Youths Should Start A Political Party : Aamir Khan

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"What I would really like to see emerge from all this is the youth of this country starting a political party. A group that stands for strong, clean, honest and fresh leadership. A group that we can all support," Aamir said in his blog yesterday.

Warning them to desist from taking the country towards a feeling of hate following the dastardly attack, he said,"if we really want to make sure that terrorists fail in achieving their end, then these terror attacks should not take us towards hate but instead towards love. If we react with hate we are succumbing to these terror attacks, and if we react with increasing love and peace in our hearts then we squarely defeat the terrorists.

Allowing love, peace and trust to grow within us is not a sign of weakness but a sign of immense strength." Holding the political parties in the country for failing to tackle terrorism, Aamir Khan said the geatest lesson to be learnt from the terrorist incidents in the past years is that the Governments must not listen to and negotiate with terrorists.

"I think the first lesson to learn from this is that the Governments must not listen to and negotiate with terrorists. All potential terrorists must get a very clear message that India does not negotiate with terrorists. What that means is, that in the future if there is a situation where me or my kids are held hostage by a bunch of terrorists then I must be prepared to tell our government - to hell with me and my children just go in there and kill the terrorists. I am prepared to sacrifice myself and my loved ones for the larger safety and security of the country but do not listen to and negotiate with terrorists," Aamir said.

Blaming the political parties for lack of efforts to tackle terrorist attacks, Aamir said,"Quite clearly both the major political parties have failed to tackle terrorism. There have been repeated attacks on us during both their reigns which neither has been able to either anticipate or deal with well.

While what happened in Mumbai recently clearly exposes the incompetence of the Congress, the hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight 814 during the BJP rule shows them in even worse light. They actually negotiated with the terrorists and released three dreaded terrorists from Indian jails. All the five hijackers and the three terrorists released from India by the then BJP government were allowed to escape to attack us another day." Even the regional political parties did not escape Aamir's criticism. "I personally hold both these political parties, and in fact other regional political parties across the country, responsible in one way or the other, for fueling terrorism in the first place. And please remember that the definition of terrorism is not restricted to AK 47 toting maniacs. It includes the spread of terror by other means like stone throwing, beating up of innocent people on the roads, and rioting, etc. Any means, in fact, to spread terror in the hearts of ordinary citizens," Aamir said.

At the same time he said the blame also lay with the people for not exercising their right to vote or making injudicious choices.

"To all the various people going around arbitrarily throwing accusations at the politician, I want to say that these politicians are not from Jupiter or Mars, they are one of us, from our very own society, selected by us through a democratic process. So now think for a moment, who really is to blame? We can only blame ourselves guys. Half of us don't go to vote. The half that does vote has selected these guys.

In my opinion, you really want to change things? Change yourself.

Each one of us needs to take a very honest look inwards and rectify and work on what we think is wrong with us. We have to stop thinking of our own individual gain and loss and do what is honest, true and right, and think collective," Aamir said