Justice katju
This article has been motivated by this recent tweet of Yashwant Sinha, former Indian Finance and Foreign Minister :
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” We have an undeclared emergency in the country. Now we have an undeclared but clearly established Hindu Rashtra in India. Modi has shown how the Constitution of India can be derailed without amending it ”.
To which I tweeted in reply :
” India became a Hindu Rashtra once the Congress leaders, in their hunger for power and all its benefits, accepted Partition of India in 1947 on the basis of the bogus 2 nation theory propagated by Jinnah. Thereafter a figleaf of dejure secularism was maintained. But that figleaf too disappeared in 2014 ”
Let me explain.
Once Partition of India was accepted on the basis of the bogus 2 nation theory, and Pakistan was created as an Islamic state, the inevitable consequence was that India became a defacto Hindu state, as a reaction. However, the Indian Constitution promulgated in 1950 made India a dejure secular state, but this was done not because of any genuine concern for the welfare of Indian Muslims, or any genuine commitment to secularism, but with an eye on the large Muslim vote ( particularly in north India ) which the ruling Congress party wanted to get.
Despite this, subtle oppression and discrimination against Indian Muslims occurred after Independence, as mentioned in the Justice Sachar Committee Report of 2006 ( which was long before the BJP came to power in 2014 )..
https://www.ncm.nic.in/home/pdf/recommendation/06-07.pdf
Also, sporadic atrocities against India occurred, e.g. the Batla House ‘encounter’
https://muslimmirror.com/batla-house-encounter-a-wound-that-has-not-healed
One reason for this was that there is an unwritten rule of the government that the police, which has weapons, should have very few Muslims.
The result is that the police force in India is predominantly Hindu, and since most Hindus ( like most Muslims ) are communal, this makes most policemen anti-Muslim, regarding Muslims as terrorists and anti-national. Consequently, Muslims are often at the receiving end in any communal or other incident.
What happened in 2014 when the BJP came to power was that oppression of Muslims in India, which was often covert and sporadic prior to 2014, became overt, continuous and virulent thereafter. But to blame the BJP excusively for this is to overlook what was happening earlier under Congress rule.
Until the British swindle called Partition is undone, and India reunited under a truly secular government which does not tolerate religious bigotry or extremism and crushes it with an iron hand, communalism in our subcontinent will continue, and minorities will be persecuted and discriminated against.
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Before I conclude, I may mention that in response to my tweet ( quoted above ) which I also sent by whatsapp to the eminent and upright Pakistani journalist Moeed Pirzada ( living presently in America, like a refugee, since he had criticised the army rule in Pakistan ), I received this whatsapp message from him :
” Fully Agreed! Though there are serious gaps in many parts of your Analysis ! But Congress shouldn’t have accepted partition on 2-Nation Theory; however you wouldn’t agree that they should have accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan ”.
To which I replied :
” The Cabinet Mission Plan, if accepted and implemented, would have left India with a very weak, truncated central government. That is what the Britishers wanted, so that India does not emerge as a modern industrial giant ( like another China ), and thus a big rival to British ( and American ) industry.
Moeed, your obsession with the Cabinet Mission Plan blinds you from what is obvious. To rapidly industrialize India we need a strong secular central government. Without industrializing India ( which includes Pakistan and Bangladesh ) we will never be able to solve our massive socio-economic problems like poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, lack of proper healthcare and good education for our masses, etc ”
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