{"id":84470,"date":"2018-12-30T16:13:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T23:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84470"},"modified":"2018-12-30T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T23:13:53","slug":"more-partition-or-further-division-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/30\/more-partition-or-further-division-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE PARTITION OR FURTHER DIVISION OF INDIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

A judge of India\u2019s Meghalaya High Court, Justice S.R.Sen has recently said in a statement that India should have been declared a Hindu country after Partition, and that if anyone tried to make it an Islamic country, it would be doomsday for India and the world. The honourable justice gave this \u2018wisely-sensitive\u2019 statement while delivering a judgment on a petition filed by an Army recruit Amon Rana, who was denied a domicile certificate by Meghalaya administration. Justice Sen further added, \u2018Pakistan declared themselves as an Islamic country and India since was divided on the basis of religion should have also been declared as a Hindu country but it remained as a secular country.\u2019 This statement of the Justice S.R.Sen has given rise to a severe uneasiness among different communities living in India particularly the Sikh community. The Sikhs are worried about their future after India is announced a Hindu-homeland. Moreover if the government of India mistakenly takes the statement of Justice S.R.Sen serious, where would drown the slogan of the \u2018Secular India\u2019.<\/p>\n

The secular status rather the \u2018self-claimed\u2019 secular status of India has ever been looked at with a lot of doubts and suspicions. It is true to some extent that constitutionally India is a secular state but when we see the Muslims being butchered in the streets of Gujarat and in the valleys of the Indian Occupied Kashmir, the impact and impression goes rather otherwise. It is a very unfortunate fact that in the Secular India, the Muslims, the Sikhs and even the Christians are brutally persecuted every day. According to a report prepared in August 2017, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom ranked India\u2019s persecution severity at \u2018Tier 2\u2019 along with Iraq and Afghanistan. Moreover on Open Doors’ World Watch List India has risen from No. 31 to No. 11 in the past six years.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch says in an analysis that \u2018violence against Christians in India is used as a tool to meet political ends\u2019. The analysis further says, \u2018The acts of violence include arson of churches, conversion of Christians by force and threats of physical violence, sexual assaults, murder of Christian priests and destruction of Christian schools, colleges, and cemeteries.\u2019 And all this is done by the Hindu extremists who are never taken to task; in most of the cases they remain scot-free. Same is the case with the Sikh community. An online magazine Media Diversified has recently published an article of Shuranjeet Singh Takhar. The writer says, Since the election of the B.J.P in 2014, Sikhs have felt vilified within a Hindu nationalist imagination of India, an ideology known as Hindutva. Looking to silence and erase those who do not conform to its beliefs, Hindutva posits that India is a state solely for Hindus.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the light of different definitions of a Secular State, one can easily understand what a secular state is. According to the definition provided by the World Atlas, \u2018A secular state is a country where religion does not play a part in law making\u2019. Another definition says, \u2018A secular state is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion. A secular state claims to treat all its citizens equally regardless of religion, and claims to avoid preferential treatment for a citizen from a particular religion or non-religion over other religion or non-religion. Secular states do not have a state religion or an equivalent.\u2019 If we analyze India in the light of all these definitions, we would find no secularity there in India. In the name of religion, every year, hundreds of people are burnt alive in the blazing inferno of religious extremism in India. Be it the Sikh, Christian or the Muslim community, no one is safe and secure at the hands of the Hindu extremists. The government machinery fully protects these extremists by using all fair and foul means. We have the example of the Babri Mosque; if India were a secular state, the Babri Mosque would never have been demolished in December 1992. The demolition resulted in several months of inter-communal rioting between Hindu and Muslim communities, causing the death of at least 2,000 people, most of them were the Muslims. \u00a0If India were really a secular state, all perpetrators of this demolition must have been taken to task but no such thing ever happened. Former Intelligence Bureau Joint Director, Maloy Krishna Dhar claimed in a statement that Babri mosque demolition was planned 10 months in advance by top leaders of the RSS and BJP. Judges, all over the world are usually very learned and well-knowing people but the matter with Justice S.R.Sen seems altogether different. It seems either he knows nothing about the so-called secularity in India or he is intentionally expressing his ignorance. The condition of Justice S.R.Sen doesn\u2019t seem different from that of King Hamlet for which Shakespeare has used the term \u2018antic-disposition\u2019. After his statement on Partition, the government of India may go for his mental-check up.<\/p>\n

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