Communalism :
The Hindu Communal Forces on Rampage
With governmental rule in the
center and some states being in
the hands of B.J.P, the rampage of
the Hindu communal forces is
increasing day by day unchecked
and uncontrolled. They are acting
with impurity tearing the social
fabric of our country into shreds.
They have been strangling the
secular voices and are pouncing
on their opponents stridently with
false rides and manufactured false
claims. They are waging their
fanciful crusades with one and all
with unwarranted violence without
any regret to humanity.
Recently another their act of
despicable rampage has come to
light in Tripura. The fringe
organisation of Hindu communal
forces-the viswa sanatan sena-
consisting of important leaders of
the ruling Bhratiya Janata Party in
Tripura on October 5 have
demolished a foundation stone laid
for the construction of a memorial
for Mohini Tripura, a tribal woman
of Mata village in South Tripura
district who was killed in police firing
on March 17, 1967 while agitating
for forest rights. She became a
symbol of tribal resistance and
movement for forest rights. On the
occasion of the 50th anniversary
of her martyrdom, the then chief
minister Manik Sarkar of C.P.I(M)
laid the foundation stone for the
memorial.
The scheduled tribes and other
traditional forest dwellers’
(Recognition of Forests rights act)
2006, is believed to be the legacy
of Mohini Tripura’s courage and
sacrifice. The entire area surroun-
ding the foundation stone has to
be developed in honour of Mohini
Tripura.
But the Hindu communal forces
do not honour and respect the
martyrdom of Mohini Tripura or the
sentiments of the people. So they
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have not only chosen to demolish
the memorial foundation of Mohini
Tripura, but also have chosen to
encroach the area on the pretext
of constructing a Ram temple in
place of the memorial.
Accordingly after nine days of
demolition of the foundation of the
memorial on 14th November
Sanatan Sena laid a foundation
stone for a Ram temple there. It
was Subal Bhowmic, the state vice
president of B.J.P that laid the
foundation stone for the Ram
Mandir. He has the temerity to
declare that “I laid the foundation
stone for the Ram Mandir, and we
will not be stalled from building a
Ram Mandir here”. On the other
hand the B.J.P has been trying to
establish that the Sanatan Sena
has nothing to do with their party.
They even chose to undermine the
sentiments of the adivasis who
were crucial in their election
winning.
A complaint against this
rampage was made by CPI(M)
leaders with the district magistrate
and police in Belonia town. But the
goons belonging to BJP and
Sanatan Sena prevented the
CPI(M) complaints from attending
the hearing at sub-divisional
magistrate’s office at Belonia and
the administration remained as
onlookers without protecting them.
This is how ‘maintenance of law
and order’ is being practiced in the
service of ruling party and rulers
in governmental power exposing
the farcical parliamentary demo-
cracy in India; run in the shoes of
colonial British rulers.
While this is how the Hindu
communal forces have been
rampant, the other elements of
B.J.P’s student organisation ABVP
too is playing havoc, not tolerating
their dissenters, by defaming
anyone who disagree with them.
Very recently with the threats of A
B V P, the teaching stint of
Ramachandra Guha, a Gandhian
historian, has been called off in the
next year at Ahmadabad university.
Thus A B V P had succeeded in
scuttled his appointment.
In another recent incident
Carnatic maestro T.M.Krishna, a
Magasaysay awardee being a critic
of Narendra Modi government was
humiliated by Hindu communal
elements. T.M.Krishna insists on
connecting his music and his own
person to fraught issues of the day,
environmental
degradation,
communalism, free speech, and
the entrenched casteism with in
carnatic music sphere. He writes
excellent dissenting pieces in
media. He collaborates with others
beyond classical music on protest
videos. In his public talks and
writing he has drawn attention to
the
dangers
posed
by
fundamentalism. He abjures
Brahminist cocoons of Margazi
season. He came out strongly in
favour of some carnatic musicians
who were targeted on social media
for singing Christian compositions,
declaring he would do the same
and not give in to critics’ diktats.
This posture of T.M.Krishna
was not at all palpable to the Hindu
communal elements and trolls who
are well organised, who had earlier
hounded T.M.Krishna in the United
States.
Now they pressurised the
Airport Authority of India (A.A.I) a
central government (PSU) and
made it to capitulate to them and
making it cancel the music
programme of T.M.Krishna,
scheduled to be performed on
November 17, at Nehru park, in
New Delhi as a part of Spic Macay
programme. It is announced that A
A I has cancelled the show because
of “some urgent engagements”,
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