By Sajjad Shaukat
The leader of the Indian
ruling party BJP and Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has crossed the
limits in implementing the internal and external policies of his country in
accordance with the agenda of fundamentalist outfits which follow the ideology
of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism). In this regard, background of the Indian Prime
Minister Modi which shows his ‘hypocrite personality’, needs attention. It is
mentionable that on the basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans, BJP got
a land sliding victory in the Indian elections 2014, and enabled Modi to become
Indian prime minister. Hence, he is giving impetus to Hindu chauvinism against
Pakistan, as under his directions, New Delhi accelerated unprovoked firing at
the Line of Control in Kashmir and Working Boundary across Pak-Indian border,
even without bothering for nuclear war. While, Indian Defence Minister, Manohar
Parrikar, using the Hindi phrase “kante se kanta nikalna’ (removing a thorn
with a thorn) assertively said on May 23, 2015, “We have to neutralize
terrorists through terrorists only…there are certain things that I obviously
cannot discuss.”
In this respect, while
addressing a ceremony during his Bangladesh tour, Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi openly stated on June 7, 2015 that Indian forces helped Mukti Bahini to
turn East Pakistan into Bangladesh. He elaborated that former prime minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee had played an active role in separating Bangladesh from
Pakistan, and he had also come to Delhi in 1971 to participate in the
Satyagraha Movement, launched by Jana Sangh as a volunteer to garner support
for the Mukti Bahini members. It is mentionable that during his visit to Arab
countries, Indian Prime Minister Modi asked United Arab Emirates (UAE)
authorities, if all the Arab countries including Saudi Arabia show indifferent
attitude to Pakistan on defence matters, then India will extend full
cooperation to them on all defence related matters including Yemen. But Saudi
Arabian King made it clear that Saudi Arabia would never allow any Modi-led
conspiracy against Pakistan to succeed, while, Saudi Arabia has informed
Pakistan government and defence authorities about it. Notably, Modi refused to
wear a cap presented by Muslims during election campaign. But, during is trip
to the UAE, he visited a mosque, while putting on Muslim prayer cap, which
shows his ‘hypocrisy’.
Under Narendar Modi’s
instructions, brutal killings of innocent Kashmiris by Indian forces in the Indian–occupied
Kashmir has also been intensified, while, New Delhi is also using delaying tactics
in resolving this dispute with Islamabad through negotiations. In this regard,
in an article titled “After Ufa” by A G Noorani, published in Dawn on September
5, 2015 wrote, “Farooq Abdullah told a former chief of RAW, A.S. Dulat, I’m not
like father; I don’t intend to spend 23 years in jail. I’ve figured out that to
remain in power here, you have to be on the right side of Delhi and that’s what
I’m going to do—significantly, of late Kashmiri boys involved in militancy are
more highly educated and from better stock—the Modi government is unlikely to reach
out to Kashmiris to address their concerns. Their only hope lay in improvement
in relations between Pakistan and India. The fortnight after Ufa has shattered
it”. And, it is also strange that US government denied visa to Modi on the
basis of his involvement in Gujrat pogrom, however, after his election as
Indian prime minister, American stance changed to his favour. Undoubtedly, more
than 2500 Muslims were massacred in 2002 in the BJP-ruled Indian state of
Gujara where Modi was Chief Minister. Therefore, someone has rightly called him
as ‘Butcher of Gujrat’. In relation to that massive genocide, both Human Rights
Watch in 2002 and Amnesty International in 2003 charged the “Gujarat state
administration” for involvement in “a massive cover-up of the state’s role in
that massacre” and pointed out numerous “police officials—specifically
ministers, high officials and leaders of the extremist parties VHP, BJP and
Bajrang Dal as participants.”
Besides, Modi played his
role in the release of Swami Aseemanand, a Hindu right-wing leader who had
already confessed during a court hearing that he and Indian Lt. Col. Purohit,
including several RSS preachers were directly involved in planning, financing
and executing Malegaon, Samjhauta Express, Ajmer and Mecca Masjid blasts.
Especially, Modi governmet nurtures cold blooded murderers who burnt alive
innocent Pakistanis in Samjhota Express. It is noteworthy that the constitution
declares India to be a secular state, granting equal rights to the religious
minorities, but in practice, ideology of Hindutva which is genesis of Indian
internal and external policies is being blindly followed by the Indian Prime
Minister Modi by indicating the features of his complex personality. Hindu
politics and culture, dominated by the fundamentalist parties such as BJP, RSS
VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena and other extremist outfits have been propagating
Hindutva. Provocative utterances of their extremist leaders have resulted into
unending violence against the Muslim and Christians including other minority groups.
Since the leader of the
Hindu fundamentalist party, BJP Narendra Modi became the Indian Prime, Indian
society is rapidly radicalizing, as unprecedented rise of Hindu extremism, persecution
of minorities, forced conversions of other religious minorities, particularly
of Christians and Muslims into Hindus, attacks on their places of worships, ban
on beef and cow slaughter, inclusion of Hindu religious books in curriculum and
creation of war-like situation with Pakistan have been accelerated because,
Modi is encouraging all Hindu
fundamentalist groups in this connection. These nefarious moves have put
questions about India under Modi’s leadership. In fact, Narender Modi who was
also a volunteer worker of the extremist Hindu terrorist outfit RSS since 8
years of age is a natural born Hindu militant, while RSS was involved in genocide, rape of women, demolition of
mosques and alive burnings of the innocent persons. Now, he is acting upon the
sinister agenda of the BJP and other fundamentalist parties against Christians
and other minorities as well. Besides persecution of Muslims, in the recent
past, assaults on Christians, their churches and property have been executed by
the indu mobs in various cities of India. In this regard, frequent incidents of
gang rape, especially the rape of elderly Nun shows the ugly face of India,
under Modi.
Recall that on November 7,
2011, leader of the VHP, Pravin Togadia, in his furious speech questioned the
past of Muslims and Christians, and further gave a call to Hindus to capture
the Islamic holy places in Arab and Vatican of Europe. In one way or the other,
Indian present prime minister is pursuing this advice. However, if the US and
other western countries do not take cognizance of Modi’s extremist policies,
the same will destabilize and radicalize the whole region by giving a greater
setback to their interests in wake of global war against terrorism. Nevertheless,
the features of Narendar Modi’s personality are questionable, as he has proved himself
a real ‘hypocrite’ by controlling Indian internal and external policies through
Hindu terrorism or nationalism in the ongoing era of social media, liberalism,
moderation, economic development and peaceful settlement of disputes.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on
international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible
Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email:
sajjad_logic@yahoo.com
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