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Disclaimer: The aim of this article is not to offend
any religious sentiments, but to highlight an interesting analogy
that exists in present-day political arena and historical traits of
major religions. The author has absolutely no intentions to
identify a political party with any specific religion, but to only
underline a pattern of similarities.
There is a common refrain in the popular media – “BJP has a problem
of plenty”. That BJP does not have one supreme leader, but a plenty
of them, and they’re in confrontation with each other, is what we
are told by the media. This is quite unlike the Congress where
there is one supreme authority, whose word is everyone’s command.
Anyone, who’s challenged her authority, has either been eliminated,
or rendered into political oblivion.
One: Now, this is where we find the analogy.
Hinduism – one God, many manifestations, so many deities. Likewise,
BJP, one ideology, but so many leaders. In contrast, recall the
signatures of Islam/Christianity. “There is no God but Allah and
Mohammad (PBUH) is the prophet of Allah” or “In God we trust” and
“Jesus is the Son of God”. Present day Congress appears to be fully
in-sync. There is no supreme commander other than Sonia Gandhi and
Rahul Gandhi is the heir, the ‘yuvraj’, and every Congressman must
follow them.
Two: Just like evangelical Christians want to
bring the entire world to Christ, and just like Islamists want to
establish Dar-ul-Islam in the entire world, Congress strives to
once again be “the natural party to rule India”. That was the case
post-partition, and that was what, in 2009, Sonia Gandhi, after
getting 200 seats, looked forward to. The Islamic history of forced
conversions, or the Christian history of not sparing even the
scientists because they opposed the church, finds a parallel in
Congress’ history of subjugating Indian democracy, be it the
emergency imposition, or India Gandhi’s act of dissolving so many
Janata Party state governments as soon as she rode back to power in
1980. This is in contrast with Hindus satisfied with their
homeland, and BJP often satisfied in being a ‘responsible
opposition’.
Three: Interestingly enough, while Hindus take
immense pride in the innate inclusiveness, it is them, who find
themselves at the receiving end of a ‘Communal Violence Prevention
Bill’ draft. When you hear the word ‘communal’, the words that
strike your mind are all Hindu organizations, Bajrang Dal, VHP,
RSS, and of course, the BJP. This is when it is no secret how
billions of dollars are invested in India every year by
proselytizing Christian missionaries who have been reprimanded by
several court judgments for denigrating Hinduism and Hindu beliefs,
for distributing hate-literature, and what not! This also, when
there is no dearth of examples to show present-day Islamic
intolerance in mainland India, from Kashmir, to Bengal, to Kerala.
Kerala was one state where tributes were offered to Osama bin
Laden, and where Sharia courts have been set-up.
This is also similar to how it’s the BJP is always questioned and
blamed for riots, while Congress ruled states and centre have a
very long history of riots, in different parts of country, of
course, not to forget how Rajiv Gandhi almost rationalized the ’84
Sikh pogrom by Congress goons with his “big tree falls” remark.
Four: Now let’s see what’s happening with the
religions (and for now, let’s count Hinduism also as a religion for
practical purposes). Christianity is the largest religion of the
world – in both area and population. Islam is the fastest growing
religion in the world. What about Hinduism? It’s decline is a tale
in itself. A millennia ago, it was there from Iran to Indonesia.
Kashmir was a Hindu land just 700 years ago. Just 60 years ago,
Pakistan had around 23% Hindus, now barely 2%. Bangladesh, when
created, had around 30% Hindus, now, barely 7%. Hindus are a
minority in not just Kashmir and many north eastern states, but are
ominously shrinking in Kerala and Bengal too. This is happening in
the era of “religious tolerance” and globalization.
Compare it with what’s happening to the BJP. Even in its most
glorious days of Vajpayee, BJP’s best was 182/543. With Vajpayee as
PM candidate in 2004, Congress outperformed BJP. This is when we
say, educated middle class votes for BJP, urban voters vote for
BJP, and India is getting more and more educated, more and more
urban, still BJP is declining, or steady at best.
Five: Hinduism is often accused of Casteism, while
it is irrefutable that Hindu scriptures DO NOT support birth-based
classes. Varna-vyavastha was essentially profession-based as
propounded in scriptures. But the fact that Muslims too have so
many classes, and so do Christians, so much so that their
graveyards and even churches are separate, is often suppressed.
This is again perception v/s reality, an interesting case that
applies to the BJP/Congress comparison that Narendra Modi once
made. Modi, while responding to a question, highlighted, how in
Congress, leaders of similar stature could never work together, be
it Gandhi and Lal-Bal-Pal, Nehru and Sardar Patel, Indira and
Morarji, and so on, in BJP, Vajpayee-Advani worked together for 5
decades! But the perception was always created contrary to the
reality.
Six: Just as despite all the competence, BJP
underperforms, and despite all its misgivings Congress outperforms
it, Hindus, despite being a majority, remain in disarray, while
Indian ‘minorities’ know how to get the balls rolling their way.
And in spite of that, just like Hindus live in the delusion of
“kuch baat hai ki hasti mitati nahi hamaari” even while they’ve
shrunk and shrunk in area and influence, so much that they have to
wait for over 6 decades after Independence to build a Ram temple at
Ayodhya, similarly, BJP supporters and workers live in the delusion
of a BJP sweep in 2014 under Narendra Modi, or take sadist pride in
Congress’ rout in Uttar Pradesh, while conveniently forgetting that
they actually increased their seats, while BJP declined in both the
number of seats, and vote share, despite having Uma Bharti at their
side.
A little observation thus reveals how the issues with BJP are
similar to the problems Hindu society faces. Those, who respect
Hinduism, and/or are concerned for BJP, should spare a thought to
the method, the pattern that’s there. Often, correlation is not
causation, but sometimes, it is!
Abhishek Tondon | Follow the writer on twitter.com/BhaaratATmax
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