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Sidhartha Varadarajan: Why did Narendra Modi abandon Bilkis in her hour of need?
by Guest Sat May 06, 2017 11:48 am
Modi Wants to Give Muslim Women Their Rights. So Why Did He Abandon Bilkis in Her Hour of Need?
Fifteen years on, it would be comforting to believe Modi has had a change of heart. The truth is that he has not. He is vocal about wanting to save Muslim women from the evil of triple talaq, or instant divorce, as every sensible Indian and Muslim also wants. But he has yet to say anything comforting to Muslim women like the widows of Pehlu Khan and Mohammad Akhlaq, whose marriages were brutally dissolved by the sudden, instant violence of ‘gau-rakshaks’. He talks of the constitution but then helps select as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh a man whose hatred of women and of Muslims is well documented. He calls himself a ‘born Hindu’ and a ‘nationalist’ but cannot bring himself to react to the shocking incident in Reasi, Jammu last month when a crazed mob shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ as they tried to lynch three defenceless Muslim women.
From Rajasthan to Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand to Jammu, wherever the BJP is in power, we can see the same hideous indulgence towards violent thugs and the same indifference towards their minority victims as the NHRC, the CBI and even the Supreme Court saw back when Modi ran Gujarat. Bilkis Bano got justice because the rest of India and its institutions were not infected by the virus of lawlessness that Modi bred in his home state. Today, that virus is going national.
https://thewire.in/132084/bilkis-bano-rape-case-narendra-modi/
Bilkis Bano got justice because the rest of India and its institutions were not infected by the virus of lawlessness that Modi bred in his home state. Today, that virus is going national....
Fifteen years on, it would be comforting to believe Modi has had a change of heart. The truth is that he has not. He is vocal about wanting to save Muslim women from the evil of triple talaq, or instant divorce, as every sensible Indian and Muslim also wants. But he has yet to say anything comforting to Muslim women like the widows of Pehlu Khan and Mohammad Akhlaq, whose marriages were brutally dissolved by the sudden, instant violence of ‘gau-rakshaks’. He talks of the constitution but then helps select as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh a man whose hatred of women and of Muslims is well documented. He calls himself a ‘born Hindu’ and a ‘nationalist’ but cannot bring himself to react to the shocking incident in Reasi, Jammu last month when a crazed mob shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ as they tried to lynch three defenceless Muslim women.
From Rajasthan to Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand to Jammu, wherever the BJP is in power, we can see the same hideous indulgence towards violent thugs and the same indifference towards their minority victims as the NHRC, the CBI and even the Supreme Court saw back when Modi ran Gujarat. Bilkis Bano got justice because the rest of India and its institutions were not infected by the virus of lawlessness that Modi bred in his home state. Today, that virus is going national.
https://thewire.in/132084/bilkis-bano-rape-case-narendra-modi/
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