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Short-cut to secularism: Just call Modi names
by Rishi Sun Mar 03, 2013 9:59 pm
First, Narendra Modi is clearly India’s Untouchable No 1. Earlier, it was only his party, the BJP, or the Sangh Parivar, that was untouchable. But after six years in power under Vajpayee, that untouchability is more or less gone. But Modi is the new mascot of pariahhood. In politics you need an “other” – and that other is Modi.
Second, secularism has been reduced to a simple test that anybody can pass. Are you for Modi or against him. You can be the most bigoted or corrupt of Indians – you can beat you wife, kill you daughter for marrying outside the gotra or caste, loot crores from the public treasury, abuse Dalits and bash them up – but if you are against Modi, you are a Jolly Good Fellow. You pass the test of political acceptability. CPI(M) leaders can extol Stalin’s murders and even approve of party leaders in Kerala taking about murdering their political opponents, but all that is kosher.
Third, secularism is no longer about what you are, but what you profess in your public statements to the media.
A genuinely secular party does not need to disown a party member who merely interviews Modi. Only a party that is not secular has to go to such public shows of secularism to claim the tag.
This is a farce. The sooner we get rid of this hypocrisy, the easier it will be to really tackle communalism in all its forms.
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/indias-short-cut-to-secularism-just-call-modi-names-396167.html
Second, secularism has been reduced to a simple test that anybody can pass. Are you for Modi or against him. You can be the most bigoted or corrupt of Indians – you can beat you wife, kill you daughter for marrying outside the gotra or caste, loot crores from the public treasury, abuse Dalits and bash them up – but if you are against Modi, you are a Jolly Good Fellow. You pass the test of political acceptability. CPI(M) leaders can extol Stalin’s murders and even approve of party leaders in Kerala taking about murdering their political opponents, but all that is kosher.
Third, secularism is no longer about what you are, but what you profess in your public statements to the media.
A genuinely secular party does not need to disown a party member who merely interviews Modi. Only a party that is not secular has to go to such public shows of secularism to claim the tag.
This is a farce. The sooner we get rid of this hypocrisy, the easier it will be to really tackle communalism in all its forms.
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/indias-short-cut-to-secularism-just-call-modi-names-396167.html
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