Wednesday 26 August 2015

Open Letter to Hardik Patel

Dear Hardik,

I congratulate you on your new found fame all over India and especially Gujarat! For the past few days you have been a constant trend on social media, sensation hungry electronic media and nation as a whole thanks to your public rallies demanding OBC status to your community.

You are young,energetic and have a solid  backing of political heavyweights as it has been evident in your large rallies organised by your group of people. You are free to demand anything in a democratic country as long as you do not disturb the social harmony prevailing in a state. You claim that it is your right to have reservation, you claim supreme court must take a  call on increasing the quota for reservation and you go on claiming your rights. You say that you're holding peaceful demonstrations and in the same breath threaten a democratically elected government, of consequences it will have to face if it does not listen to your demands. Its all about your right,your demand and listening to you.

You claim to belong to the same community as the legendary Sardar Patel and you act in a manner which is highly disrespectful to the iron man of India who stood for India's unity, while you shamelessly stand on the blessed nation's soil determined to take a divisive course of action. Your supporters call you new Modi, while the great man, our prime minister, has a humble background and stands for the ideology sabka saath sabka vikas. You claim to hold peaceful demonstration, while some supporters of your movement turn  violent and hurl caste abuse against other caste members. If you are really apolitical why do you threaten that lotus will not blossom in 2017 ? If you do not have any political aspirations why did you endorse Arvind Kejriwal in 2014 elections and why are your supporters wearing skull caps styled after mein hoon aam aadmi famous from AAP? If you stand for peace then why is a pic of you holding a gun is making rounds??
If you do not belong to any political party why do you make announcement that patidars will vote those who give them reservation?

There are more questions emerging than answers from your suspicious actions from last few days. Have you ever wiped the eyes of a underprivileged patidhar?? or shared your meal with an underprivileged patidhar or a poor man from some corner of Gujarat???

You are channelising your skills into a wrong cause and threatening to uproot an elected government. If these are the hallmarks of your proposed social movement,  then any sane person with a little bit of common sense will call it blackmail than a social movement.

The 65 percent youth of this nation including you and me are looking at a bright future in a changing India which is slowly yet steadily gravitating towards a merit based social order than a caste based one. We are getting educated and having privileges which our elders could only dream of. Yet people like you are making fun of this generation by proving that anyone can buy us for their selfish political ends. I ll stop short of calling you that you are sold which would be an understatement. You are trying to buy limelight for your own selfish needs. You are not only misleading your community members but you are trying to mislead a young bright generation. Go and read your primary school textbook to know the duties of an Indian citizen.If you haven't kept them I would recommend you to visit a school book shop in Ahmedabad where you can get it.

This has already been a long letter. I know this will not reach you. Even if this reaches, you will not understand this as you are consumed in your own ulterior motives.

Wishing you a good health and a speedy understanding of ground realities.

Fellow Citizen of the great republic of  India

Chyavan Mallya B,
A no one.

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