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Syed
Zafar Islam, former managing director of the Deutsche Bank and now a BJP
spokesperson has penned a piece of wisdom for Indian Muslims on behalf of the
Hindutva camp titled „Why Muslims must give BJP a fair chance: The community
has devalued its own vote by becoming captive to self-styled secular parties‟
(The Indian Express, May 4, 2017).[i]
A
banker who has served a major international bank as MD can be so illiterate
about Indian constitutional polity, RSS/BJP and Muslims, is to be read and
believed. Moreover, he tries to communalize the voting pattern of recently
concluded UP elections. Even if we accept for a moment banker‟s take that
Muslims did not vote for BJP (touted by the Hindutva „ideologues‟ despite the
fact that there are plenty of characters like banker riding the RSS/BJP
bandwagon), what about 61% of the voters who did not vote for
RSS/BJP
in these elections. Were all these MUSLIMS? Even in 2004 parliamentary
elections RSS/BJP could secure only 31% votes. Were 69% voters who did not vote
for Modi, were all Muslims?
He is putting cart before the horse
when he argues that „Muslims must give BJP a
fair
chance‟. The fact is that BJP as a pocket borough of RSS does not treat Muslims
and other minorities as equal partners in the Indian Nation. It stands for converting
democratic secular Indian polity into a Hindu State. Let me reproduce some
terrible facts from RSS archives so that banker has knowledge of few
fundamental facts about BJP/RSS.
BJP is not independent of RSS
It
is latter‟s political arm to undo democratic-secular polity. This will be clear
from the following two directives of the most prominent ideologue of RSS, MS
Golwalkar. The first statement tells us about the kind of personnel who are
sent to manipulate politics and what is expected of them by the RSS. While
delivering a speech on March 16, 1954, in Sindi, Wardha, he said: “If we say
that we are part of the organization and accept its discipline
then selectiveness has no place in life. Do what is told. If told to play
kabaddi, play kabaddi; told to hold meeting then meeting….For instance some of
our
friends were told to go and work for politics that does not mean that they have
great interest or inspiration for it. They don’t die for politics like fish
without water. If they are told to withdraw from politics then also there is no
objection. Their discretion is just not required.”[ii]
The
second statement is also very significant and clearly highlights the high level
of political ambitions of the RSS. While addressing the leading RSS cadres at
Indore on March 5, 1960 he said: “We know this also that some of our Swayamsevaks
work in politics. There they have to organize according to the needs
of work public meetings, processions etc., have to raise slogans. All these
things have no place in our work. However, like the character in a play
whatever role has been assigned should be portrayed with best of capability.
But sometimes Swayamsevaks go beyond the role assigned to a performer (nat)
as they develop over-zealousness in their hearts, to the extent that they
become useless for this work. This is not good.[iii]
RSS IS ANTITHETICAL TO
DEMOCRATIC-SECULAR INDIA
Demands Manusmriti as
constitution of India:
All
minorities and marginalized sections can survive only if democratic-secular
Indian polity survives. BJP as a child of RSS is committed to undo it.
Constituent Assembly of India passed the Constitution on November 26, 1949 and
on 30 November, RSS organ, Organizer, in an editorial rejected this
Constitution by arguing, “In our Constitution there is no mention of
the unique constitutional development in ancient Bharat. Manu’s Laws
were written long before Lycurgus of Sparta or Solon of Persia. To this day his
laws as enunciated in the Manusmriti excite the admiration of the world
and
elicit spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our constitutional pundits
that means nothing”.
It
demanded promulgation of Manusmriti as constitution which decreed a
sub-human status to Sudras and women.
RSS Denigrates Tricolour; the
National Flag:
RSS/BJP
organizes TRINGA YATRAS and demands unfurling of it on Islamic madrasaas. But
for India it demands bhagwa flag as part of its Hindutva project. On the eve of
independence when Indian Constituent Assembly adopted Tricolour as its National
Flag, the English organ of the RSS, Organiser, in its issue dated August
14, 1947, abused this choice in the following words: “The people who have
come to power by the kick of fate may give in our hands the Tricolour
but it will never be respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in itself
an evil, and a flag having three colours will certainly produce a very bad
psychological effect and is injurious to a country.”
Demands Hindu rashtra:
The
RSS, following the footsteps of Savarkar, rejected out rightly the idea that
Hindus and Muslims together constituted a nation. The English organ of the RSS,
Organiser, on the very eve of Independence (August 14, 1947) editorially
chalked out its concept of nation in the following words: “Let us no longer
allow ourselves to be influenced by false notions of nationhood. Much of
the mental confusion and the present and future troubles can be removed by the
ready recognition of the simple fact that in Hindusthan only the Hindus form
the nation and the national structure must be built on that safe and sound
foundation…the nation itself must be built up of Hindus, on Hindu traditions,
culture, ideas and aspirations”.
Allergic to democracy:
The
RSS, contrary to the principles of democracy, has been constantly demanding
India to be ruled under a totalitarian regime. Golwalkar while delivering a
speech before the 1350 top level cadres of the RSS in 1940 declared, “RSS
inspired by one flag, one leader and one ideology is lighting the flame of
Hindutva in each and every corner of this great land.[iv]
RSS ideologue guru Golwalkar
declared Muslims & Christians as enemies number
ONE & TWO respectively:
The
„Holy‟ book for the RSS cadres Bunch of Thoughts, collection of writings
of RSS/BJP guru Golwalkar has a long chapter titled as „Internal Threats‟ in
which Muslims and Christians are described as threat number one and two
respectively. This chapter opens with the following statement: “It has been the
tragic lesson of the history of many a country in the world that the hostile
elements within the country pose a far greater menace to national security then
aggressors from outside.”[v]
It
is sad that banker Syed Zafar Islam is trying to convince Muslims of India to
support RSS/BJP oblivious of the fact that RSS/BJP are not antithetical to
Muslims and Christians only but want to destroy Indian democratic-secular
polity thus playing havoc with the majority of Indians most of them being
Hindus. Any patriotic Muslim must stand up to challenge the politics of the
flag-bearers of two-nation. Mr. banker must understand that problem is not with
the Muslims but the anti-national and anti-egalitarian ideology of RSS. Indians
of all creeds will survive only when forces replicating Pakistan (Hindu rashtra
in India) are thoroughly cleansed.
Shamsul Islam is a retired
Professor of University of Delhi.
Email: notoinjustice@gmail.com
For
some of S. Islam‟s writings in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali,
Punjabi, Urdu & Gujarati see the following link:
Facebook: shams shamsul
Twitter: @shamsforjustice
REFERENCES:
[i]http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/why-muslims-must-give-bjp-a-fair-chance-4639535/
[ii]M.S. Golwalkar, Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi), Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., vol. 3, p. 32.
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