The
educated Muslims have historical responsibility at this crucial juncture. The
Muslim community has been failed by clergies and communal leaders who pushed
the community to the wall and made it vulnerable to attacks by paranoid
elements.
Since India became independent in 1947, whole nation
was united on Constitution, National
Tricolor, National anthem and Gandhi. In the beginning there was hate
campaign against Gandhi and educated Middle Class families of particular castes
used to say openly why anybody does not shoot him but after his assassination
they saw the blunder and became aloof to Jan Sangh. But gradually RSS resurfaced
and continued its propaganda against Constitution and presented Bhagwa, Vande
Matram and Godse as replacement of above mentioned rallying points.
The orthodoxy of Muslims after Shah Bano case and then
Babri issue was resurrected by Rajiv Gandhi and hijacked by BJP and Mandal
Commission and then Islamic terrorism all this pushed majority of educated
Hindus into RSS-BJP fold.
I have read Golwalkar’s Bunch of Thoughts and
appreciate his concern for nation and demonstrating evils of religious
minorities but his desire to base national integration by diminishing castes,
regions and languages differences and by accentuating religions differences and marginalizing Muslims and
Christians are against nation and are self defeating. This approach was
understandable before Independence and Partition, is now treachery to nation.
Hindu community is divided into castes and privileged
castes are in minority even less than Muslims. So staying of Muslims gave
chance to Congress to make these privileged castes take control of everything –
service, banking, business, media, profession. If there had not been strong
Muslim vote bank, the Backwards and Dalits had come to power. Then Reservations
were given to Dalits to keep them in Hindu fold otherwise they had converted to
Islam or Christianity and thus making privileged castes marginalized.
Now after 50 years, privileged castes feel themselves
powerful to crush minorities and to undo reservations. This is playing with
fire.
Taking cue from RSS who are adamant to replace
Constitution, National Tricolor, National Anthem and Gandhi, educated Dalits
are working to undermine Hindu Mythological icons – JNU and other universities
are its den and this is why BJP government meddled in these to crush this
movement by force on pretext of anti-national slogans and activities. Perhaps
other politicians failed to grasp this reality. This Dalit think tank cannot be
crushed by force. The only solution is to work for total national integration
including religious minorities.
Or all politicians are only interested in dividing
people and making themselves ruling elite and keeping masses enslaved.