New Delhi: The BJP-led government’s Hindutva ideology has exposed the real face of India as a fake union where all non-Hindu communities are being repressed which also badly damaged the social fabric of the Indian society.
In every part of the country, the state-backed RSS goons are found killing or torturing the non-Hindu people including Christians, Sikhs and Dalits forcing them to chant slogans of Hindu supremacy, raising serious questions to the so-called secular nature of the Indian constitution.
Every year on January 26, India celebrates Republic Day marking the implementation of the Indian Constitution which was designed primarily to make the newly independent Indian Republic as a secular state.
Mumbai-based Centre for Study of Society and Secularism and UK-based Minority Rights Group International both have indicated that minority groups in India are increasingly encountering hate crimes, such as lynching, threats, attacks on places of worship and forced conversion.
United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) issued a joint statement calling for a “total shutdown” on Republic Day.
Indian ethnic and religious minorities feel insecure in modern-day India, where they face segregation and persecution because Hindu-extremists are pushing to convert India into Hindu-Rashtra.
India is destined to breakup in several states, whether it’s the Naxalbari movement of the 1960s and 70s, the ongoing unrest of the tribals areas, marginalization of minorities, curious case of the Maoists or the bitter relationship rising from the quota system of the upper castes to the rest of society; Kashmir, Adivasis, or just the very poor, Indian state is in constant conflict with her own people.
Indian union is a tale of fake construct made via false promises, annexation and coercion. Indian constitution has secular outlook which bars conflation of state and religion. But today’s India is anything but a secular state.
RSS/BJP has embarked on an arduous journey to make India a Hindu Rashtra where Hindus will be superior and non-Hindus will have no place; its practical reflection can be seen in today’s India. India once again building a false narrative of strong union through Republic Day celebrations.
However, Indian union is fake and historically made of coercion, annexation and false promise. Indian minorities seen their future in separate homelands an impeding outcome of a pseudo republic.
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