CRIMINALS IN SAFFRON
I.K.Shukla
[August 30, 2004]
After Advani was "cleared" in the Hawala Scam, after Murali M Joshi-Advani-UmAbharti were allowed to go scotfree in the Babri Demolition, after Thackeray's continual hooliganism went unpunished, after all the saffron gangsters escaped being charged with perjury (swearing allegiance to the Constitution and then savagely suborning, sabotaging it), now comes, in the wake of the roguish confrontation that outlaw BJP has mounted in the parliament, another bonanza has fallen in its lap.
Karnataka govt. has withdrawn the cases of rioting and disruption of public peace in Hubli Aug.15 1994 by Uma bharti who seditiously violated the curfew and reached the Idgah Maidan with a mob of saffronite goons , to do what (hold your breath): to hoist the tricolor. Six people lost their lives to prove that Um was not Abharti but a patriot, i.e., Bharati. Idah became another "disputed site".
Another site for Hindutva mobilization.
Saffronites had proved their neo-Hinduness and similarly sanguinary "patriotism" in Gujarat with assassination, arson, gangrape, spearing of infants, tearing of wombs, burning alive of men-women-children, loot, destruction of properties worth crores, desecrating graves, and razing memorials and shrines - all Muslim.
On a smaller scale, but quite horridly, they had done the same to Christians, not only in Gujarat, aided and abetted not only by the central command in Nagpur and New Delhi, but also by such a well-known socialist as George Fernandes, to whom the furore over the rape of Christian and Muslim women was worse than inane. Doesn't India have a rape every six minutes? Did not India have rape traditionally?
Congress gave the BJP another dramatic victory as a steroid boost to its sagging morale and sinking fortunes. It had done so before - in the Shah Bano case, in the opening of the Masjid doors and construction of Chabutara in Ayodhya, and in Gujarat by cowardly non-inerference in the genocidal orgy of blood and fire under the supervision of our Torquemada, N.Modi. Congress has thus certified itself as a saffronite party, a saviour of Hindutva, espousing filtered fascism.
Could Congress have chosen a moment more inappropriate for this ignominy? It is distancing itself from Aiyar's remarks on Savarkar. Does Congress then endorse as patriotiosm the grovelling cowardice, rabidly communal fascism, first advocacy of two-nation theory, treasonous collaboration with the foreign imperialist enemy, pitiable and repeated pleas and petitions for mercy that characterised Savarkar's career? Does it call this Jai Chand, this Quisling, a hero, a freedom fighter? If yes, let it say so openly loudly now to let people know that it is the obverse of BJP, nothing different.
It is the loss of vision and vigor of Congress that encourages people like Karunanidhi, an ex-BJP ally well-versed in changing saides, to chastise Aiyar for his view of Savarkar.
Veer as an adjective and noun has replaced Vinayak in Savarkar's name. Can it coverup his cowardice and treason of 1942? He and Mahasabha-RSS had been collaborating with the Brits for decades. This is an outrageous semantic sleight of hand and boldly deviant erasure of memory. Why is Congress helping BJP rewrite history and nominate cowards and stool pigeons as national heroes?
If Congress is determined on political harakiri, no tears will be shed for it. But what it is doing by its maladroitness is far more lethal. It is legitimating liars and vindicating lies that can prove lethal to the existence of India as a nation-state.
The cowards and traitors, who always betrayed the nation, who instigated and launched blood baths in a series promising more of the same, whose idols were fascists, whose mentors were Manu-Mill-Mussolini, all atavistic and alien models of mendacity and mayhem, who made lying a winning artifice in the polity - could not have expected rewards that Congress showered on it one after another and helped make a criminal gang acceptable as a mainstream political outfit.
Thus Congress deprived the people of India any genuine choice between two parties, it drained democracy of all meaning.
Bullying and confrontation has paid BJP-RSS big dividends. The saffronazi anti-nationals will expand their business - opening new portfolios, starting new ventures.
IKS/30Aug04
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