This refers to your editorial (Radiance, 27 May-2 June): “This is high time the UPA Government clamped a blanket ban on those communal and fascist organisations that are hell bent upon making a hell of our country before it is too late.”
The ruling government of UPA – or for that matter, any other government – may well be “requested” for not becoming “too late”; but the hard fact is that, it is “never too late” for them. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi might be righteous persons vis-à-vis the subject matter, but there is no dearth of fascist elements around them. This makes their party rule, and has proved it, no different from NDA rule as far as atrocities on and discrimination against the minorities, especially Muslims is concerned. Everybody, irrespective of his political denomination, has got his own political calculation. In arithmetical term, anti-Muslim is the LCM (Least Common Multiple) amongst them. Becoming ‘hell of our country” is nobody’s concern, as it is a hell only wherein they reap their political fruits.
In the backdrop of harassing, subjugating and victimising the Muslims immediately after each and every terror event in Maharashtra in particular and elsewhere in general, the PM called CMs meeting to suggest them to refrain from such behaviour. At the very same time, and in the very usual manner, innocent Muslims were continued to be searched, picked harassed and victimised by the Maharashtra state machinery. After the meeting “successfully” convened, the situation got accelerated instead of showing any sign of retardation, not to speak of stopping.
So the good old phrase “before it is too late” seems to hold no significance. The UPA’s mercy, (Sachar Committee findings and subsequent announcements from the UPA) should be deemed sufficient for the community to rejoice and be merry. Beyond this, it is not UPA (or any other grouping for that matter) but the Muslim leadership’s role (unity, initiative, commitment and interaction with non-Muslims who care for the nation and are concerned about people’s apathy) that may yield some results.
Zainul Abideen Mansoorie
New Delhi