The problem with Narendra Modi and
Amit Shah (ModiShah) 2.0 is that they are committing one mistake after another.
1. Soon after returning to power
after a massive mandate in 2019 they made the mistake of scrapping Article 370
and creating UTs of J&K and Ladakh. They had no business doing that. Who
asked them to integrate J& K more with the rest of India? Before that Modi
proactively sent our IAF boys to Balakot and bombed the terror camps. ModiShah
should have simply let the terror issue fester as in the past and kept the
tukde tukde gang and its well-wishers in the media happy. But by adopting a
hitherto unheard of muscular approach against the terrorists and their patrons
in Pakistan they angered so many activists and the ISI.
2. Mistake number two was to usher in
the anti-triple talaq law. How does it matter to ModiShah or the Hindus if
millions of our Muslim sisters are suffering from the insecurity of the
blatantly patriarchal practice of triple talaq? No...they had to come to the
resue of Muslim women without even as a verbal promise that they would vote
BJP. Don't they know that politics is all about votes?
3. Why they had to fight tooth and
nail in the SC on the Ramjanambhoomi case? This litigation was pending for
several decades and would have continued for a few more decades. But the Modi
govt along with others put up a strong case based on facts and law and won the
historic battle. By doing that it angered the Jamiat i Islami, Tableegh e
Jamat, the PDF and other fundamentalist organisations with a wide network
across Hindustan. Now all these organizations are taking revenge by mobilising
Muslims against CAA-NRC with generous support from a discredited and desperate
Congress whose positions on various issues perfectly coincide with that of
Islamabad.
4. Now we come to the fourth blunder.
Who told them to bring in CAA? Its a law which would have helped only 31,313 Hindus,
Sikhs etc who were persecuted in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. They
dont form a vote bank and politically they are of no help. But ModiShah had to
do justice to them. In the process they have become victims of the most
effective disinformation campaign ever unleashed anywhere in the world. NRC is
aimed at identifying and sending back illegal immigrants. About 19 lakh such
people have been identified as per a SC mandated exercise. ModiShah should have
just let in more illegal migrants and used them as a vote bank like what the
Congress has been doing. But no. This ModiShah combo had to unnecessarily
defend the national interest.
5. By cracking down on thousands of
NGOs getting money generously from abroad ModiShah have almost torpodoed the
well-crafted Joshua Project which aims at mass conversions of Hindus into
Christianity across Hindustan. This had ired the powerful lobby and its patrons
in the media in a big away. ModiShah should have just looked the other way when
lakhs of poor Hindus are being converted by foreign-funded evangelists.
Its high time Narendra bhai and Amit
bhai abandoned their long-term vision for a vibrant India and adopted a policy
of compromising with every vested interest down the street. That way they would
get to retain power for many more years to come. National interest be damned.
(About Author:- S Balakrishnan is
rare combination of intellectual, writer, journalist and activist. He was
journalist with The Times of India. He is currently practising criminal law at
the Bombay High Court, where he frequently take up the matters pro bono for
national interest and social cause.)
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