Islamophobic Remarks :
Veteran of the Indian Army, Major General (retired) Gagan Deep Bakshi was a member of the Jammu & Kashmir Rifles. Before retiring in 2008, Bakshi published more than two dozen books and spent two years lecturing at the National Defence College in Delhi, the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington, Tamil Nadu, and the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.
His notoriety and popularity, however, are largely due to his constant appearance on Indian prime-time news channels, where he performs pure theatrics peppered with customary emotional outbursts and cries, high-pitched screams, literal profanities, jingoism, curses, and other such things.
He frequently uses slurs and occasionally swear words to attack his fellow panelists during TV debates. The standard cuss words of a furious Bakshi range from “kuttey, neech aadmi, badtameez, vaahiyaad to madarch***”.
This decorated Indian army officer and former combatant reveres extreme right-wing Hindu figures and supports groups like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) that work to legitimize and spread the Hindu supremacist ideology throughout the nation.
“Muslims have attacked India in a terrible manner. At a gathering in 2019, Major General G. D. Bakshi stated that “Vinayak Damodar Savarkar dreamed of the construction of ‘Akhand Bharat’ and the triumph of BJP led by Narendra Modi has set the foundation of Akhand Bharat.
His presentation at the annual extramural lectures at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras perfectly captures his philosophy and way of thinking. He boasted sycophantly that Narendra Modi’s election as prime minister in 2014 marked India’s true freedom. He shouted in an impulsive, jingoistic manner, glorifying nuclear weapons, “In our time, we separated Pakistan into 2. You should divide your generation into four. We can only live in peace then!”
He continued by calling Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent battle for independence “nonsense.”
When he praised the incident in which an Indian Army soldier tied a Muslim guy from Kashmir to a jeep and paraded him through numerous villages, his sadistic fantasies came to the forefront. Bakshi applauded and suggested that the person who came up with the “out of the box” concept be recognized.
For Bakshi, the line dividing a good Muslim from a bad Muslim is obvious, with loyalty to Bharat Mata acting as the fulcrum. The Azad Hind Sena and Muslims who reject the Mughal era are fine Indian Muslims, but the other Muslims aren’t at all Indian.