RSS leader was either naive or simply deflected international criticism

[ad_1]

It is evident that Bhagwat stirred up a hornet’s nest. Did he anticipate it? After a life in the parivar, he could only know how deep the feelings were towards the two communities which were differentiated by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath calling them BajrangBalis and Alis. Moreover, as a man of organization, what Bhagwat said could not be his personal point of view, but was meant to be of the parivar as a whole.

But the furious responses suggest they are not. Instead, there is a strong setback against Bhagwat’s observations. It is not only the words of a deputy or a priest that deserve to be noted, but also the actions of governments and institutions which have renounced their status of autonomy.

For example, the two-child policy pursued by some of the BJP-led states is clearly intended to give the impression that restrictions on the number of children a couple can have would not have been necessary if Muslims had joined. family planning standards. .

This belief was evidenced by the description of the refugee camps for victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots as centers of child production and by the slogan, hum panch, hamare pachees, indicating how a Muslim with his four wives can produce up to 25 children. .

For the Hindutva brigade, a shared DNA does not mean that Hindus and Muslims have the same culinary habits, the latter being mostly non-vegetarians or believing in small families. The administrator of Lakshadweep, who has a background in saffron, highlighted the different gastronomic preferences by prescribing vegetarian meals for schoolchildren in the predominantly Muslim archipelago.

If the pro-BJP administrator imposes the fashionable parivars on Lakshadweep, the so-called autonomous University Grants Commission is preparing a history program that marginalizes the Mughals and emphasizes Hindu mythology.

Bhagwat may be able to reduce the number of lynchings of Muslims, an atrocity he specifically condemned despite a former BJP minister surrounded a group accused of the crime – but there will be no slackening of the march of the saffron brotherhoods to Hindu Rashtra. Laws targeting Muslims as well as liberal society such as those against interfaith marriage and cow slaughter will continue to be enacted.

[ad_2]