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Narendra Modi through the Eyes of Gujarati Muslims, Christians and\u2026<\/b><\/div>\n
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Madhu Purnima Kishwar<\/div>\n
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When\u00a0 some pockets of Gujarat were convulsed by violent riots in February\u00a0 2002, I too accepted the version presented by the national media as well as our activist friends and assumed that Modi was complicit in the\u00a0 Gujarat riots of 2002. Therefore, I too signed statements against Modi,\u00a0 published articles sent to Manushi indicting Gujarat government. We also raised funds for riot victims. However, I refrained from writing\u00a0 anything under my name because I did not get the time to visit Gujarat\u00a0 and experience and assess the situation first hand. My earlier\u00a0 experience of covering various riots as well as conflict situations in\u00a0 Kashmir and Punjab had taught me that media reports cannot be trusted\u00a0 enough to take a definitive stand on such issues since they are often\u00a0 coloured by the ideological prism used by the writer.\u00a0 Therefore, I refrained from making statements on Gujarat.<\/div>\n
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Having\u00a0 spent a lot of time covering major riots\u2014including the 1984 massacre of\u00a0 Sikhs, series of riots in Meerut, Malliana in the 1980\u2019s, Bombay 1993,\u00a0 Jammu 1989 and having closely studied several others like Biharsharif,\u00a0 Bhiwandi, Jamshedpur, and series of riots in Ahmedabad, Surat, etc, I\u00a0 knew that barring Delhi 1984 all others were jointly orchestrated by the BJP and Congress. Even in the communal polarisation due to Babri Masjid demolition the Congress Party had been an equal partner in crime with\u00a0 the BJP.\"Godhra<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
This\u00a0 dubious role of the Congress Party \u2013at total variance with the\u00a0 ideological grounding of the grand old Party crafted by Mahatma\u00a0 Gandhi\u2014played an important role in marginalizing the Congress in large\u00a0 parts of India. Knowledgeable Gujaratis told me that even in 2002\u00a0 Congressmen avidly joined Sangh Parivar mobsters in carrying out\u00a0 communal killings, arson and loot. One also knew from earlier reports\u00a0 and later heard through informal networks that there was a lot of\u00a0 retaliatory violence by the Muslims which led to thousands of Hindus\u00a0 also suffering substantial losses and ending up in refugee camps.<\/div>\n
Therefore,\u00a0 when BJP in general and Modi in particular, began to be singled out for\u00a0 attacks and demonised as no other politician before or after in known\u00a0 history, one felt an instinctive uneasiness about Hate and Oust Modi\u00a0 campaign. This uneasiness grew as it became obvious over the years that\u00a0 most of the NGOs, activists, journalists, academics involved in Modi\u2019s\u00a0 demonisation enjoyed active patronage of the Congress Party and some\u00a0 even got huge financial support for carrying out a sustained campaign\u00a0 against Modi.<\/div>\n
Even during the\u00a0 anti-Sikh massacre of 1984 in North India the slogan of those of\u00a0 us who worked with victims and documented the unprecedented massacre\u00a0 was– \u201cPunish the Guilty\u201d– though the complicity of the then Prime\u00a0 Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Home Minister Narasimha Rao, Lt Governor of Delhi P.G Gavai was brazen. But neither the PM nor the Home Minister or the\u00a0 Lt Governor were personally demonised.But in the case of Gujarat riots of 2002 the entire discourse came to centre around just one man!<\/span><\/div>\n
In a recent interview with me, film script writer<\/b><\/span> Salim Khan<\/span><\/b> made an interesting comment: \u201cDoes anyone remember who the chief minister of Maharashtra was during Mumbai riots which were no less deadly than the\u00a0 Gujarat riots of 2002? Does anyone recall the name of the chief minister of UP during Malliana and Meerut riots or Bihar CM when the Bhagalpur\u00a0 or Jamshedpur riots under Congress regimes took place? Do we hear the\u00a0 names of earlier chief ministers of Gujarat under whose charge hundreds\u00a0 of riots took place in post-Independence India? Some of these riots were far more deadly than the 2002 outburst.\u00a0 The state used to explode into violence every second month? Does anyone remember who was in-charge of\u00a0 Delhi\u2019s security when the 1984 massacre of Sikhs took place in the\u00a0 capital of India How come Narendra Modi has been singled out as Devil Incarnate as if he personally carried out all the killings during the riots of 2002?\u201d<\/div>\n
Why just distant riots, does anyone remember the fate of hundreds of thousands of Bodos and Muslims who\u00a0 were uprooted from their villages in July 2012 because their homes were torched and destroyed? As of 8 August\u00a0 2012, over 400,000 people had taken shelter in 270 relief camps, after\u00a0 being displaced from almost 400 villages.The Assam chief minister delayed deployment of the Army by 4 days even though large number of\u00a0 Army units are stationed right there Assam.\u00a0 Thousands are still living\u00a0 under sub human conditions in refugee camps. Why are those riots already forgotten?<\/div>\n
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I also found it puzzling that\u00a0 almost all of those who have led the Hate Modi campaign are neither\u00a0 Muslim nor residents of Gujarat. Three of the most prominent figures of\u00a0 anti Modi Brigade from within Gujarat are not Muslims. Whenever a\u00a0 Gujarati Muslim has tried to speak in a different voice, he has been\u00a0 attacked viciously and made to pay such a heavy price that people just\u00a0 shut up in terror. The highly respected and eminent Muslim scholar,\u00a0 Maulana Vastanvi was forced to resign as Vice Chancellor of Deobandh\u00a0 simply because he said Gujarati Muslims had benefited from the inclusive development policies of Modi\u2019s government. Shahid Siddiqui, the editor\u00a0 of Urdu daily, Nai Duniya<\/i> was attacked and abused endlessly for\u00a0 simply doing an interview with Modi in which Modi defends himself\u00a0 against various charges leveled against his government. Siddiqui fell in line within no time and began singing anti Modi songs on TV.<\/div>\n
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The political discourse in India is so vitiated by Modi phobia that even if you express happiness at the\u00a0 quality of roads in rural Gujarat or 24×7 power supply in the villages\u00a0 and towns of Gujarat, you are branded a \u201csupporter of fascism.\u201d It is\u00a0 politically fashionable to defend Kashmiri secessionists, press for\u00a0 peaceful engagement with the Pakistani establishment which sends terror\u00a0 brigades to India and project murderous Maoists as saviours of the poor. But to say a word in appreciation of governance reforms in Gujarat is\u00a0 to commit political hara-kiri\u2014you are forever tainted and tarred with\u00a0 the colours of fascism.<\/div>\n
This intellectual terror created by the anti Modi Brigade pushed me to find out for myself why this\u00a0 obsessive anxiety about Modi? Why do \u201csecularists\u201d not want to be\u00a0 reminded that Gujarat has been riot free since 2002? Why don\u2019t they want to document what made Gujarat\u2014a state that witnessed hundreds of riots\u00a0 post-Independence leading to deep mutual estrangement between Hindus and Muslims\u2014experience its first riot free decade after Independence under\u00a0 Modi\u2019s rule? What do Gujarat Muslims have to say about it? Why they are\u00a0 not allowed to speak for themselves?<\/div>\n
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The demonization of Modi is based on the following charges:<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n