The Truth of Communal Politics in India! BJP and the Congress accuse each other of being in communal politics. We are witnessing today, that the Congress is putting all their efforts to jeopardise the rise of Modi by revisiting the past of 2002 riots the reportedly to have claimed the life of some 2000 Muslims and 254 Hindus, and no doubt Modi mustn’t have done his best to contain the violence of Gujarat. However, if we look back the darker side of our history of communal killings in India, we also have the anti Sikh riots of 1984 which was instigated by some of the activists of the Indian National Congress, commanded by Late Rajiv Gandhi in response to the assassination of his mother, Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh Bodyguards when Indira Gandhi authorised the Operation Blue Star. The riots of 1984 took the lives of more than 8000 Sikh, which was also termed as genocide of Sikh, was significantly seen as the result of personal vengeance, hatred, anger, and grief. ("When a big tree falls, the earth shakes” – said, Rajiv Gandhi on being asked about the Sikh massacre.) I am also of the opinion that Operation Blue Star was a direct consequence of excessive use of authority by Indira Gandhi when she directed the former President, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed to declare Emergency on 25th of June 1975 after the Allahabad High Court not only sentenced her election as null and void but also banned her to contest from any future election in life. Nonetheless, the worst nightmare was said to have occurred in 1947-48 when Nehru, in his clear conscience of hatred and vengeance had ordered his whole army and slaughtered 100,000 to 150,000 Hyderabadi Muslims, at time when the Nizam of Hyderabad wish to remain independent and refused to join neither Indian Union nor Pakistan. This darkest side of Nehru was said to have classified by his government and was not allowed to go public. Even after the death of Nehru, the documents were said to have resurfaced again in our country from foreign Medias but was immediately declared illegal and banned from publishing by his daughter, Indira Gandhi, while she was the cabinet minister for Information and Broadcasting under the Prime Ministership of Lal Bahadur Shastri. Our democracy, even today, still sits in darkness and I believe there may be more of this kind in our history which every one of us has the right to know. Government must declassify all such documents and learn from the mistakes that we have committed in the past to move forward and not just shying away from the bitter truth by sanitizing the text books.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 07:52:11 +0000
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