New India? Refusal to Chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ Attracts Beating, What Next?

A teenager and his two friends were reportedly beaten up in Delhi, the capital of secular and independent India. The incident happened in a park outside a school in outer Delhi’s Begumpur area, police said on Tuesday.

According to police, the incident took place on 26 March, when three boys from a madrasa called up the police control room. They were beaten in the park and let off with injuries on their bodies. They were sent to medical inspection.

One of the 3 boys told police that he was asked to chant "Jai Mata di" and his statement was recorded again and new sections were added. However, the fear-stricken boys refused to record it in the complaint under fear but apparently told their elders that they were asked to chant "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and beaten up for not doing so.

It remains to be seen how many more such incidents actually occur and are reported.

[tags, bharat mata ki jai controversy, muslim boys, madrasa boys beaten, delhi begumpura park incident, delhi police, anti-national, brain wash, india fascism, fascist india, bjp india, rss mindset,secular india, ]

Even Knife to My Throat Won’t Force Me Say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai: Owaisi

The religious divide in India is getting worse with the Hindu nationalists, especially the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideology wing of Hindu Sanghis calling for imparting education to all Indians to say “Bharat Mata ki Jai’ from childhood to invoke nationalism getting an equally reverse rhetoric by AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi.

Speaking to Muslim groups in Udgir tehsil, Latur district of Maharashtra, Owaisi said: “I don’t chant that slogan. What are you going to do, Bhagwat sahab?” He further said,”I won’t utter that even if you put a knife to my throat… Nowhere in the Constitution it says that one should say: Bharat Mata ki Jai.”

Earlier RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat told a meeting of RSS members, “Now the time has come when we have to tell the new generation to chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’… It should be real, spontaneous and part of all-round development of the youth.”

RSS has been playing pivotal role in BJP rule and it believes that the time has come for a Hindu ruler to ascend the throne after 900 years and it should not be wasted without instilling the spirit of nationalism in India. Prthviraj Chouhan was the last acknowledged Indian ruler by the Sanghis, while Atal Behari Vajpayee’s 5-year-rule remains a failure for them in terms of implementing the Hindu agenda.