Chandigarh : BJP has questioned the recent race among writers to return their awards citing what they term ‘intolerance’ in the society.
Tarun Chugh, the national Secretary of the party questioning the motive behind returning these awards asked the writers how they tolerated so much intolerable during previous regimes and why they didn’t return awards over killings of hundreds of Indian Jawans by Naxals and government’s silence over it.
Posing straight questions to writers, Chugh asked why and how they tolerated the specific targeting of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir and why they maintained silence when the Pandits were forced to flee valley and live like refugees in their own country.
“It is painful to point out that why these writers didn’t understand the pain of a section of society and the Indian Jawans who were killed for no fault of theirs and how they have felt so much pain over a few recent incidents that they have decided to return their awards in protest.”
Questioning the very conscience of the writers coming forward to return their awards, Chugh asked why they remained silent when more than three thousand Sikhs were butchered in Delhi. Why they didn’t felt the need to speak up against Bhagalpur and Muzaffar Nagar riots.
Why these ‘secularists’ didn’t rise up to the situation when human rights of certain people were abused by people who don’t believe in the unity and integrity of India, Chugh asked.
The national secretary said that it was surprising that these ‘awakened souls’ didn’t utter a word when the CAG sounded the nation from rooftops that the country was being robbed of lakhs of crores by way of Coalgate, 2G Spectrum, Commonwealth, Chopper purchase and so many other scams.
Chugh said that some isolated incidents in a few states could not be termed as ‘intolerance’ and were merely law and order problem. The state governments have to tackle such incidents and returning awards a mark of protest against Union Government was nothing more than a political gimmick.