by B. R. GOWANI
“World’s most loved and most powerful Leader” has hands that are full of blood.
It has blood of types C, CI, D, D, EI, K, M …
C stands for the Leader’s COMMUNALISM, i.e., favoring Hindus which comes at the expense of non-Hindu blood.
CI stands for the Leader’s CRIMINAL INDIFFERENCE to the state of people’s health and welfare. During rise in COVID-19 cases last year, this leader decided to lock down the country at a few hours’ notice. The wretched of the earth, of which India has quite a big number, were left on their own to survive. Trains stopped running; poor migrant workers tried to get back to their villages in whatever way they could. Many died walking back to their villages.
D stands for DALITS (“Untouchables” – not included in the four castes of Hinduism). A Dalit life or honor has never been of much value but now has lost whatever little worth it had under the Leader’s rule. The leader, prone to long speeches, refuses to open his mouth even when a 9 year old Dalit girl is raped and murdered. In the Leader’s home state too, the violence against Dalits is rampant.
D stands for DISSENT which the Leader cannot accept; many a time it results in elimination of writers, journalists, activists. Since the Leader’s enthronment, his land has become “one of the world’s most dangerous countries to be a reporter.”
EI stands for the Leader’s ECONOMIC IGNORANCE, i.e., not realizing the consequences of sudden drastic action in a fascistic manner, without consulting anyone: demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency bills forced people to deposit those bills in a bank and in exchange were given new bills. The aim was to go after people with black money. The demonetization was a huge failure: the government failed to get black money.
Common people suffered a lot because they lost work as employers were unable to pay cash wages because they could only get limited new currency notes in a day. It was an economic disaster. Dozens of people died.
K stands for the Leader’s horrid KASHMIR policy, i.e., abrogating Article 370 which had afforded some autonomy to people of Indian occupied Kashmir, the only majority Muslim state in entire India that the Leader divided into two states. The Article 370 had prohibited people from other states to buy property. It bears mention that Kashmir, as a Muslim majority state, should have gone to Pakistan according to the logic of Partition but instead India annexed a big portion of Kashmir. People’s suffering has increased manyfold. The blood of Kashmiris was spilled freely, too. For months, the state was without internet because the government had shut it down.
M stands for this Leader’s intense detest for MUSLIMS against whom cases of hate, violence, and murder have been on the rise. Contributing factors: this leader’s deadly silence to condemn those acts, and his venomous speeches. The leader has lot of M group blood on his hands.
“The man lying on the ground is 33-year-old Moinul Haque. In the first few seconds of the video, he had rushed towards a group of policemen, a stick in his hand, and the group of policemen, armed with guns and clad in riot gear, had fallen upon him. Gunshots rang out soon afterwards.” TEXT/IMAGE/Screengrabs of the video of the eviction drive. @ahmermkhan via Twitter/Scroll
The bloodiness continues unabated …
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com