‘West Bengal is like North Korea.’
‘Mumbai is like PoK.’
‘Kerala is like Somalia.’
‘Delhi is the Rape Capital.’
‘India is a Jihadi Nation.’
None of these sentences have been uttered by non-BJP people or by the much-maligned ‘tukde-tukde‘ gang or the ‘Urban Naxals‘ or the Congressis, or the AAPians or DMKites or TMCians or Communists, or anyone in the opposition, or Pakistanis, or the Chinese, or the ‘presstitute‘ media, or the ‘foreign-funded’ NGOs, or anyone from JNU or FTII, or anyone outside the country, or any Muslim, or any liberal.
Indeed a couple of them are attributed to our honourable Prime Minister, one before he was Prime Minister, one after, and both before he was honourable.
But somehow, these, the issuers of these statements and makers of these comparisons, are all patriotic citizens with impeccable nationalistic credentials, while we liberals, them Muslims, those Dalits, that foreign media, this opposition, these JNU students, and scores of human rights NGOs and teachers and writers and poets and actors and activists and lawyers and social media warriors and all our ilk is anti-national and must prove our patriotism. Right, then.
