A TV channel recently discussed “INDIA’s INVISIBLE WAR”, airing out the views of Bodos and others in Assam, locked in violence on one count or the other. We see the situation worsening day by day. On the day of Raj Thackeray’s march to protest Mumbai violence of August 11, also there was a discussion on a TV channel, wherein with reference to the talk of outsiders and insiders , Sanjay Nirupam, Congress MP from Mumbai, reminded the incident of attack on Sikhs in the USA.
It has to be accepted that the root cause is human prejudice and not these or those immigrants. Political parties today seem to be competing with one another in hate mongering, and we see divisive forces and media joining hands for their narrow minded and satanic purpose of isolating and polarising communities.
It has been highlighted in newspapers like Sehroza Dawat (Urdu) time and again that there were about 33% Muslims in Assam even after partition and that Muslim labours migrated from West Bengal and Bihar as well for their livelihood. Just because they speak Bengali or Urdu and are Muslims they can’t be branded as foreigners. That these people have bogus ration cards and bogus voters is totally unfounded and is a deplorable propaganda.
We know MNS and Shiv Sena treat non-Marathis as aliens in Mumbai. Why can’t they treat others also as fellow human beings? How those who break the law and challenge the police to arrest them expect themselves to be the rulers?
The lessons, ideas and path shown by Father of the Nation now seem to have been thrown away even by the Congress. They do not want to implement prohibition because it causes loss of revenue. Speaking the truth causes much more devastation to today’s polity. We are seeing the impossibility of ruling with non-violence let alone maintaining it. Innocent youth are being physically and mentally tortured and their lives ruined by the police on one count or the other, by methods unknown even during the British rule.
All of us know that one should have high ideals in life to be successful. Very few of us know that even Gandhiji desired that the governance that prevailed in Medina during the reign of Abu Bakr Siddique and of Umar Farooq should be ideal for India as well. Even our first Prime Minister Nehruji was advocate of NAM and always had a broadminded outlook and stood for justice even under pressure. He, for example, supported the nations like Palestine throughout his tenure.
A.H. Vidyarthi and U. Ali, in the book Muhammad in Parsi, Hindoo and Buddhist Scriptures, have rightly said that ‘a national cult, or sectarianism, which, with its twin sister racialism, has been the root cause of all the mischief and ills we are facing in the world’.