New Delhi: Seventy years after the bullets hit M.K. Gandhi, that murder before prayers is known to more and more people as a fault-line between competing ideas of India.Gandhi Jayanti is observed every year as a national holiday to commemorate the birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948). His non-violence or satyagraha continues to influence political leaders and movements till date.
On Tuesday, Revisiting Gandhian idea of non-violence on his 70th death anniversary. The Delhi University Student’s Union (DUSU) organised a Democracy Dialogue on Relevance of Gandhi in Today’s India. The Distinguished Panelists
Salman Khurshid, Former External Affairs Minister of India & Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Rajdeep Sardesai, Padma Shri Awardee Journalist,Mridula Mukherjee, Eminent Historian & Former Chair, Centre for Historical Studies and Mrinal Pande, Padma Shri Awardee Author & Journalist Graced the Programme.
While Addressing the Delhi University Student’s on Relevance of Gandhi in Today’s India, Mridula Mukherjee said, “I’m very grateful to come and share my ideas to youth of india. As you know today is 70th anniversary of assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The Mahatma Gandhi Sacrifice was not only Gandhi sacrifice. As jawaharlal nehru said after the great Budha Gandhi is the greatest man.There are so many lessons we can learn from Gandhi ki that how we can deal with evil problems like fascism, racism in today’s time. What happened in Germany and Italy we all now. Ideologies can lead to Partion the country, ideology can also kill someone. No civilized society will follow racism, Mahatma Gandhi teachings are completely relevant for today.”
Rajdeep Sardesai, Padma Shri Awardee Journalist, Speaking on idea of non-violence work in today’s world? Said, “I would Thank DUSU and Delhi University first. Today is the day of Gandhi 70th Death anniversary. Today is 30th jan, Leave history the 1948, 1942, 1961. we will talk about January 2018″ Three things happened in this month. First is Bhima Koregaon Violence, normal people like us i Delhi haven’t faced any problem because of this but Mumbai bandh created the problems For poor people. Last week a bus in gurgaon was stone Pelted and on the other hand Larni sena announced we will not release padmavati. The third one is The kaskanj incident. So there are three instances in this month. If we talk about Karni sena ‘Gundagardi’ They haven’t touched hy anyone due to elections. Where is UP government? Haryana, Rajasthan and Maharashtra government? Law and order situation is so bad that we are not able to protect movie releases.I feel Gandhi would have solved every thing with his approach and talks if he was here at present time.”
Salman Khurshid, Former External Affairs Minister of India & Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Speaking on the same said, “We are here to celebrate Undying spirit and Selfless that Gandh ji use to possess. Gandhi’s beliefs are relevant today, every thing you believe is good than Mahatma Gandhi is relevant. Mahatama translated everything. Mahatama Gandhi teached us the idea of fasting. why do we fast? There can be many reason for fasting. You fast because you want you can give your food to the poor, fasting makes u realize what kind of pain people have who don’t have food”.
“When people describe him as a saint or politician. Gandh ji said i’m not saint i’m a politician who want to become Saint”, added Khursid.
