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Ram Mandir Pran Pratishta: Hindu Guilt-Tripping And Hinduism Bashing Continues Unabatedly Online By Many I.N.D.I. Alliance Sympathisers

January 22, 2024
The Commune

The Ayodhya Ram Mandir Pran Prathishtha took place on 22 January 2024, but the left leaning liberal netizens have been complaining about the ceremony since the day it was announced. These were some misconceptions, partial truths and lies posted by the left – leaning liberals online. The below list is a collection of reactions from these leftist liberal handles on social media platform X.

Senior editor at leftist portal The Wire, Arfa Khanum Sherwani had her meltdown as the India “she knew all these years died after the Pran Prathishtha.”

The same Arfa suffered another meltdown as she spoke to BBC World. In this interview, she says, “In the last 20 years of my journalism, I have never seen one single event impacting and influencing so many people in one go. I am sitting here at my residence in New Delhi talking to you while all my neighbours, most of my neighbours are bursting crackers and Narendra Modi has also told them to light lamps in the night, I am sure that would also be taking place soon. They are all singing devotional songs, people travelling from all over the country, the whole thing being broadcast on live television for the last one month. Television anchors dressed in saffron clothes with pictures of Rama om them singing devotional songs and shlokas of Gita. Everything already looks like that I am living in a theocratic state.” She also adds that Modi is trying to change Hindu religion by introducing politics into religion and as the PM of 1.4 billion people, she says he is behaving like a Hindu god. She talks of herself as the survivor of the 1992, Dec 6 when the mosque was demolished. She says she had to leave her home to safe her life and that of her family and that she lived like a refugee for several days. She also says the state machinery has been abused because Modi was the Jajmaan.

Anti-Hindu and leftist actor turned politician known for his rabid Modi hate, Prakash Raj  was afraid that placing Bhagwa flags would be the new normal in the country.

Leftist journalist Rana Ayyub blamed majoritarianism practiced by those in power and also pointed out the silence of those against communalism.

Perverted misogynist Nilakantan who is also a genocide monger felt pukish when Army helicopters showered flowers on Ayodhya.

SFI Delhi President and the one who became famous for her dramatics during the JNU protest days called 22 January 2024 the day of fall of a secular nation.

An LLM student felt Lord Rama would never come to a place where many people were killed and was shaming everyone celebrating the Ram temple.

Even BBC World suffered a meltdown evident from its article headline. The caption on their post read, “India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates huge Hindu temple, built on site of a mosque which was destroyed by a mob in 1992.”

Journalist Rohini Singh posted on her handle, “The basis of Ram Rajya was truth and religion, Arrogance and injustice were the qualities of Ravana.”

Kollywood was not far behind in their meltdown. Kollywood film director Pa Ranjith had this to say at an audio launch event, “Today is a very important day, if we do not light the lamp today at home, we are branded as terrorists. That is how it is today. India is moving towards a very serious period. We don’t know in about 5 or 10 years how the situation in India is going to worsen and the fear is there. And before we enter such a time period, we must rectify ourselves, we must cleanse the regressive practices that we have been brainwashed with. We have been taught religionism daily and we must erase all that and we must use art as a tool to do it. This art is a tool that will help to reach the people easily. The regressiveness that is being forced upon us will be rectified by this art is what we believe. We are working with that belief. Surely, we can prevent India from reaching such a stage and we will do what we can to achieve it. This should be done across India.”

Political commentator Dr. Sumanth Raman made a post implying that if it had not been for the demolition of Babri Masjid, there wouldn’t be so much fanfare associated with the consecration today. He goes on to add that the celebrations are nothing but, ‘stoking a community into feeling they have got retribution’

Akash, whose bio says he is a political activist, has shared an alleged press release by ‘All India Lawyer’s Association for Justice’ and mentions Ram Mandir Prana Pratishta as ‘centrepiece of majoritarianism’ and ‘downfall of all façades of secular intention & constitutional commitment’. The consecration ceremony celebrations are not limited to Bharat alone. There have been videos online from the USA and other countries where Hindus are minority groups, celebrating the consecration.

Some other users also remembering what had happened during the Babri Masjid demolition, like user Sarayu Pani, squarely blaming the ‘majoritarian’ for what happened.

Another user, Prudy Ray, a self-proclaimed Dalit Christian, went to the extent of saying he is scared and concerned for Muslims in India now. It has to be noted that despite all these sudden concerns for Muslims, no violence or acts of vandalism has been reported against the Muslims or Muslim properties leading up to the Pran Pratishtha ceremony.

Freelance journalist Aishwarya Iyer posted that ‘grave injustice unfolds with the stamp of the Indian state. The radicalisation of the average Hindu is complete.’

Mumbai-based journalist and Anna Hazare’s former blogger Raju Parulekar made a post saying the Ram Mandir consecration is a ‘brazen political manoeuvre’ to ‘inflame religious passions’ and calls it a ‘dark day for democracy’.

This netizen even came up with a long thread on the meltdown after the Pran Prathishtha.

Another set of liberals started sharing screenshots of the preamble to point out ‘secular’ aspect of our Constitution.

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