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Can BJP with its anti minority ideology call for sanctions on Sri Lanka?

 

Posted by: "Egroup" egroup100@yahoo.com.au egroup100

    Date: Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:22 am ((PDT))

 

Minority Muslims of more than 150 millions have been suppressed,

sidelined and silenced in India

 

By Latheef Farook

 

Yashwant Sinha, senior leader of Baharatiya  Janata Party, BJP, the political face of Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, RSS, has demanded that India imposes sanctions on Sri Lanka for its treatment of Tamil civilians trapped in the island's war zone.

 

No doubt and No question that these civilians, as citizens of this country, deserve safety and protection. However, the question is whether India, of all the countries, and the BJP, of all the political parties, can ever speak of minority rights   in view of their treatment of the largest minority of around 150 million Indian Muslims.

 

Politics in India has been systematically hijacked by the RSS and its

numerous front organizations known for their intense hatred and violence

towards the minorities especially the Muslims. In their drive to set up

a mythical Hindu Raj the BJP has committed some of the worst crimes

against the country's Muslims under their dream ideology that

Muslims give up Islam and either embrace Hinduism or leave the country.

This is sheer madness. Those who espouse this destructive ideology have

been in the driving seat of Indian politics that has descended to such

low depth that   the road to   political success is by fanning the flame

of hatred and committing atrocities against Muslims.

 

The latest to join this anti Muslim racist politics is late Prime

Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi's diabolical grandson Varun Gandhi, a

BJP candidate for Lok Sabha seat. Varun Gandhi, is son of Sanjay Gandhi

who played havoc with millions of poor   Indians who were forcefully

castrated and their settlements bulldozed during the infamous emergency.

 

 

 

In a clear exhibit of his paternal traits Varun, born to a Sikh mother

Menaka Gandhi,   whose kindness to animals  better known than to human

beings, especially Muslims, declared in public meeting that" Hindus

stay here; send all non-Hindus   to Pakistan. This is the lotus, BJP,

hand and it will cut their throats after the elections.If somebody lifts

a hand against Hindus or thinks they are weak, there is no body behind

them, and I swear by Baghwat Gita that I will cut off their hands. He

also taunted the Muslim candidate contesting against him by describing

him as Osama bin Laden".

 

Whatever may be the reason behind Varun Gandhi's pronouncements, he

has degraded the corrupted, criminalized and commercialized Indian

politics down to one more level.

 

Tracing the background to this anti Muslim rhetoric ,columnist Sandeep

Pandey  said that" the BJP, which was feeling rudderless   with

infighting and uninspiring leadership before the general elections

suddenly got a shot in the arm. The party has been electrified. It is

back to its basic anti Muslim agenda after trying very hard to project

itself as a genuine progressive alternative to the Congress Party.

 

It is common knowledge that Varun and his mother Menaka have no place in

the Congress Party with her strained Italian born cousin Sonia Gandhi as

its Chairman and her son Rahul stealing the limelight in the national

politics. It was becoming increasingly clear that Rahul Gandhi is

certain to be become prime minister .Varun was isolated with inferior

complex.

 

This is the reason why many believe that the mother and the son, Menaka

and Varun    planned this   communal card to win over the Hindu votes as

a short cut to fame in the   footsteps of RSS leaders such as Murali

Mannohar Joshi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, opposition leader L.K. Advani,

Gujarat's chief minister Narendra modi and several others.

 

  As pointed out by Sandeep Prasad  "until yesterday Varun Gandhi was

an ordinary BJP member. Today he is a nationally important leader and in

the same league as  Advani and Narendra Modi  known for their virulent 

anti minority ideology. The pro BJP Indian media started projecting

Varun  as the new Hindutva leader".

 

The BJP and larger Sangh Parivar   have always used vitriolic language

to attract attention and used violence to make their presence

felt.-starting from Mahatma Gandhi's assassination,Babri Masjid

demolition, Nuclear test, massacre of Muslims in Gujarat and many more.

 

"The speech that ended with the battle cry "Jai Shrei

Ram"took the memories back to December 1992 when the present prime 

ministerial candidate   Advani, went on his chariot journey `rath

yatra', whipped up anti Muslim sentiments, polarised society,

generated hatred and passions before destroying the Babri Masjid on 6

December 1992 and   triggered off nationwide religious riots which

killed thousands of   Muslims.

