If you love Hinduism you will not vote for the BJP, which is promoting Hindutva – a distorted version of Hinduism, noted social campaigner and former IAS Officer Harsh Mander said. Five weeks after the burning of the Sabarmati Express coaches on 28 February 2002, senior IAS officer Harsh Mander resigned from service, ashamed over the subsequent Gujarat riots. “This is a view that has been held by the Hindu Mahasabha as well as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) even before India’s independence. On one hand you had the group led by Jinnah which was propagating a “sameness” that led to the creation of Pakistan and on the other hand you had the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS propagating a view where Hindus are citizens with greater rights and privileges,” he said. Explaining how true love for one’s religion would lead to rejecting the ideas of superiority, he explained how both Mahatma Gandhi and Maulana Azad, both devout practitioners of their own religions were the ones advocating secularism. If you notice in Uttar Pradesh where last time the BJP came fourth, even lower than the Congress this time could in all likelihood come first given the anger they have manufactured against the Muslims through the Muzaffarnagar riots where videos shot in Pakistan were shown to be that of Muslims killing two Hindu brothers supposedly in India. “It is this hate against the Muslims that the BJP is engineering and seeking to benefit from,” he said. The BJP, he said, is offering three extreme fundamentalisms – extreme market fundamentalism, where the primary duty of the government is to facilitate big businesses, and not the ordinary citizen, secondly extreme communalism fundamentalism and thirdly extreme militarist fundamentalism where India will begin to arm twist its neighbours and begin an aggressive foreign policy and a very hostile international environment. one.in/oheraldo/if-you-love-hinduism-you-won%E2%80%99t-vote-for-bjpmander-1541062.html
Posted on: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 17:02:54 +0000
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