Beneficiaries of communal carnage in Gujarat

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Title: Beneficiaries of communal carnage in Gujarat

Author: D.P. Sinha, IAS (Retd.)

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BJP has certainly not gained either from the killing of Hindus by

Muslim mobs at

Godhra or from the subsequent retaliatory violence on Muslims by

Hindus. It has

given a weapon to the opposition, particularly Congress and Communist

parties,

who were earlier rejecte9 by the electorate to brow-beat BJP. For

them, it is

the opportunity to undo the electoral verdict with the help of

Goebbelian

propaganda and capture power through maneuvering. If not BJP, then

who stands to

gain by the gory garment of Gujarat?

 

The reply is simple and straight forward. The foremost gainer is

Pakistan. For

Pakistan it is an ideological victory. Hindu-Muslim divide is the very

foundation on which the grand edifice of Pakistan as a country

stands. Pakistan

was created on the ideology, propounded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan,

vigorously

propagated by Sir Mohd. Iqbal and successfully implemented by Mohd.

Ali Jinnah

that Muslims constitute a nation, different form Hindus. The two

nation theory,

as it is called, has been sought to be refuted by post-partition

India by opting

for ideal. of Hindu-Muslim oneness. Just as Pakistan is

concretization of

ideology of' Hindu-Muslim separateness, India is monument of inter-

religious

amity .Pakistan is a theocratic state; an Islamic republic. India is

a secular

country .In all its post-partition years, Pakistan was a democracy,

only for

some brief inconsequential periods, whereas India has had a

flourishing

democracy all these years. Ever since partition, Pakistan has tri!

ed to inject its virus of Hindu-Muslim divide in the body-politics of

India and

to destabilize Indian democracy. It is so well known that it does not

need to be

substantiated with instances and cases. If communal riots take place

in India,

it demolishes the secular credentials of India and vindicates

Pakistan's

communal stand. There can be no doubt that torching of Sabarmati

Express was a

handiwork of Pakistani inspired Muslim goons.

 

With their past experience of Bombay riots and Calcutta killings in

response to

Muslim League's call of Direct Action in Aug. 1946, the Pakistani

rulers knew of

the ferocious Hindu reaction to provocative violence against them.

Yet they

incited Muslims to perpetrate Godhra killings. Pakistan does not

mind, if some

Muslims lives are lost in the process, so long it serves its ultimate

aim of

creating a Hindu-Muslim divide in India and score an ideological

point over its

secularism. Pakistan does not want the Gujarat riots to cease. Not

surprising

that even after deployment of army the riots are lingering. A few

thousand

Pakistanis, who had come to India as visitors, have not returned back

after the

expiry of their visas, and have disappeared in the Country with the

connivance

of Pakistani agents here. It is these illegal Pakistani immigrants

supported by

Indian fundamentalist Muslims who are keeping the communal violence

alive, by

covert sporadic killings, as in guerrilla warf!

are.

The other group that has vested interest in continuation of Gujarat

riots is of

disgruntled Congressmen and Marxists of different hues.. Their agenda

for return

to power is served by killing of both Hindus and Muslims be it the

killing of

Hindus in Godhra by Muslims and killing of Muslims in retaliation by

Hindus.

Congress and its ilk have developed a vested interest in continuation

of

violence in Gujarat. It hopes that longer these riots continue,

greater will be

malignment of BJP Government and better will be the chances of

Congress to

return power. The Congress and Marxist dominated the media have

disregarded the

time honoured convention of not mentioning the religious identities

of the

persons involved in communal riots.

 

They are loudly exaggerating violence perpetrated on Muslims &

Muslims alone, in

a bid to incite them to continue the vicious cycle of retaliations.

It is these

Congressmen, both Hindus and Muslim who are part of Hindu mobs

killings Muslims

and Muslims mobs lynching Hindus. It does not matter if Hindus are

killed or

Muslims, so long it serves the Congress formula of return to power.

Let our peace loving countrymen not make any mistake about the

Gujarat riots. It

is Pakistan and its Indian agents, the unscrupulous Congressmen and

Marxists who

stand to gain by Gujarat mayhem. It is these people, who are

frustrating the

normalcy efforts of Gujarat government and are keeping the violence

alive

through sporadic incidents of violence committed covertly.

 

D.P. Sinha

IAS (Retd)

E-Mail: dpsinha50