This refers to your editorial captioned “Simmering Hate and Brazen Lies” (Radiance Viewsweekly, 3-9 July). Through your forceful expression, meaningful and authentic argument, you have exposed the true colour of some BJP members, whose sole objective seems to be revolving round winning elections by disrupting communal harmony in the country as well as accomplishing their most cherished objective of making India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’. In the very first sentence of your editorial, you have produced an enlivened conscientiousness, giving a masterly touch to the truth that ‘the mill of polarisation, or what they love to call social engineering, is grinding like never before’. All this is being done to win the ensuing elections, especially in U.P. by hook or by crook. And, to win elections, such meticulously hatched plans are being acted upon by some politicians associated with the ruling party at the centre.
For illustration, recent communal riots in Muzaffarnagar, U.P. can be cited. This bears ample testimony to how some BJP members resorted to the shameful act of spreading canard against the local Muslims by inciting the members of Jat community through videoing morphed photographs of a Hindu Jat girl alleged to have become victim of rape in the hands of a Muslim youth. Later on, this proved to be totally false and baseless and handiwork of some anti-national elements bent upon tarnishing the secular image of the country.
While focusing upon the rusted mindset of some BJP members to saffronise the country, you have rightly said that the ’69 per cent Indian citizens, who did not vote for his party and a large number of the 31 per cent citizens, who did vote for it on the development plank in the 2014 general elections but now feel disenchanted ever since, will not allow to see the nation going the saffron way’.
However, telling lies and speaking ills of others, especially the opponents/rivals, seems to have become an indispensable ingredient in the psyche of some BJP members. A BJP leader once remarked, ‘When a lie is repeated several times, it becomes a truth’. Similarly, and most interestingly, in a Kolkata-based English daily (of 9.7.16), a minor is shown to have been asking his father, ‘How many wrongs does it take to make a right?’ I am quite certain an appropriate answer to this appalling question can be given by none but the said BJP leader.
In the concluding paragraph you have rightly opined that one ‘who believes in truth and justice as well as in communal amity should come forward to save the country from being thrown into the cauldron of hate and lies’. It is, thus, the solemn duty of every right-thinking person to strive hard by adopting justified means to thwart the ugly designs of the rogue elements in the political arena. Sooner their nefarious designs are made a complete failure, better for this subcontinent.
Jamalur Rasheed, M.A.
Salt Lake, Kolkata (W.B.)