When Ishmeet made it to the top 12, I was quite surprised that how a Sikh has managed to reach so far. I had great respect for the judges that they r secular and neutral people. My cousin also said on 21st September that though Ishmeet is a Sikh he has been treated quite fairly in VOI.
But all our illusions vanished on 28th September, when Abhijeet Da launched the first racist attack on Ishmeet "Kaho apne bhaiyon se". Ishmeet was left in tears so was the entire sikh community. I remember I could not sleep that night, I felt as if I hv been insulted. Such was the impact.
But after that the series of insults have continued against Ishmeet. Abhijeet cooled down, then Lalit took his place and launched a tirade against the whole Punjabi community by calling their votes as Anap-Shanap votes. Lalit & Aadesh show no shame in displaying their hatred for the Punjabi/Sikh community. This is really amazing. I have never seen such open display of communalism in any reality show. VOI marks the beginning of open communal display on Television. Today Ishmeet's community is bearing the brunt, Tomorrow some other community boy or girl might be insulted like this. All the people irrespective of their religion must come together to protest against such open communal behaviour by the judges of VOI. I know many ppl will get bored reading my message, but these are my honest views, which I thought I must share with the bloggers here
