I think the author is one who in the garb of being secular liberal kind is one hardcore Islamist and is panicking with the flip flop policies of the congress. Rest assured Mr author more your beloved congress does what it is do No more votes and sea A will BJP get.
1. I appreciate that author of this article since he has recalled how our late PM Shri Rajeev Gandhi surrendered to the Muslim fundamentalists and how his government, with brutal majority in Parliament, enacted The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986. I think this one single passed by Act of then Congress government can be used to question secular credentials of the Congress. 2. I wish to say that Congress (and regional parties like SP, BSP Trinamool Congress, RJD JD(S), NCP and the Communists), who all claim to be opposed to the fundamentalist BJP, have still not shown willingness and courage to oppose the fundamentalists in Indian Muslim community. 3. Is it not a fact that so-called intellectuals in Indian Muslim communities have very little influence on Muslim masses? Further, secular credentials of many leaders of Muslim communities in different States, particularly Hindi speaking States, are suspect. 4. One more bitter fact is that these Muslim leaders, most of whom are active in Congress or above regional parties, wish to ensure that the vast majority of poor Muslims are never exposed to modern secular education and to democratic practices. This fact I suppose is one major reason why the educated middle class has moved closer to BJP. Are the opposition parties ready to have a debate on this issue?
Well said. Congress and regional parties (power brokers rather than genuine aspirants of progressive governance) show blatant hypocrisy and then raise the bogey of Hindu fundamentalism and ‘Hindu Pakistan’ in the making.
Rajiv Gandhi’s mistake was the beginning of the end for the Congress party.
I think the author is one who in the garb of being secular liberal kind is one hardcore Islamist and is panicking with the flip flop policies of the congress. Rest assured Mr author more your beloved congress does what it is do No more votes and sea A will BJP get.
1. I appreciate that author of this article since he has recalled how our late PM Shri Rajeev Gandhi surrendered to the Muslim fundamentalists and how his government, with brutal majority in Parliament, enacted The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986. I think this one single passed by Act of then Congress government can be used to question secular credentials of the Congress. 2. I wish to say that Congress (and regional parties like SP, BSP Trinamool Congress, RJD JD(S), NCP and the Communists), who all claim to be opposed to the fundamentalist BJP, have still not shown willingness and courage to oppose the fundamentalists in Indian Muslim community. 3. Is it not a fact that so-called intellectuals in Indian Muslim communities have very little influence on Muslim masses? Further, secular credentials of many leaders of Muslim communities in different States, particularly Hindi speaking States, are suspect. 4. One more bitter fact is that these Muslim leaders, most of whom are active in Congress or above regional parties, wish to ensure that the vast majority of poor Muslims are never exposed to modern secular education and to democratic practices. This fact I suppose is one major reason why the educated middle class has moved closer to BJP. Are the opposition parties ready to have a debate on this issue?
Well said. Congress and regional parties (power brokers rather than genuine aspirants of progressive governance) show blatant hypocrisy and then raise the bogey of Hindu fundamentalism and ‘Hindu Pakistan’ in the making.