Those who are killed had Religions. Yes, they could have
died for their Religions but they would have never thought to die for their
Religion in this way.
Those who killed, claim to have Religion. Those who
orchestrate such killings claim to have a Religion.
But they, who perpetrate, cannot have any Religion.
So what is Religion for them?
Over 30 are already killed in the religious riots in Uttar
Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district. On the face of it, if we say ‘how it all
happened’ gives rise to the valid points of suspicion, we would absolutely be
on the point.
A young chief minister, who was claimed to be dynamic and
efficient, has belied all the expectations by the first year of his term.
We don’t need to write on the unprecedented deterioration of
law and order situation in UP for it. Even if we take into account on how the
administration and the UP government moved on the fresh batch of over 100
communal riots during the Akhilesh Yadav’s regime, it bares all.
The young chief minister of UP acted so promptly to suspend
a young and honest IAS officer justifying his act under the shield of ‘averting
the communal flare-up’ when every development, every incident was saying to the
contrary. The illicit interests of his partymen and his personal bias against
an honest lady officer became paramount then.
The same chief minister was nowhere when the communal
tension in Muzaffarnagar was brewing up and the communally sensitive district
was simmering under religious tension.
The killing of over 30 in communal violence has not happened
in one day. For many days, since August 27, when the first three of these
killings were perpetrated, small but regular incidents and sporadic killings
were taking place and fake videos were being circulated on social media
platforms. The ground to react impulsively resulting in large scale violence
was deliberately being set up.
But the young chief minister could not see it. Neither was
he informed by his partymen, the party workers, who claim to get an honest IAS
officer transferred within 40 minutes.
The Samajwadi Party government in UP has been an utter
failure, on every front. It going this way so soon, in 18 odd months, clears
once again that the party had no vision on how to continue, once into the
government.
It had no development roadmap further but to appease its
trademark votebanks – Yadavs and Muslims. Muslims in Muzaffarnagar make for
over 38 per cent of the district’s population, a large consolidate votebank
that can easily outdo the fractured majority Hindu votebank.
A polarisation of Muslim votebank here would help the
Samajwadi Party in Muzaffarnagar as well as in UP where, according to an
analysis, on 54 Lok Sabha seats, Muslims make for more than 11 per cent of the
vote share, a significant proportion to swing the electoral results.
It is not the only reason to feel threatened. The pro-Muslim
polarisation efforts would directly induce the anti-Muslim sentiments giving
the pro-Hindu polarisation forces an open communal ground to exploit, to outdo
the effect of a ‘polarised consolidated Muslim votebank’.
That must not be. Because, once it begins, it would be
uncontrollable. That has been the case, always.
And where are we in this game votebank manipulations?
Who are they manipulating our sentiments on religious
grounds?
What is their Religion?
No, they cannot have any Religion but ‘clinging to power
anyhow’. That is their only ‘practicing Religion’, irrespective of which
Religion they belong to.
It is barbaric – pushing one human being to kill another in
the name of a God who traces his origin to the one common Source in the
evolutionary history of civilization.
We are nothing but the subjects to be sacrificed in the
course of political experiments to further the political agendas.
We are the idiots who seldom realise what Religion should be
for us. Instead, we act for the Religion they told us our Religion is. Nothing
else can be said of us if we kill the fellow human beings in the name of a
Religion, in the name of a God.
We are the spineless creatures who become the ultimate tools
of uncontrollable religious anger spewing in the streets that only sees the
‘red’ of the blood and not the ‘flesh’ that is axed to smear that ‘red’.
It will go on until we realise who the God is and what the
Religion should be for us.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
