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Hijacking the nation

Hijacking the nation

Author: Dina Nath Mishra
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: February 6, 2006

The following symptoms compel us to consider if India is a "half sovereign" State? The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) sub-committee on Muslim reforms has demanded abolition of Article 44 of the Indian Constitution, which recommends a uniform civil code in the country.

It is non-enforceable directive principle of the State Policy strategy. The SC has time and again requested the Government of India to enact the law in this regard in the light of constitutional directive. Nearly 13 per cent of Muslims are still governed by Muslim Personal Law and majority of the population is governed by constitutional law.

Waqf Boards are the biggest landlords in urban India even today. The properties under their control were originally confiscated from Hindus during Muslim rule. These properties are beyond control of Indian Laws. Recently Muslim Organisations have presented a Memorandum to the Prime Minister suggesting that agricultural land under the control of Muslims should be brought within the purview of Shariat. Articles 29 and 30 are tilted towards Muslims at the cost of majority.

The UPA Government speeded up its old Muslim appeasement policy, reservations for Muslims in the jobs and educational institutions, special scholarships in higher studies including minority status for AMU and 50 per cent additional reservation for Muslims students.

Sovereignty as doctrine as developed in Europe to advance the cause of sovereign State against the chains of the Church. The concept of "half sovereign" State was first introduced by German Jurist Johann Jakob, an expert of European International Law, later developed by Hobbes, Bentham and Austin.

Nations found lacking in pre-requisite of sovereignty are said to be "half sovereign". Recounting the points narrated above, India fits the bill. There are number of symptoms indicating that Muslims are state by themselves. The AIMPLB wants removal of article 44 from the Constitution itself. On the other hand majority community suffer disadvantages. Their richest religious institutions and highest educational institutions are subjected to various Government control. Thirteen per cent Muslims of the country applies veto against the BJP when and where it is possible.

The recent change in the political scenario of Bangalore demonstrates it emphatically. The largest party, BJP was denied power for being a "communal party" read Nationalist Party, proud of civilisational assets and grand vision of India. The foundation of this was laid by the first Prime Minister of India in the first general elections itself. Responding to the first election manifesto of the Jan Sangh, Nehru equated it with communalism, revivalism, obscurantism and reactionism.

In Discovery of India, Nehru, under subheadings like Panorama of Indian past, the search for India and Bharat Mata wrote, "Yet I think that a country with a long cultural background and a common outlook on life develops a spirit that is peculiar to it and that is impressed on all its children, however much they may differ among themselves.

"It was this spirit of India that I was after, not through idle curiosity, though I was curious enough, but because I felt that it might give me some key to the understanding of my country and people, some guidance to thought and action. Politics and elections were today day-to-day affairs when we grew excited over trumpery matters. But if we were going to build the house of India's future, strong and secure and beautiful, we would have to dig deep for the foundations."

Noted historian Dr Makkhan Lal analysing it in his book the History of Bhartiya Jana Sangh wrote: "The catchword in the above quotation is 'trumpery' which the Chamber's 20th C Dictionary defines as "something showy but worthless: non-sense." "Alas! Jawaharlal Nehru, in order to remain in power and win elections, not only disowned all that he had written till a few years before the founding of Jana Sangh, but also resorted to 'trumpery' to win elections and create a vote bank for himself and is spineless followers. We need to look for an answer to the puzzle why an icon like Nehru stooped so low." The answer lies in the fact that "in the 1952 elections apparently Nehru feared the nationalistic and reactionary right more than the socialist and communist left."

This is how "communal" was politically re-discovered and exploited in politics for more than five decades and part of Indian nation's sovereignty hijacked. This is how Hindus have been orphaned politically and religiously. There has been complete ethnic cleansing in Pakistan. The same is going on in Bangladesh with increasing ferocity and in India too. Thanks to Nehru and the dynasty.


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