He said that BJP’s statement today saying, “Strongly against any ideology which insults or demeans any sect or religion” is nothing but a blatantly counterfeit pretence, which is evidently a farce and another sham attempt at damage control. This is what is called Steal a goose and give giblets in alms.

The BJP and its shenanigans have repeatedly & by design insulted India’s centuries old civilisational ethos of ‘VasudhaivaKutumbakam’ by constantly pitting one community and religion against another to polarise, to divide and to spread hatred.

The intrinsic character of the BJP and the Modi Government is now founded upon religious violence, divisive conservatism and nurturing hatred to secure vote-bank politics. None less than the Prime Minister and the BJP Chief Ministers, of the ilk of Adityanath, have introduced a new political vocabulary of State sponsored division of Society, i.e. “Shamshan-Kabristan”, “80 vs. 20”, “bulldozer”, “GarmiNikaalna”. The language of politics in elections no longer centres around phrases like “development”, “employment”, “progress”, “education”, “agriculture”, “irrigation”, “electricity”, “trade and business”, “infrastructure” etc.

The truth is that the BJP has pushed India into a dark age of religious polarisation to sub serve its parochial political agenda in the short term. Its leaders as well as workers have perpetrated only one thing and that is creating a schism in India’s universally celebrated idea of ‘Unity in diversity’.

The BJP and its leadership need to rethink the irreparable damage being caused to the polity by their insatiable lust for power. Resultantly, Sikhs, Muslims, Christians as also SC, ST and OBC’s have had to face the wrath of lumpen elements backed by State Power. This cannot be the central theme of any political party.

The placatory expulsion of two key members and spokespersons of the BJP from its primary membership, done obviously under duress of threats from external powers, exposes the much touted ‘muscular posturing’ and positioning of the BJP and the Modi Government.

Is the BJP sincere in course correcting? Is the BJP trying to atone for its immeasurable sins or is it more chameleon like posturing? Will the bulldozing of India’s soul, its ethos and its all-encompassing humanity by the bulldozer of hatred finally stop? Will the mob-lynching of our Constitutional ethos cease? Is repentance by the BJP and its leadership possible? Sunday, June 5, 2022.