Goswami was speaking in Chennai.
During these turbulent times, a certain voice has been missing from our airwaves. The recent Ramjas ruckus almost feels incomplete with Goswami bellowing at some panellists. The nationalist anchor however did speak about 10 days ago at an event in Chennai before the events at Delhi University. He had said: “Why are the tolerant intolerant and can we tolerate it any longer in this Republic. I will always stand up for the national anthem and speak in favour of the Indian Army. Does that make me a Sanghi?”
Speaking about last year’s JNU row, Goswami wondered why those who raised slogans didn’t care for martyrs who died in the Uri attack. He said: “There was no candle-light vigil. There was no petition. JNU was quiet. Kanhaiya disappeared, he was nowhere to be seen. There was no championing of causes. The hypocrisy is this that the same lobby that pretends in their own convenient way of cause to be the torchbearers of our national interest, did not protest when Uri happened.”
Goswami also gave his view on the ‘intolerance debate’, and said: “Why then is it intolerant to call Maoists out of their violence? Or why then is it intolerant to question the selected hypocrisy of those returning their awards? And why is it not liberal to question someone who refuses to stand for the national anthem?”
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24-year-old Gurmehar Kaur, a Delhi University student, had started the campaign 'I am not afraid of ABVP', following the violence at Ramjas college, which went viral and received a massive support from students of various universities. She posted her pictures on Facebook holding different placards including 'I am not afraid of ABVP' and 'Pakistan did not kill my father but war did'.
While the literature student's classmates and peers started sharing the post, prompting students from various universities across the country to change their profile pictures with similar placards, Sehwag shared an image of his holding a placard saying, "I did not score two triple centuries. My bat did."
While many Twitter users criticised Sehwag for comparing a cricket match to a war, many others including Randeep Hooda cheered Sehwag for his remark, saying, "She (Gurmehar) is being made a pawn."
"Really sweet of you to encourage the hate I've been receiving. Makes me feel happy that I adored your work :) Pawn? I can think. I don't support violence perpetuated on students? Is that so wrong (sic)," Kaur said in a series of tweets in reply to Hooda's comment.
The Twitterati reacted negatively to the actor's remark prompting him to get into a damage control mode.
"What's sad is that the poor girl is being used as political pawn...It absolutely wrong..have a feeling it's not limited to that in interpretation (sic)" he tweeted.
"Don't call me a Martyrs (sic) daughter if that bothers you. I never claimed anything otherwise. You can call me Gurmehar," she tweeted.
Kaur, daughter of Kargil martyr Captain Mandeep Singh has approached the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) alleging that she has received "rape threats" allegedly from members of the ABVP after she initiated the campaign against the RSS' student wing.
Ramjas college had last week witnessed large-scale violence between members of the Left-affiliated AISA and the ABVP. The genesis of the clash was an invite to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid to address a seminar on 'Culture of Protests' which was withdrawn by the college authorities following opposition by the ABVP.
With inputs from agencies
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