On the pretext of Waqf Bill

What is the relation of Bharatiya Janata Party with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh? Last week, after Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi visited RSS headquarters in Nagpur and visited the samadhis of RSS founder Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar and second RSS chief Mr. Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, he said that “RSS has done a historic job of getting India out of slavery.” RSS, established in 1925, should give any example of what work RSS has done to remove British slavery in the years since independence? On the contrary, if our country’s Prime Minister has called RSS’s activities for recruitment in British police as work to remove slavery from the country, then it is a different matter.

The second Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, who had the longest tenure of 33 years as Sangh Pramukh in comparison to all the Sangh Pramukhs till date. Shri Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar in his book WE OR OUR NATION HOOD DEFINED written in 1939 (1940-73) had clearly said that there are only two courses open to the foreign elements, either to merge themselves in the national race and adopt its culture, or to live at its mercy so long as the national race may allow them to do so and the quit the country at the sweet will of the national race. That is only sound view on the minorities problem. That is the only logical and correct solution. That alone keeps the national life healthy and undisputed. That alone keeps the nation safe from the danger of a cancer developing into its body politic of the creation of a state within the state. Golwalkar is calling the minority community living in India as foreigners. Hitler had implemented this same theory for the Jews in Germany (1930-1945) on the basis of ancestry. More than 60 lakh Jews were killed by putting them in gas chambers. The ideals of RSS have been Italy’s fascist leader Benito Mussolini and Germany’s Adolf Hitler since its inception. Golwalkar always followed Hitler’s theory of pure Aryan ancestry during his 33 years as the head of the Sangh. This is clearly visible from the above quote from this book.

And to implement almost the same, be it Uniform Civil Code, or NRC, or the Waqf Amendment Bill passed in both the houses of Parliament yesterday, is also a step taken by the BJP in the same direction. However, in support of this bill, the BJP people in both the houses never get tired of saying that we are doing all this for the Pasmanda and Muslim women.

But for the struggle of these Pasmandas to live their daily lives, when the Karnataka government decided to give reservation in some jobs, the BJP is criticizing it in the Parliament. What is the percentage of Muslims in government jobs in comparison to their population? The same report by Justice Ranganath Mishra and Justice Rajendra Sachar committees has also shed light on the financial condition of the Muslim community. And for this reason, if people of the Muslim community are engaged in daily wage labour or small businesses, in which some have opened shops, then asking them to write their identity on the shops is not for the benefit of the Pasmandas?

The same is true for the welfare of women of the Muslim community. For the recently concluded Eid, some Muslim women asked a mehandi artist sitting on the roadside to draw the picture of the moon on their hands, but the artist flatly refused. And on top of that he said that he will not draw the moon. This poison has reached even those who sit on the roadside and apply mehandi.

Similarly, were the atrocities committed on women in Gujarat riots from Surat to various other places done for the welfare of Muslim women? And the decision of the government to release the rapists who were sentenced to life imprisonment by the court on the basis of remission policy under the pretext of seventy-five years of our country’s independence, was also taken for the welfare of Muslim women? And after those criminals were released from jail, the ceremonies organized for their welcome at various places, in some places the program of Hindu women performing aarti for them and distributing sweets was also done for the welfare of Muslim women?
I have been to RSS shakhas in the early days of my life. It has been more than 60 years since that incident. But I still remember how the children who go there are fed false stories against Muslims and stories of the times of Muslim rulers by the so-called intellectuals, from games to songs. Today, after three hundred years, the controversy over Aurangzeb’s tomb is the result of the same poisonous propaganda. Is this also being done for the benefit of the people of the Muslim community?

Dozens of invaders have attacked this country. And some of them ruled for some time. Now the question of Muslim invaders who are considered responsible for spreading Islam in India is that 712 AD is the time of the rise of Islam. Among the first invaders, Mohammad Bin Qasim, who was the son-in-law of the governor of Iraq, first captured Sindh province. The last king Bahadur Shah Zafar in 1857 means that different Muslim kings ruled this country for more than a thousand years. And some of them also have a history of oppressing the local people. There is no doubt about this. But during their rule, two types of people adopted Islam, one of them is Pasmandas, which means Shudras according to Manusmriti. Who adopted Islam after getting fed up with the caste system and the other people who belonged to the upper caste adopted Islam in the desire to become some official in the court of the rulers. (Swami Vivekananda) At some places, overenthusiastic Muslim rulers have used force. There is no doubt about this. But the Muslim kings who ruled for more than a thousand years really had enough time to make India an Islamic country. But by probing the history of thousands of years, it is seen that the population of the Muslim community in India has never been more than fifteen percent. Which is still present today. RSS has been trying this for the last hundred years to create communal polarization for vote politics. And due to that, today after becoming the ruling party, BJP is trying to pass various types of bills in the Parliament to resolve the disputes of temples and mosques and to legally weaken the people of the Muslim community, to make India a Hindu nation of RSS’s dreams. The most recent example of which is the Waqf Bill. And after this comes the turn of NRC in the name of citizenship.

But a person like me who has grown up in the values ​​of Rashtra Seva Dal feels that efforts are being made to endanger the unity and integrity of India. Because the RSS and BJP people beat their chests over the partition. I keep wondering why the partition happened when the total population of India was less than 40 crores? Now India has become the country with the largest population in the world. And the population of the Muslim community in it is 20 to 25 crores, which means more than any Muslim country in the world. If the Muslim community living in India is being put into an insecure mindset day by day, then it means that India’s unity and integrity is being played with. If all this is not stopped immediately, then isn’t it an anti-national effort to take our country towards further partition?

Dr Suresh Khairnar is Ex. President of Rashtra Sewa Dal