Narendra Modi And The Last Ditch Battle Over
Constitutional Democracy
By Mustafa Khan
31 July, 2010
Countercurrents.org
The taluka panchayat and municipal polls in Gujarat will see Hindutva politics at its zenith. The chief minister Narendra Modi has carefully but brazenly articulated what is not just communal but also thwarting to the constitution. He said: "The Centre is clearly indulging in minority appeasement. It is revising the existing reservation policies and giving away the quota which rightfully belong to dalits." Like his fracas with the chief of national election commission in 2002(he had cast aspersion upon him by naming and focusing on his minority origin by calling him James Michael Lyngdoh) he is now taking on the CBI for electoral calculation what essentially is a matter of criminal justice in cases of kidnapping, illegal detention, fake encounter, rape and murder as well as moving earth and heaven to destroy evidence so vital to the cases of Sohrabuddin, Kauserbi and Tulsiram Prajapati. He it was who had transferred senior police officers to cover up the crimes. However, this way of sweeping the accruing of evidence of his right hand Amit Shah and top cops’ involvement in crimes, under carpet will not save him. Because he is on record of justifying the fake encounter and of having dared the central government to hang him for it! Perhaps even before the fuller outcome of the inquiry he would be in an unenviable situation of becoming a liability.
Before fall every tyrant has boasted out of hubris. But the tyrant does bite the dust. Muslims were a thriving community in Gujarat despite being backward. A heinous purpose of the pogroms of 2002 was to systematically mark out the business establishments of Muslims and under careful planning after survey destroy them and the excuse came on February 27, 2002. Putting all the blames on the Muslim and the so called ‘appeasement’ on those like Congress who try from time to time ameliorate the situation is an old game played at absurdum. Are the Amdavadis so cussed not to see through?
Many if not all in Gujarat believe what BJP has done and its stance on judicial process over Babri mosque. They have voted it to power on communal agenda and could not overcome prejudice against the Muslims as the state has a long history of communal riots. So it would not be a matter of surprise however menacing and full of enormity the thought is in: “We don’t subscribe to the judiciary-is-infallible theory.” This is what a BJP leader said not in defense of the demolition of the Babri mosque but on the likelihood of Mr Modi being probed for the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin!. It was a historic mosque of great significance and the birth place of Ram. Now the same party is at it again over an individual politician though a chief minister!
We are a constitutional democracy and the crucial test of it is, do we accept overt desire to subvert the constitution by Lt Col Shrikant Purohit of Abhinav Bharat and the subterranean desire of Narendra Modi and BJP.
Our Constitution and the law of the land clearly forbid fighting election by a party on communal lines and the forthcoming elections will show if the election commission can deliver us from the nightmare of communalized politics and politicized bureaucracy, the police of a demagogue chief minister and his party!
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Congress should field officers in civic polls: Modi. Toi July 29, 2010.
BJP ready for conflict if Modi probed. Economic Times. July 30, 2010.
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Mustafa Khan
http://commonalty.blogspot.com/
