On October-3, 2021, at around 4 pm, a convoy of three vehicles, including one driven by the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Uttar Pradesh, Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni’s son Ashish Mishra Teni, rammed into a crowd of farmers who were protesting in the area killing four farmers and one journalist, and injuring several others.
The word allegedly has not been forgotten to be included. I, as the author of the post, claim full responsibility for deliberately not mentioning it for reasons stated below.
I do not wish to narrate the incident as the same has been reported by several credible media houses such as the NDTV, the Newslaundry, The Wire and many others.
The 29-second video clip which surfaced around evening time on October-4, 2021, showcases an SUV Mahindra Thar belonging to the Tenis. I urge you to watch it once before going on ahead, but a trigger warning in case you cannot see violence.
https://twitter.com/Tractor2twitr/status/1445068751641083907
An Indian citizen in 2021 has become the mute mule who carries the daily burden of getting up, having some tea, going to work, coming back to a family of sorts. Then, consume deeply disturbing and intoxicating content of false nationalism, propaganda and hatred both religious-based and self pitied, and sleep through the god-awful night pretending that whatever happens around, they do not, should not and perhaps will not be bothered.
And it has really worked for them, I think. They remember that they never had to go fight for freedom, and yet they enjoy all the liberties and more.
They remember very well that since India is such a large country, their bit starts and concludes with their ‘vote selfie’ that they post every time around election time. They remember how their beloved Supreme Leader gives big, and almost the same, rhetorical speeches. They remember that their only concern should be the B. Tech College they would ask their children to prepare for or the NEET examination that their children must clear.
In the very guise of hoping for a good future for their kids, the sycophancy in the middle-class citizens craves the taste and flavours of financial success and excesses through their own children.
If the same hadn’t been true, wouldn’t they feel responsible for what kind of future or, for that matter, what kind of present awaits their kids in reality? They all want to move from one society to another society which is more alluring with its lavish kitty parties and club memberships.
Four Farmers were mowed down by the son of an incumbent minister, but most of the population took the plea of ignorance citing:
A. We’re not Farmers.
B. We’re not equipped to process and further do anything which can bring any change, despite the knowledge that the society has been degrading.
C. Where’s the opposition?
D. These things keep happening, the farmers must be at some kind of a fault.
One word they seem to miss out very frequently while giving the “We’re not Farmers” plea is ‘now’. They seem to forget that India up until now has been dominated by people engaged in the Agricultural and Farm Sector. Have we become a society that looks down on farmers? Are we too ‘evolved’ and ‘integrated with smarter and knowledgeable’ people to care?
I think they seem to deliberately miss out that at the very core of their being, their soul does not care about anything that doesn’t directly concern them. The same group which is ready to fight for Rs. 10 to heaven and hell with a cab driver does not have a spine to utter a word against the wrongs and of the society that is being propagated by their beloved Supreme Leader.
What happened on October 3 wasn’t something new or unique. It was very much in line with what has been happening in India: people without privilege being rammed and crushed by those drunk on power given by the same spineless people.
To say the very least, a purported video has been doing rounds where Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni has been openly and assertively threatening a section of the society in very real and not so subtle terms.
But this inflammatory statement hasn’t evoked a bit of outrage. It has been so deeply thrust within the core of a normal Indian citizen that goons like these must be feared and not questioned. This undeterred trust placed in both the policing system and the judiciary is worrisome. Indians should give both the police department and the judiciary loud rounds of applause for their professional ineptitude.
The Supreme Court of India and the other High Courts try to be assertive and portray their image as progressive and dynamic organs of democracy; however, it is the single biggest lie in the history of independent India.
It’s been over 60 hours and neither Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni nor Ashish Mishra Teni has been arrested. The BJP government led by beloved ‘sage’ Adityanath and the Supreme Leader PM Narendra Modi have not taken action against Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni. In my opinion, it is quite expected and understandable as the Tenis have only done what the BJP has been trying and wanting to do for very long.
It is not shocking that the BJP will go to such extreme lengths. I’m reminded of The National Socialist Party under Herr Hitler who went to all sorts of extreme lengths i.e. even till the Gas Chambers for the Jews. This thing should and must not surprise us, as wherever and whenever autocracies come to power, they do anything and everything to stay in power.
India under BJP and PM Narendra Modi is an Elected Autocracy. These are not my words but the words of a Swedish Based Research Institute.
Nothing Is Shocking In India Anymore
When the Pulwama terror attack took place in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was shooting for an episode of “Man v/s Wild with Bear Grylls” in the forests of Jim Corbett.
Few men were able to breach the limits and raise a flag on the Red Fort while Republic Day celebrations were ongoing on January-26, 2021 despite the presence of military and police personnel in and around the heavily fortified and most sensitive area.
One of the biggest causes behind the second wave of COVID, in my opinion, was the greed for winning the West Bengal Elections.
A 2o-day outreach was planned to celebrate PM Modi’s Birthday was celebrated for 21 days in the same year when millions died due to a pandemic in India because of the failure of the incumbent government.
Political leaders like Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra and other leaders were detained and arrested without proper orders in Uttar Pradesh while the accused minister and his son are allowed to roam free.
What do these facts point at?
Many innocent people like Siddique Kappan and others have been in jail for years under UAPA because their conscience couldn’t bear what BJP, under PM Modi’s leadership, has undertaken to do.
I refuse to remain silent and carry the burden of injustice any longer. If any action is to be taken against me for standing up for the truth, so be it.
To others who are turning a blind eye towards this topic, I urge you to look within- what would you have felt if your own family members were rammed and killed like those farmers?
Allegedly, two BJP workers were also killed along with a driver in the crash. I feel compelled to sympathize with the loss of their families but do not feel obliged to feel saddened at their demise after what they did to the farmers and the journalist.
Rab Rakha.