Dr.Abdul Ruff Colachal
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4/6/2008 4:47:42 AM
Anti-Mosque Agenda of Secular India (BY-DR.ABDUL RUFF Colachal)
Anti-Mosque Agenda of Secular India
Not many people doubt the tacit understanding between the so-called secular and democratic parties like the Congress party and the overtly anti-Muslim communal parties like the BJP. Anti-Muslim agenda seems to be common in both these streams, but Congress party quite effectively hide it from public view, especially from the Muslims. Historically, BJP emerged from Congress foundations in Delhi state. In fact right from the 1947, when then premier Nehru brought Hindus from Pakistan and got them settled down in Delhi and else where, the Congress and the earlier versions of BJP have operated on a secret understanding on issues concerning Muslims and Mosques. The Congress government led by Nehru, calling India to be democratic and secular, laid foundations for a Hindu state by encouraging the Hindu communal forces brought from Pakistan and collected from different parts of India to settle down and control the Capital city New Delhi. The communal forces began fuelling anti-Islamic and anti-Mosque propaganda with hidden encouragement form government of India. The ever loyal media in India have actively supported the Hindu cause very “judiciously” that included anti-Islamic and anti-Mosque propaganda along with lies about Kashmir.
Like anti-Pakistanism and anti-Muslimism, anti-Anti-Mosque policy too has been central to the Indian politics since 1947, though not discernible from the surface. Both Congress and BJP depended on the vote bank of the RSS and its branches. Initially Congress overwhelmingly managed the vote-banks controlled by RSS and its allies, but later with the BJP emerging a strong force at national level following the emergency, RSS switched its major votes to it and also help it come to power, ably aided by an alliance called NDA consisting of several so-called secular parties. Congress party is still focused on the fundamentalist Hindu vote bank to make a government on its own.
Nexus of Congress-anti-Muslim forces
It is a known fact that several Congress members are close not only BJP and its ideology, but also to its parental communal organization, RSS. Recent revelations by BJP‘s tallest leader LK Advani has clearly exposed the hidden relationships of these two parties having a similar national agenda. Late Congress prime-minister P.V. Narasimha Rao held many views that were 'congruent to those of the BJP', its leader L.K. Advani has said in his autobiography. When he was prime minister from 1991 to 1996, Narasimha Rao received trenchant criticism from a section of the Congress and also the Left parties for not doing enough to prevent the demolition of the Babri mosque.
In fact, the ruling Congress party encouraged the destruction of the Babri Mosque. In the autobiography, Advani has heaped praise on Rao, during whose regime the Grand Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh triggering the worst communal rioting in five decades. ‘Firstly I admired Rao's erudition. Advani said in the book that Rao had a great understanding of national and international affairs with rich political and administrative experience and in “my initial meetings with him, I found that his views on several critical policy issues to be congruent to those of the BJP.'” This forms crux of the issue of hidden bargain strategies of BJP and Congress and also other parties.
Although the Congress-BJP rivalry and tacit understanding saw the demolition of the Grand Mosque denying them pray there, no other politician demanded the government to hand over the Mosque to Muslims of India. It is known, as soon as India became free, it began its anti-Islamic operation in a systematic and sustained manner by getting the Mosque locked after throwing the persist who stayed there at time; it was followed later by unlocking the Mosque and allowing Hindus to place idols inside the mosque and still later, the entire Mosque complex was brought under the custody of Hindus by the governm
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