The National Medical Commission updated its logo recently. The modifications include – the substitution of the word “India” with “Bharat” and incorporating a coloured image of Dhanwantari, the Hindu deity associated with healing and medicine. The “Bharatiya” below the deity in the earlier logo has been replaced by “Bharat”.
The new logo gained traction with pseudo-secular influencers like Dr. Abby Philips (TheLiverDoc) peddling misinformation that the NMC had added the “Dhanvantri” image. Many news media like South First and The News Minute wrote elaborate articles based on Philips’ tweet that contained wrong information.
However, BN Gangadhar, the officiating chairman of the NMC rubbished these claims when speaking to Hindustan Times. He said, “There is nothing to sensationalise here as nothing has been significantly changed. The image of Dhanwantari was already in the logo but in the form of a black-and-white line diagram. All members unanimously decided that colour should be added to the image as black and white image was not printable. When NMC was formed, it was decided then to use Dhanwantari’s image in the logo. Apollo is the god of healing in some other country and Dhanwantari is the god of health and healing in India.”
As this logo came to light, the usual suspects comprising of Congress supporters, leftists and pseudo-secular media cabal started seeing red.
One of them was Islamist apologist and a self-styled ‘journalist’ of The Wire – Arfa Khanum Sherwani.
In an X post commenting on the development, the Islamist journalist said “INDIA IS NOT A HINDU COUNTRY.”
This is totally unacceptable.
INDIA IS NOT A HINDU COUNTRY.
India is a country governed by a secular constitution.
All religions are equal.
The state of India has NO religion.
Repeat after me. pic.twitter.com/m08fVXeIp3— Arfa Khanum Sherwani (@khanumarfa) December 1, 2023
Many netizens flagged her tweet saying that it exposed the Islamist inside her.
Who told you that India is not a Hindu country? https://t.co/q6qmVxxccD
— Vishwatma 🇮🇳 (@HLKodo) December 2, 2023
Interestingly, she had earlier peddled Rahul Gandhi’s slogan “Jitni Abadi, Utni Haq” (Greater the population, greater the rights) by saying “जिसकी जितनी संख्या भारी उतनी उसकी हिस्सेदारी… (Those whose numbers are heavy, they get that much share).
जिसकी जितनी संख्या भारी
उतनी उसकी हिस्सेदारी…— Arfa Khanum Sherwani (@khanumarfa) October 2, 2023
Netizens pointed out that by her own logic, India is a Hindu country by default.
By your own logic, India is a Hindu country https://t.co/os1TXbrYuT pic.twitter.com/sccryIUrEJ
— Varun Kumar Rana (@VarunKrRana) December 1, 2023
Here are some other reactions from Hindu netizens.
Hello @khanumarfa ma'am
Do we Hindus have the right to take oxygen in this secular country or not? https://t.co/WxX1aIBlA8
— Vijay Patel🇮🇳 (@vijaygajera) December 1, 2023
Cope.
India is a Hindu country.
Nothing can ever change this fact. 🕉️ https://t.co/9LvZsI1VIs
— Aditi Patwardhan 🇮🇳 (@AditiIndiaFirst) December 1, 2023
This is totally acceptable.
INDIA IS A H!NDU COUNTRY, where Muzlims chose to stay back due to various reasons during partition.
The word "Secular" was not present in the preamble to the original Constitution.It was added undemocratically during Emergency.
Dhanvantri image was… pic.twitter.com/vzSlm8UEYW
— Tamil Labs 2.0 (@labstamil) December 1, 2023
My offer is still valid. Move to Pakistan. Bharat is Hindu Rashtra, and you can’t deny this fact. https://t.co/NHVmGcP4hA
— Danish Kaneria (@DanishKaneria61) December 1, 2023
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