by B. R. GOWANI
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi PHOTO/The Hindu
in March, Maharashtra banned the sale of beef
drowning millions of beef-eaters in a sea of grief
the Hindu zealots are floating in an ocean of joy
the animals are rotting in gutters due to this ploy
extremists in a democratic setup carefully play their game
and keep some minority members with them to avoid blame
members’ work is to counter people of their own group
in order to please the people of the dominant troop
India’s Hindutva government also has such important soul
and Minister of State Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is that dhole
he can be termed an official Muslim of the Modi regime
whose work is to defend the regime with nationalist scream
he countered all those who came out against the ban
telling them to go to Pakistan or elsewhere in a van
it’s a “faith and belief” issue, not about profit or loss
and my job security is linked in making happy my Boss
a great irony is that India exports beef and other meat
in terms of value, it heads agricultural products, including wheat
the actual goal is to hurt the Muslims involved in this trade
and so the faith issue is raised to hide the communal blade
“All Indians should remain in India,” a minister said
that is Interior Minister Rajnath Singh, a bigot head
where else would Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and others go
the fate of Indian minorities is to suffer blow after blow
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com