Minority Report!

Democracy is a game where majority always wins. It is when the majority always remains the majority that this game becomes a death trap for the minorities. In India, majority and minority are based on religion and birth and as such they remain permanently in their respective circles which means a person born to a minority section would always lose. To counter this has been the reservations and various other measures that have been instituted in the Constitution.

While all this may remain good on paper, the reality outside is changing. For the first time after Independence a party that has been explicitly pro-majority has come to power. Moreover Union Ministers like Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti is openly addressing minority communities as ‘Haraamzadon’ or ‘illegitimate offspring’, religious processions are being blocked, Churches are being burnt, youths are being murdered in the name of religion and all that our respected Prime Minister could do was deliver a speech on condemning communal violence on the occasion of Independence Day.

The identity of India lies in its harmony among diversity. It is the essence that has kept the spirit of the nation going. But when a Government which shares ideologies with extremist Hindutva groups, and when its Ministers are openly condescending upon minorities, this identity of India is going get tainted. Will Modi let that happen or not? Only time will tell. 

It's Getting Serious in Bengal...

          With Congress in its most wretched condition and BJP trying to make a grand entrance into Bengal, Mamata has to take the lead against the NDA before it is too late.

The Saradha Scam and TMC’s alleged relation with Bangladeshi migrants and ‘terrorists’ have put a hole in the clean image of the TMC while BJP’s image is clearly building up under the charm and charisma of Modi and the political crookedness of Amit Shah. If this is allowed to continue, TMC has no existence and hence must fight or perish.

While Mamata is doing what she has always done, that is to blame the Central government for the lack of support they provide, BJP is pestering her with a number of scams, lack of development and minority appeasement. Mamata has, at most times, able to get away with her trick but this time it seems to be not working in her favour.

An entry of BJP into West Bengal would be a tragedy for all other parties not only because such an entry would have a huge impact on both National and regional politics but also because, apart from the Left, there is no national level party to compete them there. It is like giving BJP their own personal voting machine which could in every way decide the outcome of national politics.

It is high time for Mamata as well as Congress and Left to charge against BJP, for it is the only way to assure their survival.    

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.