The establishment in Bharat has been talking of the threat of a two and a half front war to the country. This matter received utmost attention during 2020-21 when the country faced a standoff against Chinese troops across almost the entire Line of Actual Control and during the clash with Chinese Army at Galwan valley in south Ladakh. We were supposedly pitted against two enemy countries — China, Pakistan and the inimical, treasonous forces within the country which constituted the so-called half front. Last year, in August 2024, the imminent war situation got another dimension added to it and this was Bangladesh following the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Sheikh Hasina there and the installation of an illegitimate, puppet government led by Muhammad Yunus.
What is significant is the half front at home which consists of anti-national forces and moles within our country. They can be named—ideologically subverted Political Parties and their followers, pseudo secularists and proteges of China and Pakistan. This 0.5 front is serious and significant threat to our nation. This article attempts to devise a broad-based policy plan to deal effectively with this internal enemy which poses the gravest danger to our nation’s security and integrity.
Some members of Leftist and Communist groups are ideologically opposed to the core concept of Bharat as an ancient nation with a sublime culture that has stood the test of time and is distinctive by its humanistic values and ethos. This culture is characterised by its ideological strands that are universal and eternally relevant. So, the above members have to be continually checked from preventing possible damage to national interest through vicious propaganda and other anti-national activities.
Traitors in Bharat are those who are driven by perverted, inhuman ideology rooted in sectarian faith or by affiliations with enemy countries like Pakistan or China or those who are working in league with forces inimical to Bharat.
Let us see what best steps can be taken to defeat and deter and if required, decimate these treasonous elements.
Handling and neutralising the half front at home will need a well-defined multi-pronged strategy. It will not be possible through ad-hoc efforts. Some broad points in this regard are mentioned below.
Defining nationalism and anti-nationalism is by far most important. This will call for clearly spelling out Indian nationalism based on our ‘secular’ constitution. We have been shying away from this so far. When we clearly define anti nationalism, traitors will be automatically defined, leading to their easy identification and apprehension.
Let us relook at the punishment prescribed by our primeval Vedic scriptures for traitors. These scriptures declare that they should be awarded immediate death sentence and their property should be confiscated by the state. We will have to work out some arrangement on these lines, fully or partially matching, even if it entails amendments to our constitution. In any case, we need far more stringent punishment than existing today for traitors.
Every nation is built on some major or minor ideology. Bharat is the most ancient nation based on the universal ideology of Vedas which were revealed to the first humans by the Creator Ishwar in our land. Hence, we have to define, discount, discourage and decimate ideologies dissonant with the divine Vedas. Leftism, Communism and their variants are such toxic ideologies. We cannot have such ideologies exist and flourish in Bharat in the name of secularism. Secularism, in any case, is a foreign construct and is not a term found in Bharat’s cultural lexicon.
How UP government is dealing with anti-national elements is something to look at and take cue from. Our legal system cries for reforms to make justice dispensing machinery quick and effective. Strong steps in this direction are warranted sooner than later.
The half front includes many of the illegal migrants from Bangladesh and the Rohingyas from Myanmar. They also include the recently discovered women staying in Bharat as citizens and begetting children from Pakistani men through marriages registered there. It obviously also includes drug peddlers and spies for inimical foreign countries. It includes insurgents and collaborators of Bharat’s enemy countries in their covert operations against Bharat.
The half front at home is the worst and most dangerous. This nation has never been defeated by foreign powers but frequently defeated by the machinations of internal moles who sided and colluded with the invading foreign powers. The mutiny and freedom struggle of 1857 could not succeed because of the many stooges of the British who worked to defeat the struggle for their own selfish gains. There are more Jaichands and Mir Jaffars at home today than in the medieval times. They have to be dealt with strongly and effectively. The external enemies are easy to identify and defeat but the internal ones pose an ever-greater challenge, because they are hidden, dispersed and diffused. We have to squarely meet this enormous challenge. We can and will do it.
