Let’s Now Look Within! Let Us Change Our Focus from Narendra Modi, Gujarat Riots and Babri Mosque's Demolition
By Dr. Ghulam Zarqani
(Translated from Urdu by New Age Islam Edit Desk)
2 June 2014
One of the principles of democracy is that you have every right to criticise the candidates before elections, but after one of them wins, you will have to accept him or her as the representative of the entire constituency or if he is elected prime minister later the representative of the entire nation. This is the reason that the candidates contesting in different parts of the democratic country, India, have bitter rivalry and fierce verbal fight with each other during the elections but once a candidate wins, all the defeated ones hurry to congratulate him. This is a symbolic indicator of the fact that the winning candidate in a democratic country like India is not only the representative of his own region or community but also of the entire nation. Taking this into serious consideration, we will realise that this principle of democracy should be highly valued, because if we didn’t have this, the defeated candidates would have come out with strong agitation against the winner. And, thus, our country would have suffered chaos, anarchy, disorder and a civil-war-like situation soon after the announcement of the results.
In the same way, this basic democratic value requires from us that we welcome our newly-elected Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi with open arms, regardless of our religious or political affiliation. In other words, we had full democratic liberty to criticise him before he was elected as the Prime Minister, but now when he has assumed office, we should have no right to rant against his becoming the PM of India. Now we can only criticise him when he is found guilty of harming our national or community interest. So, our critiques should be now directed towards new disturbing
By Dr. Ghulam Zarqani
(Translated from Urdu by New Age Islam Edit Desk)
2 June 2014
One of the principles of democracy is that you have every right to criticise the candidates before elections, but after one of them wins, you will have to accept him or her as the representative of the entire constituency or if he is elected prime minister later the representative of the entire nation. This is the reason that the candidates contesting in different parts of the democratic country, India, have bitter rivalry and fierce verbal fight with each other during the elections but once a candidate wins, all the defeated ones hurry to congratulate him. This is a symbolic indicator of the fact that the winning candidate in a democratic country like India is not only the representative of his own region or community but also of the entire nation. Taking this into serious consideration, we will realise that this principle of democracy should be highly valued, because if we didn’t have this, the defeated candidates would have come out with strong agitation against the winner. And, thus, our country would have suffered chaos, anarchy, disorder and a civil-war-like situation soon after the announcement of the results.
In the same way, this basic democratic value requires from us that we welcome our newly-elected Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi with open arms, regardless of our religious or political affiliation. In other words, we had full democratic liberty to criticise him before he was elected as the Prime Minister, but now when he has assumed office, we should have no right to rant against his becoming the PM of India. Now we can only criticise him when he is found guilty of harming our national or community interest. So, our critiques should be now directed towards new disturbing
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