Manoj Joshi: India will come apart if secular contract is torn / Harish Khare: The Real Import of Satya Pal Malik's Warning About Narendra Modi
Shockingly, some campaigns are being led by people who are camouflaging their murderous rhetoric by wearing the saffron robes of Hindu renunciants. Last month, the theme of many speeches at a religious conclave in Haridwar was the need to ‘finish off’ Muslims. It would be easy to ignore this as the ranting of fringe Hindutva elements, but it’s no longer clear whether they are the fringe or the vanguard.
There is a famous
Sherlock Holmes story about ‘the dog that did not bark’. Holmes solves the
mystery by surmising that the murderer was known to the watchdog. In a like
manner, we are witnessing scores of attacks, verbal and physical, on Muslims
and Christians of the country. Yet, the watchdogs - those who rule the country
and its law and order machinery - seem to have heard nothing. Perhaps, like the
canine in the Sherlockian mystery, they are familiar and even friendly with the
attackers and see no reason to bark, leave alone bite.
The signs have been visible for the past few years, but the crescendo has now intensified. A week ago, brazen attempts were made to prevent Christians from observing their major celebration of Christmas. Churches have been vandalised in Karnataka, Assam and Haryana. As for the Muslims, after a string of assaults and murders by the so-called cow protection groups, they are now facing open calls for their elimination. In Gurugram, a systematic campaign is on to prevent them from offering their Friday prayers….
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The Real Import of Satya Pal Malik's Warning About Narendra Modi
Approximately 65 years
ago, a somewhat inebriated Russian was detained in downtown Moscow for
shouting, “Khrushchev is a fool; Khrushchev is a fool.” He was promptly
arrested and expeditiously sentenced to 22 years’ imprisonment. When a
Politburo member asked the Comrade Magistrate for the logic of 22 years, the
Soviet judge explained, “Two years for insulting the secretary-general of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and 20 years for revealing a state
secret.”
Governor Satya Pal
Malik has put our ruling coterie in a somewhat similar quandary. He has at a
public function, as the per media reports, characterised
Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an “arrogant” ruler. He went a step
further; he also quoted the all-powerful Union home minister, Amit Shah to
create the image of a prime minister losing, possibly, his marbles.
If Malik had not been
holding a constitutional position, he would most certainly have been dealt with
in the same stern manner – and for the same reason – as the Soviet authorities
did with that drunkard.
Still, the reigning
cabal’s predicament is genuine. When Malik talked of the prime minister’s
arrogance, he was not spilling any beans. It is hardly a secret. In fact, it is
the prime minister’s image-managers who have carefully built an aura of
imperiousness about him. He has been marketed as a self-made man who is not
confused about his values and priorities in life; a leader who does not seek to
occupy the middle, in the manner of an Atal Bihari Vajpayee; a demanding ship
captain who brooks no departure from the command and control blue-book; a man
who is haughtily indifferent to the political niceties of Old India…
https://thewire.in/politics/the-real-import-of-satya-pal-maliks-warning-about-narendra-modi
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काशी विश्वनाथ मंदिर
के महंत ने मोदी,
योगी पर लगाया बड़ा
आरोप, सुनकर रह जाएंगे हैरान!
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