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In some circle it might be funny to poke fun at Muslim celebrities, but it is hurtful.
There is a latent hatred of Muslim community, as some Indian muslim are Pakistani supporters. But to paint all muslims as anti-India is gross injustice to the community.
A day after Indian tennis star Sania Mirza was appointed by the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti government as the new state’s brand ambassador, a local BJP leader’s description of her as “Pakistan’s daughter-in-law” is in bad taste. Leader of the BJP in the Telangana assembly K Laxman deserves a dressing down from the party’s central leadership for his reckless and insensitive comment.
Sania, who was born in Maharashtra but adopted Hyderabad as her home, is married to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik. She has continued to represent India in tennis tournaments across the world. By questioning her nationality, Laxman has not just cast aspersions on Sania who enjoys tremendous popularity in India, but also sought to communalise the issue by claiming that by appointing Sania as Telangana’s brand ambassador the TRS wanted to appease minorities in the state.
As a representative of the BJP, Laxman has a problem which relates to his and his party’s limited worldview and a penchant for branding whoever does not toe the party’s line as anti-Indian. Laxman’s preposterous description of Sania is akin to claims in the past that challenged BJP’s veteran leader L K Advani’s nationality since he was born in Sindh in pre-Partition India.
Laxman’s comment is a reminder that the BJP still harbours a lunatic fringe which hitherto was being led by the Praveen Togadias, the Ashok Singhals and the Giriraj Singhs who have at various points in time espoused hatred for minorities and sought to divide people on the basis of religion. Laxman must realise, if at all he is capable of comprehending liberal values, that Sania is a popular brand name across India and her acceptance as an ace tennis player cuts across communities.
By Laxman’s skewed logic, even Saina Nehwal, who was born in Haryana’s Hissar district but subsequently settled in Hyderabad, is a non-local. And so are thousands of other software engineers who moved to Hyderabad from different parts of India and made it the country’s second cyber city after Bangalore.
Laxman and the likes of him represent the political Right’s anxiety towards communities other than their own. If the BJP is serious about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call of Ek Bharat, Sreshth Bharat, it must discipline Laxman and others who harbour communal anxieties and give vent to such hostility.
Discipline Telangana BJP MLA who described Sania Mirza as Pakistan?s daughter-in-law | Times of India Blogs
There is a latent hatred of Muslim community, as some Indian muslim are Pakistani supporters. But to paint all muslims as anti-India is gross injustice to the community.
A day after Indian tennis star Sania Mirza was appointed by the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti government as the new state’s brand ambassador, a local BJP leader’s description of her as “Pakistan’s daughter-in-law” is in bad taste. Leader of the BJP in the Telangana assembly K Laxman deserves a dressing down from the party’s central leadership for his reckless and insensitive comment.
Sania, who was born in Maharashtra but adopted Hyderabad as her home, is married to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik. She has continued to represent India in tennis tournaments across the world. By questioning her nationality, Laxman has not just cast aspersions on Sania who enjoys tremendous popularity in India, but also sought to communalise the issue by claiming that by appointing Sania as Telangana’s brand ambassador the TRS wanted to appease minorities in the state.
As a representative of the BJP, Laxman has a problem which relates to his and his party’s limited worldview and a penchant for branding whoever does not toe the party’s line as anti-Indian. Laxman’s preposterous description of Sania is akin to claims in the past that challenged BJP’s veteran leader L K Advani’s nationality since he was born in Sindh in pre-Partition India.
Laxman’s comment is a reminder that the BJP still harbours a lunatic fringe which hitherto was being led by the Praveen Togadias, the Ashok Singhals and the Giriraj Singhs who have at various points in time espoused hatred for minorities and sought to divide people on the basis of religion. Laxman must realise, if at all he is capable of comprehending liberal values, that Sania is a popular brand name across India and her acceptance as an ace tennis player cuts across communities.
By Laxman’s skewed logic, even Saina Nehwal, who was born in Haryana’s Hissar district but subsequently settled in Hyderabad, is a non-local. And so are thousands of other software engineers who moved to Hyderabad from different parts of India and made it the country’s second cyber city after Bangalore.
Laxman and the likes of him represent the political Right’s anxiety towards communities other than their own. If the BJP is serious about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion call of Ek Bharat, Sreshth Bharat, it must discipline Laxman and others who harbour communal anxieties and give vent to such hostility.
Discipline Telangana BJP MLA who described Sania Mirza as Pakistan?s daughter-in-law | Times of India Blogs
