Andolanjeevi Yogendra Yadav recently delivered a controversial address where he instigated people to hit the streets to ‘Save the Republic”. Yadav argued that the Republic was in danger and it could only be saved by hitting the streets and launching ‘resistance movements’. For Yadav, the Republic could never be saved from Inside parliaments.
Around 52 minutes into the video shared by leftist propaganda portal The Wire, Yogendra Yadav could be heard saying, “I reside my hopes in… My hopes are one in the opposition. The opposition has found its voice as was evident in the last parliamentary session. Second, in resistance movements, just watch the streets carefully.. if democracy..you know.. Republics are saved never inside parliaments. Republics are always saved on the street so watch the streets carefully, the next few years. I expect resistance, and protest movements to gather courage because in many ways politics is like the stock market it’s all driven by sentiments.”
Yadav, who has been a perennial protester against the Modi government, added that the message today to anyone who wants to stand up to this government, is they’re going down, inko to dekh lenge.
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Yogendra Yadav says he hopes for "resistance movements" in the streets in next few years
He says republics are saved not in parliament, but on streets
Anyone who understands far left rhetoric will realize exactly what he is saying pic.twitter.com/meZy0LCk34
Yadav made these remarks while delivering a lecture on ‘Are we back to democratic politics? Reading the implications of verdict 2024’ at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai on Thursday (18th July).
Strikingly, leftists around the world have used the ‘resistance movement’ as a colloquial term to justify violence, chaos, and acts of hooliganism, arson, and anarchy. It earned notoriety as pro-Palestine groups around the world justified the 7th October Hamas terror attacks on Israeli soil as a “resistance movement”. Around the world, leftists have been the proponents of street violence, street veto, and creating anarchy to subjugate a democratic government and usurp power in an anarchic vacuum.
Furthermore, leftist cabal in India has also used it to defend accused Urban naxals and Naxalities who wage war against the Indian state or indulge in anarchist acts directed against the Indian state. They falsely paint the accused Urban naxals, criminals, and naxalities as victims of so-called oppression by the state and claim that they were forced to pick up arms to fight and reclaim their rights.
During his address, Yogendra Yadav also launched smear campaigns against the judiciary and the media.
He further said, “I have mild hopes from the media and Judiciary, very limited hopes with media… my limited hope is while they would continue to be the spokespersons of the ruling party they may stop hounding the opposition which is what they specialized in the last 5 seven years… if they were to stop just this little bit I would see that as an important course correction and Judiciary occasionally we can find slightly better judgment on a few things just minor course correction I don’t expect any major change from Judiciary either where do.”
During the event, he also alleged that the country was fast sliding towards becoming a Hindu Rashtra. He said, “We were rapidly sliding towards becoming a fully blown de facto Hindu Rashtra.”
He added, “We are poised at a very critical moment in the history of our country. We are in the no man’s land between the First and the Second Republic of India which makes the situation so critical and fraught with danger.”
“The battle to reclaim the Constitution and democracy should be combined with a social radical agenda. This moment in history offers one of the rare opportunities to combine the social and political agenda. The way to take on the BJP would be a social coalition at the bottom of the pyramid – a moment of sharp class politics in the country,” he added.
The Chairman of the Asian College of Journalism, Sashi Kumar, N. Ram and N. Murali, Directors, The Hindu Group; G. Ramakrishnan, CPI(M) Politburo member, a few senior journalists and scholars from various fields were also present at the event.
