Hindutva Outfits - Elections

The famed brothers of Owaisi from Hyderabad are arrested. The big brother (Akbaruddin Owaisi) for obstructing a government officer while performing his duty, while the smaller on (Asaduddin Owaisi) for his hate speech. The speech is a definitely promotes hatred among communities. Some peace loving brothers among the muslim community have many times in the past have retorted to violence after the prayers, and also during the peaceful protests. The arrest of this infamous duo has been done after much pressure from people from various quarters, and the police and state government finally under pressure has carried out the inevitable. One of the brothers is already out on bail, the bigger one, while the smaller one is still staying in jail till date. There seems no respite and he even went to say he was under the influence of a bhoot, and his voice is not his but changed. All that speech is to finish the Hindus in 15minutes if the police force is removed from this country. There are many other cases filed on these brothers but the police seems to keep quiet on these issues.

Dr.Praveen Togadia, on January 22 in Bokhar, Nanded district, gave a speech where he gives a fitting reply to the threats given by the Owaisi in the nearby Nirmal, Adilabad district. If any person gives a threat message in a big meeting, either the government should take some actions to instill the faith in the systems, or at least give out messages that boost the confidence of the people. With the government having failed in both respects, various leaders of Hindu community came forward and gave speeches to remove the fear of the minority community and talk about the strengths of the majority community. All the incidences that Togadia mentioned, there is no one person accused from the Sangh Parivar, but many may be falsely implicated like Sadhvi Pragya, who even after 5years of arrest the NIA is not able to provide the evidence of her direct involvement.

The context of the speech is very important. Two friends may call one another bastard, but when they are in a bad mood the same bastard will not be taken lightly. The speech of Togadia is just a befitting reply to the one made by the Owaisi as the state failed to any credible action and its slow progress in punishing the Owaisi brother. But the news is anything to go by, then one may see at Owaisi and Togadia are the two faces of the same coin. Even today though on the so called social media, the lies of the press, television news channels are dissected regularly, many donot have access to this social media. There is a large readership, viewer ship to these sources of information and are expert in changing the opinions of the people. To achieve this media and press are being heftily paid by the parties mainly the congress in the form of ads and the funding of these is through dubious sources.

With the elections approaching very fast, the Congress government fully immersed in corruption, hopes on Rahul Gandhi magic to win back the trust and come to power. The rise of a number of Muslim parties will definitely dent the congress vote share and it will make alliances with as many parties as possible to keep back power. With every small opportunity the media will brow beat the BJP and Sangh of dividing the society on communal lines, while the Islam fundamentalist parties and the Christian oriented communist parties are doing this for a long and is never mentioned? The Sang Parivar or all the pro-Hindutva parties should take a softer approach and if possible campaign for the BJP leaders. There is an allegation that in the recently conducted Gujarat elections VHP campaigned for GPP, if true is bad for the image of the VHP. The failure in promise of BJP in building the Ram temple is not possible to achieve in the near term even with Modi at the helm. In the first term the party has to focus on improving the economic condition, and in the second term if they get absolute majority then only there is slight possibility of this dream of the majority coming true.

Till such time, the Hindutva organizations have to campaign, support the BJP candidates and ensure the victory in the elections. If they cannot do this, then at least keep their mouth, shops shut for some time, because the BJP political leaders will more questions to answer and waste their time and efforts in justifying the actions, and they cannot completely disown the organizations. It’s time for some inaction and silence on the part of Hindutva organizations and for campaign for BJP if possible.