October 1, 2013

BJP - MODI - SECULARISM.



                                    Innocent Victim of Modi's barbaric communalism in 2002.


Finally, Narendra Modi the Chief Minister of Gujarat has been anointed as Prime Ministerial candidate by the BJP.  He was anointed by the BJP in what liquid?  Holy Oil or blood of innocent people he killed thru his remote control during Gujarat riots in 2002?  A criminal is going to be hoisted on the people of India without consulting them is the “dadagiri” of BJP.   

Here lies the weakness of Indian democracy where political parties are allowed to act in a Hitlerian manner.  I and many like me in India do not like Modi as premier of India but I have no choice but to accept him since it is his party that is going to hoist him on us against our wishes. It is now for the secular minded Indians not to vote for the BJP candidates in the coming election.

This coming election has to be fought on the platform of one important issue and that is Secularism though other two issues namely, economic woes and eradication of corruption are equally important.  However, priority should be given to protect the fabrics of Secularism in India as opposed to communalism as practiced in Gujarat under the leadership of Modi. If secularism is ignored in India, Narendra Modi and his gang will liquidate other religious communities, Muslims being the first target, not in Gujarat alone but all over India.

It is very difficult for BJP to discard their brand of communalism in India.  BJP will discard everything and anything but never their brand of communalism which is against the principles of genuine Hinduism which is Tolerance. BJP of Modi does not believe in the principle of Tolerance of other minorities but believe in Hitlerism which imposes its will on others.  Modi’s Hinduism is like Hitler’s Nazism where non-Germans like Jews were liquidated.  In the same manner Modi’s BJP wants to liquidate non-Hindus like Muslims in India and Christians in Goa under the fanatic Hindu Chief Minister Parrikar.

If Modi is elevated to the post of premiership there is every possibility for India to face disaster. One can rely on anyone but never on Modi and his gang in BJP to mete out justice to the minorities.  Up to now Modi is not acknowledging his fault of massacring Muslims in Gujarat and instead of offering unconditional apology for the Muslims in Gujarat he is showing his arrogance. For this arrogance he should be punished in the coming election. Not only by the Muslims and other minorities but by all the secular forces including enlightened Hindus.

India is the home for the minorities of different religions coming under one roof, otherwise India is very divisive.  Though Indian secularism is ingrained in India’s constitution giving protection to the minorities but practically minorities in India are abused by the majority community under the BJP. Since from the time of its independence if India is united till today it is only because of the hoax of secularism. 

Indian secularism is existing only in paper and not further. In the name of secularism Indians are kept united under one banner and Congress party to a certain extent protected this secularism though many Congressmen are hard core communalists otherwise in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination they would not initiate carnage of the Sikhs.

In maintaining secularism in India, Congress Party did a better job but BJP did worst. And if Modi gets an opportunity to form the next government at the Centre, the existence of minorities will suffer leading even BJP under Parrikar to humiliate Christians in Goa. The way Babri Masjid was demolished by the fanatic Hindus under BJP in the same manner under Parrikar many of the Churches in Goa will be demolished.

In Goa BJP will treat Christians as second class citizens dubbing them as anti-Indian and pro-West as if Christianity is a Western religion.  Christianity and Islam are not Western religions but Eastern like Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.  BJP must stop acting as owners of India and in the next election voters should not vote for BJP candidates unless Narendra Modi apologises for the Gujarat riots in 2002 and promises to act as real secular. BJP must in its election manifesto insert a clause that it will not act communal and will not do anything that hurts the minorities. It must declare its real intention to be secular.

In Goa, people's power must come to the fore and demand from its candidates in both the sectors that if elected they will not support any party in the parliament that foments communalism.  Voters got all the rights to instruct their candidates what to do and what not to do because they are the voters who elect them and not their parties and as such the MP’s must act as per the wishes of the voters only.

In the last Assembly election in Goa, voters elected Parrikar’s BJP to power not because they loved BJP and its communal leader Parrikar but because voters hated Congress and its Family Raj system.  In view of this in the next election BJP must not take Goan secular voters for granted.

Under Modi as premier of India there is every possibility for the minorities to suffer because Modi will target minorities only.  The real survival of minorities depends on the defeat of Modi and for this reason in the coming election BJP and Modi should be voted out.  In this election minorities will have to play their role well because their physical survival depends on BJP’s defeat. 

It is life that is more important than anything else and to save this life we have to defeat Modi and his BJP in the coming election. 

OTHERWISE, AS SEEN IN THE PICTURE ABOVE, WE WILL HAVE TO BEG WITH BJP'S BARBERIANS TO SAVE OUR LIVES.


A. Veronica Fernandes, 
Kuwait.