PM seems to have now forgotten the Akhand Bharat maps

It is very good that the PM reached Ladakh yesterday to boost the Indian soldiers. Oh sorry! He stopped short of reaching Ladakh, or the Galwan Valley, and chose to speak to the soldiers at Nimoo, in Leh.

Nimoo in Leh is 250 kilometers from Galwan Valley in Ladakh. Pray why?

After all, having spent his youth meditating in the Himalayas, the PM knows the terrain and knows that 250 kilometers in the high mountains is a big deal. Look up Google maps.

Look for Aksai Chin and its lake. Now the Maps do not tell you how to reach the Aksai Chin lake.That is because there are no motorable roads to Aksai Chin lake from Nimoo where the PM spoke. A guesstimate is the Aksai Chin lake is around 400 kilometers from Nimoo.

The international border, much disputed, is even ahead of the Aksai Chin lake.

Remember how in August 2019, when the government abrogated Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, the Home Minister had thundered in the Parliament that Aksai Chin is ours. The home minister said the same about Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.

If that be the case – and the nation and TV studios go in long raptures claiming these territories -why could the PM not go to the actual border or to Galwan Valley where the combat happened between Indian and Chinese soldiers on the night of June 15th? Could the helicopter not go?

We are here not talking about how the India’s abrogating the very same Article 370 has now rendered India not being able to go to any international forum to plead its case.

Yet, the question is: was the loud chest beating in Parliament merely a show of bluster and bravado that the incumbent government is not able to protect on land?

Look at the picture above. This is how the international media, Wikipedia – one of the largest repository of knowledge on the Internet – is now defining India’s borders. India without its ‘crown or turban’. We all know what that means.

The PM was off by 500 kilometers or so from the international border. That is the equivalent of an event occurring on the Punjab border with Pakistan and the PM sitting in his office in Delhi.

Yet, it is good the PM budged and spoke to the soldiers. It is very good for their morale.

After all, ever since his ‘no intrusion‘ remark 13 days back the whole nation was wondering if China did not intrude, where and how did the brave Indian soldiers lay down their lives?

You see, it does not help that the PMO edits out the PM’s remark from that speech now available to media. This is the digital age, there is always a copy of a copy of everything.

Yet, one wonders while the Chief of Defence Staff and Chief of Army Staff accompanied him, where was the Defence minister?

Oh right! The Defence Minister must be in mandatory 15 days institutional quarantine after his return from Russia where he went to buy 33 new fighter jets for Rs 38,900 crore.

We wish him protection from the Coronavirus but wonder if he did his lemon-chilli routine with these planes like he did with the Rafale.

Where are the Rafales anyway? India is massively ramping up armament on the border and there are no Rafales to be seen! Aren’t they supposed to be here?

Also, what happened to Anil Ambani who has a joint venture with Dassault Aviation? Ssh! Don’t take Anil Ambani’s name. In February he told a London court he was insolvent. The court ordered him to anyway pay Rs 5,000 crore he owed to three Chinese banks.

Chinese banks! Why has China come into this piece? The PM never mentioned the C-word in his speech.

He talked about Bharat Mata, he talked about brave soldiers, he talked about the Rinpoche, he quoted Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, he badly quoted the Tamil saint poet Thiruvalluvar, but never once did he utter the C word – China.

This was not a mere omission. It was a one-sided argument omitting the very source that has caused the upset on the border. In military parlance it is called the enemy. The soldiers, dear PM, need to hear and see the enemy. Else, your hyperbole is a bit lost on them.

What the PM emphasised upon was that the times have changed and nations need not be expansionist now but need to focus on progress. How noble! How utterly motivating.

Except that, though we know it has been some years, the PM by his own admittance was earlier a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. In fact, the PM is a life member of the RSS. The PM had gallantly left his home and wife to join the RSS.

The PM seems to have now forgotten the Akhand Bharat maps the RSS shakhas use in their nation building propaganda. Those maps include Bangladesh, Pakistan, even parts of Afghanistan into India? Check them out, a huge blob of saffron covering the whole Indian sub-continent. What are those maps if not expansionist?

No Sir, it does not work that way. It does not work that your parent organisation espouses a philosophy, holds it dear to its heart, is guided by it throughout the last 95 years, and you now as the leader of the nation deviate from it.

Would you then do the honourable thing and resign from the RSS?

That exactly is the problem Mr PM. At one place you say one thing, at another your say something else.

Did China intrude or not? Is RSS expansionist or not? Even after you travelling to Leh, not Ladakh, we still do not have answers! The very soldiers whom you encourage to lay down their lives for India, deserve a clear answer. Do you not think so?

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