I intend to vote this time around; perhaps it will be if I
manage to do, the third or fourth time, I have ever exercised what is considered
as a right of sorts. And I must by all means do my little part to stop this man
– the poster boy of intolerance, xenophobia and the corporate India Inc.
There is nothing unashamed in asserting that he, Narendra
Modi is not the representative of the Hindus or a Hindu way of life. On the
contrary he, when hoisted on the shoulders as the saviour of Hinduism and Indian culture bedevils the way of life
and what is spectacular of Indianness (sic)
and culture.
Why do I despise this man and do not want him to be the deciding
on my life, be entrusted with the future of an already strained and simmering
society and country?
The reasons –
1-He is certainly , though acquitted by an investigating buffoonery
called SIT responsible for the carnage and systematic massacre of innocent civilians
in the communal riots of 2002 in Gujarat that was then also under his
dispensation.
2- He is the architect of a perverted and obnoxious philosophy
that equates and showcases Indianness (sic) as Hinduism
and vice versa.
3- The philosophy of hate that he and his organization profess
is akin to the perverted mindset and thought, professed about the uniqueness of
Aryan race by Adolf Hitler or by the far right pro white mongers of the segregation
era in the USA and South Africa. India
cannot survive as nation on the premise of hate, intolerance, pseudo secularism
and falsehood. This is a rainbow culture we have and that is what will see this
country as a nation and far from disintegration and communal turmoil.
4- The agenda of the socio-political group that this man
represents is appalling if the uttering and the psyche of he and his cahoots
in the party are taken and analysed ,it is not only mere saffronisation or
equating saffron with Hinduism and even a theocratic state in the Hindu mould
that they would probably want, but total
subjugation and elimination of dissent, diverse faith and culture. One will fail
to trace Indian history even into the medieval times and fetch a society or a
ruler who professed the philosophy of intolerance and elimination of
difference.
In any case Hindu and ancient Indian philosophy and
tradition as well as the then practiced state craft were not based on
conversion, proselytism by the sword or lure. To allege that it was the
submissiveness of Hinduism and ancient Indians that were responsible for alien
culture and hordes from beyond the Hindu Kush invading the land is
preposterous.It was the evils that harbours within Hinduism that aids in conversion away from the faith. And to believe that one must or can undo the egregiousness of the
past by a wrongful act in the present is anserine. Demolishing mosques,
churches or synagogues and rewriting history text books with untruth, malarkey
and saffron version of the past is not only ridiculous, myopic but grievously
harmful to posterity and the generation that is growing.
If this is endorsed there shall be no difference between
Hinduism and certain faith that originated in tribal lands of the Arabian peninsula and continues to be horribly didactic and intolerant even now.
5- The corporate world and India Inc. as affectionately labelled
has identified this man Narendra Modi as the messiah and the icon of resurgent
corporate India. And in the corporate commercial cauldron that they perceive
the vast multitude of Indians who
struggle at the door of subsistence even for one square meal a day is not accounted or noted .They are sixty five percent of the 1.2 billion Indians- a legion
who do not matter in Narendra Modi’s scheme of things. They are mere puppies’
who can be run over and forgotten.
The vibrant and fast growing Gujarat that Modi has brought
into the forefront and is widely showcased by his PR team is a Gujarat that is urbanized,
express motorways criss-crossing urban centres, shopping malls, and huge
industries that entrench displacing vast majority of the so called puppies, huge
dams that channel water to the elite urban towns and industries, while hundreds
of thousands displaced by the surging waters of the mammoth dams are jettisoned to
fend for themselves.
A careful observation of some of the premier national newspapers
in the print media and TV channels will tell that many have already been bought
over by the Modi lobby. The development agenda of Modi is not inclusive and statistics
that are on the websites run by NGOs and authentic portals will adequately tell. But
then as they claim and so do the present corrupt dispensation of Manmohan Singh,
it is all for “the greater common good”.
Imagine a development agenda that is lopsided, a social outlook
that is hatefully communal and an Orwellian State that is premised on
intolerance, where citizens are snooped upon and dissent brutally silenced. Yes,
snooped upon, because a man with Modi’s philosophy cannot survive in an
atmosphere of tolerance or dissent. He cannot and the saffron robe cannot build
a tolerant and secular society. If Congress is secularly pro Muslim the Modi
bandwagon is despicably anti-Muslim and anti-other faiths.
As for corruption the less expected the better. He may be
above corruption, but we saw what the BJP ministers and legislators are capable
of when it comes to thieving and corruption. As for their proclaimed intent of the
revival of Hinduism and its elevation over Islam or Christianity it is malarkey
and misleading. The hundreds of ancient and medieval Hindu temples that were
submerged by the rising waters of the Narmada or consigned to nondescript oblivion
all over the country, even in the BJP ruled States stand as ghostly harbinger
and premonition.
