“Think in your cool moments how, in your life history, your failure to stand against Muslim communalism in India has resulted in disastrous consequences. Perhaps you and others followed a policy of concession and appeasement with the highest motive, but in the end, the country came to be partitioned against your own repeated declarations to the contrary. At that time, a factor of very great importance which worked against us was the existence of an alien power which wanted to function on the policy of divide and rule. If today we want to be cautious and avoid the tragic follies of the past. We do so in the highest interests of the country and not for any narrow communal ends or for any sectarian interests”. – Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, while refuting the charge of communalism levelled against him by Pandit Nehru, as quoted in the Eminent Parliamentarians Monograph Series, Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi, 1990, P. 20
The Congress agenda is exposed daily as the General Election moves to the subsequent phases. Some people accuse Prime Minister Modi of raising communal issues, but he wanted to play around the ten years of track record and agenda for the next 25 years. It is the Congress manifesto and policies that gave him the ammunition to fire at the party on the issues of communalism in the name of secularism. Though the word ‘secularism’ is conspicuously absent from the Congress manifesto, the programme proposed by the grand old party is disastrous for national integration on various counts.
Congress, through politics, policies and actions, has virtually reduced the issues related to ‘secularism’ and ‘minority rights’ to the Muslim majority religion. The entire manifesto clubs the so-called minorities with the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, as if they are the same. Why does Congress want to push for this failed Bhim-Meem narrative, which failed immediately after Independence, as reflected in the letter written by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, the first Law Minister of Bharat, to Jogendra Nath Mandal, the first Law Minister of Pakistan? Even when it comes to the loans or employment opportunities, where is the need for introducing a religious angle, which our Constitution makers had defied, even on the question of political reservation on religious lines?
Mixing up the choices of food and clothing with personal laws is the most disastrous option that Congress manifesto proposes, which is against their commitment to gender justice. There cannot be a bigger oxymoron than ‘Muslim Personal Law’ and ‘guarantee of gender equality’. The action of introducing Muslim reservations under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category is nothing but a Constitutional fraud.
Despite internal dissent on numerous occasions, not just after the historic low in 2014 but also from Independence, why does Congress refuse to come out with this fake ‘secular’ conundrum which revolves around encouraging Muslim separatism and radicalism?
The answer lies in disrespect for the spirit of the Constitution and the practice of fraudulent secularism for the sake of political power. As one of the stalwarts in the Constituent Assembly, Mahavir Tyagi had argued against Nehru’s idea of secularism, “The Swaraj of my conception was Ram Raj. Bharat did not only mourn the loss of her political freedom, but her real grief has been the loss of her freedom of spirit. Our spiritual freedom was first hit when Somnath was attacked”. The Nehruvian dynastic Congress never realised this spirit.
Hence, from Somnath to Ayodhya, there has been a case of denial of historical injustice in the name of secularism. Sardar Patel, who was the chairman of the Committee on Minority Rights, expressed his displeasure in strong words. “The introduction of the system of communal electorates is a poison which has entered into the body politic of our country. … But today, after agreeing to the separation of the country as a result of this communal electorate, I never thought that that proposition was going to be moved seriously, and even if it was moved seriously, that it would be taken seriously”.
Despite the historic reality of the Partition, Congress refuses to heed Patel’s advice. They have been introducing communal representation in one way or another, including in Government contracts.
Through disastrous policies of appeasement in teaching history to manipulating reservations, Congress has ensured that the real spirit of Sarva Dharma Sambhava, inherent in the Hindu culture, is annihilated. From opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) to the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), the sole agenda of the Congress-led I.N.D.I. alliance reflects only one policy – appeasement of the Muslim vote bank. This policy has not only allowed radicalism to flourish, yet again, in independent Bharat but also pushed Congress towards a trap where it cannot even think about the national interest. Rahul Gandhi being forced to run to Wayanad to get elected with the support of the Muslim League is not just a strategy but a phenomenon that represents the state of the dynastic party, which is facing an existential crisis with the outsourced ideological agenda to the Left-Islamist cabal.
