When, at a quite advanced age, the late Abdul Ghani Dar, a controversial parliamentarian of the late 60s, entered into his second matrimonial alliance with a lady, much younger to him, phones, to his utter chagrin, started ringing at un-earthly hours. This embarrassing fact compelled the septuagenarian to keep a night vigil. As his sharp tongue had landed him in several cases, while hearing a case, a judge of the Supreme Court asked him: what do you do? To it, the ace parliamentarian retorted back: ‘Joroo ki khidmat (service of the wife) your honour’. His lordship coming across an un-usual profession of a parliamentarian, observed: Here is a man of guts!
The late Mr A.A. Ravoof, the first Editor of the Radiance Viewsweekly heartily appreciated the apex-court judge’s pithy remark in his famous humorous column ‘abracadabra’ underlining the fact that this truth is rarely spoken publicly by the henpecked husbands.
The said remark, passed by a judge of the highest palladium of justice, crossed my mind when I read the reportage of the Samajwadi Party manifesto, released in Lucknow on April 12 .Its chief, Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav is really a man of guts. The first thing that strikes you, if you read his bio-data in any ‘Who is Who’ is his hobby ‘Pahelwani’ or wrestling. As the wrestlers are a class by themselves, so are their opinions, views and visions.
Yes. The SP supremo, I feel, is a visionary. He is much ahead of his times. His vision encompasses several things. So is the case with his views and opinions. He is of the concerted view that the English language is undoing India. That is why he in his party manifesto, once again, pleads the case of Hindi strongly. It would, he believes, bridge the gulf between the high and the low.
Instantly inspired by him, this scribe feels the revolutionary step would bridge the gulf between the educated and un-educated also! Am I wrong? The second part of his recipe for the educational development of Bharat is stress on regional languages. He has an equally strong agenda rather mantra for the employment generation as well – abolition of computers. The reach of his vision can be imagined from the fact that he wants court judgments too to be written in Hindi and regional languages. Speaking confidently after the release of the epoch-making (read fearing) manifesto, Mr Yadav made it abundantly clear that he was against the compulsory use of the English language in education, administration and judiciary. Mr Yadav, also dead set against ‘mechanized farming’ or to quote his words ‘agricultural machines’, lashed at tractors. To quote him again: After tractors were introduced, the bovine population has been coming down, instead of ploughing land, bullocks and calves were going to slaughter houses.
Are you hearing Mr Mohan Bhagwat? How deftly Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is a professional politician, has given quite constructive and positive signs, indicating his ideological affinity to the RSS, BJP, VHP and Shiv Sena on all fronts?
All said and done, Mr. Yadav, who is a seasoned politician, stands nowhere near Mr. Dar as far as admission of profession is concerned.