The battered secularism of India....

Recently I got a whiff of the fact the Varanasi is secular. I knew this authentic fact before too but this time I was amazed to hear about this mundane fact. I was bewildered by this fact this time because Rashid Alvi, an acclaimed Congress leader. Rashid Alvi recently wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi, party supremo of Indian National Congress, urging her to give him the Varanasi Lok Sabha ticket and an opportunity to fight against BJP PM Candidate Narendra Modi, so that he could teach Narendra Modi, a lesson on secularism.

I am just not trying to point out on any party but the thing about which I am going to write about is “Secularism”. I recently wrote a post on the respective topic but when the term secularism was again insulted, I couldn’t resist myself to pen down this one.

The concept of Secularism is very much misconstrued in the whole nation. Our politicians think that Muslim Appeasement is the key to secularism, but that’s completely contradictor to what’s the real secularism. Today all the citizens too deliberately obviate the concept of secularism and this sows the seed of distrust and communal violence.

But is Muslim appeasement known as secularism? Is promoting communal distrust secularism?

 For some secularism does mean the same, but actually secularism is the key to development, which promotes no religion and adopts no religion.

For some politicians and political parties secularism means the vote bank and also an easy way to blame anyone who comes in their way.

Let’s first take a quick review of Malappuram. Malappuram is in complete hold of the jihadist forces. But tensions occurred when some, not all started promoting “Jihad” against Hindus. Condition has become so much bad that, contemporarily, a Hindu can’t sell his home or any piece of land to anyone except a Muslim. Jihad is being promoted to such a hilt that around two years back, a pregnant cow, which is considered as a form of God for Hindus, was slaughtered in front of a Hindu Sasatha temple in Peumbavoor and moreover an RSS activist was killed by jihadists, having links with Gulf countries and Pakistan.  In the last three years more than 100(hundred) Hindu activists have been killed and more than 2000 Hindu girls have been abducted by the jihadists.

Another incident involves chopping of right hand of an innocent professor. TJ Joseph, a professor at the New Man College, Thodupuzha- a victim of the Islamists, was chopped off by fanatic jihadists for setting a controversial question paper for an exam.

 We are living in a nation where the government just wants to garner as much votes it can, no matter how many people are mowed down, no matter how many women are widowed, how many parents are left childless.

Today politicians use heavy and significant words like Secularism, communal harmony etc. but has anyone thought about those who are being killed in Kerala or other parts of India by jihadists and other fanatics? Definitely not! Because if government thinks about them, then it would have to abandon the powers, positions and most importantly votes.

There is another instance which expounds how secularism is being promoted in India. There is an All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB). AIMPLB vehemently objects Right of Children for Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 and supports Child Marriage. You would be thinking that this organization would have been proscribed but one great thing to note here is that, this organisation is running all the Sharia courts in India and is legally established.

Isn’t that ridiculous? That’s definitely something that needs to be despised and detested. But because our politicians get votes from these people, it is not going to act against such obnoxious organisation and because our government is secular.

The above mentioned examples truly manifest the meaning of secularism of India.

Now it’s on the people of the nation whether we want such secularism or not.

This time let’s change…..

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI