There may be nothing wrong in choosing a narrative to support a certain political pattern, that is wadding through a turbulent phase. But, certain news channels are demonstrating desperations to somehow generate a climate of defense for some political party, is bit amusing.
For a news channel it may be tempting to think that even a man from the Bollywood can even come in handy to speak about anything that stands to defend a regime now being immensely debated, every day.
It was actor, Anupam Kher, a compulsive supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party, was there in an English news channel, injecting wisdom to the nation.
Sky is the limit and Kher had his finger on each pie. He had a say on all that the anchor raised.
Right from the street security to JNU and CAA, Pakistan to West Asia and US, the range had no limit and Kher had a solution in hand.
He had logics to contest why CAA is a balm for the country and why NPR is a precursor to real identity of a national and why NRC is not a subject that can be shelved anymore.
Such personalities from the celluloid are on a rise. Kher went straight against Deepika Padikone calling her visit to the JNU as a misplaced option to either promote her film or take a stand with the agitating students.
His argument appeared like, in 2020 it is the NDA dispensation led by Modi can only deliver the flawless direction towards prosperity.
Kher, ostensibly, in his quest to play as an apologist for the BJP, thought, that it is not the people first but the ideologies of the people in power at the Centre are the guiding poll-stars who cannot be faulted.
Was that channel running so short of crutches to push a pro-NDA agenda that it had to resort to a monologue from an artist who has suddenly donned the garb of a political monitor !
He had even a thing or two to preach how our security system must work and the fairness with which our policing maintains its impartial profile.
It is the people like Kher who refuse to see that, the cumbersome process of the NRC might help a few rich and affluent but the larger mass can only scramble and suffer from a dystopia of helplessness to gather the proofs to remain as an Indian.
Can he imagine, even if a five percent of the entire population fails to meet the NRC yardsticks, may be over 6 to 7 crore people come out as non-Indians! Where do they go !
Kher has no imagination that high voltage bulldozing of the legislative process without a consensus can only usher in a constitutional crisis.
