Newer cases of naram garam tactics by the right wing hate mongers started hitting the headlines all over again immediately after 2014 general elections.
When the issue of forced conversions under the guise of ‘home coming’ was raised, there was talk of banning all conversions under a new law, intentionally ignoring the Constitutional freedom of professing, practising and propagating of one’s faith of choice by all citizens without any strings. It was shamelessly stated that these forced conversions will continue till a law banning all conversions is made.
These incidents of omission and commission continued gaining momentum till the Parliamentary Affairs Minister asserted in Parliament that he is proud of being associated with RSS which is hell bent on lingering with its extra- and anti-constitutional statements regularly directly or indirectly. The same minister is seen in the same Parliament, saying that their government has nothing to do with the statements of RSS chief, upon the latter’s derogatory remarks about ‘Mother Teresa’.
Even as the PM condemned communal apartheid and promised strong action against the concerned defaulters, the news of withdrawal of cases of communal violence due to lack of ‘evidence’ and bail to accused in false encounters, pours in. Attack like the one on a church in Mangalore, after all the assurances by PM himself to reverse the wind, shows how the fringe elements are getting bolder day by day.
This covert and overt encouragement given to criminals serves the dual purpose to those in power of diverting the public attention from the real issues and polarising the votes in various elections.
While the setting between so-called national parties, to keep under carpet corruption cases by each continues, the fringe elements and crony capitalists continue hand in gloves with their plots and full efforts to make poor poorer and rich richer.
Why public funds are wasted for junked military equipment, often involved in accidents with loss of life and huge cost of purchase?
Just see the sporadic increase in number of politically motivated criminal cases against NGOs, their representatives and social activists, including journalists who have been exposing the nexus among politicians, big corporate, multinationals and their agents.
Mother Teresa is accused of having motives behind her service to poor; who for that matter does not have a motive for every action of oneself?
If today responsible political representatives like Sambit Patra of BJP say during TV shows to corporate companies that they are ready to bend and bow to them like trees laden with heavy fruit in order to collect their opinions and suggestions for action by the government; why the same obedience and reverence is not shown to farmers and common people, whose welfare must be prioritised in actions as in committed words in a democracy like ours?
Can the so-called national parties come out with their own real motives and concrete action plans in respect of poll promises if they do not consider them as mere slogans?