 

As rightly   Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pointed out Advani was the

home minister when his erstwhile friend Narendra Modi unleashed an

organised anti Muslim pogrom   in 2002.

 

Thousands of Muslims  were killed .The mob used knives, axes, swords,

iron and wooden rods, acids, gas cylinders and all sorts of inflammable

materials and  every possible weapon to slaughter Muslims in the cities

and villages. In some cases, they got the entire Muslim populations in

certain areas electrocuted. In many urban centres, explosives were used

to blow up houses, shops, dargahs and mosques. Structures that could not

be razed by the mobs were mowed down by trucks.

 

The barbarity was such that  53 year old Maya  Kodnani,  a gynaecologist

turned minister ,perhaps a grand mother ,led a mob of around 17,000

that slaughtered 95 Muslims.

 

Describing the carnage, columnist Praveen Swami said, "with images

of charred bodies and burnt homes, what Gujarat witnessed was a fascist

pogrom, conducted by organised death squads of the Hindu Right with the

entire State apparatus at their disposal. The pogrom was initiated with

two objectives - to ensure that the State's Muslim population

remained confined to its ghettos, and   the authority of the Hindu Right

remained stamped forever on Gujarat's political landscape. The scale

of violence was not the worst the country has seen, but its significance

is unmistakable: if Hindu fascists ever wield unchecked power, Gujarat

is what India might look like".

 

Police   in many cases were part of the mob. Judge after judge

questioned the role of the police and their failure to prevent the

anti-Muslim carnage. Of the more than 45,000 cases filed, only around 75

have been pursued while the rest were closed down citing lack of

evidence.

 

These victims had some ray of hope when the Congress government came to

power in the centre. However, even the Congress government of Prime

Minister Manmohan Singh has not given the Muslims any relief. Instead

hailed Modi's Gujarat as the best-governed and most business

friendly state in India, although Supreme Court ordered to probe the role of Modi in the carnage.

 

Narendra Modi of BJP who presided over the Gujarat genocide was

reelected twice and is deeply respected by India's biggest corporate

houses. Even Advani said this week that "he is proud when Narendra

Madi was praised".

 

Organised violence against Muslims   has been a common feature in India

ever since the country was partitioned in 1947. The RSS strategy has

been   two pronged-  aggressive penetration of administrations, armed

forces ,police, judiciary and all other such key sectors with RSS cadres

,eliminate Muslims from all these areas while  ruthlessly executing 

planned attacks on Muslims .Under these meticulously planned attacks 

Muslim men, women, children and the aged have been killed;  Muslim women

raped;   Muslim owned  industries, trading establishments and other such

activities destroyed  to  cripple their economic base   and reducing

them to nothing.

 

They  even stripped Muslim women, paraded them naked and video filmed as

disclosed by the mainstream Indian media. These RSS goons never thought

of the feelings of the young relatives of these unfortunate Muslim

victims who had witnessed these shameful and heinous crimes in the name

of Hinduism.

 

Some reports even estimate the total number of attacks on Muslims all

over India since partition at around 40,000, most of them organised and

orchestrated by the   RSS.

 

Detaining innocent Muslims, especially youths,   under various pretexts

for long period, torture and slaughter them have become common feature

in this world's largest democracy. So much so, in one such case,

even the New York-based Human Rights Watch said police in the southern

state of Andhra Pradesh should be prosecuted for torturing 21 Muslims;

among 100 arrested after the 2007 blasts hit the main city of Hyderabad.

The state government admitted that 21 men had been tortured and would

each receive 600 dollars as compensation.

 

This   BJP, immersed in killing Muslims,   is the main  opposition of

this largest democracy  This   Advani w is the opposition leader and

prime ministerial candidate and this  BJP's senior leader Yashwant

Singh  is calling for sanctions on Sri Lanka.

 

Perhaps that Yashwant Singh is aware that Sri Lanka has been bleeding

for the past quarter century or so due to Indian interference triggered

by the short-sighted policies of   late President J.R. Jayewardene and

his draconian constitution that created an all-powerful presidency not

accountable to the nation.

 

 

Daily News 30 April 2009

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