CAA

A Tweet by Chetan Bhagat on CAA/NRC (19^th Dec, 2019)

CAA by itself is not the issue.

But CAA+NRC is discriminatory, this could happen

NRC: All prove again you are an Indian

Non-Muslim: Sir I don’t have documents

Govt: it’s ok. CAA will save you. You are an Indian

Muslim: Sir I don’t have documents

Govt: Too bad, you are not an Indian, Get out. 

The tweet says it all. This moment, two decades into the third millennium the greatest misfortune for India is that it is saddled with a bag of toxic garbage which goes by the name Narendra Modi with an unholy friend Amit Shah to boot. It has been coming, the date is fast approaching, it is almost here- the year 2025. What India is witnessing is the hurried efforts of RSS and its affiliates to establish Hindu Rashtra before 2025. RSS has kept a target for themselves to make India into a Hindu Rashtra by the time it completes the centenary of its founding in 2025.

BJP hand in glove with RSS knows it is their last chance (with the next elections scheduled for 2024) and they are very close to it. Several trophies already in their bag, with NRC and CAA they are going for the kill. Article 370 they have abrogated, triple Talaaq they have done away with and Ram Temple in Ayodhya is nearly done. Now Muslims as a community is their arch enemies as conceived by their acharya and ideologue M. S Golwalker in his ‘We or Our Nationhood Defined’ published in 1939. The book among several other of his utterance shows their utter contempt for the community. This is unfortunately the vicious thinking of RSS coming into full play. By 2024 BJP will look for another head to pilot their dream. This is an effort by Amit Shah to establish himself as the next contender for the throne. RSS wants the extreme bigoted Hindutvavadi alone to head their organization. Along this process Shah is attempting to prove to the RSS masters that he fits the bill.

The nation is in a great churning. In the post CAA, NRC days it is hard to tell the people that our constitution spells out ‘We the people……’ and not communities and religions are our identities. The communal poison that RSS has infused into the body politic of India in the last decades has done terrible damage and it will take massive efforts at cleansing. But there is hope for India with the youngsters beginning to see through the RSS games. They have hit the streets in thousands to proclaim that we will not let the secular fabric of the country to be tone asunder. They have seen glimpse of a terrible tomorrow, where detention camps will shelter a section of Indians like cattle- a scene where Indians will be divided and numbered as communities with the air thick with enmity, hatred and suspicion of the other. Are we fearmongers? No, not at all.  At a time Gandhiji, the messiah of ahimsa is traded for his murderer and militant Hindutva replaces a society, for centuries filled with love, empathy, hospitality and pluralism into a land of angry mob ready to kill each other- it is high time we rescue our secular country from zealots and bigots who are sick with ‘Islamophobia’ and anti-Constitutional values.

Intellectual giants, of course we have many, Nobel laureates a handful and writers, artists, scholars are mostly in the Anti CAA camp. True, several among them have not found their voices yet. ‘We shall not give an inch on CAA’. Time is ripe for the entire nation to roll up their sleeves and get down to the business of pulling out India from this muck. I am afraid if we are in a haste to presume our hopelessness before the fear factor offered by these bills, or comfortably sitting in our easy chairs pretending to be ignorant of the Damocles’ sword hanging above our head, ready to cut us apart at any moment. These bills are a gimmick of the government desperate to blind the citizens on the real issues of economic crisis, unemployment, farmers’ cries, religious persecutions, Kashmir lock down etc. I wonder if all of these issues had a religion, i.e., if GDP had a religion, or economic crisis had a holy scripture probably the politicians would have cared for it.  

It is a life and death issue. Indeed, with this dragon, of RSS breathing fire down the nostrils of India, the land is in the throes of death. ‘We the people’ need to fire all cylinders at the moment to save the land from their death trap. I believe that these bills are a death bell for Indian secular democracy. Let me not be a silent partner to this daylight butchery of Democracy. It would be ruthless to feel OK and be apathetic, for being a non- Muslim. It is high time, if not acted get ready to be told ‘Get out’ one day. For today it is you and tomorrow it will be me.