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RSS-BJP carry on anti-Christian
hate violence
WSN Network
 BANGALORE:
Hindutva's terror campaign against minorities in
India
is on. The WSN recently carried detailed Special Report on the
violence against Christians in Orissa. Last week, Karnataka emerged
as the new battleground for the Sangh Parivar as 12 Christian prayer
halls in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Chikmagalur districts of
Karnataka were targeted by mobs on Sunday, the same day when serial
bomb blasts rocked Delhi.
India
is now living in a climate of uncertainty and fear because it has
forgotten, or rather refused to learn how to accomodate political
differences. There is a lot of incentiveon communal violence, and
minorities are learning this to their peril.
The Orissa
government was criminally slow in reacting to the RSS-backed mobs
who committed murder and arson but many in India were quick to blame
the Christians in the tribal pockets of the state for the murder of
a controversial RSS leader swami though the Maoists claimed
responsibility for that killing. The bogey of religious conversions
suits Hindutva's agents. Religious conversion is legal in
India,
but mobs deliver verdicts of death andrarely do government's act.
Forced conversions are bad, but no one says that forced
reconversions are also bad. Hindutva forces are subverting the
Constitutional rights and forcing their writ on the people.
The BJP has
persistently refused to rein in its affiliate outfits. As a leading
Indian daily wrote recently, "The likes of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and
Bajrang Dal operate outside parliamentary democracy, unlike the BJP
that aspires to form the government at the Centre. The VHP and the
Bajrang Dal have no faith in the liberal framework of the Indian
Constitution. Does the BJP subscribe to the VHP-Bajrang Dal idea of
India?" But L K Advani, the BJP’s PMin- waiting, is least worried
about the actions of the party’s affiliate groups, because he knows
that his real agenda. Chauvinists know that a BJP government in
office is an opportunity to break the law, and the BJP knows that
only chauvinists can help bring it to power.
17 September 2008
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