Students in the crossfire of political ambitions

There had been lots of posts in the Facebook denigrating the memory of the fallen soldier by calling his daughter many names. She herself had downgraded the sacrifice of her father while fighting the terrorists in J&K. The students are being used a pawns in the political one-up-manship by the vested interests. The current imbroglio in the capital where one person has called for freedom for Kashmir. The media and the left leaning politicians call this as FOE provided for in the constitution. If a person can call for seceding from the union and the same is hailed as his birth right to express his opinion, then where are we heading. The non stop coverage by the electronic media of the events that are unfolding in the capital in the student unrest is nothing short of blowing things beyond proportions. The social media has taken the debate to further low. Are we living in a civilised society where opinion of an individual can be countered with reasoned arguments or where the opinion of an individual is countered with muscling the person with threats.

If you look at the events that are unfolding in the DU and also in J&K in the last few months culminating in the Ramjas College incident, you will be able to discern a pattern emerging from the same. The political class who seem to be facing oblivion in the present times want to be in the lime light and to make their presence felt. The only tool that they can use against the present administration is the same tool by which the present administration came to power. The students who are tech savvy and who can be easily moulded into the thinking of the political class and also ignited to carry on the fight as a proxy for the political class. The student agitation of mid 1960s in TN sowed the seeds for transformation in the ruling set up and the dravidian parties came in to ruling class. The call of JP Narayan and the rise of student power saw the change in the government in the center in mid 1970s. Similarly the student power saw the enactment of a law in TN to support the jallikattu, the bull taming sport. Now the situation appears that the marginalised political class and the media are instigating the student community in the capital so that there will be an uprising against the administration. The unfortunate victim in this political chess game is people like Gurmehar Kaur the daughter of the fallen hero.