The Growing Menace of Communalism
Even after one year of
Akhlaq’s murder in Dadri and the
attendant uproar and outcry
throughout the country, the
communalist forces are rampant
continuing their atrocities and
murderous attacks against dalits
and Muslims.
Cow vigilantism fostered and
encouraged by the ruling BJP party
in the country, lumpen elements
with the tactical help of the police
and support of the unemployed
have been playing havoc with the
lives and dignity of the people of
minority and dalit sections of the
country having serious adverse
impacts on the lives and livelyhoods of the poor.
The communal agenda for
political gains being adopted by the
ruling BJP party and its allies has
grown in to dangerous proportions
becoming a menace.
To eye wash the victims of cow
vigilantist attacks and to hood-wink
the people who have b een
protesting against those heinous
and inhuman casteist attacks the
prime minister show ed a lip
sympathy by saying that 80% of socalled gaurakshaks are antisocials. But conspicuously not even
such a single anti-national
gaurakshak was punished by the
state; and we are never finding a
real and pious gaurakshak.
On the contrary every effort
is being made by the concerned
state authorities to protect the
culprits that perpetrated the brutal
murder of Aklaq in Dadri of UP, and
to implicate in to false cases the
wife and family members of Akalaq
besides projecting one of the
accused killer who died due to
illness at hosp ital as a hero,
nationalist by draping the national
flag on the dead body of the culprit.
All the evidences of the Dadri case
have been skillfully changed to
prove that the culprits are not guilty.
For attaining political gains in
the oncoming state elections in UP,
both the ruling BJP and SP parties
are playing the same game of
casteism and communalism.
The incidents of Una thrashing
in Gujarat, the Mewat gang rapes
and murders for allegedly eating
beef and confiscation of biryani
samples around the time of EID in
Haryana, cow vigilantes attacking
of two men and m ercilessly
thrashing them in Delhi-the
national capital-for carrying buffalo
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from its implementation. While
Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh
and Punjab top the list for SCSP
funds remaining unspent for 2005–
14, Jharkhand, Odisha and Andhra
Pradesh lead in TSP.
The percentage of unspent
funds was 61%, or Rs 4,643 crore,
for Telangana in 2014-15. The real
unspent amount will be even
hig her, b ecause data on
expenditure are not available for
many years with the various
governments.
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did not make adequate use of
funds.
In 2014-15, Telangana, despite
a legislation, did not spend 61.26%
of the funds allocated for Dalits,
and 64.3% allocated for adivasis,
which together add up to Rs
7,475.1 crore.
The situation is not v ery
different in Karnataka and Andhra
Pradesh. Thoug h the bill was
passed, no law has been made on
it so that the government escape
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remains, attack on a pregnant dalit
women by some up per caste
people in Gujarat, after her family
refused to clear animal carcasses
from fields, and the attack of
Bajarangdal and Shivsena workers
in Rajastan, on a group of
Banjaratribals at Ralmagra in
Rajasamand district, when they
were returning to their village with
half – a dozen bulls purchased in
a cattle fair; and many such
unreported incidents occurring
speak about the looming danger
and growing menace of communalism and pseudo nationalism
advocated by reactionary right.
Instead of striving for the
country’s development, this
regressive social agenda is being
substituted by the communalist BJP
and its allied forces.
National chauvinism is being
raked and raged by the ruling BJP
and its allies against Pakistan, on
the pretext of ‘Kashmir issue’, with
such acts like suspending internet
and mobile services, sealing
several traditional prayer venues
and stepp ing up security
deployment and imposing curfew in
10 districts in J&K at the time of
Eid-ul-Aza on the p retext of
possibility of mass protests after Eid
prayers across the valley and with
surgical attacks on the POK
Kashmir in the name of containing
Kashmir separatists and fighting
against Pakistan terrorism.
With this two pronged strategy
of comm unalism and national
chauvinism, the real issues
concerning people are being
deflected by our rulers-a dangerous
trend and menace which has to be
resisted by the democratic minded
and progressive sections of the
people!
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