Oh the hypocrisy!

BJP- a party that has taken its birth from an almost extremist Hindu nationalist organisation like RSS and that has been professing more or less Fascist concepts of Rama Janmabhoomi and Hindutva- is now trying to field Muslims in the next polls. What could be a better example of double-standards in politics?

BJP leader Mangal Pandey has ennobled the decision to field Muslim candidates by stating that Bihar's development would not be complete if the Muslims remained untouched. So, does that mean BJP has suddenly become a saintly ‘secular’ party? No, it means they have properly analysed the consequences of not fielding Muslim candidates in at least those constituencies that have high Muslim population (ranging from 18% to 48% in some districts).  

 An ideology, a principle should be the backbone of any political party. If a party abandons its ideologies to get into power, then the whole process of democratic selection of a political party is rendered meaningless. BJP has been doing only this for the past few years. It has renamed and implemented most of the UPA policies which they had themselves criticised while in Opposition. Some examples of this being the implementation of Land Swapping programme with Bangladesh, the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan being renamed and implemented as Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan etc.

This fielding of Muslim candidates and painting a secular image for themselves, is BJP’s next iteration of their mockery of Indian public.