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Rajdeep Sardesai: By playing the 'Hindu Card' again in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is playing a dangerous communal game

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Rajdeep Sardesai: By playing the 'Hindu Card' again in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is playing a dangerous communal game Empty Rajdeep Sardesai: By playing the 'Hindu Card' again in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is playing a dangerous communal game

Post by Guest Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:08 am

Let’s start with the BJP, now the country’s premier national party. Just look at the manner in which the party has sought to derive political capital from the alleged “exodus” of Hindu families from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh. Its local MP first claims that Hindu villagers are being targeted by “Muslim gangs” and provides a list of families who have left their homes out of fear in the last year. When it transpires that the list contains names of people who have left for reasons like jobs, health and education several years ago, when a number of those named are still found in their homes or, in some instances, are dead, the MP backtracks to say the problem is one of law and order and should not be seen in communal terms.

This doesn’t stop the BJP leadership though, including party president Amit Shah, from suggesting that Hindus are under siege in the region. The BJP sends a fact-finding team to the area even as the party’s hyper-active social media cell targets the mainstream media as “anti-Hindu” for not highlighting the issue more aggressively. Now, it is true that in the aftermath of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots there has been a worrying communal polarisation on the ground in western UP.

And yet, when Muslim families were forced into refugee camps, no BJP fact-finding team focussed on their plight. But with elections in UP just months away, it seems that the party has decided to play the “Hindu card” once again. What other rational explanation can there be for the issue to assume a dangerous communal dimension only in the last fortnight? Sadly, the prime minister, despite his “sabka saath sabka vikas” sloganeering, has chosen to stay conspicuously silent once again.

http://www.rajdeepsardesai.net/columns/muck-indian-politics

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