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Foot in the mouth disease

          Former Goa C.M vows not to talk to the media for 6 months. This makes me feel how good it would be if all our leaders suffering from Foot in the mouth disease decide to follow suit. Praveen Togadia of VHP is the first person to come to my mind. His infamous speech on revoking the voting rights of muslims and revoking their posts. Also on how Muslims should be stopped from buying Hindus properties and to enforce Disturbed Areas act, which makes it difficult to sell property to a minority community member to prevent communal tension and insisted on occupying a Muslim's property by force and knit the owner in a legal case; H.Raja of BJP who maligned Periyar. One should have so much courage to listen to all the derogatory stuff he said about Periyar and the Muslim and Christian communities.
         Remember Owaisi?Not exactly right.But nobody would have forgotten his speeches, where he claimed that 180 Million Indian muslims need only 15 Minutes without Police(which he claimed “Impotent Army”) to show 1 Billion Hindus who are more powerful.That doesn't stop here. He has defamed all the Hindu Gods and ceremonies with defammation reaching its peak.
         The hate speeches by our politicians does not ignite communal problems alone. They have left no topic untouched. A famous quote by Sheila Dikshit to inspire confidence in women was “One should not be adventurous being a woman” Does she by anychance refer Kalpana chawla and Bachendri Pal here? The icing on the cake was the “No mobile for girls” by a Rajya Sabha M.P. A Panchayat leader claimed that Fast Food leads to rape as it contains something that causes harmonal imbalance. Guess this Gentleman had something which causes mental imbalance.
         Speaking about the famous quotes on blaming women for rape, it would be a sin to forget Om Prakash Chautala, who agreed with a Panchayat on lowering the marriageable age for girls to reduce Rape rate and Mulayam Singh who claimed that 'Boys make mistakes.'

       So it is obvious that our so called leaders have made it necessary to blabber something and have no control whatsover over what they speak.It has become an alien habbit for them to think how their views are received. So what could one do to disagree or show displeasure over a hate speech? Apart from the outrage on social media and all the legal ways to sort, there was one incident which stood out. All the women M.Ps disrespective of their parties stood by Smriti Irani, when a fellow M.P disgraced her for her ex-profession and made him apologise instantly.Wouldn't we be doing the samething if we find ourselves in a similar situation. Afterall Togadia and Owaisi never spoke to walls.
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