Intimidating Muslims in the name of Modi

Jamat-e-Ulema-e-Hind Syed Mehmood Madani

The Congress and its leaders have nothing against Narendra Modi except resurrecting the ghost of Gujrat riots and trying to inflict a sense of insecurity amongst the Muslims. The ruling party at the Centre received a befitting condemnation from no less than the chief of Jamat-e-Ulema-e-Hind Syed Mehmood Madani. In a statement Madani has accused the Congress of “raising the Modi bogey to spook the Muslim voters in backing the Party in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections”. He appealed to the Muslims not to be scared of the prospect of Gujrat chief minister Narendra Modi becoming Prime Minister in the event of BJP victory”.

I would like to suggest that the Congress leaders should turn the pages of the Constitution of India and read the relevant articles and the Preamble before crying wolf over end of secularism in the country with the advent of Modi at the Centre. The secular fabric of India is too strong to be broken by any individual. Ours is a vibrant democracy. At no stage Modi or for that matter the BJP has ever said that secular character of the country and of the government would change in case the BJP comes back to power at the Centre again. The BJP led NDA government under the stewardship of Atal Behari Vajpayee is rated as the best government in the recent past.

Ever since Narendra Modi has been declared the Prime Ministerial candidate of the BJP, he has been soliciting the support of the Muslims for the BJP. In a pluralistic society, no community or group of people can live in isolation in totality. True, the minority community of India has been supporting the political parties in the elections other than the BJP but not in entirety.  The BJP has been getting Muslim votes though in smaller number. In Gujrat, the BJP received more than 15 % of the minority votes.

As I write this piece, I have not received any reaction of Congress leaders over Madani’s charge against the Party. But I shall not be surprised if some Congress leaders come out with statement that Jamat chief was bribed to make the statement against the Congress Party by Narendra Modi as the UPA Government recently charged former chief of the Army Gen. V K Singh of bribing a National Conference Minister in the Jammu & Kashmir Government to topple the Omar Abdullah government for just a little over one crore of rupees.

No government worth its salt would make such unfounded and politically motivated charge against its former Army chief just because Gen V K Singh shared the dais with Narendra Modi at a rally in Rewari, Harayana. The UPA Government did not stop at that. Suffering from paranoid, the Government feared a coup by the Indian Army early in January this year when two columns of the Army moved on a routine exercise. Some corrupt and treacherous Congress leaders and even a few Ministers saw the movement of the army as reaching Rashtrapati Bhawan to stage a coup. Can two columns of the Army or for that matter any Army chief even dream such act? Only Congress can do this.

~R. K. Sinha