On whether or not the slogan remains to be related in the present day, Kumar stated, “The slogan of ‘azaadi‘ remains to be related. Even in the present day, I increase this slogan in actions. I consider that when darkness is rising in society, we should always speak about mild. Throughout British rule, we had been ‘topics’, then we turned residents. Now, your complete system needs to scale back us to numbers.
“Does being a citizen imply that we solely speak about numbers? Efforts are being made on this nation to make individuals slaves once more mentally. These days the federal government shouldn’t be being questioned however the opposition. Every little thing is being turned the wrong way up,” he claimed.
If Narendra Modi is the prime minister of the nation in the present day, it’s as a result of the founding fathers established democracy within the nation, he asserted.
“I say that if Jawaharlal Nehru had not turn out to be the primary prime minister of the nation, Narendra Modi wouldn’t have been the prime minister of the nation in the present day. We’re seeing that there’s discuss of destroying the spirit of equality. When slavery is being talked about, there’s a want to talk loudly about freedom. After we speak about freedom, we speak about freedom from issues throughout the nation,” Kumar stated, and added that the “azaadi” slogan is related in the present day and can stay so sooner or later.
Requested about beginning his politics with the Left, then shifting to the centre and a doable transfer additional proper, Kumar stated he had by no means been an excessive leftist, and even within the leftist group, was among the many centrists. “They used to name us the Congress of the Left. Even in the present day we aren’t excessive, nor will we go in that path sooner or later. I believe extremism was by no means accepted in India,” he stated.
