Many including my close
family members are involved in the discourse about Kanhaiya. I am shocked to say
the least.
Student leaders and
radical leaders have to seek limelight by coming up with contrarian
views condemning the establishment. There is nothing wrong in it. But since this leader has taken the communist
support ruling party thought it should kill him politically. And they
goofed it up royally.
As a person
who has seen emergency during my Pilani days and been active politically
at college, I would have picked this guy and continued to have
conversations with him off the glare of media till such time I (the ruling
party) understand(s) the forces behind him and then neutralize. And let me add with out all these bravado.
Most of the student leaders,
especially this type who is sincerely attempting to complete his PhD for
the last 8 years, have political ambitions. They invest their time in
college only for that and the ruling party has foolishly fallen for it.
Even Arun Jaitely turned to politics from college.
I read a story about how Kamaraj handled a student
agitation in sixties when Bhaktavastalam was the CM. I have shared it in
my Facebook page. Take a look at it. That student leader is now one of
the leading industrialists of Tamilnadu. Here is the link ....Cementing-a-sound-business-empire
One of my family memebrs who has lived in West Bengal under communist regime had this to say: .
"I think in a democracy a person has the right to express oneself, even if the opinion is unacceptable. If the government found the opinions expressed in the university campus objectionable / dangerous, as Gopu (me) says, they should have marked these ppl and kept an eye on them, tracked them. Action taken with facts to back them would have been more productive.
As of now there has been a lot of drama but no good coming
out of this for either the students or the government, and definitely
not for the rest of the citizens."
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