Saffron approach: By the ninth decade of the twentieth century the Hindu rightist political grouping of India had decided that for the purpose of quickly catapulting themselves to noticeable visibility in the Parliament and assemblies it would use some carefully selected patently anti-Muslim planks and would converge the politically un-informed Hindu masses on to the streets. For this purpose, to the low-hanging fruit of the emotive Ayodhya issue, they added the sauce of opposing Article 370 and demanding a uniform civil code. The spectre of Bangladeshi intrusion was trumpeted, LK Advani rode the Rath across states and Babri Masjid was demolished. There was an air of celebration on 6 December 1992 in the Civil Services Academy at Mussoorie where hundreds of the nation’s future administrators were being trained. On its website, the BJP cherishes such phenomenon and calls it Cultural Nationalism.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:48:06 +0000