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India’s Next PM – A Ticking Time Bomb!
5-07-2014
How unsafe the world will be after May 16th, 2014? A lot less safer than today.
A greater threat awaits the world past May 16th, rise of a fascist government, with a right wing Hindu agenda, out of the largest, and one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse democratic country in the world, India. A nuclear power, determined to be recognized at world stage, determined to make its mark, reclaim its lost glory.
Unfortunately, this blind determination harnessed by a shrewd sectarian politician, Mr. Narendra Modi, whose political career thrives on politics of divide and hatred, to others a war criminal, will be costly, and bloody with global consequences.
Indian Labour (Union Law) Minister, a prominent politician, Kapil Sibal has coined the term MODI stands for Model for Dividing India. Most Recently, May 6th, Sibal has also highlighted Modi’s track record of targeting press, for writing against him.
The labour MP from Brent North in UK, 2008, regarding his arrival in UK, said, “Clearly, the UK government is making what it thinks is a shrewd business decision, to help strengthen its relationship with India, but for many thousands of Muslims, both in the UK and India, Modi is a war criminal and someone who has blood on his hands.”
Fortunately, in past, Modi, as longest serving chief minister of India’s industrial capital province Gujurat have been denied a U.S. entry visa twice for his government’s alleged involvement in the massacre that followed the burning of a train carrying Hindu passengers in February 2002, shortly after he was elected as CM. Over 50 Hindus died in the train tragedy, which was blamed on Muslim extremists by the Hindu nationalist BJP.
Although an inquiry initiated by the central government of India later found that the deaths were an accident, Hindu extremists subsequently killed per some independent estimates by rights groups and NGOs thousands of Muslims, allegedly at the behest of the Modi administration.
More than 150,000 Muslims, displaced in the aftermath of the Gujarat Riots. Modi’s government was accused for the 2002 Muslim Genocide, and of shielding the people involved in the massacre, and paralyzing the law enforcement officials from assisting victims or responding to calls for assistance.
Subsequent reports from Human Rights Watch and The National Human Rights Commission claimed that Modi and his ministers had complicity in the riots that was tacit, if not explicit.?
A U.S. State Department report found, a comprehensive failure on the part of the State Government of Gujarat to control persistent violations of rights.?
In past, his visit to Canada was thwarted after an outrage by many Indo-Canadians and human rights NGO’s raised concerns when some political power brokers wanted to expand economic courtship with India, by inviting the CM Modi to Canada.
All this could change and a greater threat that lies beneath if on May 16th, 2014 when Indian Elections are finalized and if as expected, Narendra Modi becomes India’s Prime Minister.
Although he is not even elected, and is merely a front runner there has already been a rise in wave of Hinduvta attacks against the minorities, especially Muslims.
A small minority of disenfranchised right wing Hindus seemingly suffer from an inferiority complex. This small minority of Hindus believe that being the only Hindu nation in the world, also known as Hindustan, the land of Hindus, have not been able to establish itself at the world stage as a power house. They blame the past leaders and ruling party Congress, lead by the Gandhi Dynasty, have failed to establish, and see Modi as their Knight in Shining Armour, who could restore Hindustan’s lost glory.
Modi over the past several decades being part of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), although a secular party, has capitalized on this discontent in galvanizing his political career. Modi and is party, BJP draw their core support from their alliance with two sectarian groups.
First, a prominent Hindu nationalists, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS or National Political Organization, originally established to drive the British out of India, and supress Muslim political movement for Pakistan) often criticized as extremist paramilitary group.
Second, from Shiv Sena, (Army of Shivaji – Hindu Raja before British India) is a Hindu nationalistic political organization, whose members are called Shiv Sainaks, (Shivas Workers), seen by some as, a terror group, responsible for sectarian violence, 1970 Bhiwandi Violence, 1984 Riots against Sikhs after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, by her Sikh body guard, and 1992-93 Bombay Riots.
Nonetheless, both right wing Hindu groups are vocal, demanding, and if needed forcefully assertive in their stance to purify Hindustan, purely as land for the Hindus, and have been successful in making substantial gains on many political fronts. Most notably, Shiv Sena has been successful renaming the second largest city, Bombay to its pre-British name, Mumbai, Victoria Train Station, built by British to Chatrapati Shivaji Terminal.
Both groups see Modi as the man who can make their dreams of a pure Hindu nation materialize, and place Hindus of Hindustan on the world map, and zero tolerance of criticism directed at the groups or whom they support is enforced.
According to Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP) ranks India number nine among the top 20 countries in the world for journalists, 32 have been killed between 1992-2013, 44% of them were covering political beats.
Modi over years and especially during his terms in the office as CM for India’s leading industrial province have been able to expand his portfolio as well as his voters base by turning Gujurat as Capital hub for India. He is now using his success model in Gujurat as a prototype to what he could do for India at the world stage.
Even greater danger lies, if elected, Modi likes to please his supporters by delivering on his explicit as well as implicit promises. His supporters, especially RSS, founded in 1925, to supress independent Muslim state movement of Pakistan will expect him to take an extremely hardline approach against Pakistan.
This would mean once again, as it has been in past when BJP rules India, under PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee the two nuclear nations might once again be going for a show down. Unlike his predecessor, who used it up the ante, to garner support, when his approval rating fell below expectations? Modi on the other hand get and adrenal rush on going all out, and he has proven that in past.
Let us hope and pray that logic and reason prevails and not the shenanigans of a shrewd, divisive, fanatic, supposed war criminal at the world’s largest democracy with the N-Bomb.
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