Ghar vapsi or conversion as a dynamic of polarization for Hindu Nation

The failed ghar vapsi of Tadvi Muslims in Gujarat’s Dangs seat known as Sabri Dham of Swami Asimanand of February 11, 2006 directly led to the blasts of 2006 in Malegaon in which more than 36 Muslim children, women and men were killed. It was targeted because of the heavy concentration of Muslim. Other terror attacks were also a consequence of that, though it was not fully exposed until Asimanand told of it in his affidavit. Any ghar vapsi or conversion is the reaction of the extremists of the majority in whose eyes Muslims are an eye sore for having got a separate state of Pakistan but chose to live in India as Indians. Therefore the alibi of action reaction replay which has claimed the lives of thousands of Indians. This periodic orgy of blood bath is problem from hell, revenge for past enmity. The overall goal is to establish a Hindu nation where Muslims cease to exist. Pravin Togadia had declared on March 31, 2012 that Gujarat would become a Hindu state in 2015. It looks at the onset of the New Year 2015that the momentum has gathered speed. Parts of Gujarat and even Rajasthan have already acquired the potential to be dominions of Hindu state. News teeming with Hindutva comprehensive movement and its assertion leaves no doubt that trailblazer Modi/RSS is at it again. Pravin Togadia remains the ground swelling force under the rock and Narendra Modi above. Strangely but truly it is 2002 over again. Looks like that the whole country is on the cusp of becoming a Hindu country/nation. Waiting for a tectonic shift. On Saturday December 13, 2014 West Bengal chief minister Mamta Banerjee asked her supporters to start protest against the arrest of Madan Mitra. "They (BJP) are trying to start riots in the state. We will never let them make this possible. What will happen if we (the state government) start arresting them?" "It is time to hit the streets. I ask all sections of the people including sportspersons and people from the cultural field to hit the streets,"[ 1] Familiar with the Gujarat pattern of arrest under the rule of Narendra Modi, Banerjee added: “There are photos of the PM with the Sahara chief. Should we demand that CBI arrest PM Narendra Modi?” In sharp contrast this happened on the day when police officer Rajkumar Pandian was reinstated as Commissioner of Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation in Mumbai. [2] The crimes Pandian had committed are numerous. He was involved in the killing of Sohrabuddin Shaeikh as well as Tulsiram Prajapati. Modi had declared in 2007 if killing of the gangster was a crime he was ready for the punishment. He even dared the government of Sonia Gandhi to arrest and punish him. The vibe of Mamta is matched by that of Modi. Does it bode well for India? If this literal state of vibe, a person’s emotional state or the atmosphere of a place as communicated and felt by others, is palpably there, then the moot question is, is India safe in the hands of a man who earlier boasted that five crore Gujaratis were behind him and is now entrusted with the destiny of 125 crore people of India? It is time to give sober thought to this. The youths of India who were swept off their feet when they voted him for development must spare more time for this. The faceoff with Mamta naturally is the pincer movement that Togadia talks about achieving: "To protect and prosper, Hindus themselves have to gear up, by becoming true practicing Hindus, aware Hindus and active Hindus". [3] They had strayed away in West Bengal by becoming mere communists. The tactics of using Burdwan terror angle to the hilt the Hindutva groups would move in the right direction. The arrest of innocent Muslims in the name of terror is proven strategy of achieving the target of Hindu state. This also is ghar vapsi, return to the fold. The other ghar vapsi is return to the Hindu fold. The Agra conversion was in the news in December 2014and more is expected. In this thrust the Hindutva is again following the beaten track of pitting the Dalits against the Muslims. Dr RP Singh and an anonymous man from the Yamuna river in the tape of Malegaon 2008 attack accused Dyanand Pandey and Lt Col Prasad Purohit speak of using the Valmiki community to slaughter Muslims in large number. In fact Singh says that they are very effective and have been used in Delhi often. In the case of Agra forcible conversion of Muslims the extremist Hindus of VHP used Nand Kishor Valmiki. He is also associated with Dharm Jagran Manch responsible for the Agra plan that created strong protest in the Parliament. It continued for days forcing PM Narendra Modi to crack the whip as the transaction in the Parliament was blocked for weeks. As a result the local MLA Yogengdra Upadhaya became instrumental in the arrest of the absconding Valmiki. Nand Kishor is a history sheeter with a 12 year criminal case of being a gangster against him. In Muzaffarnager and Trilokpuri similar persons from Valmiki community were used to create tension and riots. The border regions of UP particularly District of Kishinagar have very poor Muslims surviving on scrap mongering that hardly helps them to eke out existence. They had succumbed to inducement of getting ration card and some pittance for changing their faith. The Valmiki is the ubiquitous agent of polarization. The Ved colony is still very sensitive as the members of Muslim community facing hardship even after the arrest of Nand Kishor Valmiki on December 16. [4] Another version was that there was a warrant against him and a reward of 12,000 for anyone who