A speech

The recent speech by Mr.Rahul Gandhi about his family's role in creation of Bangladesh smacks of his immaturity and lack of knowledge on the subject. Agreed, it was the courageous Indira Gandhi who took the decision of sending army to help the cause, but to take sole credit for the same is reprehensible. He has completely forgotten the role played by the East Pakistanis against the oppression by their western counterparts. He talks as if it was India which had preplanned the matter completely against the wishes of East Pakistanis. This undermines the role of East Pakistanis as well as against the official stand of the Government that it is the result of internal raising that created Bangladesh.

The so-called future of India (Courtesy: Dr.Manmohan Singh) needs to be cautious before such utterances. This is adding fuel to the fire. There is already a section of the Pakistani society which is vying to take revenge against India for its role in creation of Bangladesh. And Mr. Rahul is giving them more ammunition and troubling the already fragile peace process.

And he just has mentioned about the creation of Bangladesh. He chose not to talk about the aftermath of the same. For years, both the Central Government and various State Govt's have failed to find a solution to the refugee problem from Bangladesh. Various reports put the number of immigrants to millions of numbers, which is a serious security threat to the country. This has the danger of changing the demographics of that part of the country to India's disadvantage.

One only hopes that such people who want to play major roles at the national and international level think of the consequences before they open their mouth.