Crores of Ramchets of the country have never been defamed!
Ravikant
Even today, crores of Ramchets are polishing shoes somewhere and cleaning drains and roads somewhere else. But Ramchet has never been defamed!
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi appeared in Sultanpur’s MP MLA court in a defamation case of alleged derogatory remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah. While returning from here to Lucknow, Rahul Gandhi stopped his car at the cobbler Ramchet’s shop and met him. He shared his sorrows and pain. He listened to their problems and also learnt the tricks of stitching shoes. The special thing is that the person who allegedly defamed the most powerful person of the country, after appearing in the court, meets Ramchet, the weakest, most ordinary and the most trivial person in the country.
Ramchet’s ancestors have been doing very trivial and ordinary work for centuries. Does a person who stitches and polishes others’ shoes have any respect and honour in this country? Has he ever been defamed till date? Has anyone asked Ramchet whether he ate a full meal today or not? Does he have shoes on his own feet or not? Did anyone talk to him with love and respect while polishing his shoes? Even today, crores of Ramchets are polishing shoes somewhere and cleaning drains and roads somewhere. But Ramchet was never defamed!
Ramchet never told any court or the country’s biggest panchayat or the self-proclaimed god, the country’s biggest ruler, that while polishing other people’s shoes, his honour has not been harmed a thousand times, but rather it has been ruined. It is as if a knot has formed in the brain that feels honour while cutting leather with a razor and beating the sole. My health is also fine, sir, the dust from the vehicles passing on the road has settled in my lungs a little. I do breathe heavily, like a bellows, because of which I feel that I am alive! Sir, while returning home from the shop in the evening, I buy the leftover vegetables from the market. I want to send my grandson to school by saving some money. I think, I will not let him sit at this shop. I plead with the school principal because I am not able to pay the fees on time. But sir, even then we are not defamed!
Sir, everything is fine! No one has ever tried to know my name. Rahul Gandhi asked me and today people know my name. My name is Ramchet. I have been in Ram Rajya for the last seven years or to be more precise, ten years. Politics is also being run in the name of Ram. Our shop may or may not be permanent. Ram’s house must be permanent. Sir, you did a great job by spending billions of rupees to build a grand temple of Ram. But Sir, I have a question. What did our ancestors get from the Ram Rajya that was going on for centuries? There was a Ram Rajya in which our ancestor Shambuk only wanted to do penance, so Lord Ram of your Ram Rajya beheaded him. He was not even asked why he wanted to do this? Did he not have the right to read? Your Ram did not even look into his eyes to see what was in them?
Ram of Ramayana from Valmiki to Bhavabhuti killed Shambuk. Sir, this has been going on for a long time. Nathuram Godse, who is remembered in the morning of your party, also killed Mahatma Gandhi! Godse did not look into Bapu’s eyes to know why Gandhi wanted to allow the descendants of Shambuk to enter temples? That is why he killed Gandhi, right? Whatever Godse said, this is the truth. This is why the first attack was made on Gandhi! There was another ancestor of ours, who through his hard work, his practice and the training of his ancestors, learned to shoot bow and arrow in such a way that even the disciples of Dronacharya were stunned by him. That is why Godse’s ancestor cut off the thumb of that Eklavya’s right hand. No matter what your books, your scriptures say, that an obedient and loyal ‘disciple’ Eklavya had given his thumb as Guru Dakshina. But no, never, this cannot happen.
Sir, my eyes, my emotions, my feelings and my unwritten history say that our ancestor was thrown down and his right thumb was cut off by climbing on his chest. He was made handicapped. So that your Arjun does not have to face any competition. Huzoor-e-ala, the same is happening even today. The government of Ram Rajya wants to snatch away from us the reservation that we got in exchange for that thumb, the doors of educational institutions, the threshold of government jobs. Sir, if Godseists had come in place of Rahul Gandhi, they would have cut off the fingers of my hand that holds the Rampi. They would have forced me to say Jai Shri Ram. If I had not said it, they would have probably killed me too. We have been subjected to violence not hundreds of times, not thousands of times, but millions of times. Sometimes necks were cut, sometimes thumbs were cut. Sometimes like Karna, we were surrounded and killed after being made unarmed. Even then your religious scriptures kept writing, ‘Vedic violence, violence na bhavati!’
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