Recalling Jallianwala martyrs communal amity as BJP warns of Sitalkuchi everywhere
By Shamsul Islam
The RSS-BJP rulers declare India to be a battle-ground between Hinduism and Islam. Muslims have been declared as ‘internal threat’ by RSS ideologue MS Golwalkar (“Bunch of Thought”, Chapter xvi). Behaviour of many of their leading cadres, including those who hold high constitutional posts, is such that they seem to be conspiring over-time to ignite a civil war between the two communities. They are under the impression that this would help divert attention from failures of the Hindutva rulers on developmental front.
Indeed, they are refusing to treat Muslims as part of the Indian nation, which according to them is a Hindu nation. They have no hesitation in identifying themselves as ‘Hindu nationalists’. Awfully, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took oath to uphold democratic-secular polity in 2014, long before had identified himself as a Hindu nationalist with tot