MR. PRIME MINISTER MODI, AWARD BHARAT RATNA TO ATAL
Independent India knows how to slight, insult and forget her historic icons! We did it with Netaji Subhash,
Sardar Patel & Dr. BR. Ambedkar. We choose to call Bhagat Singh, Rajguru
and Sukhdev as terrorists in government approved school textbooks while some of our emancipated former leaders have
glorified terrorists with the use honorifics like “Osamaji”.For the first
time, there is a golden opportunity to correct the former wrongs into rights.
Better late than never!
India has the reputation of being a lamb state whom
anyone could punch without any probability of retaliation. That changed with
India’s bold nuclear posture in 1998. The person who took that bold initiative
has not been honored by the nation. While two former Prime ministers vainly awarded
themselves Bharat Ratna, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was too modest to follow in their
foot-steps. The UPA government had 10 years’ time to honor this former PM but
they chose not to out of pettiness and partisan politics.The insult was further
compounded by awarding Bharat Ratna to a nobody like Sachin Tendulkar. Of
course in India cricket has become the opium of the masses.
Mr. Prime Minister Modi, you have the golden chance to make
history yet again by announcing Bharat Ratna for the former Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee, the man who transformed India from a fledgling lamb state to a
confident nation on the road to superpower status.
This leader deserves to be
awarded Bharat Ratna before he leaves all of us on this planet. Let us not wait
more or wait for another day! Certainly let us not make it a posthumous award
as was done for Sardar Patel, JP Narayan, Gopinath Bordoloi & Dr. BR
Ambedkar
अपि स्वर्णमयी लङ्का न मे लक्ष्मण रोचते जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी
DR. ADITYANJEE
PRESIDENT,
THE COUNCIL FOR STRATEGIC AFFAIRS, NEW DELHI
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