It is an unholy fashion of pseudo-secularists and self-termed activists to oppose any move that may give pleasure to majority Hindus in the country. It was on expected lines that some one would rise to oppose direct telecast of by Doordarshan of foundation-stone laying ceremony of Ram Janmbhoomi Temple at Ayodhya on 05.08.2020 like this time was done by CPI MP Binoy Viswam by writing to Prime Minister. Surprisingly no one from such group of leftists and pseudo-secularists ever opposed holding Iftar parties at public-expense by dignitaries seated on top legislative posts in earlier regimes. Secularism does not mean anti-Hinduism.
There was hardly any opposition by any such thinker in those days to oppose the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who sent an official delegation under leadership of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed for Islamic Summit Conference in Rabat (Morocco) in September 1969, but had to return without attending the session because Indian official delegation was not allowed to participate in the conference at insistence of Pakistan.
It is a matter of record that re-telecast of Ramayana (and Mahabharat) by Doordarshan during lockdown broke all records of TRP-ratings. Ramayana in its original telecast in 1980s crossed all records of popularity even in neighboring Islamic nation of Pakistan. Lord and Ra,mayana are reality admitted even by Pakistan when tourist-literature of Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) mentions that Lahore was named after Luv, son of Rama.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL