Much anticipated budget of modi government delivered last week
amid expectations. Government laid out intent to make the financial position of
the country stable. Arun Jaitley allocated funds to some projects like Ganga
cleaning which was ignored by UPA.He also allocated 200 crores to statue of
unity the world’s largest statue of Sardar Patel. After the budget was out, I
have been reading several articles on that and several debates on the funds allocation.
Most of the pseudo intelligent and pseudo secularists of the country raised
eyebrows over fund allocation for this monument. Even some people kept
comparing the allocation of funds with other projects like women development,
child education etc. As a tax payer of India, I am very much proud to give my
tax money for this prestigious Monument and wanted to share why it is important
now.
Post-Independence era started with tragedy of riots, rapes, floods.
India teared down to several parts as princely states. India now would have
been in different shape if Sardar patel was not the home minister of this
country. We have forgotten all the great heroes who sacrificed for our independence;
we have forgotten all the cultural values of our great times. We have reached a
stage where our children questioning the faiths, asking proofs for everything
we got from inheritance. We have lost all our glory with 1000 years of foreign
invasion. Now after independence we are having same invasion in the form of
foreign leftist ideological political parties and yellow media.
After becoming the first Home Minister of India,Sardar had this huge
task to unite the princely states of india and join them in Indian Union. There
were some states who volunteered to join the Union, some of them adamant like Hyderabad.
No one can forget the contribution of patel in merging of Hyderabad state in India.
The man who stood against the atrocities on hindus,muslims and everybody during
the post-independence violence. The man who is responsible for safe moving of
muslims to pakistan in 1947-48 communal violence. Our children should know all
these, they should now the India what it is now is united with the effort of
that great man. They should learn that the unity we got today was not an easy
task at that time. People who are living in this country should owe every bit
of air they are breathing to this great soul.
George Washington, The first president of America and founding
father of that country, He was remembered by that government in the form of
constructing monument and maintaining his estate with millions of dollars each year.
They never considered it as waste of money because, a father in America will
feel proud if he takes his son to that estate and tell him this is where our
founding father lived. But, factually George Washington didn’t ruled the America
we are seeing today, he neither contributed in this 50 states of America
expansion nor ruled. But all the 50 states are proud about that monument. Unfortunately
in India we don’t even remember sardar,80% of population doesn’t know his full
name, birth day and at least his contribution to the country.
We almost forgot our ancestral roots, we are still fighting
aryan,dravidian politics, who will unite us in the difficult time. The
monuments like statue of unity will make us remember who we are and what we
were. Is it not worth 200 crores?
Nobody cares about the daily parliament maintenance expense,
nobody cares about MP's MLA's housing expenses and nobody cares about the
destruction of public resources expenses when our bandhs and protests turned violent.
We ignore all these unnecessary expenses and we foul cry on this monument expense.
Shame on us.
The statue of unity may be the Gujarat government initiative but
it is responsibility of each state, they should contribute in this great effort. We
cannot compare allocation of funds to this with other projects. It is as important as
any other project in this country now. If there is no history, there is no India.
We have inherited the great legacy where we are ignoring and forgetting in the
mask of secularism. It’s time to wake up our minds; it’s time to let our future
generation know the greatest contributions of those legends for this country.
Martin Luther king Jr said “We are not makers of History,
we are made by History". We should not forget the roots and sacrifices for
our independence. It is important to progress but that doesn’t mean that we
give up on our identity and history.
Hope, Indians will learn this and hail this initiative by government
of india. Remembering Sardar Patel and salute to his greatest contribution.
Jai Hind.
