Hindu Rashtra-Path via Prayag-Kumbh: What is the cure for this epidemic?

Although this is not an epidemic, still people are dying one after the other, so is this any less than an epidemic! Find out, never before in any Kumbh Mela so many accidents, so many stampedes and arson have taken place and overall never before would so many people have died as have happened this time, and more will happen in the future. Yesterday in the stampede at Delhi Railway Station many casualties were again reported. The government count has come to a standstill at 18. This government first denied the stampede, after that it has started searching for some conspiracy in it. The people of this country have never seen such a blatant attempt to hide its mismanagement. In this Kumbh of accidents, at least a dozen incidents of arson and stampede have taken place and the full number of casualties is yet to be revealed.

Kumbhs have been organized before this as well. Those Kumbhs have also been counted among the biggest fairs of the world. People have demonstrated their faith and religiosity. Lakhs of people have come from all over the country, and thousands from abroad as well, and except for a few unfortunate incidents, everything has been handled peacefully. No Kumbh has been called the ‘Kumbh of accidents’.

For the last ten years, every festival and religious celebration has been used by the Sanghi gang to incite Hindu frenzy. This is a continuous political experiment, so that their hold on power can be strengthened. The Maha Kumbh of Prayagraj has also become a political event in the garb of a religious event.

One thing should be clear from the experience of this Maha Kumbh that religious fanaticism does not only spread hatred against non-believers, does not only cause attacks on them, it also comes out as an enemy of the lives of people of one’s own religion. The way this Maha Kumbh, under the political shadow of Modi-Yogi, is taking the lives of Hindus is less of an accident or mishap and more of a well-planned murder conspiracy. If the Kumbh being held in Prayagraj after 144 years has become the ‘Kumbh of accidents’, then all the officials and politicians involved in the failure of managing this event need to be found and punished, because the pilgrims being brought in an instigating manner are being treated like animals, not humans. The Kumbh Yatra has been insensitively made a guarantee of salvation and death. What could be a more disgusting way to stay in power? If this is the Hindu nation, if this is the way to move towards a developed India (Vikasit Bharat), then this project of the Sanghi gang needs to be said ‘Goodbye-Tata’ from now itself.

Until then Kumbh Mela was the meeting point of various cultures and civilizations of this continent, a symbol of diversity and multiplicity of our country. Its nature was never limited to a fair of Hinduism. People of Muslim community also used to earn merit by taking a dip in the Ganga in the same way as people of Hindu community go to the tombs and offer chaadar and pray. Even today the doors of tombs, dargahs and mosques are open for people of other communities including Hindus, but the doors of temples are getting closed for non-Hindus, and among Hindus also for non-upper castes. The eye of hatred on the cultural diversity and communal harmony, brotherhood of our country, is bent on destroying the prosperity and strength of this continent. Today, the Hindu religion, which accommodates all the diversities in this country, believes in many gods, has faith in many religious texts, is in danger due to the dirty politics of Hindutva and its inhuman, uncivilized behavior.

Prayag Kumbh is also a victim of this politics of hatred. First, Muslims were boycotted from this Kumbh, then non-Sanatanis. This was duly announced. It was converted into a political event through posters and cut-outs of Modi-Yogi at every step, then it was converted into an event of the Sanghi gang through the release of the Constitution of Hindu Rashtra and the constitutional faith of crores of countrymen was hurt. 

The government has propagated an exaggerated claim of the number of people who took a dip in the Kumbh. According to this, about 35 crore people have earned merit so far – that is, every fourth person living in this country has taken a dip. To expose this claim, it would be enough if a random survey of some wards of some cities and villages is done, but no one can deny the unexpected crowd coming to this Kumbh this time. The entire government machinery and Godi media are busy in propagating the idea of people coming here to loot merit and improve their afterlife.

Even before this, a large number of people have gathered in Kumbh, but people came spontaneously, due to their beliefs, looking at their economic status, by gathering their own resources. In this situation, the burden on the fair management would have been less. But this time the gathering is government and Sangh sponsored, it is a display of Hindutva and its strength. It was propagated that whoever is a Hindu, will definitely come to take a dip in this Kumbh and the Hindu who will not take a dip in Kumbh is a traitor. In this way, a lot of effort was made to connect Kumbh with Hindutva and patriotism. The Hindus whom the Sanghi gang has tried to connect with Hindutva in the last ten years, now had the challenge of proving themselves Hindu and patriot by taking a dip in Kumbh. But for these poor and innocent Hindus, there is no arrangement of adequate number of buses and trains, nor is there any arrangement for lodging and food in the fair. When the President, the Prime Minister, the entire cabinet and the entire administrative machinery that is exerting its power on the people are looting merits by becoming VIPs, then which management will worry about them! As a result, what was to happen, happened and is happening. For a month, people are travelling like animals, walking miles on foot, suffering from hunger and thirst, and are doomed to die without being counted among those who died of being crushed. The so-called saints, priests and religious preachers who carry the flag of Hindu Rashtra do not have even enough compassion left to console the bereaved families, they are calling upon the suffering families to celebrate the attainment of salvation. In this way, the palace of Hindu Rashtra is being built on the dead bodies of faithful Hindus via Prayag-Kumbh. This Hindu Rashtra has nothing else to give except giving 5 kg of grains to keep the people of this country alive. There is no employment, no respect and no civil rights to give. This Kumbh of accidents has given legitimacy to the stampedes that have happened in the sermons of all those Aabas and Babas in which thousands of people have died in the last few years and they have tried to suppress and hide it by calling it the will of God. Everyone knows that till date no action has been taken against any Baba or the organizers of the event on any such incident. The more deaths happen in a sermon, the more reach that Baba has to God.

This is the trailer of their project of developed India (Vikasit Bharat) of the year 2047. There is only one obstacle in taking this project forward. And that obstacle is Allahabad, which despite the announcement of Muslims being excluded from Maha Kumbh, stood up to take care of its Hindu brothers, sisters and children, opened the doors of its homes and religious places for the victims. Despite all efforts, the Sanghi gang could not destroy this Ganga-Jamuni culture in Allahabad.

This Allahabad is the soul of India, which is not only in Allahabad, but resides in every village, town and city of India. It assures that as long as Allahabad is alive, secular India and its pluralistic culture will remain alive despite the dance of Sangh-created deaths. But to keep this culture alive, it is now necessary that along with awakening the sense of prudence and rationality, human sensitivity and harmony in the common people, the hateful and inhuman politics of Hindutva should be exposed. The values with which we have established this country of ours should be revived and strengthened. This is the first condition of our existence as a secular, democratic state.

Sanjay Parate is the Vice President of Chhattisgarh Kisan Sabha, affiliated to All India Kisan Sabha. Contact: 94242-31650