Author: Shyam Khosla
Publication: Organiser
Date: May 14, 2006
URL: http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=130&page=11
Introduction: Sample the statement issued
by infamous SEHMAT. It saw a "sinister" motive behind demolition
of the dargah. Although it didn't care to identify the motive, the implication
is clear. The foreign-funded anti-Hindu outfit's allegation is that the Modi
Government had purposely demolished the dargah.
UPA Government's response to Muslim mob violence
over the demolition of a Sufi dargah at Vadodra is most disconcerting. Sri
Prakash Jaiswal, Union MoS for Home who rushed to the town to garner Muslim
votes under the garb of having a first hand assessment of the law and order
situation in the disturbed town, had no word to deplore violence against officials
and policemen performing their duties, not to talk of innocent Hindus who
had nothing to do with the demolition work.
Two Hindus were stabbed to death and more
than a dozen were seriously injured in stabbing incidents by the marauding
mobs in the wake of the demolition of the dargah by the Municipal Corporation.
What is more disturbing is that the Minister sought to communalise the demolition
work carried out under High Court's orders by asking the administration to
be more sensitive to the "feelings and sentiments of the minority community"
pushing under the carpet the fact that the Muslim community had frustrated
all attempts by the administration to hammer out a formula to relocate the
dargah that was an encroachment on public land. In sharp contrast to the Muslim
community's rigid stand, the Hindu society magnanimously allowed the administration
to relocate as many as 20 temples to enable the administration to undertake
a vital development project.
The Minister didn't find time to visit the
families of Hindu victims but had ample time to address the media to express
his deep anguish over the demolition of the dargarh, thereby underlining the
secularists' ideology namely Muslim "sentiments" (read votes) are
more important than Hindu lives.
Countless people-mostly belonging to deprived
sections of the society and middle classes-have been rendered homeless (or
should one say, jhuggiless?) and deprived of their livelihoods because of
the court-mandated demolition drives against encroachments of public land
in Delhi and other parts of the country. The affected families have staged
demonstrations and, at times, resorted to stone throwing and violence against
officials involved in the demolitions and policemen escorting them. Nowhere,
barring in Vadodra, were such demolitions communalised by the affected people.
One can understand people's anger against the administration and the police
but why attack people belonging to another religious community to express
your anger against the administration? The simple answer is that Muslims have
been so pampered by the "secularists" that they have now come to
believe that no harm would come their way if they attack Hindus for any or
no reason. On the other hand, they know they will get plenty of support and
sympathy from the "secularists" even if they are in the wrong.
Sample the statement issued by infamous SEHMAT.
It saw a "sinister" motive behind demolition of the dargah. Although,
it didn't care to identify the motive, the implication is clear. The foreign-funded
anti-Hindu outfit's allegation is that the Modi Government had purposely demolished
the dargah to injure Muslim sentiments. Nothing can be farther from truth.
The demolitions were ordered by the High Court. While the Hindus willingly
agreed to relocate of their sacred shrines for public good, Muslims, particularly
their pig-headed leaders, frustrated municipal corporations' attempts to arrive
at a negotiated settlement. However, the "secular" brigade must
attach motives to routine drives by the administration. They won't advice
the Muslims to take a reasonable stand on relocation of a dargah that is not
considered a shrine by the Muslims.
Communal violence that erupted after the stabbing
incidents, including the burning alive of an innocent citizen, is deplorable.
Chief Minister Narendra Modi has done everything in his power to control the
violence. He asked the Union Home Minister to rush in additional forces to
prevent the tension erupting into violence in other parts of the state, particularly
polarised city of Ahmedabad that has seen countless riots since Independence.
The army staged flag marches and para-military forces have arrived in the
state to assist the local police. Although the tension persists, the situation
is, by and large, under control. But the Congress party and its allies have
left no stone unturned to milk the Vadodara violence for garnering Muslim
votes. Second and third rung leaders of the Congress and other "secular"
parties hopped from one TV channel to another to denounce the administration
for hurting Muslim sentiments and blaming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra
Modi for his "failure" to control the situation. The "secularists"
have a passion to denounce Modi for every conceivable or inconceivable reason.
By doing so, they are digging their own political graves. Bt pursuing an anti-Hindu
policy, they are generating a Hindu-backlash. Secularists' attempt to demonising
Modi has made him more popular in and outside Gujarat. His track record as
Chief Minister is impressive. Gujarat is ahead of all other states so far
as economic growth and development are concerned. To the "secular"
brigade's dismay, the Chief Minister is emerging as an idol of Gujarati and
Hindu pride.
The Government used diplomatic channels to
advice the Danish Prime Minister to postpone his official visit to Delhi.
It, thus, went out of the way to express its displeasure to the Danish Government
although the latter had nothing to do with the publication of the cartoons
and has no control over media in its country. Contrast this with UPA Government's
inaction over the demolition of the famous Krishna temple in Moscow and a
century-old Hindu temple in Malaysia. Hindus in Russia and Malaysia did protest
- of course, peacefully - and Hindu outfits in India did raise their voice
but our "secular" Government maintained a deafening silence over
these issues concerning Hindu sentiments and sensitivity. This is yet another
manifestation of distorted secularism.
