“Dekh tere sansar ki haalat kya ho gayi bhagwan, kitna badal gaya insaan.” This is an old and a popular Bollywood song of yesteryear. Till yesterday, those who were crying about intolerance, freedom of speech and emergency, have now resorted to a campaign of harassing media, which social media is calling it as ‘FIR Jihad.’
Guess who are behind this campaign? They are the same people belonging to the left-liberal brigade and Lutyens media.
A new story has emerged. An FIR has been filed against Zee News Editor-In-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary in Kerala for reporting various kinds of Jihad and exposed its modus-operandi on a TV show.
The FIR was filed over his March 11 report, in which he had exposed the idea behind Jihad with a flowchart.
In the show, Chaudhary stated two types of Jihad – Hard Jihad and Soft Jihad. By hard jihad, he meant Population Jihad, Love Jihad, Land Jihad, Education Jihad, Victim Jihad and Direct Jihad. The soft jihad meant Economic Jihad, History Jihad, Media Jihad, Movies and Songs Jihad and Secular Jihad.
However, it is very hard to understand – how could the TV show in Hindi have a cascading effect on the majority of Kerala viewers, who hardly know the language.
Interestingly, the FIR against Chaudhary comes in the wake of Congress and its ecosystem attacking Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami and his wife for calling Sonia Gandhi by her original name – Antanio Maino – and questioning her silence over Palghar lynching incident.
Arnab, in the intervening night, was physically attacked and harassed by the Congress and Maharashtra government, by filing hundreds of FIRs against him. Later, Mumbai police also stopped him from doing journalism by needless day-long interrogation despite Arnab being the victim of the attack.
Similarly, an FIR also was filed against News18 anchor Amish Devgan by Mumbai police for spreading fake news about gatherings near a mosque in Kurla during lockdown.
So, there has been a flurry of FIRs being filed by the left-liberals states ruled by the Congress and the Left. The question is: Why are they resorting to such antics?
The answer is simple. They have notoriously become frustrated over the fact that they are unable to set their agenda because of the nationalist anchors like Chaudhary and Arnab. They are also losing their mind and hence are resorting to such antics, which at any cost would fail.
A couple of days back, Justice GR Swaminathan of Madras High Court had quashed defamation proceedings against two journalists and an English daily. Giving the verdict, he had observed that the defamation cases have become “tool of intimidation” by some powerful politicians and corporates.
He said, “Such an activist role will have to be played by the higher judiciary because it is a matter of record that criminal defamation proceedings have become a tool of intimidation and before corporate bodies and powerful politicians whose pockets are tunnel deep and whose hands are long even media houses having good resources have capitulated.”
“I am clearly of the view that there is no point in merely singing paeans to freedom of press, if one cannot go to its rescue when the said right is faced with a serious threat … The court can never desert its duty when it comes to protection of fundamental rights. Those observations will apply to the entire higher judiciary,” he added.
So, the message is very loud and clear to the left-liberal brigade that, not only the people, but also the judiciary are with journalists like Arnab and Chaudhary. Therefore, they must understand and stop raising a ruckus, harass and file FIRs, because, ultimately victory would be upon those who are fighting for truth.