SAFFRON FLAG AS THE UNIFYING FLAG: CHIEF
JUSTICE OF INDIA REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO HINDUTVA
D Y
Chandrachud when took charge as Chief Justice of Indian Supreme Court (SC) in
November 2022 (to relinquish office in November 2024) many of the
pseudo-liberals who claimed to defend the democratic-secular polity of India
manifested great happiness. They thought that the time of SC being an appendage
of the RSS-BJP government headed by PM Modi was over as Justice Chandrachud was
a liberal judge committed to democratic-secular polity of India. They
over-looked the fact that he was believed to have been the Justice who authored
the notorious Ayodhya judgment given on November 9, 2019. It was not a judgment
based on legal and constitutional proprieties but a political decision full of
trickeries to placate the majoritarian agenda catered aggressively by Modi and
RSS.
If
one needed another proof of his love for Hindutva we must take note of his love
for saffron flag as flag of justice. Justice Chandrachud after performing pooja
at Hindu temples of Dwarikadhish and Somnath with his family in Gujarat on
January 6 (2024) had no qualms in stating “I was inspired this morning by the
dhwaja [flag] at Dwarikadhish ji, very similar to the dhwaja, which I saw at
Jagannath Puri. But look at this universality of the tradition in our nation,
which binds all of us together. This dhwaja has a special meaning for us. And
that meaning which the dhwaja gives us is – there is some unifying force above
all of us, as lawyers, as judges, as citizens. And that unifying force is our
humanity, which is governed by the rule of law and by the Constitution of
India,”
[‘After
temple visits, CJI D Y Chandrachud flags ‘dhwaja of justice’ to district court
lawyers’ The Indian Express, January 7, 2024. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/after-temple-visits-cji-flags-dhwaja-of-justice-to-district-court-lawyers-9098282/]
It is to be noted that all the above referred temples fly
saffron/yellow flags and CJI Chandrachud implied that Tricolour; the Indian
National Flag was not the “unifying force” but the flags flying at the temples.
The above statement of CJI was, in fact, rephrasing of the statement of the
most prominent ideologue of RSS, M S Golwalkar who while addressing a
Gurupurnima gathering in Nagpur on July 14, 1946, stated: “It was the saffron
flag which in totality represented Bhartiya [Indian] culture. It was the
embodiment of God. We firmly believe that in the end the whole nation will bow
before this saffron flag.” [Golwalkar, M.S., Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan (collected works of Golwalkar in
Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., volume 1, p. 98.]
The same Golwalkar while
denouncing the choice of Tricolour as National Flag in an essay entitled
‘Drifting and Drifting’ in the book Bunch of Thoughts (collection of
writings of Golwalkar, a RSS publication and Gita for RSS cadres) wrote: “Our
leaders have set up a new flag for our country. Why did they do so? It is just
a case of drifting and imitating….Ours is an ancient and great nation with a
glorious past. Then, had we no flag of our own? Had we no national emblem at
all these thousands of years? Undoubtedly we had. Then why this utter void,
this utter vacuum in our minds?” [Golwalkar, M.S., Bunch of Thoughts,
Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, pp. 237-238.]
This
hatred for the Tricolour led RSS to declare the Tricolour as ‘evil’ on the eve
of Independence. The RSS English mouthpiece ORGANIZER demeaning the choice of
the National Flag (14 August 1947) wrote: "The people who have come to
power by the kick of fate may give in our hands the Tricolour but it never be
respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in itself an evil, and a flag
having three colours will certainly produce a very bad psychological effect and
is injurious to a country."
RSS
borrowed this hatred for the Tricolour from V D Savarkar who declared that “The
Charkha-Flag [then Tricolour used to have charkha or spinning wheel in the
middle which was later replaced by Ashok Chakra] in particular may very well
represent a Khadi-Bhandar, but the Charkha can never symbolise and represent
the spirit of the proud and ancient nation like the Hindus.” [Bhide, A. S. (ed.), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s Whirlwind
Propaganda: Extracts from the
President’s Diary of his Propagandist Tours Interviews from December 1937 to
October 1941, na, Bombay, 1940, pp.
469– 473]
It
is horrendous that CJI of Indian Supreme Court who is duty-bound to safeguard
the democratic-secular polity of India with Tricolour as a unique symbol of it
is renegading on his OATH which he took while assuming the office as the 50th CJI on November 9, 2022!
Shamsul
Islam
08-01-2024
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