By Mahmad Sidat for TwoCircles.net
The recent violence reported in Bengal and Bihar during Ram-Navami processions raises serious questions about the Indian society in general and Hindu community in particular. Anyone who has slightly observed Indian politics knows too well that these riots are part of the BJP poll strategy to polarise voters for upcoming general election in 2019. But the question is why is the Hindu society, especially in North India, rewarding these riot instigators so handsomely? The aggression on the faces of Ram Navami procession participants, completely devoid of any devotion, brandishing swords and other weapons clearly shows that they are out there only to provoke Muslims and spill their bloods because every drop of Muslim blood with increase BJP vote share by thousands. It was Muzaffarnagar riots that enabled BJP to clean sweep UP in the 2014 general elections.
The toxic Sanghi ideology propagated by the BJP and its sister organisation hardly seems to have anything based on the Hindu religion and is based instead solely on hatred for the minorities, especially Muslims. It is the successful penetration of this ideology in deep Indian state and among the general population that is attacking the core of our country. Years after years, election after elections, Hindu community appears to be rewarding riot instigators. This makes it easy for the likes of the BJP to create manageable riots, lynching and spew venom against Muslims through their propaganda channel to create an environment that leads to their victory, a strategy successful since 1992 Babri demolition and mastered by Amit shah in recent years. What else explains the 24/7 focus on Muslims by governments, its machinery, the court and media. Be it triple talaq, polygamy and other such issues that anyway effects negligible percentage of populations. Every other day, the BJP comes up with one or other issues as a steak to beat Muslims with and everyone including well-meaning people jumps the train. I wonder of single point fascination of our country is only Muslims, their food, their festivals, their history, their marriage, their Azan and their funerals. I would have still been ok with this kind of attention if this helped our country in anyway but alas only thing it does it spread the poison in the vast majority of population.
Introspection must begin among the Hindu community, especially among the upper-caste community, which is largely aligned with BJP as to why their society demands the blood of Muslims from BJP? What has caused this tremendous amount of blood lust? Is it may be the fake version of toxic history being thought in Sakhas that is radicalising the community and arousing the kind of bloodlust that no amount of cow lynching seems to satisfy?
It is cowardice to use a dejected, disfranchised community as a pawn to win an election, but can you expect anything better from an ideology who roots can be traced in apology letters to British?