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\nAs a student of social sciences I can easily discriminate between a sympathetic comment and a snobbish, supercilious attitude that explains the motivational dynamics which underlie RWA. Please don\u2019t confuse this RWA with \u2018Resident\u2019s Welfare Associations\u2019 or the body of parvenu fortresses of new Indian culture. I\u2019m talking about \u2018Right Wing Authoritarianism\u2019 that is trampling underfoot the secular democratic traditions of Mother India.<\/p>\n
Minorities are disrespected in any country whenever they are treated merely as the addressees of the majority rules constraining the formulation and pursuit of their life-plans. An impression is created that being minority, the treatment meted out to them in politics and society is legitimately influenced by the majority judgment. A sense of helplessness prevails among them. It is understood that there is a group in the country that is superior and merciful and the other inferior groups – the receptor of mercies.<\/p>\n
The message that the RSS wants to send to Minorities is that you are at the mercy of majority. And since the coming to power of the Modi-BJP government in May 2014 this RWA has emboldened its ambit which is a part of the RSS strategy to convert Secular India into a Hindu Rashtra.<\/p>\n
The latest salvo is fired by fired by no other but the Union Minister Union Ravi Shankar Prasad who was responding to a question related to development having an impact on culture and diversity. The honorable minister enlightened the country with the following stately message at the annual \u2018Mind Mine Summit\u2019 organized by the \u2018Hero Group\u2019 in New Delhi:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe salute diversity and culture of India. There are two ways of looking at it. Let me be very frank today. There has been campaign against us for a very long time, but today we are here because of the blessings of people of India. We have got 13 Chief Ministers of our own. We are ruling the country. Have we victimized any Muslim gentleman working in industry or service? Have we dismissed them? We don\u2019t get Muslim votes.<\/p>\n
I acknowledge very clearly, but have we given them proper sanctity or not? We have a problem with some of our friends. Mostly, the Leftist friends and journalists who entertain a pathological hatred against Narendra Modi. Good luck to them.\u201d\u201d
\nIt\u2019s not that Indian Muslims are unfamiliar with such benign blathering at their expense but earlier such efforts were being pushed through at medium pace and into a limited space. <\/p>\n
Now the magnitude and speed of such favors have stepped up exponentially. That RSS does not believe in diversity outside the majority compass and their underlying theme is that India belongs to the Hindus alone and so they dub Christianity and Islam as \u2018foreign\u2019 religions is now open in Indian skies.<\/p>\n
This attitude and the supportive propaganda has relentlessly fueled violence, from the brutal burning of Pastor Graham Stewart Stains on January 23, 1999 in Manoharapur, Orissa, the honorific Kandhmal violence in Orissa 2008 to the introduction of the \u2018Freedom of Religion\u2019 Acts in states like Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh to the recent Gau Raksha victims at Muzaffarnagar and Alwar.<\/p>\n
Responding to the minister\u2019s remarks, the AIMIM chief and Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday hit back at Union Minister for Information Technology and Law Ravi Shankar Prasad for his comments that the BJP has given Muslims \u2018sanctity\u2019 despite not receiving votes from the community. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe (BJP) gave them sanctity? Who are \u2018we\u2019? It is the constitution that has given rights, our rights are protected under that,\u201d Owaisi was quoted as saying by ANI. Also, the senior Congress leader and former union minister Salman Khurshid said: \u201cI see no reason why someone should feel that a particular segment of society is unable to vote for them.<\/p>\n
We should see who does not vote for us & find why and see if it can be addressed. Don\u2019t know from where has \u2018sanctity\u2019 come in.\u201d<\/p>\n
I think the political patients of \u2018foot n mouth disease\u2019 and loose cannons of Indian RWA are hell bent to undo what PM Narendra Modi has been trying to do since he came to power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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