VHP General Secretary Prof Venkatesh Abdeo ridiculed the demand of a ban on the VHP and Bajarang Dal. Talking to mediapersons, Mr Abdeo said ”the people who are demanding this ban are going and meeting the terrorists and even demanding that the ban on SIMI should be lifted.” He said these people will never understand the difference between traitors and patriots.
VHP is to be blamed. They never defined a patriot in clear terms. Anyways, I will try to define a patriot without prejudice to the definition of a terrorist:
1) Those who take state machinery like police, administration, ministers, etc, into confidence before launching terror attacks are patriots.
2) Those who can buy media into presenting a
better picture for themselves are patriots.
3) Those who kill openly and brutally with swords & daggers
without caring about planting bombs are patriots.
4) Those who justify killing as mass
upheaval or as any other fancy term are patriots.
5) Those who are democratically elected killers oops politicians
are patriots.
6) Those who help intelligence agencies in identifying terrorists and are never identified as terrorists themselves are patriots.