Monday, March 18, 2019

Nationalistic sentiments and election time ..

It is really interesting to see during election time in India when some parties claim nationalism as their birthright and give chits to parties and individuals on who is patriotic and nationalist, with the unwritten understanding that the people who give this seal are the only traders of nationalism in the country and no others have any right to this. This is part of the majoritarian approach to fascism we are witnessing now.

Anybody in the country has to get the final seal of nationalism and patriotism from these pseudo-nationalists who deal in nationalism for their petty interests in regaining the political control of the land and to engage in corruption like the Rafale deal..

Its election time and in India we see Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) starting their branding operations of the opposition political parties as to whether they are nationalists or not.

My frank question is who has given these individuals this right to brand others ? Do they think they are right from the heaven and can hoodwink people and the electorate of their infallibility, trying to convince them into giving them the chance to rule the country once again ?

george..


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