could help in his arrest and the police were harassing his family so he surrendered .The first version would be likely because Modi had cracked his whip against those party members and elected members of Parliament and State Legislative Assembly who were reacting by making communally offensive statements. His motive was that the matter was jeopardizing his development plan for good governance and development and distracting attention and therefore he was keeping himself safe lest the extremists in his party overturn his apple cart. A third version is that the police and intelligence agencies were conducting raids at the RSS offices at Madhav Bhavan where he was suspected to be absconding from law. The other extremists like Member of Parliament Yogi Adityanath were egging on a showdown with the government: the ghar vapsi programme “is an ongoing process and will continue to happen.” Former MP of Congress party Nilesh Rane twitted “With incidents like the 1 happened in Sydney happening almost everywhere, India should target on converting as many people to Hinduism”[5]This in response to the Iranian sympathizer of ISIS Haron Monish killing two hostages in Sydney Swiss Lindt Chocolate Café on December 16. This clearly shows that Muslims in India are targeted even when a non Indian Muslim in the antipode commits an act of terrorism. Around the same time six terrorists speaking Arabic attacked the military school in Peshawar and killed 159 school children and injured many others. Dr Manmohan Singh had remarked in the joint statement of July 16, 2008 with Pakistan at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, that the two countries were victims of terrorism. For this he was condemned. The extremists among Hindus see only India as a victim of terror practiced by Muslims. They believe that Hindus by birth cannot be terrorists. They only retaliate to terrorism of others. What happened in Agra was also terrorism for the Bajrang Dal and VHP had threatened the Muslims not to speak of conversion to reporters. They forced them to say that they were helping the Muslims to get ration card under Below Poverty Line concession. The Muslims were under siege and thus terrorized. The third ghar vapsi is the spreading the tentacles of the Hindutva octopus. It is a universal phenomenon created by Narendra Modi assuring office of PM that those Hindus who committed crimes in the name religion must be taken care of and restored to position of honour, safety and security. Thus those who killed the Pune techie Mohsin Shaikh must be saved from the long arms of the law. Dhananjay Desai who was behind the murder and fatal attack on Mohsin and his friend Riyaz must be viewed innocent as the right wing groups want it. The scores of accused of killing Mohsin were members of Hindu Rashtra Sena. The Pune unit of the extremist group HRS invited Pramod Muthalik to a function on Sunday December 14, 2014 to present a reward to Desai for his service in saving cows. That he was a history sheeter with 22 cases of extortion, attack, etc. were not crimes in the eyes of the HRS. Modi had just assumed office when on June 2, 2014 Mohsin was killed. Desai had distributed a pamphlet calling for such attack and was also the chief of HRS and was thus arrested. Such act goes back to the early days of India’s independence. VD Savarkar was involved in the conspiracy of assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. He even supplied arms and paid for the air fare to Nathuram Godse and others to travel to Delhi. Jan Sangh was formed because the ideology of hate that Godse spewed in his last letter attracted many at that time. They wanted to continue the same movement against the creation of Pakistan and they had the same grudge against Muslims who had opted to live in India. As India could not become a Hindu country vis-à-vis Pakistan this group became more and more extremist in its views. Modi inherited the same ideology as a pracharak of RSS. It assumed a political avatar, Jan Sangh. The incident is linked to Modi because the SMS sent out reads in Marathi as paheli wicket padli (meaning, the first wicket has fallen). In the language of cricket commentary it would mean the inception of Modi rule is like the first inning of Team Modi in power. It assumes sinister proportion as Modi chose to ignore the murder of Mohsin ala 2002 genocide. Modi also remained silent on what Anil Shirole, the newly elected BJP MP from Pune, chose to toe the line of Modi of the Newtonian 3rd law of every action producing equal and opposite reaction when he remarked: “what appeared on Facebook was very painful. Some amount of repercussions was natural.” [5]Mohsin had nothing to do with the Facebook image of Bal Thackeray and Shivaji. Mohsin was attacked because he was a Muslim while the insulting image of Ambedkar and Shivaji was loaded by a Hindu a year earlier. [6] This in itself is shocking. But after having sown wind the whirlwind is in full force what with the governor of UP Ram Naik calling for building the Ram temple at the site of Babri mosque, another call is for scraping Christmas holiday and instead celebrating it as former BJP leader and PM A.B. Vajpayee’s birth day as good governance day, another movement is for declaring Bhagwad Gita as a national book, Pratap Singh and Sadhvi Jryoti calling Muslims as haramzade or illegitimately begotten, asking those opposing Modi to go to Pakistan, VHP forcibly converting poor Muslims to Hinduism, Pramod Muthalik honouring the killers of Mohsin Sheikh including Dhananjay Desai, Sakshi Maharaj calling Nathuram Godse as a patriot, Defening