JNU Row - Self-obsession of Left Liberal Media and their sense of Entitlement
- In Current Affairs
- 10:50 PM, Feb 22, 2016
- Sagar Kinhekar
Few days ago BJP Member Parliament, Mahesh Giri filed an FIR against few JNU students who had organized a rally protesting hanging of Afzal Guru on Guru’s death anniversary. Mahesh Giri alleged that during the rally students shouted slogans like “Bharat ki Barbadi tak, Kashmir ki Aazaadi tak jung rahegi jung rahegi; Bharat ke tukade honge, Insha Allah Insha Allah”. A video was also produced to support the claim by Giri. Most of these students in the rally were affiliated to one or the other Leftist student movements in JNU campus. Police arrested President of JNU Students Union, Kanhaiya Kumar. He was visible in one of the video footages of the said rally, while a look out circular has been issued for some others. If you remove the the mist created (deliberately?) around this incident, it was a normal police procedure where police took action based on a complaint. Later of course, it should have been left to court to hear the matter on its merit and decide whether or not the student leaders deserved any punishment. But usual suspects like Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Communist leaders Sitaram Yechury and D. Raja chose to politicize the incident by visiting the campus.
A big twist came in the case when some lawyers beat up a student and “allegedly” misbehaved with media in Patiala house court premises. This was done by these lawyers because some students were again shouting anti-India slogans according to the lawyers. I used the word “allegedly” for allegations of lawyers misbehaving with media because there is no video footage or evidence of this. The act of beating students however, is unequivocally condemnable and police action against these lawyers must be taken. But media took this as an assault as an attack on free speech against media. The battle lines were drawn between “Nationalists” and “Anti Nationalists”. Some of the journalists declared that they were happy being “Anti- nationalists” if being nationalists means being goons. It’s another matter that media themselves declared the Lawyers “Nationalists” while everyone including those from ideological “Right” condemned the attack. The Journalists organized a march in opposition to this incident which is fair because under the constitution of India a peaceful protest is a right of every citizen. This march was boycotted by some media houses. Especially by those channels which have been demanding action against the JNU students who raised anti-India slogans. The editors of these channels came under direct attack from other group which organized protests as if no free choice existed. Now some in media have become bigoted illiberal in the eyes of left liberal gang.
Such individual attacks by the left-liberal cartel doesn’t surprise anyone anymore. But this time something more sinister is visible. This time a blatant sense of entitlement is on the display.
Few days back a prominent left-liberal celebrity journalist tweeted this –
In this tweet Barkha Dutt is talking about a suo-moto action against lawyers who had attacked Students / Journalists. Ms Dutt forgets that there are more than 60,000 cases pending in Supreme Court of India today. Out of which there are more than 30,000 cases pending for even admission! But Ms Dutt wants Supreme Court to take a suo-moto action on ‘lawyer goons’? Why Ms Dutt? Is the beating of a student or a journo creating any constitutional crisis in country? Is this incident more important than all the other matters which are pending before Supreme Court because it involved journalists? Mind you, some of these pending cases are of murder, rape and other heinous crimes.
Ms. Dutt is a salary earning professional who works for a media house and probably also own a small company. There are thousands of professionals in this country like her in various industries. Do all these professionals seek special treatments from judiciary? If they don’t or can’t, then why should she expect any special treatment from the judiciary?
There is another celebrity journalist who wanted to impose article #356 on central government. After all she heard that a Delhi journalist was attacked in Delhi. Obviously it is a reason enough to sack Narendra Modi government.
There are other journalists who think they are special and above masses. Recently Mr Sardesai tweeted –
Has he ever apologized for the fake stories he has supported and propagated like those of church attacks? Does he feel he is above any accountability? How did he arrive at the conclusion that the videos were fake without any forensic examination? Sardesai feels he has some kind of extra-judicial authority in India.
This however is not the only instance of Mr Sardesai’s high-headedness. Last year he had beaten up an NRI and reportedly said “paisa aa gaya par class nahi aayee”. The crime of the NRI was that he was praising Modi.
Barkha Dutt also wrote an open letter to Prime Minister on NDTV website. The letter seemingly was about why JNU students should get proper hearing and why they should not be booked under sedition law. But the letter first describes what Barkha has done in her career. Half-way through the letter one thinks that it is about Barkha herself and not about JNU episode. Then Sardesai wrote a similar article titled “I am proud to be anti-national…”. This whole article is about Rajdeep Sardesai, the individual and not about any of his journalistic ideas.
This is not just about Barkha, Rajdeep or Ghose. Many of these left-liberals are such self-obsessed, narcissist individuals who think they are entitled for special treatment from people, government and judiciary. They sneer at people from non-elite background to the extent that they don’t stand up even when a non-Delhi journalist is burnt in UP or attacked in West Bengal. A great example of this class bias came today when a certain Mihir Sharma tweeted this about MS Dhoni.
For these folks class can be earned only if one belongs to an ‘erudite’ left liberal family or shave tudied in Oxford or Harvard. People from St. Stephen’s or JNU can achieve class if they work hard at propagating left theories. For others the doors of this “class club” are closed.
This sense of entitlement and self-obsession has disconnected these people from ground realities completely. When these journalists went for a march against Patiala court house incident, they did not get any popular support. In comparison, another march organized by ex-servicemen to support nationalism got spontaneous support from tens of thousands of common people. It is also showing on ever reducing TRPs of their shows on TV channels. Today English news channels of these celebrity journalists are among least watched channels. It’s time for these left liberal journalists to do an objective introspection to understand why people don’t support them. In fact people are now so tired that they have begun revolting against their sanctimonious ways.
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