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Election results that
appear surreal
There is genuine and legitimate worry that with the Right-Wing in
dilemmas power the entire scenario will stand changed in our country. After
all, the RSS will be in control of the very governance
HumrA
QurAISHI
hese election results seem of the naïve. Weren’t his photographs
difficult to grasp or digest splashed all over even whilst the elec-
The Delhi-based writer or to quote a friend they tioneering process was on…in full swing!
and columnist’s books appear ‘surreal’! After all, Why was he projected as some sort of
include Kashmir: The common sense does not spiritual hero at such a crucial juncture?
Untold Story. She co- T seem to accept the fact that There is genuine and legitimate
authored a series of in the backdrop of high levels of disgust worry that with the Right-Wing in
writings with the late and dismay at the non-performance of power the entire scenario will stand
Khushwant Singh and the Modi government, people actu- changed in our country. After all, the
her short stories are ally voted them to power. The fact is RSS will be in control of the very gov-
part of anthologies. the masses are angry with the state of ernance. Mind you, this time rather too
The views expressed affairs, so why would they vote for the directly and much more blatantly. And
are her own same lot? with the right –wing rulers ruling this
In fact, as I have been writing the country, the minorities and the disad-
core fact that hits are the double stand- vantaged together with the liberals and
ards in the very governance. The Elec- the progressive will have every reason
tion Commission of India did seemingly to sit worried and apprehensive, in that
little to halt the likes of terror accused second or third class positioning!
Sadhvi Pragya Thakur from contesting
in these elections. Tell me why should a I was first introduced to the so called
terror accused been allowed to stand as RSS ‘literature’ several years back and
an upcoming ‘leader’. Doesn’t this trend ever since I have read the master plans
spell doom for the country and for all of of the RSS, what stands out are its divi-
us! And whatever happened to all those sive communal strategies.
lengthy speeches of the Right-Wing To quote Khushwant Singh on this,
who’s who, on terrorism and terrorists, from one of his earlier writings - “All
when they are not just projecting the along the motivating factor for the
terror accused but even putting them Hindutva parties has been Islamopho-
in the corridors of power! Its almost bia. The entire motivating factor behind
akin to housing terrorists right inside the RSS is anti - Muslim. In fact, today
your home compound and yet you are when Mohan Bhagwat says that the
crying hoarse to go catch the terrorists RSS is open to other communities and
from across the borders! Strange, nah! has Muslim and Christian members
People of this country have lost trust too it’s to be taken with a pinch of
cum faith in the sarkari institutions and salt because the whole thrust behind
whatever they deliver. Never before the RSS Hindutva parties has been
severe doubts came up on the very anti- Muslims.”
authenticity of the EVMS, and also in the Khushwant had also brought into
electioneering bandobast. How could focus another factor -“ Don’t overlook
The Election Commission of India over- the fact that before Jinnah had come
look the fact that Mr Narendra Modi’s up with the two-nation theory, it was
photo-shots in and around Kedarnath Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, VD
were used for publicity, to gather votes Savarkar, who had come up with the
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