the Hindutva adherents accused in conspiracy and terror shows that the highest ranking RSS functionaries are not even questioned. Mohan Bhagwat and Indresh Kumar are the glaring instances of this. Such indeed is the convoluted situation that Lt Col Prasad Purohit accused in 2008 Malegaon terror attack says that he had decided to eliminate Indresh Kumar who according to him had been “diluting the Hindutva agenda''. He also accused that it was Indresh who had given his and Pragyasingh Thakur’s names to the ATS. In the secret meeting of October 31, 2005 at the Gujarati Samaj Guest House in Jaipur Indresh had met Sunil Joshi involved in many terror attacks and was part of the conspiracy to blow bombs in Malegaon 2006, Ajmer shrine, Mecca mosque, etc. The RSS chief SK Sudarshan as is the wont of RSS refused to accept any blame on Indresh saying: , "It seems there's an attempt in some quarters to brand some Hindus as terrorists to balance Muslim terror. This is part of a political conspiracy.'' [7] From hindsight it is confirmed that that conspiracy of 2005 led to the attack on Samjhauta Express, Malegaon blasts, attack in Ajmer, etc. it is also corroborated by the arrests of Malegaon bombers Dhan Singh and Rajendra Choudhary among others in the several terrorist attacks. It also became clear that even Bhagwat was involved in terrorist activities as Swami Asimanand asserted in his affidavit. As time wore on more such incidents piled up especially after BJP forming government at the centre. The conspiracy to polarize Muzaffarnagar and then Trilokpuri on the basis of religion to harness votes at election. In Muzaffarnagar all the seats to Parliament went to the BJP and now the Delhi election is scheduled for February 2015. AAP MLA Raju said, “[In Trilokpuri] Every time the violence subsides, BJP workers round up locals with exaggerated tales. People in this area voted for the AAP in the Assembly polls last December. The BJP is attempting to consolidate the Dalit vote here the way it did in UP.” Congress leader Harnam Singh, who contested elections in 2013, alleged that the violence was instigated by a BJP leader. “He came to Trilokpuri around 2 pm and members of Hindu groups began chants of ‘Har Har Mahadev’. This made things worse. Two hours after he came, the violence began again,” [8] The Muslims had to bear the aggressive thrust of the right wing groups as some well known social activists wrote to the Lt Governor of Delh on October 26, 2014: “We are worried by reports that many young men are being illegally detained for long periods, and political representatives of one segment of the young men are being permitted to enter the police stations, whereas other lawyers and senior activists are not being permitted to enter the police stations.” There are two aspects that need attention. One that Trilokpuri is an area where minorities live and the tension and violence was used to force them to leave the place which is reminiscent of RSS boss Golwalkar’s attmpt to mount a more comprehensive attempt to cause holocaust in the aftermath of the partition of India. The RSS wanted India to be a Hindu country and not realizing their pipe dread to be viable then they used violence to deprive the Muslims of their home and hearth. The Congress party was very strong and the leaders were different and were free from the rank communalism Modi era has heralded in. another aspect to note is that RSS was a militia then also but they were not so well armed as they are now. They had fear of government cracking upon them and never displayed their arms as they do now. They also have bombs which they used in blowing up the minarets of Babri mosque. Therefore there is palpable danger to the unity and integrity of the country now as never before. The question of support from US Jewish lobby or Israel was unheard of. But in the case of Purohit’s secret understanding as a leader of Abhinv Bharat and other extremists there is positive commitment that Israel would lend support to a Hindu country with diplomatic recognition, steady supply of arms, embassy for such a Hindu nation in Israel, help for the move for international recognition in the UNO and assurance to fly bhagwa flag or saffron nationalist flag, etc. Furthermore there is probably some cooperation from Nepal in which the Nepal leaders and King in the past lent help in training soldiers to make another Hindu country come in existence. The Nepalese royal family even sent members of the royalty who had attended deliberation on a Hindu rashtra at a meeting in Gorakhpur where Yogi Adityanath is based and the Yogi hosted the meeting. Retired army officer Ramesh Upadhay of Abhinav Bharat was also present. Since then five years have passed and the resolve for a Hindu country has become stronger though it is still a hush hush affair but can be silent volcano for the time being when the BJP is consolidating its power. --------------- [1] http://www.livemint.com/Politics/V7zh7gD7DP2yF7hRf96s9I/If-image-is-proof-Narendra-Modi-should-be-arrested-Mamata.html [2] The Hindu December 14, 2014 [3] http://www.rediff.com/news/report/vhp-will-declare-gujarat-a-hindu-state-by-2015-togadia/20130401.htm [4] Inquilab December 17, 2014. [5] Asian Age December 17, 2014. [6] http://radianceweekly.in/portal/issue/we-are-all-mohsin-shaikh-2/article/we-are-all-mohsin-shaikh/#sthash.9VolrBea.dpuf [7] ][http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/ATS-in-a-bind-on-arresting-Indresh/articleshow/6805900.cms [8] ][http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/ATS-in-a-bind-on-arresting-Indresh/articleshow/6805900.cms