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| Mukul Kesavan also says what we have seen in Hyderabad University and JNU is a textbook demonstration of the sangh parivar working as a joint family. |
February 15, 2016, NewsCrunch
A provocative column in The Telegraph by Mukul Kesavan makes a a controversial comparison: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar to Krishna and Home Minister Rajnath Singh to wicked uncle Kansa,
The BJP's response to radical student activism in Hyderabad University or JNU is like the fearful, vengeful reaction of Krishna's wicked uncle, Kansa.
The Krishna story shows us two ways of dealing with rebellious youth: with love as showed by his foster mother Yashoda or the futile use of brute force by his uncle Kansa.
If Kanhaiya Kumar is Krishna, his mother Meena Devi, an anganwadi worker, who struggled to give her son an education is Yashoda.
Kansa tries to have Krishna killed by getting him trampled by elephants or boiled in oil, but fails.
Mukul Kesavan notes there are many in BJP auditioning for the role of Kansa.
In this case, Rajnath Singh is ahead of others. The Indian Home Minister joined RSS at the age of 13 and served as the president of the BJP's youth wing. He is more comfortable with well-drilled, khaki-uniformed young of the sangh's shakhas than JNU's treacherous, anti-national rabble,
Mukul Kesavan also says what we have seen in Hyderabad University and JNU is a textbook demonstration of the sangh parivar working as a joint family.
The ABVP complains to a BJP patron who facilitates tough official action.
In Hyderabad, this scheme was thwarted by Rohith Vemula's tragic suicide; this happy family has now gone fishing again, looking this time for live catch.
Read: The wicked uncle again - Rajnath Singh versus Kanhaiya Kumar. By Mukul Kesavan in The Telegraph