- Rajesh Tyagi/ 17.3.2016
The attack by the saffron government and its cohorts, the
right-wing nationalists, upon JNU, forthwith countered a radical surge all over
the country. In the immediate aftermath of the suicide by a student Rohith
Vemula, in Hyderabad, the attack on JNU, had brought the pot to boiling point.
The abortive coup, engineered by saffron strategists to intimidate the youth,
brought nothing but humiliation and disgrace to the government whose graph was
already in sharp decline over last months.
The Stalinist leaders, were quick in attempting to exterminate the early sparks of a revolt in the
making, through their followers sitting at the head of student organisations inside JNU. Unfurling the tricolor over their heads, they swiftly maneuvred to disorient the youth
and students, through pledges in favour of the nation-state and nationalism,
bourgeois democracy and its constitution. Within no time, the challenge to
nationalism was warded off with a paradigm shift to debased discourse around the 'real' versus 'unreal' nationalism.
