The carnage in Gujarat the Mahatma’s home state, in early
2002, and the subsequent land slide victory of Narendra Modi spelt disaster for
our country. The foxiest agenda of Hindu
fanatics is unlike anything India has experienced in its modern history. The
saffron ride is rising and it destroying the nation. For the first time one is security concerned
for the country’s future.
Modi is a murderer. Advani and Modi have a symbiotic relationship. They help each other. Modi helps Advani with elections from
Ghandinagar and Advani in turn exonerates him from the charges of the 2002
Gujarat riots. It’s the natural consequence of Advanis genius that he is now
reduced to insignificant size by his creation only. Soon after the Babri Mosque
was destroyed one question hunts the mind, How many more mosques will be now destroyed?
What about the repercussion? Hasn’t the atmosphere been fouled forever? The
killing of Christian in khandharmal, Muslims
in Gujarat, the Bangalore pub incident, the venom in Varun Gandhi speech. If you spare such intolerant people full of
hatred you breed many more, but we never seem to punish the culprits who are
fouling the atmosphere.
Advani Rathyatra from Somnath to Ayodhya leading to the
destruction of the Babri Masjid on Dec 06, 1992 was the one event that pitch
forked him to the centre stage and reshaped India politics. Advani more than anyone else sensed that
Islamophobia was deeply ingrained in the mind of millions of Hindus and it
needed only a spark to set it ablaze. How ever, the BJP got what it
wanted. It reaped a rich electoral harvest,
winning many of the elections that followed and eventually installed Bajpayee,
a Prime Minister and LK Advani, his deputy.
At least Manmohan Singh apologized in Parliament for what
was done to the Sikhs in 1984. The BJP
should similarly apologize for the Babri Masjid demolition and for the Muslim
massacre in the 2002 Gujarat riots. One
thing that has dictated the parties that preach Hindutwa their one motivating factor
has been Islamophobia. Their agenda has been anti Muslim and they have been
united in that.
Earlier the CA was blamed for all our problems. Once when some students clashed with the
police over cinema tickets, Zail Singh said the CIA had a hand in it. Now it is the ISI and Pakistan mind you, is
using the same strategy. There they
blame RAW for all their problems. It is
not the just a Hindu Muslim problems nor a Hindu Christian one, we have become intolerant.
We have no compassion or understanding
for those who are different from us.
The hate propaganda against the Christians and Muslims
false theories that the christian population is going up because of conversions.
When in fact, the reality is that the Christian population in India has
actually gone down. And the Sangh
capitalizing on old prejudice about Muslims that they are multiplying at an
alarming rate, where as the census figure clearly show that the rate of the
growth of the Hindu population has always been higher. Since independence in almost every riot, the Muslims
loss of life and property has been almost ten times that of the Hindu. It will be the sad day for the country, if Muslims
have to survive like the Hindus and Christian’s minorities do in Pakistan.
I am not optimistic but one should fight one should make
every single effort to save the country and openly challenge and take on the
men who are creating trouble and destroying the country. We have to battle with
them at any cost give it back to them abuse by abuse. If we love our country we have to save it
from these communal forces be it Hindus or Muslims. I keep wondering how more
than 80 percent of the population can be threatened by 13 percent of weak,
defeated minority living in inebriated state of its past glories.
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