It is also worth noting that this is not a one-off incident where Mahua has used gaumutra as a pejorative term to berate and affront Hindus.
On February 2, Mahua Moitra, the Trinamool Congress MP, slammed the government, saying that she “vehemently” disagrees with the President’s assessment of the state of the union in India. “The President, early on in his address, speaks about freedom fighters who secured India’s rights. He speaks of Gurudev Tegh Bahadur… Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, but this is just lip service. In reality, recalling India’s past, a past of decency, plurality, (and) secularism, makes this government very insecure,” Moitra conveyed.”
Mahua Moitra, the self-anointed ambassador of woke liberals, has a harrowingly dubious history of Hinduphobia (fear of Hindus) and Hindumisia (hatred of Hindus), so to speak. Unbeknownst to the layperson, Moitra has had a clear mandate to slam the Central Government and shame Hindus in any way she can. It’s almost a tragic comedy that the words “plural” and “secular” are being used to refer to India’s past because the silent majority bears witness to these weapons of crime which have been conveniently and systematically used by the state against the Hindus, but that is a separate debate. Rabindranath Tagore once remarked, “Christianity and Islam have a distinct enmity against all other religions. They are not satisfied with observing their own religions but are determined to destroy all other religions. The only way to make peace with them is to embrace their religions.” If this remark, as per the “woke” school of thought of Mahua, makes Tagore a (purported) bigot and communal, then she must have the gumption to denounce and debase him too. This is the tragedy of our country. Possibly, India’s decency in the past was well maintained when Mahua Moitra, in utter exasperation, showed the middle finger to Arnab Goswami, the anchor of a TV debate on national television, or when she assaulted a lady constable, or when she called India the “Susu Potty Republic”. It won’t be difficult for her to answer which of her aforementioned acts accurately projects India’s decency in the past, according to her inquisitiveness as to “What kind of India do we want? What is our idea of India that we are willing to stand up for, fight for, be abused for, get jailed for? “
Moments before setting the stage of her speech and urging the government to be impartial against all religions, she tweeted: “Am speaking this evening in Lok Sabha on the President’s Address. Just wanted to give early heads up to BJP to get heckler team ready & read up on imaginary points of order. Drink some gaumutra shots too.”
It is unnecessary to elucidate that the hate directed at gaumutra reeks of hate for Hindus.
It is also worth noting that this is not a one-off incident where Mahua has used gaumutra as a pejorative term to berate and affront Hindus. Therefore, Mahua has to display her secular credentials that amount to anti-Hindu jibes, effectively mocking everything that is dear to Hindus.
In terms of development, the TMC should be the last party to talk. Never have vote banks been nurtured so assiduously that the allocation of funds for minority institutions has been more than the funds for higher education, or curtailing the time duration allotted to the immersion of Durga Mata idol to make way for the Muharram procession, or the appointment of a Muslim on the Tarakeswar temple board to monthly stipends to thousands of imams and muezzins. This list is endless. In fact, the party that Mahua represents has openly accepted Muslims as being a vote bank while comparing them to milch cows. Yet, Moitra has the gall to accuse others of being partial to particular segments.
Not long ago, her party chief, Mamata Banerjee, took umbrage at the chanting of “Jai Shri Ram” slogans. Banerjee, who was sharing the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kolkata’s Victoria Memorial for Netaji’s birth anniversary celebrations, lamented being “disrespected” because she could not stand the slogans of “Jai Shri Ram,” “Bharat Mata ki Jai,” etc. The glaring hypocrisy is such that, at an event in 2018, Mamata Banerjee conveniently chanted the Islamic verse “LailahaillallahMuhammadarrasullah”, but to her, “Jai Shri Ram” is insulting. While “Jai Shree Ram” means victory to Lord Ram, “La ilaha illaallah” precisely means there is no god but Allah. The chant denies the existence of other faiths and gods entirely, and such is the inherent and exclusivist nature of Abrahamic cults like Islam and Christianity. PrabhuRam unites Bharat across the length and breath of time. We are all his successors, and it is evident that nothing is communal in the chant.
If Mahua’s constant gaumutra slurs and traducing of the majority for everything invariably isn’t enough to reflect her innate scorn for Hindus, she also referred to the Brahmins, as “ChotiwalaRakshasa,” which accurately translates to “braided monsters.”
Belying to popular perception, she is no ally to the feminist brigade in the country either.
For her political gains, Mahua celebrated women-centric abuses hurled at her political opponent. Instead of strictly condemning the words, Mahua thought the abuse was “priceless.” A shame that many swear words still have their roots in oppressive patriarchy, and that their use and celebration over time has only encouraged casual sexism and misogyny.
Next, referring to the US-based “Freedom House 2021” report that declared India’s freedom status from “free” to “partly free” with a score of 67 (under Modi), “India remains one of the most dangerous places globally for journalists today,” she added. This is the same report that virulently claims that the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir had enjoyed “substantial autonomy until the abrogation of Article 370, which put it under direct control of the Indian Government.” It also calls it “Indian Kashmir” and legitimises Pakistani Kashmir. A close analysis of the report clearly reveals that Freedom House’s grading of India is based on a fallacious narrative that garners global sympathy while shielding the harsh realities on the ground. This is in line with the same group that says that “India has become intolerant”,
Mahua’s concern for the media is a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black. Mahua’s maiden speech in Parliament, quoting from a poster that was once sold at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum gift shop, listing 12 “early warning signs of fascism,” earned her the low-hanging “woke star” tag. Along with this, her fashionable way of peppering her language with words like “patriarchy” and “privilege” often enough, favoured her as an “intellectual”. However, it was later claimed that she had plagiarised her speech idea from a January 2017 article by Martin Longman on washingtonmonthly.com, replacing Trump with Modi and adding her own words to fit the Indian context.
Still, as the mirage of her fiery stance against the government continues unabated, she continues with a generous pumping of fake news and baseless allegations of concocted hypotheses.
While accusing the ruling government of “altering history”, she claimed that the government had removed Urdu and imposed Hindi as the first and official language of Jammu and Kashmir. When the truth is, Urdu was never replaced with any language, but Hindi, English, Dogri, and Kashmiri were added as the official languages in J&K. To be more specific, Urdu language was imposed on the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
For this, Parliament must ask Mahua to apologise for spreading false narratives in the holy house of the world’s largest democracy.
India, in 2022, sees through and rejects this fake news and selective outrage more fervently than before. This India is now awake, and the fake narratives of the likes of Mahua Moitra will be challenged at every turn.
In the end, I would advise the left-liberals to do better when choosing their role models because the greatest trick that the devil has ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.