Editorial With Sujit Nair: Ideology, Politics, Democracy and Freedom

welcome to another episode of editorial you know a few years back few years i think it's 2014 2014 or 2013 rahul gandhi had made a statement which the whole world has had laughed on him and that statement was he said see politics is in your shirt politics is in your pant politics is in your shoes and all of that in the whole world love saying that what is he talking about you know what is my topic today my topic today is the same politics is there in your shoes politics is there in your shirt politics is there in your band politics is there everywhere and politics is possibly the most important thing of our lives and i will tell you why let's get right into the show so first let me talk about what raul gandhi said politics is in your shirt politics is in your band politics is everywhere that is what is it let's talk about that for one minute and then i will get into my topic you see politics decides the economy politics decides whether you get fuel at x price or y prize politics decides whether you're the food in your table at what price you get so isn't politics relevant isn't politics actually affecting your certain path so that's the point that he tried to make maybe one would didn't understand it then i thought it made sense now that's the point i want to get more deeper into this subject what i am saying today is that freedom is connected to democracy democracy is connected to politics and the basis of politics is ideology so if you shake ideology freedom shakes if you play with the ideology your freedom your liberty may get affected and we've seen that in many countries ideology is the basis of politics if you want to define politics in a simple language and normally most of the things i do i try to do in a very simple way because that's the way i understand things i cannot understand i cannot i cannot grasp complicated stuff i understand things in a simple way i try and explain it in that way you see politics is basically about a belief in an ideology i believe in an ideology and the ideology that i believe in i tried to propagate that ideology i tried to take that ideology to every doorstep i tried to take that ideology to you i tried to convince you to be part of the ideology that i believe in step one in politics step two in politics is when i want to implement the ideology that i believe in so the ideology what i believe is is socialism then i want to impress you why socialism is better than whatever the current ideology is and that is the that is the propagation that i do about socialism the second step i do is i want to implement socialism in the society that i am and that is where politics and electoral politics comes into play where i come and ask you for vote i have convinced you socialism is good isn't it now i will ask you for what so that i can come into power i can come into power and implement socialism so all my life i believe in an ideology i propagate that ideology and some point of my life i come into power to ensure that the ideology that i believed in as a child or as a youth i implement that this is real politics now let's keep this aside let's talk about two three incidents that happened in india you see there is a singer former singer called bubble super i liked his songs he was a good singer a singer called bubble superior who one day thought that he is also a politician and the party that took him and made him into a politician was bharatiya janata party and he did fairly well for bharatiya janata party where he he he he stood for elections from arson soul in in west bengal and he won the seat and he was all of a sudden boom singer to union minister overnight he saw power so ideology fighting for ideology propagating idolatry all that was out he was directly he thought he directly saw power he was now and he was the union minister so the the chronology slightly got reversed so believing in ideology then propagating that ideology and then trying to ensure that you know the ideology is implemented and then getting into power that chronology was reversed he got into power then he started thinking what his ideology was and then he started propagating the ideology that is exactly what happened so all of a sudden a singer a mumbai bollywood singer who would sing guzzles who would sing for hindus who would sing for muslims who would sing for hindu directors who would sing for muslim directors who would sing for hindu characters who would sing for muslim characters all of a sudden became the protector of hinduism and you know i remember a tv debate courtesy being human please watch this debate it's a two minute debate but it'll be fun just watch this what i have a problem is is not about deepika going trust me i have a problem in one thing that you know uh migna ghouls are changing the name of the person who threw the acid on lakshmi that name is changed from uh nadeem khan to uh gudu now i think that it is this is completely unnecessary and if people say that this is done deliberately by meghna guzar and if you don't need controversies like that so i will not change babul to saleem i will not change very simple here our man is fighting saying that listen how can you change a muslim man's name to a hindu man he was talking about a film called chapak and meghna gulzar had directed it it was also again it was also the actress in the film the actor in the film was deepika padukone and uh deepika padukone had gone to jnu and all i think it was a that's for a different day a different debate but you see he was against he was watching fighting he didn't even see the film he didn't even know what was in the film he was vociferously fighting saying that boss why are you changing a muslim name into hindu name why are you spoiling hinduism and all this is the same this was the same man who said that you know what that mamata banerjee you know that she does only muslim appraising this was the same man who would call tmc a muslim's party this was the same man or his party man and his followers were the same man who would call her begum mamata same man same people this is the ideology that he followed and this is the point that he was trying to make and you know what happened yesterday day before yesterday he he went and joined the freedom of congress he went and joined trident congress now i want to ask him is he does he have a problem with the muslim name getting into hindu name or hindu name getting into muslim name would he still say that this should be a hindu rashtra would he still say that mohammed banerjee is appraising muslim would he do that so ideologies boom changed overnight overnight a man who says that i stand for hinduism i fight for hinduism i am the protector of hinduism goes overnight and goes to the same person who he said was appeasing muslims two lessons we learned from here one is what kind of ideology does this politician have and what kind of ideology what kind of politics what kind of public service can this man do secondly for all those people who believe in such hindu protectors take a lesson from this this is the hinduism that he was preaching this is the hinduism that he was preaching he used hinduism for his opportunity till hinduism made him the minister hinduism was the biggest thing the day he was thrown out of the minister hinduism went packing now let me tell you a reverse story let me tell you a reverse story there was another gentleman called called kapil mishra kapil mishra from delhi another gentleman who i remember went and sat in the samadhi of mahatma gandhi in in in delhi he was a huge mahatma gandhi fan bapri he was used to he used to talk about mahatma gandhi so much he was in up and you know he was a complete secular person secular thinker secular you know he was a secular politician and all of that and i remember this clip very clearly i know a lot of you all must have seen this but all the same see it once again just have a look at it hello subscribe [Applause] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] is foreign [Applause] these were his view about the prime minister of india these were his view about the prime minister of india and the same person who sat outside rajghat mahatma he is the one who believes in gandhi now ideology reversed so somewhere down the line the point i'll give one more example one more example i have to tell you because otherwise there will be no fun you see there is this bjp mla if you remember the person who jumped from congress to bjp during that to may ensure that the jda congress government falls and the bjp government comes up now our man a few days back said that you know i was offered money in 2019 he said bjp offered me money i didn't take money baba i just said give me power i don't want money he changed from a secular ideology to a right-wing ideology overnight overnight because bjp said i will give you power isn't a power neither what is the point i didn't take money you see they offered me money i could have taken money he says okay he's like he's done a favor to himself and this entire nation and possibly the world that he didn't take money why to jump parties to jump parties he didn't take money so he says i could have taken money i didn't take money but now see i'm not getting power you see the point i am trying to make is politicians who do not have core ideologies are politicians who jump parties who has nothing to offer this society who has nothing to offer the society the only reason they use politics is for themselves is for them to stay in power it's for them is for their power that is what these politicians are and these are the people that are the biggest threat to democracy and that's the point i wanted to make tonight before i end the show i would urge my audience please please subscribe to our channel please log on to news dot www.hwnews.net we require your subscription and till i see you next time [Music]

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Length: 14min 12sec (852 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 20 2021