I.K. Shukla
Uttar Pradesh CM Ram Prakash Gupta deserves kudos for having pithily and pointedly made public the secret saffronite determination to demolish India peacefully.
Those agitated about Babari Masjid having been "demolished peacefully" and Ram Mandir slated for being built quite as peacefully pace Gupta, having now someone to be beholden to for being truthful this once.
He said he would allow the Mandir built in Ayodhya. as peacefully as the Masjid was demolished peacefully. There is no ambiguity, no grey area of nuances, and no scope for misunderstanding at all. In fact, it is lies that have always characterized the Sangh Parivar right from its inception. That RSS is a cultural organisation has been its boldest lie ...
From day one it was more than merely a political outfit, it was a totalitarian drive. And, Project Peaceful Demolition did not start with Babari Masjid. It started with the repudiation and assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. For Gandhi epitomized India as more than a geographical entity and historical accretion as a nation-state.
Gandhi's India was a cultural construct in the widest possible sense. It was this India he lived by, preached, promoted, propagated and perished for, at the hands of the assassin who, advisedly, severed his formal ties with the RSS before perpetrating the crime. His mentors and ideological kin sedulously carried forward the dark deed he stained India with.
As if paying Nathuram Godse a tribute his acolytes have multiplied his crime at the macro level. No retraction or denial is either necessary or useful. Because that will only compound the lie. Read properly Gupta's declaration is tantamount to a very timely warning. Intent and modus operandi could not have been mingled so decisively any better. The Masjid was demolished really "peacefully" Since there was no organized resistance tot he demolition, it was certainly "peaceful". Had there been an organized resistance the police and army were there to "pacify" it.
It was peace and pacification all the way. From New Delhi of Narasimha Rao to UP of Kalyan Singh peace via "pacification" of potential resistance was mightily ensured. In a similar fashion, says Gupta, "peace" will be maintained, law and order preserved, to facilitate the construction of the Mandir ... In the mindset of the saffron brigade what is law and order and what signifies peace are strikingly clear in Gupta's statement. It is in this light that we should understand the bloody orgies of Meerut, Maliana, Dangs, Surat, Manoharpur and scores of other places aimed at "teaching a lesson" to Muslims and Christians via annihilation and mass extermination, The colour of this neo-Hindu fascism is saffron.
The "peaceful demolition" is proceeding apace. From the rape of nuns to burning of churches and murders of priests, from the parade of a priest stripped of his clothes (Bihar) to burning a Muslim tailor after chopping off his hands (Orissa), from forcing tribals to adopt Hindu modes of hierarchical degradation to looting their lands and homesteads, from forcing urine down the throats of nun's (Bihar) to setting ablaze sleeping kids with their missionary father (Orissa), from videotaping the rape and humiliation of Muslim women in Surat to setting afire their localities, and depriving them of their livelihood in scores of cities, it has all been "peaceful". And it is such peace we are promised more of in the future. Certainly one in Ayodhya.
The mutilation and mayhem characterizing the communal revision and doctoring of history textbooks is just another facet of the same "peaceful demolition".
Those remonstrating can be shown the door or silenced forever, "peacefully". To further this sinister drive, rabid communalists and avowed murderers have been pitchforked into power in the Indian Council of Historical Research, Indian Council of Social Science Research, and National Council of Educational Research and Training.
The clamour for a presidential form of government, for a 5-year tenure of a minority government bereft of the confidence of the legislature, for a Constitutional review to rescind minority protections and the system of checks and balances, are all pieces of the same diabolical design so daringly called "peaceful demolition".
Destruction of Deepa Mehta's film (Water) sets in Varanasi, and earlier, of M.F. Hussain's paintings have been equally "peaceful". Gupta is nota loose cannon. He is·a devout knickerwallah ... He is feeling emboldened to push the RSS agenda through in UP after Gujarat, the prime paradigm of Sangh Parivar. He is not indulging in skullduggery. He is uneasy with wearing a mask. That art belongs exclusively to Vajpayee ("RSS is my soul") whom media has anointed as "liberal", "democratic" and "secular", who alternates between sleep and smile respectively signifying insouciance and craftiness, and who, when confronted with the heinous crimes of the Sangh Parivar in Gujarat, calls not for their punishment but a national debate on conversion.
Whether it be the domestic policy predicated on a pluralistic consensus and egalitarian impulse, or the foreign policy of the nation posited in popular sovereignty and economic self-determination, the BJP (and its cohorts) have industriously wrecked the nation's distinction as a democracy, its dignity as a culture, its stature as a beacon of inspiration and morals ...
(National) sovereignty has been surrendered to aliens under the aegis of the Sangh Parivar, slogans of Swadeshi facilitating the fraud. (This) is in accord with the Sangh agenda of ethnic cleansing (communal genocide), wrecking of societal cohesion, cultural degradation, (turning people) into bigoted robots, thwarting creativity through terror and brainwashing, repressing dissent and civic freedoms ... Our freedom (stands) abridged ... (Source: The Indian Currents, 13 February, 2000)
