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Like the famous Balfour Declaration of 1917 on Palestine which created so much political confusion and untold suffering to thousands of people in the Middle East for nearly a century, Advani’s recent declaration on Jinnah has also generated lot of political heat and confusion in India and abroad. The rise of the BJP after 1980 was brought about by the continuous double dealing of the Congress with both the Hindus and the Muslims simultaneously for nearly one generation after independence. The Muslims came to realize that from their point of view any Party other than the Congress was more reliable. This perception led to the emergence of Mulayam in UP and Lalu in Bihar. The betrayed Hindus of India sought their refuge in the portals of the BJP. After five years of NDA Government in New Delhi, the Hindus and Muslims of India are slowly coming to realise that both the Congress and the BJP are committed to themselves rather than to the people. The Congress clings to the carcass of secularism and the BJP to the carcass of Hindutva

The organizational roots of Hindutva go back to 1914, to the creation of the Hindu Mahasabha, an organization founded to unite the nation under the banner of Hindu culture. Hinduism is a religion that is amorphous in its teachings, open to diverse interpretations and modes of practice, and polytheistic. The Hindu Mahasabha saw these values as a weakness because they provided few means of united mobilization, and therefore were perceived to offer little resistance to conquest, either by Muslim conquerors, or by imperialist powers. The hierarchical social character of Hinduism that privileges the upper castes, coupled with India`s vast regional and linguistic diversity, were further barriers to national cohesion. The Hindutva movement sought to “re-create” a golden age of Hinduism, one best epitomized by the rule of Rama, a human incarnation of the God Vishnu. The ingredients of this golden age, and of a unified Hinduism, however, had to be created by the Sangh Parivar.

The creation of Pakistan was seen as a betrayal of the principle of a single united Hindu nation. Congress and Mahatma Gandhi were seen as pseudo-secularists who were eager to pander to the Muslim minority at the cost of Hindu pride and the Hindu nation. The themes of injured Hindu pride and of victimization remain powerful ones in the movement for Hindutva. The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi at the hands of a Hindu fundamentalist soon after independence and the uproar it caused were a setback for Hindutva, and the Parivar fell out of the public eye for almost four decades. Its political arm, then called the Jana Sangh, was generally a marginal presence in Parliament from 1952 to 1980.

After 1980 the Muslims of India came to realize that the Congress Party cannot be relied upon despite their hypocritical declarations of commitment to “secularism” from time to time. This Muslim perception gradually resulted in the marginalization of the Congress Party in the Hindi belt, leading to the rise of leaders like Mulayam in UP and Lalu in Bihar. The NDA experiment only showed that all the leaders in Delhi, irrespective of their political ideologies if they had any, were equally committed in their faithlessness and betrayal of all the people of India. They were interested only in their petty offices with trappings of power and authority for indulging in acts of unabashed corruption.

Advani having tasted power after a long wait for more than seven decades, decided to join the ranks of Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. And therefore he came out with his historic statement that “Jinnah was a great man who was secular”. He has forgotten that while we can do very little with faith, we can do nothing without it. To my mind, faith is a stiffening process, a sort of mental torch. In this sense it always implies disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief of a large one. This kind of faith was preached and practiced by Hegdewar and Golwalkar. This sort of faith formed the basis for the creation of the BJP in 1980. But all this has been given a death blow in one stroke by Advani.

A relatively coherent system of values, beliefs, or ideas shared by some social group and often taken for granted as natural or inherently true is the real basis for the ideology of Hindutva. In our over anxiety to corner positions in the world of murky politics, we cannot vote for psedo-Hindutva to bring down the bogus regime of psedu-secularism. The common people of India who practise Hinduism as a way of life are in a quandary today. They have to choose between two leading species of the spurious genus called “SECULARISM”-----the pseudo-secularism of Sonia Gandhi and the Jinnah secularism of Advani.

The question of questions is who created Pakistan? Not secular Muslim Jinnah. Not secular Mahatma Gandhi. Not definitely the Hindu Maha Sabha. It was perhaps Nehru who drove Jinnah to despair by being in a great hurry to occupy the post of Prime Minister to be left as an heirloom for the Nehru cum pseudo-Gandhi clan (Nehru, Indira, Sanjay, Rajiv, Sonia, Rahul, Priyanka----Menaka, Varun and so on ad infinitum). The contribution of the Nehru family to political theory is the revolutionary concept and institution of “Gandhian Monarchy” which uses the institution of parliament to legitimize and perpetuate the private interests of one family by hijacking the name of Gandhi and carefully dropping the name of ‘Mahatma’. Mahatma Gandhi sacrificed everything for the nation. The Gandhis of this clan are ever ready to sacrifice the nation for themselves.

Advani has cleverly removed the sails of pseudo-secularism from the flagship of the Congress Party by proclaiming his Party as the BHARATIYA JINNAH PARTY !! JANATA FOR JINNAH!! JINNAH FOR JANATA!! JAI HIND!

V.Sundaram

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