the several centuries of living in communal harmony, have proved time and again that they will not allow the communal forces to destroy their lives.
Instead of keeping the religion outside the affairs of the state, which is the norm w ith in a democratic system, the ruling classes of India are doing everything to polarize the society on communal lines. Under the wings of BJP government, the RSS and its outfits are raking up communal hatreds. Campaign for the Gharwapasi undertaken to justify the coercive conversion of non-Hindus to Hindu religion as has happened in Agra. Spewing hatred against non-Hindus became the order of the day. The frequent statements like calling those not following Ram as illegitimate child, calling madarsas as dens of terrorism, asserting that the population of Muslims is rapidly increasing and therefore Hindu women should produce f our children, those who eat beef should go to Pakistan to live etc are being hurled on the people from the highest positions that are supposed to uphold the sanctity of the Constitution. Utilising the power at the Centre, the BJP is seeking to chang e the curriculum of education and p oison and communalise the minds of young generation; On the other side it is distorting the higher education including the IIT, medical education to serve the interests of imperialist plunder by turning our youth as mere learners of technology and not as creator of technology that suits the national needs, and to smuggle communal agenda higher centres of learning like ICHR, ICSSR etc.
The wanton communalization is influencing the lower middle class urban youth and rural elite, who are active in taking up the role of moral
December- 2016 policing, be it attacks on progressive writers and artists, be it dictating the dress code to women and their behaviour pattern. The PM himself 7 on record calls the human rights activists as five star activists in a derogatory manner set the tone and tenor for the cultural policing being resorted to by the RSS and its outfits.
While the state as well as the media of the establishment are continually propagating for death penalty of even those who are remotely connected or only suspected to be connected with a terrorist activity if they are from the Muslim Community, they just manage to forget as about the terrorist killers of Hindu Communal variety who perpetrated massacres at Malegaon, Jama Masjid and in Sanjhanta Express. They forget the names of Asimananda Bharati and his ilk.
Along with the continued attacks on Muslim community, the attacks on Christian community are increasing – 11 incidents reported since December 2014 including Delhi, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. The impact of these localized attacks organized by the RSS and its outfits is spreading religious intolerance, social hatred, marginalizing of the minorities and muffling the democratic voices. Political situation
The economic crisis is leading to political crisis. The contradictions among the ruling groups hav e sharpened. The contradictions among ruling class factions also got sharpened. As a result many scams and corruption of the ruling elite have come to light. The ruling classes used their identity- Caste, religion, region and family etc. – only to safeguard their financial position. In this process the ruling classes pushed the theories of identities on the people.
The negative effects of which could be seen in some sections of the downtrodden people. Religious beliefs and practices are being promoted by the ruling class parties and some parties also came into existence on the basis of religion in the wake of elections.
It was in this background that the BJP designed its strategy in the context of 2014 elections. It sought to utilize the simmering discontent among the people to gain in the elections. Much before the announcement of elections the BJP pressed into action all their means to exploit the situation in their favour. It moved swiftly to gather public opinion against the government utilizing the burning issues like Nirbhay rape case in Delhi. They became successful in duping and misleading the people to reap a victory in the poll. The Indian Big bourgeoisie and the Imperialist powers endorsed the BJP’ s decision to field Narendra Modi as the future PM as they believed that in the given situation a change of regime and with Modi at the helm would help a speedy imp lementation of neo-liberal economic policies. BJP gave the slog an of‘ development and progress’ and placated Modi as the icon of development and decisiveness. BJP pretended to be opposed to the cult of personality and the rule by Nehru family. But in reality Modi was brought to the fore on the wings of the personality cult. The election to the 16th LokSabha has resulted in a crushing defeat to the Congress and thumping victory to BJP.
The results expressed the anger of the people at the rampant price rise, inf lation, massive corruption with recurring scams which played havoc with lives and livelihoods of the people. The results expressed the wrath of the people at the policies pursued by
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