{"id":97759,"date":"2020-01-14T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=97759"},"modified":"2020-01-14T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:15:46","slug":"moving-to-harmony-indian-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/01\/14\/moving-to-harmony-indian-society\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVING TO HARMONY-INDIAN SOCIETY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2018The\nfool\u2019s paradise\u2019 is getting more and more populous with the people who are\nmisguided rather detracted by different misunderstandings. Among the long queue\nof such distracted ones is Mr. Narendra Modi too.  In every speech he claims that he is the most\npopular leader in India and his political party the BJP rules over the hearts\nof the people of India. He claims that no one in India has got guts to defeat\nthe BJP in the coming years. His mouth-peace media persons also keep on the\nsame string all the time but on-ground realities altogether otherwise. The performance\nchart of the recent elections of the Jharkhand State Assembly must be an\neye-opener to the BJP which were held in five phases from 30th<\/sup> Nov\n2019 to 20th<\/sup> Dec 2019. According to the results announced by the\nelection authorities BJP got 25 seats; in 2014 elections this number was 37. Astonishingly\nthe regional political parties secured a far better rather far stronger\nposition in these elections. This situation indicates that the BJP is losing an\nover-all support from the general public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nreasons behind this political defeat could be many but the most important one\nis the extremism expressed by the BJP at different occasions. Revocation of\narticles 370 and 35 A in the states of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir and\nimplementation of the amended Citizenship Act 2019 are the other reasons behind\nthe political defeat of the BJP. All these actions of the Modi government have\ngenerated very deep-rooted hatred against the BJP. Recent results of the\nJharkhand Assembly reflect this hatred very honestly. This\npoor political mandate in\nfact shows public discontentment against incumbent BJP government\u2019s radical\npolicies. Certainly BJP\u2019s advisers need a serious review of their policy\nobjectives to minimize this hatred against the Modi government. Mr. Modi must\ntry to realize that every battle could not be won with the help of\nmedia-warriors. He must look at the increasing protest against the amended\nCitizenship Law which is getting intensified day by day. The Modi government has\nbanned public gatherings in several areas of the country including India\u2019s most\npopulous state Uttar Pradesh. Internet access has also been disrupted in many\nparts of the country including the capital New Delhi.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\n19th<\/sup> December 2019, the Time reported that during a protest\nprocession several prominent protesters were also detained, including historian\nRamachandra Guha. He was among more than 200 peaceful protesters detained in\nthe southern city of Bengaluru a day before. Students of different colleges and\nuniversities are also expressing their intense reaction on the Citizenship\nAmendment Act 2019. Law enforcement agencies are treating the protesting\nstudents as they are not the Indians; they are the Pakistanis. In Aligarh\nMuslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia University, the law enforcement\nagencies tried to snub the protesters in the most violent manner by firing different\npoisonous tear gasses were on them. Media reports say that many students are seriously\ninjured and many missing. More than35 students of Jamia Millia Islamia\nUniversity and more than a dozen from Aligarh Muslim University have been\narrested; reports say. But in spite of all this brutality, the supporters of\nModi sarkar are harping on the same string that India is heading towards a new\nera of peace and prosperity under the leadership of Mr. Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\nthe same time, there are some very positive social indicators too going side by\nside with negativity projected by the Modi government in the Indian society.\nOne of these positive indicators is that the Indian public has started\nrealizing that extremism promoted by a handful of people is disfiguring the true\nface of \u2018shining India\u2019. They have started feeling that the extremist approach\nof BJP is pushing India towards a very unfortunate disintegration. It is the\nresult of this realization that various NGOs consisting of people representing\ndifferent religions philosophies have also joined hands with the Muslims in the\nprotest against the actions of the Modi government. The streets and roads of\ndifferent cities are resonating with the slogans \u2018Hindu Muslim Sikh Isai, aapas mein hain bhai bhai<\/em>\u2019 (Hindus, Muslims,\nSikhs, Christians, we are all brothers). Let us see how Mr. Modi counters this\nnew revolutionary move leading to social unity and religious harmony in the\nIndian society. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER \u2018The fool\u2019s paradise\u2019 is getting more and more populous with the people who are misguided rather detracted by different misunderstandings. Among the long queue of such distracted ones is Mr. Narendra Modi too.  In every speech he claims that he is the most popular leader in India and his political party the BJP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-sukhanver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}