It is surprising why BJP and Sangh Parivar should be rooting for an alleged sex offender like Asaram. Prima facie, the case against Asaram is so horrifying, that one can hardly ignore such sex exploitation; especially with the mood of the nation becoming most unforgiving after the Nirbhay tragedy. Day in and day out cases in every city, town, village, are cropping up with people boldly exposing rapes and molestations against our womenfolk. Why all of a sudden, Sangh Parivar has made Asaram a test case, to treat it as a communal matter, by plastering posters in all trains in Gujarat, with a strong message by the newly anointed BJP member, the famous maverick, Subramanian Swamy, treating the accusations as something political and proclaiming it as bogus. When was Swamy ever deterred from approaching the courts, even though invariably his plaints were bogus and motivated? Let the law decide the entire matter. After all, Asaram and his supporters have every chance to defend him and his son and others of this entourage, in the court of law. Why should Sangh Parivar feel that they should make it a political issue, when the victims of the accused are so graphic in their characterisation of what Asaram’s dalliance with womenfolk as purely criminal in intent. People in general are in deep shock.
Media better not be part of this dirty game that politicians play. Nation’s integrity and security is at stake.
Ghulam Muhammed
Mumbai, M.S