BJP leaders taking the blessings of the priests, makes its adversaries, and media frenzy, but Congress or other parties wooing the clerics of minority communities and inducing them to issue fatwas, or directives, to vote for their candidates and parties, is ethical, serene and secular. What a contrast, in defining the demarcation line between communalism and secularism.
Why it is so that the djinn, or the ghost of secularism hogs the limelight during each and every elections in India? Let's explore them.
The Congress Party, being the sole carrier of Indian spirit during the freedom struggle(for, there wasn't any other notable party during the freedom movement), gave in to the demand of Jinnah, to bifurcate the nation on communal lines: And the remaining Muslims have been forced to stick with the grand old party of India from the first elections, held in 1952 in India--ostentatiously from the fear psychosis, and the partition penance.
What it has done for the betterment and upliftment of the minorities, is not a hidden fact. It should have done more for thier cause. In the elections that followed after the first, the main minority community of India has been used as a mere vote banks. Muslims know it, but, they have a little option to go to. But, their strategic voting en masse, to any particular party or candidate, has remained a deciding factor in the elections and hence they are wooed badly, each time the elections are around. They go into a slumber thereafter. Who is to blame for then, the parties wooing them, or the clerics being wooed? In my view they both are the culprits of throwing India into a menace and chaos in which it is now.
Other minorities in India, has little or no effect, whatsoever, on the election platform, and hence are given less importance, during or after the hustings.
Mired in corruption, ineptitude and in-activeness, the current government has a noble way of taking an honorable exit route. But, it will not. For, the power not only corrupts, but it also makes its worshipers, shameless and restive.
It is time now, to get India freed from the jaws of such mean forces of secularism, and hence vote for a change, it badly needs, to come back to the track of inclusive growth, communal harmony, and mutual faith on each other. And, for the time being, there does not seems a better option than BJP and its allies.
Satirically,the English language experts--particularly in India--are ruminating hard, and are at the verge of mustering a consensus of giving the words Communalism and Secularism the authorised synonym status for Hindu and Muslims respectively--sternly in Indian context only. And both the aforesaid words are eying to bask in the glory after this new tag, shortly.
Why it is so that the djinn, or the ghost of secularism hogs the limelight during each and every elections in India? Let's explore them.
The Congress Party, being the sole carrier of Indian spirit during the freedom struggle(for, there wasn't any other notable party during the freedom movement), gave in to the demand of Jinnah, to bifurcate the nation on communal lines: And the remaining Muslims have been forced to stick with the grand old party of India from the first elections, held in 1952 in India--ostentatiously from the fear psychosis, and the partition penance.
What it has done for the betterment and upliftment of the minorities, is not a hidden fact. It should have done more for thier cause. In the elections that followed after the first, the main minority community of India has been used as a mere vote banks. Muslims know it, but, they have a little option to go to. But, their strategic voting en masse, to any particular party or candidate, has remained a deciding factor in the elections and hence they are wooed badly, each time the elections are around. They go into a slumber thereafter. Who is to blame for then, the parties wooing them, or the clerics being wooed? In my view they both are the culprits of throwing India into a menace and chaos in which it is now.
Other minorities in India, has little or no effect, whatsoever, on the election platform, and hence are given less importance, during or after the hustings.
Mired in corruption, ineptitude and in-activeness, the current government has a noble way of taking an honorable exit route. But, it will not. For, the power not only corrupts, but it also makes its worshipers, shameless and restive.
It is time now, to get India freed from the jaws of such mean forces of secularism, and hence vote for a change, it badly needs, to come back to the track of inclusive growth, communal harmony, and mutual faith on each other. And, for the time being, there does not seems a better option than BJP and its allies.
Satirically,the English language experts--particularly in India--are ruminating hard, and are at the verge of mustering a consensus of giving the words Communalism and Secularism the authorised synonym status for Hindu and Muslims respectively--sternly in Indian context only. And both the aforesaid words are eying to bask in the glory after this new tag, shortly.
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