An open letter to Mrs Kamal Batra

Respected Mrs Kamal Batra,

As  the AAP candidate for Lok Sabha from Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, you were very upset with Mr Narendra Modi invoking your son, Late Capt Vikram Batra in one of his election speeches ‘Yeh Dil Maange More-I want 300 lotuses’ he said. You called him a pseudo patriot and accused him of politicizing a martyred armyman’s name.

Maataji, is 'Mera Rang de Basanti Chola' copyrighted by the families of Bhagat Singh, Shivram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar? Are the songs penned by Vinayak  Savarkar copyrighted by his family? As far as I know, 'Yeh Dil Maange more' is copyrighted by Pespico, as it was the tagline of their product in the late 1990s. 

Your late  son was a son every mother in this country would be honoured to have. Capt Vikram Batra of 13JAK Rifles, a posthumous PVC  awardee. The brave warrior , who quipped ‘Yeh Dil Maange More’ on the capture of  Point 5140 and who was mortally wounded by sniper fire while rescuing  a fellow officer on Point 4875 on 7^th June 1999. He was just 24.

Secular, Socialist Republic of  India is one of the worst nations in this world when it comes to honouring their fallen soldiers or even respecting the ones who are alive. News reports don’t go beyond ‘Major and two jawans killed’ , not bothering to even give their names in many cases, as if its taken for granted that they are paid to die.In overwhelming instances, civilian interest in the army does not go beyond knowing about subsidized canteen liquor and perks. These ungrateful clowns do not deem it necessary to even know what kind of pain, inconvenience and agony our security forces go through so that the likes of them can snore peacefully. The left dominated media and academia demonize any sign of nationalism and hail the subversive forces as intellectuals who paint the army as  rapists and murderers.

 Why are then you doing your son’s memory a disservice by joining an anti national outfit that masquerades as a political party, whose ranks are filled with separatists and Maoist sympathisers, who are out to spread chaos and demean every institution in the country?

Isnt AAP commercializing and politicizing Capt Batra’s name by hoping to win a Lok Sabha seat by using your name? Have you asked them by what other motive did they offer you the poll ticket?

You ask for BJP to withdraw their candidate against you and give you a cakewalk  to show proof that they respect your son. Have you asked your party AAP to withdraw its candidate Raja Muzaffar Bhat from Srinagar , who is a known separatist sympathiser  and charges against whom in addition to sedition include rape?  Did you ask Arvind Kejariwal on what basis did he call the Batla house encounter fake? Or what is the source of their party funds? 

Your son fought and died for reconquering strategic Kashmiri peaks from Pakistan Army and you have joined a party who wont hesitate to gift the same Kashmir to Pakistan on a platter if they have their way. You had said that for Modi a martyr’s family should be like god. But your actions and utterances prove that are not god, and not immune from committing mistakes. And trust me, had Capt Vikram Batra been alive today, he would never have allowed you to represent such an organization. 

Did we hear any statement from AAP when Lance Naiks Hemraj and Sudhakar Singh were ambushed and beheaded? Will you please clarify what is AAP’s agenda on national and internal security and strengthening the armed forces? How many times have AAP evoked the contribution of the armed forces? 

We have all seen the pig circus which was the 49 day AAP government in Delhi. The holier than thou leaders took support from the same corrupt people they claimed to fight against.In the end they were shameless enough to call the final escapism as sacrifice. Do you want such scenes to be played out in the rest of the country as well?

Hundreds of paramilitary jawans and thousands of civilians have been killed by Maoists over the years. Have we heard anyone in AAP condemning them? Instead they recruit naxal sympathisers like Kamal Chinoy and Binayak Sen. Not a word from your party about Bangladeshi infiltration or cross border terrorism but instead they view the former as a votebank. These are the people who view people like Afzal Guru as innocent and want AFSPA to be revoked so that terrorists and naxalites can have a free run in the affected areas.

If you are so eager to serve the people, you should have stood as an independent candidate. But since you have joined a self righteous party who thinks that honesty originates from them , there is no question of anyone withdrawing any candidate from contesting against you.

But as far as I'm concerned, if at all the memory of martyrs like your late son is to honoured, parties like the one you have so erroneously joined have to be removed from our country's scene.

Sincerely,

An Indian.