India Politics

Will Kanahiya prove to be Aladdin’s magical potion for the sinking ship of the dynasty? : Vivekanand

Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: The latest media buzz surrounding Kanahiya Kumar’s entry into Congress was long expected, for Kanahiya’s final and ultimate destination was none other than Congress. For Congress is reduced to be an assembly of self-seekers, anti-majoritarian, at times even anti-national: which party can digest such comments as ‘ Bharat tere tukray hongay Insa Allah, Insa Allah’, other than the grand old party. Further, Congress today, as always, since the dawn of India’s independence, has been masquerading anti-Hindu as the strategic national interest. Recall, Jawaharlal’s thuggish secularism, which ironically though, would stand antithetical to anything pertaining to the eternal glory of this country, yet had no qualms in soft -pedaling the minority appeasement in the garb of promoting secularism: How India’s pristine glory of renovation of Somnath had appeared inconvenient to Jawahar, yet the secular mascot had gone hammer and tongs in inaugurating Ajmer Sheriff Dargah in 1949. Nehru’s underlying intention behind weakening Hinduism was to ensure the rise of Islam in India. No wonder the unconscionable price that India is paying today, traces its genesis from the duplicity of intentions of the ruling elites in the wake of nation’s independence. Worse still, the departure of Sardar Patel, a nationalist to the core, provided Jawahar the licence to browbeat all his colleagues into an abysmal submission. Small wonder then, with the characteristic docility, accompanied by the congenital pussilanimity, being the well known attributes of Hindus, Muslims, taking the fullest advantages of this Hindu’s insensitivity towards protecting and securing their own motherland, strategically began to procreate–today Muslims constitute 25 to 30 percent of India’s population–the biggest threat to India’s hitherto maintained raison d’etre and its summum bonum.

Ironically, while the burgeoning Muslim population is the strongest threat to Hindus, especially against the backdrop of Muslims, even intelligentsia class included, have no understanding of the significance of Hind–Hind, they erroneously attribute to Hindus, and consider themselves as outliers. It is here what Jinnah had said, prior to independence, and placing his demand for two nations that, ‘ Hindus and Muslims constitutes two different nations’. Strategically enough, Jinnah was a leader with a far greater foresightedness than all the Hindu leaders taken together–he not only secured the strategic interest of Muslims by bifurcating India, but also ensured that significant proportion of Muslims stayed back here to create another Pakistan with the passage of decades. Indeed Jinnah proved prophetic while all other Hindu leaders including Gandhi, proved themselves as pygmies. In fact, only Sardar Patel could foresee the future with some clarity: His messianic zeal to seek exchange of population, was the antidote to Jinnah’s meticulously implanted seeds for creating another partition of India in the future.

Whereas Congress, over decades, has been strategically masquerading its own hidden agenda, to slowly aid the demographic transformation of India into a majority Islamic nation, BJP too chipped in with its own partisan interest to rule the nation as the champion of Hindus, yet its subterranean intent was to widen its vote bank base. Or else why didn’t BJP bring the Population Control Bill instead of CAA? Its objective was clear from the day one: to get Hindus cheerlead its’ moves; its avowed intention was the same as Congress has: to appease Hindu sentiments while doing nothing tangible to secure the strategic interest of Hindus. Population Control Bill, if it was introduced, instead of CAA, it could have eternally served the interest of Hindus. But unfortunately, BJP, which is professing itself as a pro-Hindu party is merely hoodwinking the majority community in the name of vote bank politics. Significantly, if the Population Control Bill would have been introduced, neither Hindus nor Muslims would have opposed it, for the population explosion is escalating into a humongous crisis for the nation.

Notwithstanding the taunt of Kailash Vijay Varghiya, the BJP National General secretary, that ‘Kanahiya has gone from gutter to drain’, the truth is this: Kanaihiya has the prowess to add to the existing vote bank of Congress Party. Narendra Modi’s past observation that India will be a Congress Mukt Bharat is nothing short of day dreaming, for Congress in India can never be obsolete, even though its fortune might continue to plummet. For Congress, over seven decades, has nurtured Muslim vote banks which will stand solidly by it unless BJP is a strong force, the day Muslims equal Hindus or eclipse the latter, Congress will get an immediate boot, Owaisi will step into the shoes of Jinnah. Therefore, Kanaiha’s switch over to Congress, which is brought about by Prashant Kishor, from behind the scene, will surely add value to Congress and will be politically detrimental to BJP in unequivocal terms as Kanahiya has his own appeal among the Dalit community. Significantly, joining of Kanahiya in Congress Party will surely provide the straw to an otherwise sinking ship of the dynasty.

Vivekanand Jha, author of Delhi Beckons: RaGa for NaMo, 56 Inches and The Making of Narendra Modi, Unmaking of Jawaharlal.

Vivekananda Jha is an author, academician and a Public intellectual. He is also a political commentator as well as the Convener of Education pe Charcha.

Leave a Reply