Mobilenews24x7 Bureau
Has the Prime Minister of India wronged in cracking a joke on a suicide reference with such casual ease. Now it is being debated both in the political and non-political spheres.
India has a phenomenal rise in suicide cases reporting 1,64,033 cases of deaths by suicide in 2021 and on that someone making the issue lighter through a joke has invited reactions from many political quarters and some of them of very strong nature.
All said and done, the issue as sensitive as suicide cannot be made lighter and there is no occasion for any derisive inference where in every nine minutes NCRB reveals shocking statistics on female suicide.
Some political party leaders have not only made the note by the PM as ‘ morbid’ and ill-timed but an undeserving commission.
What the PM said at the media conclave:“We would hear a joke in our childhood. There was a professor whose daughter died by suicide. She left a chit saying, ‘I am tired of life. I will jump into the Kankaria lake.’ When the professor woke up in the morning, he was very angry. He said, ‘I am professor and have worked hard for so many years but even now she has spelt Kankaria wrong.”
In fact the lot at the conclave, including the media were in a kind of splits when Modi made the joke and now they must introspect at least.
Shockingly unacceptable that even some dignitaries present laughed and now those must go down the memory lane and regret the lapse in their conscientiousness on such a sensitive issue as that.
Why do people commit suicide and under which circumstances. Even the ones under any suicidal pressure must have taken such a reference with a pinch of salt.
Either the PM or anyone for that matter do not have the moral sanction to ridicule someone’s state of mind whether after or before such incidents.
What do such jokes amount to? A disregard for any human life.
