If there is any powerful term in Indian politics, it is "Minority". This one word, created govts , able to procure votes, get suspension in bureaucracy, get reservations and made Ambedkar popular than MK Gandhi.
The first thing which comes to our dumb minds whenever Govt announces a scheme for minorities is, the govt is playing vote bank politics. For the sake of votes its neglecting majority and concentrating only on minorities. This is the first allegation, congress party gets from RSS i.e congress is working in favor of muslims to capture their vote banks.
But its democracy, who ever gets more votes forms the govt. How could any party neglect majority and form govt based on minority. Does not the word "minority" means less in number? If BJP is working for Hindus, which forms majority in our country, and all Hindus got dogmatic hindutva as RSS claims, then why BJP lost elections? After all , this country is made up of 80% Hindus.
Do we have to assume that, congress won because hindus never bothered to vote in the first place , muslims voted and congress got the majority. Clearly it is not what had happened. The pragmatic explanation would be, all hindus are not as fanatic as RSS or VHP. Most of the indians really dont discriminate a person based on religion ( except when it comes to his daughter's wedding). Most of us might claim that, ayodhya should be for Hindus , but we dont openly support killing of non-hindus. Once in a while, we might complain that modern india is losing hindu traditions, but we know we cant tolerate if vedic traditions are incorporated into the society. We might form groups based on caste and bitch other castes , but we dont really hate them.
BJP didnt win right after Babri incident, it didnt win after Godra. This shows that, even after religious clashes, religion failed to be a factor to get votes.. Now what makes BJP and RSS think that, promoting Modi, a hindu fanatic, for prime minister post, going to give me them victory?
The first thing which comes to our dumb minds whenever Govt announces a scheme for minorities is, the govt is playing vote bank politics. For the sake of votes its neglecting majority and concentrating only on minorities. This is the first allegation, congress party gets from RSS i.e congress is working in favor of muslims to capture their vote banks.
But its democracy, who ever gets more votes forms the govt. How could any party neglect majority and form govt based on minority. Does not the word "minority" means less in number? If BJP is working for Hindus, which forms majority in our country, and all Hindus got dogmatic hindutva as RSS claims, then why BJP lost elections? After all , this country is made up of 80% Hindus.
Do we have to assume that, congress won because hindus never bothered to vote in the first place , muslims voted and congress got the majority. Clearly it is not what had happened. The pragmatic explanation would be, all hindus are not as fanatic as RSS or VHP. Most of the indians really dont discriminate a person based on religion ( except when it comes to his daughter's wedding). Most of us might claim that, ayodhya should be for Hindus , but we dont openly support killing of non-hindus. Once in a while, we might complain that modern india is losing hindu traditions, but we know we cant tolerate if vedic traditions are incorporated into the society. We might form groups based on caste and bitch other castes , but we dont really hate them.
BJP didnt win right after Babri incident, it didnt win after Godra. This shows that, even after religious clashes, religion failed to be a factor to get votes.. Now what makes BJP and RSS think that, promoting Modi, a hindu fanatic, for prime minister post, going to give me them victory?