Gift of Modi or Hind?

Like every time, on the occasion of Ramzan, Narendra Modi has announced a gift of some food items worth Rs. 1500/- for the people of the minority community. But Saffron Digital Army has trolled Sushma Swaraj’s daughter Bansuri and Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta a lot for attending Iftar parties. Or before this, the same Bharatiya Janata Party and its parent organization RSS have been calling the Congress Muslim-hater and Mulayam Singh Yadav Mullah Mulayam and now his son Akhilesh and his Samajwadi Party are being called anti-Hindu and Muslim-hater by the Uttar Pradesh BJP. But after Narendra Modi announced the gift of Modi, editorials on Hindu-Muslim brotherhood are being written in our media immediately.

How can we forget the Gujarat riots of 23 years ago? And after that, after coming to power in the centre in 2014. For the last ten years, the decisions related to hijab, beef, asking shopkeepers to write their identity in front of their shops during Kavad and preventing people from participating in Garba and Kumbh are indicative of which gift?

And the latest example is that the Congress government of Karnataka announced to give some quota in jobs to Muslims. So the ruling BJP is creating a ruckus in the Parliament. And they are arguing that there is no provision of reservation on the basis of religion in our constitution. And the report given by Justice Ranganath Mishra and Justice Rajendra Sachar committees twenty years ago about the backwardness of Muslims. After that, in the guise of the constitution, except implementing the suggestions of the reports of both the committees to uplift the Muslims from their current situation, there is no provision of reservation on the basis of religion in our constitution. So for the last hundred years, RSS and its political unit BJP are doing politics 100% in the name of religion. Is that according to the constitution of our country?

What gifts were being given to more than a hundred people of the Muslim community (just like Hitler killed Jews in Germany by mob lynching) in the name of beef? Similarly, whose shop is this in front of these shops? Under which constitution is it being asked to write on the basis of religion?

What is the point in asking for an account in the twenty-first century of the deeds done by Aurangzeb or Babar by citing the history of three or five hundred years ago?

People are identified by their clothes. After speaking up, what gift is this that a railway security guard kills a passenger in a moving train with a pistol given by the government for railway security just by looking at his clothes? Similarly, the Supreme Court has said that the action of demolishing the houses of Muslims with a bulldozer is wrong. Despite speaking up, the action of demolishing the houses of Muslims with a bulldozer is continuing unabated. What gift is this?

Today at least 25 crore Muslims in India are living in such an insecure mentality as never before in the 78 years of independence. What is the reason for this? Is breakfast or food worth Rs. 1500 going to end with the announcement of Saugat-e-Modi?

If Narendra Modi is making this announcement in view of the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, which have the highest Muslim population, then he is mistaken. Because the propaganda against Muslims by the Sangh and all its units for the last hundred years has made Muslims feel very insecure. And Narendra Modi is well aware of what happened in Nagpur ten days ago. Narendra Modi is probably coming to the Nagpur Sangh headquarters for the first time after becoming the Prime Minister in two days to celebrate the centenary celebrations of the Sangh. So my humble request to him is that “your parent organization RSS and its other related organizations which also include your ruling BJP, all of them have the same rights in India as people of all religions living in India for the next hundred years, which an ordinary RSS volunteer also has. Ask them to make this change.” Otherwise, on last 26th January, you have announced from the Red Fort that India’s Independence Day will be celebrated along with India’s Partition Day and I have welcomed this announcement of yours. Because India was divided only on the basis of Hindu-Muslim. What were the reasons responsible for that?

So, only Hindus and Muslims are two different nations, this was the text written in 1927 in the book named Hindutva by Barrister Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Barrister Mohammad Ali Jinnah had also demanded Pakistan on the same basis. Which has become Pakistan today. But now there are more Muslims in India than in Pakistan and if after 78 years politics is again done in the name of Hindu-Muslim, then what will be its end result? Therefore, if Saugat-e-Modi was announced keeping in mind the Ladli Behna elections, then what will happen if it is being done keeping in mind the elections of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar?

Dr Suresh Khairnar is Ex. President of Rashtra Sewa Dal