separatist and nocturnal tendencies aimed at dividing and subdividing this glorious country of ours for their narrow sectarian needs and insatiable lust for enjoying the spoils of power any which way they can.
Friends our leadership has woefully failed in discharging the onerous task of keeping this country together and it is high time that we the common citizens of this country took up the cudgels of putting paid to the nefarious thoughts and deeds of the Yasin Malik's, K.Chandrashekhar Rao's, Raj Thackeray'a and all other so called leaders of the same flock let's all stand together on this Republic Day and send out an unequivocal message saying that this country will remain united come what may.
Please join me in redeeming our pledge towards our loyalty to our motherland first and strengthen my hands by posting your invaluable messages of support on my blog, JAI HIND and thank you for your unstinted support.    

SUNDEEP CHOPRA